KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 2, 2026 - Calvin G. Brown - When one of the Caribbean’s most consequential statesmen rises to speak, the region should lean in and listen carefully. At the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, on April 1, 2026, the Most Honourable P.J. Patterson — former Prime Minister of Jamaica, architect of Caribbean integration, and a legal mind of uncommon sharpness — delivered the Norman Manley Distinguished Lecture. What he said deserves not polite applause but urgent, honest reckoning.
