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26/08/08

Saint Lucia’s Flower Festivals

Of all the elements of Saint Lucian Folk Culture, the most authentic are the celebrations of the Flower Festivals, one of which, La Rose is celebrated on the 30th. August, and the other, La Marguerite, on the 17th.October. Those celebrations are the real manifestations of Saint Lucia’s Creole Culture. How those Flower Festivals started, or when, is not known for certain,

Wallowing in the absence of standards

Some people may say that I am too picky and that I am always complaining about one thing or another. But to not bellyache when something is wrong would mean that we accept mediocrity and ugliness. I don’t understand why people don’t understand that obvious flaws in our society or environs which when corrected would almost immediately make our existence from bearable to pleasurable