THE EDITOR, Sir:
JAMAICA AND decent people everywhere have lost their champion, Lloyd Young, more popularly known as 'Jah Lloyd', an elder of the local Rastafari Theocracy government, died last week in Ethiopia. He was attending a conference there on repatriation.
Jah Lloyd took his case for reparations to the Privy Council in the United Kingdom. Recalling it later he said to me, "They turned it down because they said that not only Britain was involved in the slave trade."
On that subject Jah Lloyd acknowledged the role of Africans in the slave trade. But he steadfastly maintained that "...we never send them any fax to come to Africa and commercialise it".
He was a tireless campaigner and activist for human rights and justice. Any demonstration calling for this never failed to find his stalwart support, and that of his manse. He was a reliable friend on the road to all who fought for justice, and will be sorely missed.
My deepest sympathy to his daughter, Sharak
I am etc.
DAWN RITCH
Duke St., Kingston
