Saint Lucian Ambassador highlights collaboration ties with Cuba

Source:  Granma
March 12 2018

by: Nuria Barbosa León | internet@granma.cu

Malachia Fontenelle, Ambassador of Saint Lucia to Cuba, speaking to Granma International, reaffirmed her country’s willingness to strengthen relations with the largest island of the Antille

 

Ambassador of Saint Lucia Malachia Fontenelle highlighted her country’s interest in strengthening ties with Cuba. Photo: Karoly Emerson (ICAP)

Malachia Fontenelle, Ambassador of Saint Lucia to Cuba, speaking to Granma International, reaffirmed her country’s willingness to strengthen relations with the largest island of the Antilles.

The diplomat highlighted the existence of bilateral cooperation agreements benefiting both countries, including those which have seen youth from Saint Lucia come to study different professions in Cuban universities, chiefly at the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM).

She also emphasized the many people from her country who have received medical treatment in Cuban institutions, and praised the extraordinary health promotion and disease prevention work being carried out by a medical brigade from the island, offering healthcare services to remote communities in Saint Lucia.

I am an example

“I am an example of my own words; I studied at the University of Medical Sciences in Cienfuegos and graduated in 2008. Today, I am a doctor and feel very proud to form part of the relations between the two nations,” stated Malachia Fontenelle.
The regional official went on to highlight her government’s interest in expanding trade ties, which currently include food imports and other products from Saint Lucia which are sold in the country’s network of retail outlets; noting that new bilateral agreements should be signed shortly.

Regarding her time in Cuba as a student at ELAM, she noted that as well as her profession, she also learned Spanish and how to manage financial and material resources, in addition to meeting people who have become like family to her

“There is much to learn from the levels of citizen safety achieved in Cuba. For example, sometimes I work late and am never afraid that I or any of my colleagues will be victims of crime,” stated Malachia Fontenelle, who went on to note the interest expressed by ministers from her country in visiting Cuba.

Minister of Youth Development and Sports of Saint Lucia, Edmund Estepahane, visited Cuba to learn about experiences in the field of sports and physical education. Photo: Karoly Emerson (ICAP)

Warm welcome

Meanwhile, Edmund Estepahane, Saint Lucia’s minister of Youth Development and Sports, during his first ever visit to Cuba, highlighted the warm welcome he received from Cuban authorities, who provided him with detailed information regarding the selection and training process for athletes in the country.
“I’m visiting Cuba because I want to learn about the methods applied to athletes and be able to obtain the same results as Cuba has achieved in international competitions. I think we should change the structure of this sector and place greater emphasis on the physical development of the population at the community level,” noted the minister.

He also praised progress made by Cuba in this field which has seen the island become a reference for other nations. According to Edmund Estepahane, the aim of this first visit to Cuba is to observe and learn from the island’s experiences before proposing bilateral exchanges and signing

Have St Lucia, Guyana and Jamaica become the “Three Blind Mice” of CARICOM?

INTERNATIONAL  NETWORK  IN  DEFENSE  OF  HUMANITY 
(CARIBBEAN  CHAPTER)

PRESS  RELEASE

All over the world today, the United States Department of State and the US’s billionaire Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (former CEO of the rapacious American multi-national oil corporation Exxon Mobil) are boasting about the coup that they pulled off in engineering the so-called “Lima Group of States” (inclusive of the CARICOM states of St Lucia and Guyana) into issuing an international Declaration that attacks and vilifies the socialist Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as well as the success of Tillerson’s recent diplomatic effort to enlist Prime Minister Andrew Holness and the government of Jamaica in the USA’s ongoing crusade against Venezuela.

These recent happenings are all part and parcel of a well coordinated strategy on the part of the Donald  Trump administration to cause maximum disruption and subversion in our sister Caribbean country of Venezuela in the lead up to Venezuela’s critical Presidential election of April 2018.

And so, one is forced to query why three of our Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states — Jamaica, St. Lucia, and Guyana — would remove themselves from our collective CARICOM umbrella, and instead associate themselves with this sinister “big power” campaign of subversion against a fellow developing country that is trying desperately hard to keep its precious natural resources out of the dirty hands of greedy North American multi-national corporations.

