Rex Nettleford
I found people liked to recall the royalty of his name and nature but thought that King was too high and mighty so they named him a prince of men and that somehow seemed right.
I got to know Rex Nettleford when I was Editorial Assistant with the West Indian Commission 1991/92 – which produced the report “Time For Action”, still very relevant I believe. Rex Nettleford was a member, almost infinitely celebrated – extraordinary dancer and Director of Dance, scholar and Professor, University head, leader in thought in every imaginable field, friend and advisor to Prime Ministers, Jamaican and West Indian icon, a man in whom humanity flashed its brilliance and its best in a hundred ways. He often came to talk with me – about this and that but often enough to do with some point in the Commission’s work – and then we got to know each other well and there needed to be no Commission point, only the this and that of friendship.
