Dear Editor,
Aptly named ‘Miles’ was always ahead of the pack – of colleagues with whom he associated. Somehow, he would seem a different class, even amongst other luminary legal practitioners.
For he was more than that, and they too recognised his spirituality, to the extent that they easily forgave what transgressions they may have perceived.
Whatever was the individual’s orientation, one embraced Miles unreservedly, as he in turn welcomed you to his and our ‘New World’.
So that the memorial service to his life and career appeared to be held fittingly at the Demerara Cricket Club – the scene of so many team efforts, notably across divides. (Curiously, there was no mention of the date (and time).)
Perhaps, just perhaps, the last was the one reason for the significant absence from a celebration, fit for a brother-in-LAW, of the swathe of lawyers APPENded to the Administration. The lone Attorney General’s presence should put their collective absence in an unforgivably brittle light, particularly at this Ides of March. Was there no sympathy for a soul with whom, at whatever distance, our profession required us to share the same space throughout careers? It simply is impossible to believe that there were no periods of bonding, however brief.
How could these absentees have chosen to be so far (miles) away from the sensitive citizenry, who paid the most deserving tributes?
Yours faithfully
E.B. John