The US Department of State website is telling us that St. Lucia and Guyana are members of something called “The Lima Group of states” !

The questions therefore arise:- Do the citizens of St. Lucia and Guyana know anything at all about this “Lima Group of States” that their governments have joined? Was any of this discussed with the people of St. Lucia and Guyana by Prime Minister Alan Chastanet and President David Granger respectively?

Is it the case that St. Lucia, Guyana, and Jamaica (under the relatively conservative, right-wing administrations that now govern those countries) have been transformed into myopic puppet states of Donald  Trump’s USA? Have these three once proud pillars of Caribbean nationhood become the “three blind mice” of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) ?

Messers Chastanet, Holness, and Granger are all relative newcomers to Caribbean political leadership, but surely they must be aware that one of the fundamental objectives of our Caribbean Community (CARICOM), as enshrined in Article 4 of the Treaty of Chaguaramas, is the coordination and the collective articulation of the foreign policy of our 15 CARICOM member states, and “the achievement of a greater measure of……..effectiveness of Member States in dealing with third States, groups of States, and entities of any description”.

It is therefore inexcusable that these three conservative right-wing political leaders have snubbed and disregarded our Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and our forty year commitment to formulating and pursuing a collective foreign policy, for by so doing they have severely tarnished the international image of CARICOM, and have done serious damage to the morale, stability and effectiveness of our regional organization.

And what should be particularly distressing for the people of St. Lucia, Guyana, and Jamaica is these three neophyte heads of government are seemingly unaware that each of their nations possess outstanding records as architects and champions of the CARICOM determination to formulate and articulate a collective foreign policy, and to adopt a unified CARICOM position in our dealings with the “great” powers of this world.

Who can forget the historic and critical role played by Guyana’s Forbes Burnham in crafting the Treaty of Chaguaramas and its commitment to a collective foreign policy?

Likewise,who can forget Michael Manley’s collaboration with the said Forbes Burnham in insisting that CARICOM formulate and deploy a common foreign policy in relation to such critical issues as support for the anti-apartheid /anti-imperialist movements of Southern Africa; the Caribbean’s engagement in negotiations at Lome for a new relationship with the then European Economic Community; and advocacy for the establishment of a New International Economic Order?

And who could fail to acknowledge that it was in the island of St. Lucia in July of 1974 that the heads of Government of the newly established CARICOM first enunciated the principle that our nations would embark on such wider hemispheric matters as crafting relationships with the Central American Common Market, the Andean Common Market, and the nation of Mexico, NOT as individual states, but on a collective, region-wide CARICOM basis !

In light of the foregoing, all right-thinking citizens of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) should rebuke these three errant heads of Government and deprecate the folly that they have engaged themselves in.

Our Caribbean has a proud tradition of standing up and courageously speaking truth to power. It was — after all — four small Caribbean states that — in 1972 — defied the mighty United States of America and broke the diplomatic isolation of the nation of Cuba. We took a stance based on PRINCIPLE, and the rest of the hemisphere followed us.

That is the type of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) that we must remain committed to being!

We must therefore NOT permit our unity as a regional community to be fractured, nor must we allow ourselves to be led down a path of unprincipled, self-seeking, and undignified behavior by any number of “blind mice”.

DAVID  COMISSIONG
Coordinator

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Cuba Dispatches Over 750 Medics to Crisis-Plagued Caribbean

Source:  TeleSUR
September 9 2017

Debris washes up on a beach in Cap-Haitien, Haiti as
Hurricane Irma approaches. | Photo: AFP

Responding to the most powerful hurricane to hit the Caribbean in decades, Cuban medical brigades have taken action to assist in recovery efforts.

More than 750 Cuban physicians have been dispatched to several Caribbean islands in the wake of Hurricane Irma’s destruction.

RELATED: Cuba Leads the Way in Hurricane Irma Preparedness

They will maintain daily communication with Havana in order to stay informed about unfolding events, said Dr. Regla Angulo Pardo, director of Cuba’s Central Unit of Medical Cooperation.

