My full name is Darwin Zipphora Humphrey Lewis. I was born in Willemstad, Curacao, on the 17th December 1930. I presently reside at Fanny Village, Country Trace, Point Fortin.

I got to know myself in 1935 in Trinidad. My mother and father brought me here. My mother was Vincentian and my father Grenadian. They came here by boat. My father was a worker with the Dutch Oil Company. He travelled to various countries – Venezuela, Aruba, Monaco, and Curacao, Colombia. He met my mother somewhere over there. They travelled with Shell. My mother was a domestic servant.

 I attended St Joseph’s Government School, living in Curepe at the time. I went to several other schools. One of the best was La Brea R C, under Mr. Ferdinand. Wilfred Phillip was one of my peers. I also attended Tranquility.  When I left school I tried several trades, including tailoring, but I got involved with people. I started to work with the UBOT as a garage assistant, but switched to doing carpentry with my father, as they were building the jetty. I opened a car wash and a bookshop where HILO is presently. I mostly traded in black literature – Ebony, Colour, Our World, Essence, etc. At one time the notorious Inspector Bleasdel was sent to remove me.

 I used to worry a lot about the behavioral patterns of foreigners, especially when I had to hide to visit my mom at her place of work, at Clifton Hill. Sometimes I would say things to them that I did not like to say: ‘Yes Master’ and ‘No Master’.   I had always been a protester.I was a member of the Point Fortin Boys Club under the chairmanship of Mr. D I Lynch, in the Eagle Hall. This happened because of the class structure in Point at the time. This Club was the baby of ‘Make Move’. There were two other organizations in the world resembling the ‘Make Move’ – Jomo Kenyata’s Mau Mau and the Montgomery March with Martin Luther King. In 1953 Dougie and I were imprisoned through some Act of 1686. I was the Chairman of the Young Power Movement.

 In 1970 I was detained on Nelson Island, I was a member of the Democratic Action Party, together with Mrs. Phyllis Maughn and Mr. James Millette. My greatest regret is losing my two friends Dougie, who was the President and Cassimiro Lezama. He used to see about the scales in the market, was a sign – painter and the record keeper for the Association. It was he who painted the first Make Move banner at the first demonstration.

 ‘FEAR IS A GREAT WEAPON, IT SELDOM MISSES ITS OBJECT’ Darwin Lewis (15/04/2000)