| The religious ceremony which opened the festivities at 7 a.m. last Sunday should not have been political ... |
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However, "while the scent of tamarind greens", to quote a line from Baudelaire, embalmed the assembly (embellished, it must be said, with the smell of grilled breakfast being prepared, breakfast that proved toxic since the cod sent a dozen people to the hospital!), it was all the political leaders who came to listen to Father Samson's sermon under the tamarind tree of Saint-Louis, in accordance with tradition. The latter, faithful to his Haitian origins, recalled one of the sayings of his country: "Where the State cannot go, it is up to associations and groups to act." The best proof of this is the acquisition of a bus for the Bethany Home retirement home, financed by private donations. Do not expect everything from the Community and launch your own initiatives, of course. But the members of the Collectivity, the president, the deputy or the senator, did not hesitate to mark their presence by their speeches while respecting the spirit of the feast of Saint-Louis: solidarity and attachment to the island. As Daniel Gibbs joked, noting that the organizers' garlands and shirt were orange and green (the colors of the DU) and that he, the president of the DU, wore a red tie in the colors of the majority RRR . HM |
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