Wednesday, June 10, 2026

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A Roman Catholic priest is nudging Government to erect statues of the five National Heroes who do not currently have that distinction.
Noting that there were statues of Errol Barrow, Bussa, Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Frank Walcott and Sir Grantley Adams, Monsignor Vincent Blackett said yesterday that he was hoping the same would be done for Sarah Ann Gill, Clement Payne, Samuel Jackman Prescod, Sir Hugh Springer and Charles Duncan O’Neal.
Blackett was speaking at a service to mark National Heroes Day, which was observed on Saturday, at St Patrick’s Cathedral.
He told the congregation that if the nine men and one woman being celebrated were to “arrest the imagination” of the people, they had to become nation language. (YB)
Read the full story in today’s DAILY NATION.

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