Douglas Manley's Awesome Intellect

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LETTER OF THE DAY - Douglas Manley's Awesome Intellect
Published: Saturday | August 10, 2013 0 Comments
Douglas Manley while he was serving as the minister of youth and community development.
Douglas Manley while he was serving as the minister of youth and community development.
THE EDITOR SIR:

DOUGLAS MANLEY had a calmness of demeanour and unruffled exterior which led many Jamaicans, especially those who depend on the public platform for information, to underestimate his contribution to the country's socio-economic life. He was not given to the idle boast and unending self-exhibitionism that characterise the social and political scene in Jamaica.

However, his intellect was awesome, concealed by his personality; his capacity to sum up the ideas of others expressed in several pages in one or two cogent sentences was unparalleled. A paper submitted by students read by him with approving comments was a gem to be treasured and so were his ideas on social policy.

A nation which ceases to cherish the memory of Dr Manley will not only have misplaced its measure of human greatness, but it will have forgotten the most important lesson that it has struggled, and is still struggling, to learn: playing the role of messiah, superficial treatment of serious matter in empty press articles, together with constant clowning, leave us bereft of ideas to advance the needed social and economic changes in this often blighted land.

May his soul rest in peace.

MARTIN AFFLICK

Kingston 8

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D.M.'S Invaluable Contribution
Published: Saturday | August 10, 2013 0 Comments
THE EDITOR, Sir:

I must express my sympathies to the Manley family, to Jamaica and to the People's National Party on the passing of Douglas Manley.

He was a sportsman, author, sport historian, sociologist, politician, parliamentary colleague, intellectual, academician and friend.

This is my profile of the late Douglas Manley. Underappreciated and self-effacing, Jamaica was fortunate to have had his contribution to public life and to academia. Douglas never blew his own trumpet but was ready to be counted in the orchestra when required.

A quiet sense of humour, a constant sense of dignity, and an abiding love of family and country are my memories of Douglas Manley. I was an admirer, literary partner and publisher of Douglas Manley's groundbreaking novel The Candidate.

We are better for his life and lessened by his passing. May his soul rest in everlasting peace.

MIKE HENRY (CD, MP)

michaelhenrylmh@yahoo.com

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Mike careful not to condemn the man to everlasting light innah him face while him trying to rest..

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Henry is a man of words himself