Tim Hector

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Leonard Timoshenko Hector (born 24 November 1942, Antigua – died 12 November 2002, Antigua) was a leftist Antiguan political leader and cricket administrator known for his opposition to the rule of the Bird family.

Hector was a founder of the Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement in 1968. The party supported socialism, the Cuban Revolution, and a pan-Caribbean vision.

He published the newspaper The Outlet and the column Fan the Flame.

The writer Jamaica Kincaid, Antigua and Barbuda's best-known expatriate, was a strong supporter of Hector and the ACLM.


"The Four Musketeers"

Rosie Douglas
Ralph Gonsalves
Tim Hector
George Odlum

Contemporaries
Maurice Bishop | C.L.R. James
Eusi Kwayana
Trevor Munroe | Walter Rodney