NEWS AND NOTES: Poet Kendel Hippolyte reissues Night Vision anthology + Beryl Rochester becomes St. Elizabeth's first female Custos
LEADING LADY: When Norma Walters was installed as Custos of St. Ann last month there was widespread rejoicing that (finally) a dame had ascended to the high office in the garden parish, poised to carry out the weighty responsibilities with a woman's touch. Weeks later, St. Elizabeth has followed suit with the appointment of Beryl Rochester as the parish's first female Custos. On March 27, Rochester, a retired accountant and a former financial controller at Alpart who has also served as a director of the Southern Regional Health Authority, officially entered office following a ceremony at Independence Park in Black River, where Governor General Sir Patrick Allen made her a member of the National Order of Distinction (Commander Class) and presented her with the Magistrates' Roll for St. Elizabeth, popularly nicknamed the bread-basket parish.
WELL VERSED: Recently in Jamaica for this year's iteration of A Love Affair with Literature at UWI Mona, noted West Indian poet Kendel Hippolyte has just republished his seminal anthology, Night Vision (Peepal Tree Press). According to the publishers, the 80-page collection, replete with dramatic monologues, blues and rap poems, calls on Hippolyte's verbal mastery and critical insight to draw sharp focus upon a nation in flux, his beloved St. Lucia, incidentally the home of that Nobel-winning master lyricist Derek Walcott. "Hippolyte turns his vision upon the people, the land and the culture," Peepal Tree notes, "and finds a microcosm of the Caribbean in the 21st century."
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