Among the kindest and wisest of men
published: Friday | January 3, 2003
THE EDITOR, Sir:
THE SUDDEN death of Hector Wynter has saddened me deeply. I feel a sense of outrage when anyone dies or is injured in circumstances where carelessness and thoughtlessness is concerned. Hector did not deserve to die like this and I am very angry at the thought that another great Jamaican has left us in this manner.
Hector was one of the brightest, kindest, wisest men that I knew. I had the privilege to sit on the Public Relations Committee of the Jamaica Labour Party with him in the 1980s and I learned so much from him. His keen wit and strong commitment to a sense of right and wrong and how things should be done, was a constant reminder of how far we had drifted off course and of how wonderful politics could have been, had we all adhered to the basic rules of the game.
When I finished writing my long-awaited film script of my story of the events of the scary 1970s, I gave it to him to read first and when he had finished, he sat with me for hours at Belmont Road, giving advice here, changing something there, until the story gemmed together like magic. I felt that we had taken a special journey then and I will always remember that wonderful experience.
My deepest sympathies to Diana and to the rest of the family. May his soul rest in peace.
