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Year 30, Day One: On Giants' Shoulders...

"Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin." I've spent this July 4th marking 30 years in my vocation, thanking the Almighty and the giants on whose shoulders I stand, the people without whose direct action I would not still be standing after 30 years: * Julian Rogers (who did better than hire by lighting a fire) * Tony Cumming (who actually did hire me first) * Claude Graham (who put me on the announcer's roster and my programmes on the schedule) * Clairmonte Taitt (who first opened the CBC microphone to me in my Bajanised reading of a VS Naipaul short story) * Leslie Seon (who gave me my first Outside Broadcast anchor shot in his own patch of perfection, Remembrance Day, 1985) * Milton Gibbs and * Sharon Marshall who shaped me into a television journalist) * Jim Brown (for almost everything good in Washington DC) * Harold Hoyte and * John Wickham of The Nation *CANA's Trevor Simpson , * Ulric Hetsberger , * Reudon Eversley , and * Wendy Thomps...