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Celebrating Independence Day 2017-2037

By Peter Josie
By Peter Josie

LAST weekend I hinted half seriously, that unless there was some element of red in the country’s national flag sentimental supporters of the ‘red’ who use that colour as the only redeeming feature of their sorry lives cannot be happy with independence, or the national flag, bearing yellow. Sadly, such persons are incapable of celebrating Independence Day with joy and love in their hearts because they see it as belonging to John Compton and the UWP. Today, 37 years after the fact, they refuse to recognize Compton as the :Father of the nation.” They prefer “Father of Independence,” while attempting to convince themselves that some other is “Father-of-the-nation.”

Should such persons be assuaged or met half way? If so, how? The ideal situation may be to mix red and yellow in equal proportions and let the resulting orange represent the two main political parties on the island. That way the great India, Ireland and others would be represented. If green becomes a necessary detail then so be it. Africa will live in the current black, so will Europe. In addition to the colour issue a decision should also be taken to abandon all forms of political symbols at election campaigns and on ballot papers by general elections 2020.

Make it law that political parties prepare a comprehensive agenda for political education of members. Such a programme of political education should also involve willing Trade Unions on the island. By the middle of the next decade education and training in all their various forms ought to be the central mantra of every policy, effort and discipline underpinning every ministry and department of the Government of Saint Lucia and its agencies.

By 2037, Jamaica and Belize would likely have opted for a closer relationship with the USA along the lines of Puerto Rico or some new model. The East and South Caribbean would by then be forced into some form of a more permanent political and economic union, before they too decide on a closer political and economic relationship with Canada or the USA. France is expected to more closely involve its Caribbean Departments in its internal affairs even as she develops closer ties with the English speaking Caribbean and her regional neighbours.

It is my wish and prayer that as the Caribbean gropes toward social and economic progress at least one of these territories, hopefully Saint Lucia, will bite the bullet and take a full plunge into faithfully and willingly opening up its doors to the entire Caribbean. By so doing it will set the mood for true freedom of movement to serve the region as it once did, allowing capital, labour and management, to flow freely and unhindered.

In the meantime as Caribbean leaders contemplate a more united future, Saint Lucia should be thinking of marking independence 2017 as if it were ‘Caribbean Independence’ event. Arrangements should begin right away to mark such a celebration. It is a considered view that it should be a seven day event – no more. The theme and focus ought to be on the youth of Saint Lucia and the region. Invitations to the youth for 2017 Saint Lucia independence should begin in earnest. The young visitors would be expected to participate in a parade of youth groups and mass youth rally here. Arts and crafts and cooking events should be included in a programme for national youth groups and guests.

A most important issue is that there ought to be no parade by the police during independence week or leading up to it. Schools cadet corps would be sufficient. Parades involving the police ought to be restricted to May Day (Labour Day), during a national rally of workers. A second national police parade may also be held on August 1st. ‘Emancipation Day.’

In addition to the above, a school singing competition including every school on the island ought to be held during the months leading up to independence. In addition each school ought to present a one-hour play (comedy, drama, other) to be written and performed by students of each school with help from teachers and principals. A painting and photographic completion ought also to be staged by each school displaying their talents in at least four locations on the island, north, south, east and west. The finals of a previously arranged school debating competition, is to take place towards the end of the week-long celebrations.

A national cooking contest to be called ‘Let us Cook Caribbean’ (Annu tjuit Caraibe), should be organized during independence week. (See idea above to involve Caribbean youth). On day six of independence 2017, a mass rally of school choirs would sing in an open air performance specially selected songs including popular Creole songs. Heads of governments from the Caribbean and elsewhere or, their representatives, are to be invited to this closing rally and song festival.

On the seventh and last day of independence 2017 celebrations national awards ought to be conferred on deserving persons especially on former teachers, writers, musicians, outstanding youth in sports, academia, community service, cooking and those who have been helpful to the elderly in their respective communities. Any other outstanding achievements by the youth of the nation are to be officially recognized on that day.

Finally, awards to outstanding youth in the fields of sports, skills training, song writing, music, academic and various other talents including helping the aged of their communities and clean-up campaigns should be awarded at independence 2017. I leave it to more knowledgeable to suggest after whom each category of these awards will be named.

