A number of high-profile posts were to follow and Guyana's independence in 1966 brought fresh demands on his time. First he became Attorney-General and then, after a series of ministerial positions during the late '60s and early '70s, he was appointed Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. It has been speculated that his relentless pursuit for just international relations, and for trade based on justice, ultimately hindered his chances of being appointed Secretary-General of the United Nations. But to this day, Sir Shridath presses on. Sir Arthur Lewis IN 1979, Sir Arthur Lewis became a standard-bearer for Black intellectuals. He became the first person from the Caribbean ever to gain a Nobel Prize, winning the award for economics in 1979.
"My first thought of Miami was `this is a big city,'" the 17-year-old told The Miami Times. "It was such a beautiful place, but I experienced culture shock once I was here." "Education is more advanced in Haiti and you have to be disciplined," he said. "That played a great part in my success in high school." "I am getting a great opportunity I wouldn't have in Haiti," he said. "I plan to make the best of it."
That year, The Montreal Commercial High School student won the Outstanding Intermediate Athlete of Quebec award after setting provincial records in the 60-metre dash, 100-metre dash and the broad jump. Ms. [Rosella Marie Thome-Johnson] also earned a place on the Canadian team to compete in the British Empire Games in New Zealand. At a time when Blacks weren't highly favored, Ms. Thome's exceptional feats as a track and field athlete and as a star basketball player earned her the honor of being invited to Buckingham Palace by Queen Elizabeth and meeting world leaders and dignitaries. In recognition and honor of her accomplishments, she was presented with the Crest Ring of the City and The Key to the City by then Montreal Mayor Camilien Houde. In die months that followed, Ms. Thome continued to excel in track and field as a member of the Montreal Olympic Track Team and on the basketball court with the Montreal Meteor women's team. Two years ' later, in 1952, she attained another milestone in her already spectacular track and field career when she went to the Helsinki Olympics in Finland; these games were significant in that they marked the first participation by the Soviet Union.
Yet [Dennis Morris]'s `funny' speech not only attracted [Bob Marley] but helped to open a door into the exciting world of photography that would soon spiral him towards success. Now people will be able to get an eyeful of Morris's talent in Growing up Black, an exhibition in London depicting his life as a '70s teenager. "My black friends couldn't understand why I wanted to associate with a white punk band," Morris says.
"Back then," says [Glean], "Irie! was probably the first black dance theatre company to actually work to reggae music on stage, and to use traditional Caribbean folk dances as part of a performance piece. And everybody was really excited by it." "Our rehearsal period was like a training session, and so by the time you got to present the work on stage, the poor dancers were still trying to get to grips with the different styles and how they could fuse that with their contemporary training," recalls Glean. "So sometimes the essence of the artistic content could easily get lost." "You have to know about the culture and you have to have some kind of understanding and experience in order to execute the dance forms, because it really it about style," she explains. "And if you're talking about the traditional forms as well, it's about the traditional forms as well, it's about religion, it's about the rituals - you need to know all of that because that's the only way you'll be able to represent it fully and truthfully on stage. Everything is integral."
