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Saturday, May 15, 2004
Dear Editor,
I would like to lend my support to the
call made to honor the gospel singer Joseph Niles of Barbados.
As a young man growing up in St. Thomas (USVI),
I heard a lot of his music on the radio stations here as well as in some of
the other islands in the Caribbean. I remember attending three concerts he
held. One in Tortola, one in St.Maarten and one in St. Croix. In fact, he was
a favorite of my mother.
Joseph Niles is a Caribbean hero and I
agree fully with Mr. Thomas that the Caribbean government heads should really
honor him for his contribution to gospel music in the Caribbean.
Is there a telephone number for the
CARICOM office where one can call to lobby support?
What is also instructive is that Mr.
Thomas comes from St. Kitts (according to your story). This speaks well for
regional integration when a St. Kitts national can call for the regional
honoring of one from a different country (nationality aside). This is good and
shows that we are indeed one people.
I watch with interest for CARICOM's
response.
Carlton Dennis
Sugar Estate, St. Thomas, U.S.V.I.
Editor’s note: The contact details for
the CARICOM Secretariat are as follows:
Caribbean Community Secretariat, Avenue of the Republic, P.O. Box 10827,
Georgetown, Guyana
Tel: 592-226-9281-9; Fax: 592-226-7816/3098
E-mail: carisec3@caricom.org or
carisec4@caricom.org
Website:
http://www.caricom.org
Saturday, May 15, 2004
Mr Editor,
Do permit me some space on your wonderful
website to voice support for a news item which I read on your website just two
days ago with regards to Joseph Niles.
My father has been a pastor for some 38
years, and have had Mr. Niles and his Consolers out of Barbados, play at the
Church he once pastored in Woodbrook (Trinidad) in the 1970s on two separate
occasions.
I also strongly support the request to
have the Governments of the Caribbean honour Brother Niles, as this humble
gentleman has brought cheer and comfort to the people of the Caribbean through
his anointed music.
I am indeed happy to see that someone has
recognized Brother Niles' labour in the vineyard of the Lord and is seeking to
have this labour recognized.
This is good, God be praised I read that
the initiator of this call is a stroke patient two times over. He too must
have been touched by Niles' music for there is a saying: "Who feels it, Knows
it."
It is my prayer that our regional
governments will do the right thing, and give honour to whom honour is due for
Brother Joe as we know him, is a real Caribbean icon.
A. S. Proctor
Chicago, Illinois USA
Friday, May 14, 2004
In response to your
article concerning Jeffrey Prosser taking
control of BTL. I live on St. John, USVI and have been waiting since last
August for a phone. The phone company has said there are no lines and will put
them in as soon as possible. Then they said they hired contractors to put them
in. As of now there are still no people here working on the lines and the
phone company can not give me an installation date.
Christy
Wednesday, April 7, 2004
Dear
Editor:
While
passing through New York recently, President Bharrat Jagdeo in an interview on
Spotlight Television accused me of "spreading propaganda" and misinformation
with regard to the number of African Guyanese young men that have been killed
by the government operated death squad in Guyana. President Jagdeo claimed
that the estimated figure of four hundred (400) Africans killed, as have been
quoted by GID, is incorrect. I must note that the 400 figure is being quoted
by the local and international press.
Having
disputed the 400 number, I therefore challenge President Jagdeo to notify the
Guyanese people of the correct number of young Africans that his government's
death squad has killed. The President must also disclose what number of
murdered African is acceptable to him, since he seemed to intimate that some
of the killings are tolerable. I must concede that the murder of one Guyanese
citizen is unacceptable to me.
Since GID
wants to be credible on this matter, I await the President's response.
Rickford
Burke
President
Guyana Institute for Democracy (GID)
Sunday, March 14, 2004
Greetings, I stumbled across your website while searching for updated info on the Yvonne Elliott case and after reading through your site, just had to acknowledge your excellent work. Information which I had been searching in vain for, suddenly materialized. Your reporting is concise, intelligent and unbiased. Thanks for the breath of fresh air.
June Barrow
Hamilton, Ontario
Saturday, February 21, 2004
Hello to all. I have just been introduced to your site by a friend and commend you on a job well done. I'm just writing to add my "ten cents' to an article about my homeland, Dominica.
With reference to the statement issued by Hon Reginald Austrie re the Woodbridge Bay docking of Cruise ships and the stench emanating from the dump site, I think instead of fighting the issue with the media he should request a presence on board one of the larger ships to view the site himself.
While he may be able to deny the view of the site( at least for now) one cannot deny the stench from this dump. I have on many occasions experienced this myself and wonder how the residents of the area can live on a daily basis with it. The site is badly located, cruise ship berth or not, and government should look to relocating it elsewhere, away from the public eye, and nose.
Thank you.
Simon Butler
Antigua
Thursday, January 8, 2004
Reader trying to locate Hyacinth (Philips) Shirley
Dear Editor,
I am in the process of trying to locate my mother's 1953 college roommate who was from Jamaica. My mother's name is Gail (Buttel) Johnson and she roomed with Hyacinth (Philips) Shirley in 1953 at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, U.S.A. Hyacinth's family lived in Kingston, Jamaica.
My mother said Hyacinth would accompany her on family visits during holidays because her own family was so far away. The last time my mother saw her was about 40 years ago at my mother's parents' home in Wichita.
I am trying to locate Hyacinth because my mother would like to see her again. We will be traveling to Jamaica in the near future, and would like to make arrangements to meet if Hyacinth still lives there.
I do not know where to begin in searching for someone in Jamaica. If any readers have suggestions, or know how to get in touch with Hyacinth Philips Shirley, please contact me through the
editor@caribbeannetnews.com
Thank you!