14 Comments

  1. Pete ole boy,
    The duality of the body & soul coexisting within a fragile human filament has challenged great minds from Plato’s generation to the present. We disregard the inherent meaning from even our geologic wonders- The Pitons, to embrace the singularity of Compton as God head. The omission of George Charles and or the failure to call general elections to start the initial independence status derailed the potential for a Tabla Rosa and national plurality-from the get go.
    Perhaps the loser would have been offered the honor of the first GG office.

    The proof of this rift is still present within the current political pudding of St. Lucia and in your writing. Nevertheless, a plurality of outstanding ‘LOOSHAN” talent exists within and outside this island BUT those capable of creating a positive impact on the political dais are denied the opportunity .
    This is because of the status quo sustained by the imaginary independence day god head.
    Britain was a master at creating political dissonance via redrawing of local /tribal boundaries to expand her imperial reach and riches.
    The colossal cultural fault lines she abandoned with termination of “FORMAL” colonial ‘leg irons & handcuffs’ left seismic cultural shock waves reverberating in the wake of her formal departure.
    The very SEEDS OF WRATH that permit colonial masters to exploit their former colonies -from the sidelines or via direct PROXIES.
    I am not surprised that you assert the easy economic pathway suggested in your Jamaica -Puerto Rico futures prediction or model.
    Pete, you must enjoy the Caligula / Nero remake of Helen placed in hancuffs and leg irons forced in the “doggie” posture and forcibly penetrated by an oversized ‘strap on” worn by an angry Agamemnon………….at high noon, in Troy’s equivalent of Picadilly Circus.
    Go on EDDIE Josie….with your bad azz Super Spanish Fly self.
    I recommend the following for your neo colonial taste buds:
    Crush 6 ripe Michigan state Cherries into a tall glass with 2 tea spoons of raw brown sugar, pour 4 ounces of quality Bourbon stir and strain into a highball lass of i cup ice, top of with cherry soda or cherry coca cola.
    sip slowly as you take in the x rated bondage scene above.

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      You know people, after reading the scholastic comments by Dr. DASSAULT, I reclined in my chair asking myself, how does an entity with a HEART of STONE, named Black Pete Judas Josie, not crumble to dust when struck in the brain with such potent truth?? The only place the answer could have been found was in the Quran.

      Surah Al-Baqara/The Cow

      Thenceforth were your hearts hardened; they became like a rock and even worse in hardness. For among rocks there are some from which rivers gush forth; others there are which when split asunder send forth water; and others which sink for fear of Allah. And Allah is not unmindful of what ye do. (74)

      Can ye (O ye men of Faith) entertain the hope that they will believe in you? Seeing that a party of them heard the word of Allah, and perverted it knowingly after they understood it. (75)

      Behold! when they meet the men of Faith they say: “We believe” but when they meet each other in private they say: “Shall you tell them what Allah hath revealed to you that they may engage you in argument about it before your Lord?” Do ye not understand (their aim)? (76)

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      Dr. DASSAULT: Our Sister with our brother the Great Fidel, to whom we are forever in gratitude; especially for his defeat of the White Supremacist in South Africa’s Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. Cuba launched a large-scale military intervention in support of the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) against United States-backed interventions by South Africa and Zaire in support of two other white puppet movements . Thank you Dr. DASSAULT for your great contributions to our enlightenment.

      https://www.facebook.com/fidelista.porsiempre/videos/1025587274137487/

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  2. PETER JUDAS CAIN JOSIE “THE DEVIL’S SEED”
    YOUR MOUTH AND BRAIN IS WHAT THE WOMEN — USED 4 THEIR MONTHLY
    MOP-UP
    WHY DON’T YOU TRY TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT/WRIGHT WITH YOU FAMILY
    INSTEAD OF USING YOUR MOP — USELESS-BLOODY- COTTON AND STRING SPONGE-MATTER
    (WHAT YOU HAVE AS A BRAIN) TO SCRAMBLE SO MUCH SHIT EVERY WEEK END.
    MOVE YOUR !

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    From the Quran

    Surah Al-Anbiya/The Prophets

    Not for (idle) sport did We create the heavens and the earth and all that is between! (16)

    If it had been Our wish to take (just) a pastime, We should surely have taken it from the things nearest to Us, if We would do (such a thing)! (17)

    Nay, We hurl the Truth against falsehood, and it knocks out its brain, and behold falsehood doth perish! Ah! woe be to you for the (false) things ye ascribe (to Us). (18)

    To Him belongs all (creatures) in the heavens and on earth: even those who are in His (very) Presence are not too proud to serve Him, nor are they (ever) weary (of His service): (19)

    They celebrate His praises night and day, nor do they ever flag or intermit. (20)

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    It is extremely sad when an enlightened individual, familiar with the historical oppression and the degradation of the African by the religions of the Slave Masters, observe old House Negroes like black Pete Josie, and Rick John Wayne standing shamelessly professing their allegiance to the bogus naked white man they claim to be God incarnate.

