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The Caribbean Is One Nation. Submitted by the Mahogany Coconut Group Dominica National Flag We join with all those expressing sympathy with our brothers and sisters in Dominica, who have been greatly damaged by the Tropical Storm Erika. We express our sadness for the families of those who lost their lives during this natural disaster. The news is even more devastating, when the Prime Minister, of Dominica, Mr. Roosevelt Skerrit, states that the damage will set the country back by twenty years. Taken in everyday language this means that gains made for the last twenty years would be wiped out and those projected for the next twenty will now have to be put back. All we can hope is that they are not delayed by another twenty years. Ironically, as the people in New Orleans, remember Hurricane Katrina, after ten years, they are saying that while some progress has been made, there is still much to do, ten years after the devastation. It therefore follows that if the mighty United ...

The Caribbean Is One Nation.                                                                   Submitted by the Mahogany Coconut Group We now seem to be concerned that our young women are active participants in dangerous criminal activity. Societies do not become submerged in deviant behavior over night, this so called new phenomenon, has once more proven that everybody seems to be asleep at the wheel. Modern sociologists instruct us that deviancy is not the preserve on any one race, gender or class. However where a race or class is constantly down pressed, it tends to look outside of traditional approaches to problem solving and income. In other words if guns and drugs have become normal activity within the sub culture, it is obvious that it will attract both males and females. In capitalist societies, it is norma...

The Caribbean Is One Nat ion. SUBMIT Depressed mom commits suicide Published on  Aug 12, 2015, 9:21 pm AST By  Carolyn Kiss                                   Tragedy struck the Seecharan family again yesterday when Sherry Ann Seecharan was found dead. Seecharan was released from police custody along with her teenage daughter in connection with the recent shooting death of prison officer Robert Seecharan. Her son is now questioning why his mother never received counselling from the State. The 36-year-old mother of four was discovered lying on a couch frothing from the mouth around 10.30 a.m. yesterday at her Barrackpore home. Police said a bottle containing weedicide was found in a shed nearby. Seecharan moved into her sister’s house at Rochard Road, Barrackpore, after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) ordered that no charges would b...

The Caribbean Is One Nation. NO CHARGE DPP instructs mother, daughter to be released A Penal  mother and her teenage daughter, detained in connection with the shooting death of prison officer Robert Seecharan last Wednesday, were reunited yesterday as the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) ordered that no charges would be laid against them. The 16-year-old exited the Southern Homicide Bureau at Coffee Street, San Fernando, and walked into the arms of her waiting mother. Sherry Ann Seecharan, who was detained at Penal Police Station since the shooting on Wednesday evening. The  Express  learned that deputy DPP Joan Honore-Paul gave instructions to release the mother and daughter at 2 p.m. yesterday. The daughter, holding a pillow in her arms, was greeted by her mother and other relatives at 5 p.m. The mother and daughter, accompanied by attorney Gerald Ramdeen, held a press conference at Freedom House law chambers in San Fernando. Seec...