Gail Lipe
McLeod County Chronicle
If any of our readers can assist Ms Lipe
in her quest, please write to us
at editor@caribbeannetnews.com
with any information and we will pass it on.
Friday, January 2, 2004
Reader trying to locate Dennis WIlliams
I was wondering if you would be able to help in finding someone
The person I am trying to find is Dennis Williams of Layou, St. Vincent who
joined the regiment in Jamaica in the sixties, I can't remember the exact
year, and then went to Germany as a soldier.
Thanks for your help
Jenetha Williams
If any of our readers can assist Ms Williams in her quest, please write to us
at editor@caribbeannetnews.com
with any information and we will pass it on.
Friday, January 2, 2004
Letter of Condolence to the people of Iran
Dear Brother/Sister in Humanity,
It is in times of greatest sorrow the that human heart expands and become filled with emotions of such magnitude that it ties us in an everlasting bound with our fellow humans globally where we feel each others sorrow, and more so within ourselves as we tumble and search the rubbles of our lives afterwards to rebuild it, and to try and find its true purpose.
Although it seems impossible to speak of any consolation in the face of such a loss, our party's supporters, people from within and beyond the borders of Guyana whose lives like those of the people of Bam, stretches through the social, economic and religious barriers of life do feels the pain and the grief felt by the surviving victims, relatives and friends of the people of Bam.
From time to time the Guyanese people themselves have been victims of natural disaster and we like so many others from time immoral, leaned our heads on each other, mopped our tears and continue to tread the path that makes up the delicate fabric to which our lives are knitted in this small global community.
The leadership, members and supporters and of the party The National Front Alliance, of Guyana wish to extend our most profound sympathy to the people of Iran in this their time of great sorrow. Our thoughts, prayers and heartfelt sympathies are with you.
May our thoughts and prayers help sustain you at this difficult moment.
Keith Scott
Leader
National Front Alliance
Friday, January 2, 2004
Just like to thank you for the info on the Voyager.
We should have left on it from Fort Lauderdale on the 2nd January, but have now been able to get a different cruise on the 4th, just means we are in Fort Lauderdale a couple of days extra.
Your info has meant we were able to be at the front of the queue for refunds etc, and of course make alternative arrangements.
Happy New Year
Jim Stott
Oldham, England
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Dear Editor:
I support the recommendation for CARICOM to honour Barbados and Caribbean gospel singer/musician Joseph Niles "for outstanding contribution to the development of CARICOM." I thank "Gus" Thomas.
Growing up in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, I listened to radio stations from many of the Caribbean islands. One could not have escaped the popularity of Joseph Niles and the Consolers and the frequency with which his songs came across the airwaves on a daily basis. I also lived in Barbados briefly, where Joseph Niles was second only to the great Jackie Opel in entertainment popularity. As a
calypsonian/entertainer, I have used quite a lot of Niles' material at various events.
I am rather surprised to read that Carrington "admitted that he himself have never heard of Joseph Niles ...there are several Caribbean nationals whose contributions impact heavily on the countries where they reside, but very little is known of them in the region." He (Carrington) either grew up outside the Caribbean region and Caribbean communities in the diaspora or he never had a liking for Caribbean music. I am confident that none of the present leaders of CARICOM shares his sentiments or experience.
Joseph Niles deserves to be honoured by CARICOM.
Wade Kojop Williams, Sr.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
November 8, 2003
Your site is WONDERFUL! It's truly the most comprehensively informative Caribbean-oriented website that I have ever seen. Please keep up the very excellent work!
Wm. Noland
The Caribbean Star
Atlanta, Georgia.
October 25, 2003
Dear Sir,
The pleasure is ours writing to you.
On behalf of all of us at Wee-Fm, one of Grenada's most popular radio
stations, we would like to thank and congratulate you on a wonderful
web-site, It is a great help to us in sourcing news and information from throughout the
Caribbean.
Keep the good works up... and thanks again for bringing the
Caribbean and the world to everyone on-line.
October 21, 2003
Hello, don't have a historical date, but just saying I enjoy your news...it
has been a great help to me
Collin JnoFinn
News Director
Crusader Radio
St. John's, Antigua.
October 19, 2003
Today's Caribbean News is a great service to those of us who have interest in the Caribbean. For some, like me, the interest is business. For others, the interest is news from home. Regardless of the reason, please keep-up the great service. How did we function before you extended this service to us.
George Hulse
New York, USA
October 2, 2003
Dear Sir: I was reading about building new prisons on your Website. (Click here for article)
I would like to see some country, hopefully the U.S., take all the battleships (that our boys and girls fought and died in battle on), take them out of dry dock, and turn them into prisons!
Two or three nice things: we could set them offshore, just far enough for the prisoners to see the freedoms "they all" decided "individually" to give up, (but not close enough for any human being able to swim, of course) plus we wouldn't need the money to pay guards, as we could feed them by helicopter!
Label the ships for say, "murderers", "rapist", child molesters, and let them all live together! I know, this "sounds a little inhumane" but so is every action each one did, "that got them in prison in the first place"? This would also serve as a deterrent to others if we were to televise the "feeding operation" everyday, as a part of everyday news!
Think about it…
Bill Penrod, Florida, USA
September 30, 2003
Dear Editor: I came across your site just yesterday and wanted to congratulate you on what seems to the
most informative and best formatted Caribbean newspaper on the internet. Don't know how long you have been publishing, but I take this opportunity to thank you and your
staff for a tremendous effort. Wade Kojo Williams, Sr.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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