    Allah IS Owner of the Galaxies and all that is in between them. There is no such a thing as “Empty Space”, but this vastness is filled with something we have recently found, known as Dark Matter, which we know very little about. There is nothing that can be compared to Allah; Allah is not a man, woman, nor spirit/ghost – there is Allah, in need of nothing, who created Space and Darkness, Life and Death, and he explains to us why he did those things in the Scripture called The Quran.

    All beautiful names belongs to Allah, but he calls himself by approximately, 100 names in the Quran, one of which is AL-GHANEE/THE INDEPENDENT; in need of nothing. When Allah created the Universe there was no Space or Darkness, only Nothingness(impossible to be conceived in our mind’s eye). Look into THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE where you will learn of Edwin Hubble, and the Doppler Effect. Allah commanded Space into existence and it obeyed continuing to expand until now.

    These evil Samboes like Black Pete Josie and Rick John Wayne are the worst of created things, even as they go plunging headlong into the Fire whose fuel is men and stones prepared for disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, and those who say, “Allah has begotten a son” who is killed by the Romans, then after being dead for three days this God comes back to life with the pagan Goddess Estore/Easter. These Evil Samboe things who have sold their souls to obtain the illusions of this worldly life, so they are but fuel for Hell.

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    Allah created creatures from dust/Elements: Hydrogen, Iron, Oxygen, Copper, Zinc…. Allah also created creatures invisible to the human range of vision; invisible to us but visible to other creatures in the creation. Those of us who know, understand these things are called Spirits or Jinn in the Quran, and Allah tells us that He created these creatures from a specific segment of the Electromagnetic Spectrum. You will never understand such things reading King James Bible, a book put together by a Homosexual Pervert sodomizing his cousin-lover.

    We are told this monstrous lie in Christianity that Satan was an Angel in Paradise who tried to fight and overthrow God. Allah created Angels invisible to us normally, but they can take on a material form in the same manner Light can be used to move iron as in Solar Energy. Allah created Angels without the ability to ever disobey Him – THEY WERE CREATED WITHOUT FREE WILL. Angels are different than the Jinns who have Free Will and existed on earth before the creation of the Human being.

    When Allah instructed the Creation that He would create a Vicegerent on Earth, and all of creation should bow to this human, Angels and all creation complied, except Satan/Eblis, and he rebelled against Allah, but asked Allah to allow him to exist until we are raised from the dead/Day of Judgement, a day spanning fifty-thousand years. Christianity will NEVER teach you those things because they are worshipers of Satan.

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    FROM THE QURAN

    Surah Al-Hijr
    Recall when your Lord said to the angels, “I am going to create a human being from a ringing clay made of decayed mud. (28)

    When I form him perfect, and blow in him of My spirit, then you must fall down before him in prostration.” (29)

    So the angels prostrated themselves, all together, (30)

    Except Iblis (Satan). He refused to join those who prostrated. (31)

    He (Allah) said, “O Iblis, what is the matter with you that you did not join those who prostrated?” (32)

    He said, “I am not such that I should prostrate myself before a mortal whom You have created from a ringing clay made of decayed mud.” (33)

    He said, “Then, get out of here, for you are an outcast, (34)

    And upon you is the curse up to the Day of Judgment.” (35)

    He said, “My Lord, then give me respite up to the day they (the dead) shall be raised.” 8 (36)

    He (Allah) said, “Well, respite is given to you (37)

    Till the day of the Appointed Time.” (38)

    He said, “My Lord, since You made me go astray, 9 I swear that I shall beautify for them (evils) on the earth, and shall lead all of them astray, (39)

    Except those of Your servants from among them who are chosen (by You).” (40)

    He (Allah) said, “This is the straight path leading to Me (that a person is chosen by Me through his good deeds). (41)

    My servants are such that you have no power over them except those of the deviators who will follow you. (42)

    And Jahannam (Hell) is the promised place for them all. (43)

    It has seven gates. For each gate there is a group apportioned from them.” (44)

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    There was a time when I was a Roman Catholic, but no sooner I was able to use my intelligence to examine the falsehood about God being born and killing himself, I quickly realized that these people were nothing but worshipers of Satan, and so I kept going, running as far away from this abomination of praying to dead people for help as possible.

