Are our standards engrained in mediocrity?

Recognizing Africa as their domicile of origin, American blacks adopted the style and title of Afro American, setting aside the title of Negro or Nigger handed down by slave masters. Marcus Garvey once said, quote: “we are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all” meaning, we are all born and remain equal under the Sun. But economic and intellectual advantage inhibits a white man from accepting this axiom.

Re: New Passport Issuing System

On Friday March 20, 2007 the Attorney General met with officials from the Immigration Department, the Registry, the Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security and the Attorney General’s Chambers to discuss the rationale for requesting Birth Certificates when renewing passports.

28/04/07

Developmental Challenge - Part 16

“… Economic growth without development is a zero-end game….” Excerpt from Prime Minister Sir John Compton’s 2007 Budget address.
Facing our world today, we find billions of people of all ages in dire need of material goods and services. Billions of people live in gross poverty worldwide. According to The International Labor Organization’s publication, World of Work, No. 58, December 2006:

The quiet revolution of the ‘African Movies’

LIGHTS, CAMERA, NOLLYWOOD
Since ‘Mr. Ibu” debut days of the African/Nigerian movie genre here some two years ago, a new world of entertainment has been burgeoning, and has seemingly captured the imagination of the Saint Lucian public, creating along the way an enviable penchant for Nollywood flicks and an admirable following of loyal fans. Yes, this article is based on Nollywood in the Saint Lucian society.

“Qualibou” Jazz.
“Cool Jazz in the Volcano” Saturday May 5th

Soufriere Foundation’s SOUFRIERE JAZZ 2007, promises to offer visitors a new experience in Saint Lucia Jazz. The earliest writers on the native people of Amerindians, who believed in the spirit world called the Sulphur Springs “Qualibou”, meaning “The place where one ascends”. This was interpreted by Father Charles Jesse to mean “The place of death”. This version is negative, but it reflects religious prejudices against native traditions and religions by the early missionaries.