Jessica, Priya: Two Sunday Letters

Frankly Speaking a few folks would most likely, berate me for daring to juxtapose the illustrious Jessica Huntley’s name in the same (literary) vicinity next to Priya Manickchand’s.

After all, Jessica was a proud Buxtonian-type who helped to “mother” the original People’s Progressive Party (PPP) as well as to pioneer radical Third World publishing amongst first and second generation Caribbean-Guyanese immigrants to Britain. Manickchand, by comparison (?), is an attorney-at-law turned government Minister