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Jamaica to ask King Charles to refer reparations for slavery issue to Privy Council
KINGSTON, Jamaica- Jamaica will ask King Charles to request legal advice on the issue of slavery reparations from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the final court of appeal for UK overseas territories and some Commonwealth nations.
Misreading the signs- International confusion
Alred C Frett
…And so it came to Pass...
I dislike the idea of having to say ‘I told you so’, but what else can I do, when things I have warned of for years, start taking place within our lifetime; whether it is the inherent folly and wickedness of Religion, the fall of the self-righteous Israel, UK and US, or more Homegrown Events we wetness daily… I make none of these things happen, but I feel obliged to warn about them, even if most refuse to listen or believe.
Choosing between the walls of slavery & the balls of bravery
Alred C. Frett
When the Ditch for your Enemy becomes the Grave for Yourself:
Soon we will exit February... Whereas, in past years we would be celebrating Black History Month and Martin Luther King’s Speeches, somehow, these were replaced by Sounds of Sanctions, and Threats of Tariffs... Things are being done to our detriment, and the false Optimists are seated at the back of the boat, focused on where we have been, rather than the New Masters and destination of their Slave Ship.
Skelton-Cline ‘glad to hear’ a US President apologise for evils done to native indians
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- Social commentator and pastor Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline, who strongly believes the United Kingdom (UK) should apologise for their role in the enslavement of Africans and offer reparations, has welcomed the apology given to native Indians of the United States by former US President Joe R. Biden.
Stop accepting their fiction as our gospel
Alred C. Frett
Do not be Afraid or Ashamed of Your Intellect:
We must use our Minds wisely because that is the manifestation of our DNA Inheritance… For too long we were taught to judge and decide our Worth and Value based on physical features, but all things look the same in the dark.... All our Senses may be in top form, and we can discern just about everything by taste, smell, feel, sight or sound, but no one can tell what we are thinking, until or unless we tell them.
'We focus on all the wrong things'- Premier Wheatley
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has chastised Virgin Islanders for focusing on the wrong things during Emancipation Celebrations.
Don't 'get lost in the dance & reggae & soca & parades’- Bishop Shawn D. Bartley
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Guest Speaker at the 2024 Emancipation Service, Bishop Shawn D. Bartley called on [British] Virgin Islanders to speak up and out looking towards their past to have a great future, while expounding on the theme ‘Stronger Together’.
Emancipation today is about protecting our rights as a people: A BVI perspective
E. Benito Wheatley
Every year the British Virgin Islands as a post-slavery society commemorates Emancipation in celebration of our freedom as a people. This year marks 190 years.
Slave trade throughout British Empire was ‘horrific’- Gov Daniel Pruce
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Choosing to be absent from the territory for the 70th year of the [British] Virgin Islands' Emancipation Festival, as well as what would have been his first emancipation celebrations as governor, Mr Daniel Pruce, nevertheless, extended “best wishes” to the people of the Virgin Islands (VI) ahead of Emancipation Day.
Are you ready to go back to Africa?
ALRED C. FRETT
Facing the Reality of Racism:
If Life is good but Racism is bad, then living in denial will not alter a grain of sand or blade of grass... Racism is real and must be exposed in order to be defeated… Those Persons who claim that speaking about it, makes it worse, are wrong, because all our present progress, has resulted from public Debate, and the Caribs, Arawaks, and American Indians, who were silent on their Displacement, suffered badly.
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