The Caribbean has had a rich history of grassroots leaders who did not, for the main, come from the underprivileged class, but they understood the times they were in.They empathised with the masses, and took action to raise them out of their conditions and to ride on their collective voices to bring about political and economic change.The emergence of charismatic men like Sir Hugh Springer, Sir Grantley Adams, Errol Barrow, Michael Manley, Forbes Burnham, and Eric Williams taught us that even men of means in their times, who were often trained in the bowels of the colonial metropole, were still very much in touch with the needs of their people.
