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Mr. President

Obama ain't the only black President, I joined the ranks, lol. I wasn't trying to sound arrogant but I got sworn in last saturday as President of the National Youth Council of Dominica at its inauguration ceremony. Fellow members of the Executive Council include:

Carlyn Rolle - 1st Vice President
Damon Jno. Baptiste - 2nd Vice President
Fenella Wenham-Quamie - General Secretary
Larissa Andrew - Treasurer
Kinisha Browne - Asst. Secretary/Treasurer
Alvin Alexander - Publicity Coordinator
Kezia Augustine - Committee member
Priscilla Ormond - Committee member (she was absent on overseas duty)

We still have to add one person to the Council, a youth representative of the Kalinago people. Here are just a few photos of the event:


























































September 4, 2009 | 4:09 AM Comments  0 comments

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Tomorrow

finished this poem this morning but i had started it yesterday. I was looking forward to today and wishing for the bad weather to leave and for sunshine and my cousin told me "tomorrow isn't yours, you have no idea what it will bring" and this just sparked a poem. Hope my readers like it:

Tomorrow
By Delroy "Nesta" Williams

If tomorrow never comes
Why long for it so?
The day is never promised
To do as you choose.
It’s a gift to cherish,
If we see the light at dawn.

Unless you make it to the dark of night
What it holds remains unknown,
Until it is lived.
Tomorrow can’t be distinguished
From any other day
And even then,
The lessons of tomorrow
May just escape.
Only to reveal itself,
When you least expect.

As a witness to today,
Grasp the chance of the moment.
Worry not about the morrow,
If it comes your way
Because it will flee from your hold.
It just isn’t yours,
It’s always running away,
Running off to another day.

Even if it grabs your attention,
Tomorrow avoids staring you in the face,
Always evading the eye glance.
Tomorrow is the girl,
That you hug in your dreams
But have yet to hold in reality.

September 4, 2009 | 4:09 AM Comments  0 comments

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Cow Comesse Again

Every now and then something unusual happens to me while at work and it always seems to revolve around cattle.
This Wednesday, I left Roseau for our monthly staff meeting at Grand Bay and found myself again mixed up in cow "comesse." A cattle farmer had requested some assistance from my supervisor, unbeknownst to me, in Grand Coulibri, a farming community in the Grand Bay heights (near Tete Morne). At least, this cattle encounter wasn't as bad as the last one.
It was just the removal of a mummified foetus (see photo) from a cow. If you look closely you can see the front and back legs, the eye socket and even the umbilical cord as well. This is unofficially my photo of the week.
Nesta

August 28, 2009 | 1:08 AM Comments  0 comments

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New Kings of Football

It's official now and nobody can doubt it, the Bath Estate Football Club are the new kings of football aka soccer in Dominica.

Last night, the newly crowned back to back DFA Premier League Champions and back to back Newtown Football League Champions, beat the stalwarts, Harlem United, in the Champion of Champions match at the Windsor Park Sports Stadium.

Although the team was hampered by the injury of star player Mitchel "Baggio" Joseph, captain and leading scorer Kurlson "Maxi" Benjamin scored twice to ensure that the boys from Harlem had no chance to disrupt the beautiful run that the boys from Bath Estate have been enjoying lately. Final scores Bath Estate 2 - Harlem United 1 (compliments Randolph Peltier).

For more photos, check out my Facebook album: Estate Champions

Blue, Blue...Estate For True
Nesta

August 23, 2009 | 10:08 AM Comments  0 comments

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2nd Annual Literary Festival in D/ca
Related to this project: Africa Poets Society

Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

The second annual Nature Island Literary Festival and Book Fair took place from August 7th to 9th, 2009 at the University of the West Indies
Open Campus.

This year’s festival was expected to be as exhilarating as the
first with a number of acclaimed international,
regional and local writers and poets but the crowd was a lot less than that of last year, according to festival coordinator

This year’s festival featured Earl Lovelace from Trinidad, Colin Channer of
Jamaica who founded the Calabash International Literary Festival, Kwame Dawes of
Ghana whose book Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius remains the most authoritative study
of the lyrics of Bob Marley, famous Bajan poet and entertainer, Aja, and Adrian
Augier, a top St. Lucian poet.

Also on the cards were Dominicans Marie Elena John, who was on island with
her producer Rudy Langlais to begin discussions on her up-coming film,
Unburnable, her most famous novel now being made into film.

As part of the activities for this year, The Nature Island Literary Festival also featured works from famous Dominican novelists, Jean Rhys who is best
known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea and Phyllis Alfrey who wrote the great
novel, The Orchid House, first published in 1953. Elma Napier’s novel “Black
and White Sands” about her life in Dominica in the 1940’s was also
featured.
A special feature of the weekend’s activities was a segment called
“Finding Pat”. This part of the weekend’s activities examined the lyrics
of some of the songs of our famous calypso song writer Pat Aaron and discussed
the genesis of these lyrics and the correlation between song and poetry.
This year’s festival highlighted an exciting weekend of readings,
storytelling, music, cultural performances and local cuisine. There were
writing competitions and various workshops on poetry and short story writing and
workshops for children. All events were free to the public.

August 17, 2009 | 11:26 AM Comments  0 comments

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