Below, see what Kenneth John had to say recently about "Pat" Huggins and Teen resp. in his weekly column "This Week" where he mentioned people who have passed on and whose lives touched his in one way or another.
"Pat Huggins who hailed from the village of
Chili died in his ninety-second year and was buried on the day that I returned
from my holiday. I first knew Pat Huggins during the middle years of his
illustrious career as a civil servant.
In 1945 following a delay caused by the intervening second World War, many of the recommendations of the Moyne Commission which investigated the 1935 disturbances were put into effect.
Among them was the setting up of a social welfare
department under the venerable C.V.D
Hadley assisted by Mr. Pat Huggins by whom he was eventually succeeded. My own
father who had retired as Sergeant Major of Police helped to beef up the institution as newly
appointed Public Assistance and Poor Relief officer.
Four ladies in the persons [of] Eileen Byer of
Grenada, Elaine Williams, Norma Kirby
and Belle Allen completed the pioneering staff charged with the task of taking up the enormous slack left in
the country by centuries of neglect.
In fact, the society was being upgraded to make it
receptive and amenable to
constitutional changes that were to follow the grant of Adult Suffrage
in 1951.
We were saved by the likes of Pat Huggins who
inspired the youth as a young headmaster; built up the social infrastructure
via processes led by the 4H Movement and, finally, provided administrative
expertise as principal and permanent secretary in the emergent bureaucracy.
Pat Huggins had had a good knock in a long
innings."
[About Teen:]
"The once effervescent Eileen Radix has fizzed
off the stage. A wonderful woman with a zest for life. Eileen will always be
remembered for her warmth bordering on
heat, her pungent wit and inflammable
humour."
Thanks to Cheryl King who submitted this and my
apologies for taking so long to get on the site.