Independence Blues – and Gold

So we conclude this May 2016 Independence Half Century Anniversary “series” of Reflections today.

First let’s reflect on Forbes Burnham’s message to the British and to his brand new nation in the Assembly on May 26, 1966.

“After 150 years of British rule, and in some cases mis-rule, we are now independent. But we harbour no bitterness! Bitterness, we feel is for children and the intellectually under-developed. It is difficult, maybe impossible, to change the facts of past history and in the circumstance, though we