I am deeply saddened by Angela’s passing. I am saddened because, although her achievements were already impressive by any standard, I hold the conviction that she had much more to contribute to Caribbean and global development. But beyond that, I am saddened because we can no longer experience, “live and direct,” her truly remarkable personal qualities. Angela has left us all too soon. Through her many-faceted career, Angela profoundly impacted numerous disparate constituencies in several fields of endeavour. The area in which I was privileged to enjoy my most sustained and direct interaction with her was in the vineyard of CARICOM regional integration. Angela was my valued colleague in the 1980’s in the Caribbean Community secretariat, where she served as director of functional cooperation, the then third pillar of the community. In an area of CARICOM where it was imperative to ensure that activities led to discernible results, Angela, in collaboration with her staff, applied her exceptional conceptual strength, her outstanding planning and organizing abilities, and her capacity for hard work, to produce impact in the community in her area of work. Regional programmes in health, culture, women in development and education and training benefitted greatly from her disciplined and conscientious endeavours. It came as no surprise that Angela moved on from accomplished regional technocrat to make her mark as a highly respected international civil servant in the sensitive field of environmental policy and administration. But even with this broadening of her career, Angela was to remain practically committed to CARICOM regional integration. In the years after we both had departed the CARICOM secretariat, it was my pleasure to be associated with her as she gave unstintingly of her time and talent to various special exercises in aid regional progress. In this regard, I recall with particular appreciation her service on special advisory task forces established to prepare recommendations on CARICOM governance and on the future management of functional cooperation in the community. Angela’s unequivocal commitment to excellence anchored the wide span of her official career, even as her calm equanimity, her strength of character, and the depth of her moral and spiritual grounding flavoured the even-tempered totality of her life. Her demonstrated capacity to absorb mind-shattering adversity and her refusal to have her heart tainted by bitterness were nothing less than awe-inspiring. All this makes it impossible for me to bid any final farewell to Angela. Her incomparable ethos hovers too persistently for that. I can only bring myself to say “au revoir, great soul.” Roderick Rainford