Former diplomat pays tribute to late Vincy legislator
The late John Horne. (left) Vincentian offi cials pay their last respects to former parlimentarian, John Horne at Democrat
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By Nelson A. King
Former Counsellor at the
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Frank Montgomery Clarke has
added his voice to myriad tributes
for the late Vincentian legislator
John Horne.
Horne, who represented West
Kingstown in St. Vincent and
the Grenadines, 1984 to 2001,
under the New Democratic Party
(NDP) reign of former Prime
Minister Sir James F. Mitchell,
died on April 22. He was 76.
Horne held many portfolios
including Minister of Education,
Tourism, Sports, Culture and
Trade.
“The Vincentian homeland is
the poorer with the death of the
former parliamentarian, because
his activities, radius and influence
occupied a large acreage
in our Small Island Developing
State (SIDS),” Clarke, a Washington,
D.C.-based accountant,
who had worked with Horne
at the former Barclays Bank in
Kingstown, the Vincentian capital,
told Caribbean Life on Saturday,
a day after Horne’s interment
in Kingstown.
Clarke said he first met Horne
when Clarke’s second sister, Cornelia,
introduced him and his
family in 1966 after a cultural
production of the late Tim
Daisley’s “Julius Caesar” at the
old Grammar School building
in Kingstown. Horne and Cornelia
Clarke were both part of
the cast.
“This inaugural meeting was
quite impactful, because of the
significant words of advice he
(Horne) left with me,” Clarke
said.
“He was a patriotic and multifaceted
Vincentian of great
range,” he added. “We can
chronicle his significant contribution
to culture, sports, banking
and business, the Anglican
community and politics.
“His cultural escapades were
so numerous and varied,” Clarke
continued. “But I would highlight
him journeying to Union
Island (in the Southern Grenadines)
in the summer of 1981,
while I was posted there by the
then Barclays Bank, to audition
candidates for the Barbados
Carifesta.”
He said Horne eventually
selected six members of the
Union Island community to
form part of the Vincentian contingent
to perform their “Rain
Dance” and “Big Drum” routines.
Clarke said another plank of
Horne’s cultural repertoire was
his “romantic relationship” with
steel pan music.
“We both spent many hours
on the telephone over the years
breaking down the performances
of his beloved Desperados
from Laventille and my Massy
Trinidad All Stars from the
Duke street, East Dry River section
of Port-of-Spain (the Trinidad
and Tobago capital), along
with the Vincentian rivals of
Starlift and Sion Hill Euphonium,”
he said.
“I can remember when he
ventured into party politics and
was campaigning as a rookie
politician in 1984,” Clarke
added. “(Alston) ‘Becket’ Cyrus’s
‘Horn for Them’ was the rallying
song for his party, the New
Democratic Party,” he added.
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