The rags to riches story of renown Bahamian businessman and Deputy Prime Minister, I. Chester Cooper, is honest, fresh and raw. He holds nothing back in telling of his very hum-ble beginnings as the last of 12 children who lost his father at a very young age. Raised in poverty by a mother with in-domitable faith and older siblings who provided guidance, Chester’s story is one of trusting God and stubborn determination to succeed.