    Old Negroes like Black Pete Josie, sounding like an old Drag Queen, and Rick John Wayne are sick and unsophisticated Negroes, who earn their living misleading people by way of their example upon the impressionable minds of our young people, telling them that the white man Jesus Created the trillions of Stars, many of them hundreds of times the size of our Sun, and that this naked white man is God of Black Africans; they are the new kind of traitors, even more evil than the infamous Benedict Arnold of old.

    BLACK PETE JOSIE STARTS FIGHT OVER HIS WHITE JESUS-GOD-THE-SON

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv_4sK5HpL0

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    Did you know that these creatures call Jinns(an Arabic word which means “HIDDEN”) had travelled into Space where they discovered the Kuiper Belt of Asteroids and massive rocks which was discovered by Gerard Kuiper. It is a massive ring of Rocks and boulders millions of miles thick; in fact some 30A.U. thick. An Astronomical Unit is the distance from Earth to the Sun (AU) . One Astronomical Unit is almost 100,000,000 miles in length, but the Jinn in their pursuit to escape from Earth, similar to what we humans are trying to do today found this belt of rocks and boulders some of these boulders are 75 to 100 miles in diameter, which was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad some 1400 years ago. — Why did the worshipers of Satan forbid you from reading the Quran?

    Surah Al-Jinn
    In the name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful.

    Say (O Muhammad): It is revealed unto me that a company of the Jinn gave ear, and they said: Lo! we have heard a marvellous Qur’an, (1)

    Which guideth unto righteousness, so we believe in it and we ascribe unto our Lord no partner. (2)

    And (we believe) that He – exalted be the glory of our Lord! – hath taken neither wife nor son, (3)

    And that the foolish one among us used to speak concerning Allah an atrocious lie. (4)

    And lo! we had supposed that humankind and jinn would not speak a lie concerning Allah – (5)

    And indeed (O Muhammad) individuals of humankind used to invoke the protection of individuals of the jinn, so that they increased them in revolt (against Allah); (6)

    And indeed they supposed, even as ye suppose, that Allah would not raise anyone (from the dead) – (7)

    And (the Jinn who had listened to the Qur’an said): We had sought the heaven but had found it filled with strong warders and meteors. (8)

    And we used to sit on places (high) therein to listen. But he who listeneth now findeth a flame in wait for him; (9)

    And we know not whether harm is boded unto all who are in the earth, or whether their Lord intendeth guidance for them. (10)

    And among us there are righteous folk and among us there are far from that. We are sects having different rules. (11)

    And we know that we cannot escape from Allah in the earth, nor can we escape by flight. (12)

    And when we heard the guidance, we believed therein, and whoso believeth in his Lord, he feareth neither loss nor oppression. (13)

    And there are among us some who have surrendered (to Allah) and there are among us some who are unjust. And whoso hath surrendered to Allah, such have taken the right path purposefully. (14)

    And as for those who are unjust, they are firewood for hell. (15)

    If they (the idolaters) tread the right path, We shall give them to drink of water in abundance (16)

    That We may test them thereby, and whoso turneth away from the remembrance of his Lord; He will thrust him into ever-growing torment. (17)

    And the places of worship are only for Allah, so pray not unto anyone along with Allah. (18)

    And when the slave of Allah stood up in prayer to Him, they crowded on him, almost stifling. (19)

    Say (unto them, O Muhammad): I pray unto Allah only, and ascribe unto Him no partner. (20)

    Say: Lo! I control not hurt nor benefit for you. (21)

    Say: Lo! none can protect me from Allah, nor can I find any refuge beside Him (22)

    (Mine is) but conveyance (of the Truth) from Allah, and His messages; and whoso disobeyeth Allah and His messenger, lo! his is fire of hell, wherein such dwell for ever. (23)

    Till (the day) when they shall behold that which they are promised (they may doubt); but then they will know (for certain) who is weaker in allies and less in multitude. (24)

    Say (O Muhammad, unto the disbelievers): I know not whether that which ye are promised is nigh, or if my Lord hath set a distant term for it. (25)

    (He is) the Knower of the Unseen, and He revealeth unto none His secret, (26)

    Save unto every messenger whom He hath chosen, and then He maketh a guard to go before him and a guard behind him (27)

    That He may know that they have indeed conveyed the messages of their Lord. He surroundeth all their doings, and He keepeth count of all things. (28)

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