Facing the most power hurricane to hover across the Caribbean in decades, “measures have been taken to preserve the lives of our 771 employees, and logistic assurances have been implemented,” the official said.

She noted that Cuba has sent medical brigades to six of the countries in the subregion that, in recent days, have been or will be in the the tropical storm’s orbit. Those islands include Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Bahamas, Dominica and Haiti.

In Haiti, heavy rains forced nine of 23 total collaborators to evacuate their locations. However, the remaining medical staff are assisting local health authorities and serving residents.

Guidelines provided by Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health, MINSAP, and corresponding embassies located on each island have kept members of the medical brigade safe and sound. The preparation has enabled staff to participate in subsequent recovery efforts.

“Collaboration with the Central Medical Cooperation Unit, together with the MINSAP Management Center and our embassies, have maintained communication to assess the damage and gauge what help our own collaborators can provide,” Pardo added.

She emphasized that in Antigua and Barbuda, particularly in the latter island due to the hurricane’s destruction of most of the infrastructure as well as 95 percent of homes, Cuba’s 43 physicians weathered the storm unscathed and have joined recovery efforts.

Conservative Wins Presidency in St. Lucia

Source:  TeleSUR
June 6, 2016

The new government will most likely look to leave ALBA, a progressive trade bloc seen as an alternative to U.S.-led free trade agreements.

St. Lucia’s conservative United Workers Party beat the incumbent Labour Party in general elections Monday.

Former Prime Minister Kenny Anthony conceded defeat and congratulated new Prime Minister Allen Chastanet on his victory in the June 6 vote after the opposition party won 11 seats to Labour’s six.’

St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Kenny Anthony and wife wait in line to vote

Chastanet is a businessman who previously served as tourism minister on the Caribbean island, known for its steep, emerald-colored hills and luxury resorts.

New Prime Minister of St. Lucia, Allen Chastanet

The campaign focused on efforts to reduce unemployment, attract foreign investment and boost the economy.

RELATED:  Saint Lucia’s PM Boasts of Economic Progress Before Vote

Early general elections in the best interest of peace

The elections are taking place a year before the constitutional deadline, mainly due to the opposition’s pressure on the current government.

“I have decided to set forward the general election several months, as it is in the best interest to ensure peace, stability and security in the country,” said Prime Minister Kenny Anthony when he announced the move a few weeks back.

The main political forces on the island are the left-leaning Saint Lucia Labour Party, led by Prime Minister Kenny Anthony, and the center-right United Workers’ Party, led by businessman Allen Chastanet.

The Saint Lucia People’s Movement and the Green Party also put forward candidates for prime minister, and there are four other independent candidates who competed for the top job.

Progress made under the Labour Party

Under the Labour Party, Saint Lucia has made progress in tackling the deficit, boosting tourism and improving education. The country also joined the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, or ALBA, a progressive trade bloc seen as an alternative to U.S.-led free trade agreements.

The new government will most likely look to leave ALBA and turn more toward the U.S.

RELATED:  Saint Lucia Keeps COP21 Momentum Going

The United Workers Party has a more conservative stance on issues like abortion, LGBT rights and international relations

In the previous general elections in 2011, Labour Party won 11 electoral districts, and the opposition United Workers’ Party won six.

Saint Lucia is located a few hundred miles off the coast of Venezuela

Campaign Finance Reform Takes Center Stage in Saint Lucia

Source:  TeleSUR
March 4 2016

Supporters of the ruling Saint Lucia Labour Party at the first official candidate launch in Dennery, Saint Lucia on Feb. 28, 2016 | Photo: teleSUR

As a general election looms in Saint Lucia, many say it is time for political parties to declare their sources of funding.

Caribbean Chartered Accountant Frank Myers says it is time for party funding reform — the type of policies that would limit donations and make the names of donors public.

“We are a small country. Technically everybody has one vote and it is unlikely that any one person is going to give a significant amount of money to a political party and not want something back in return. That is the dangerous thing in all of this,” he said.

When the race begins for a new government, political parties must find enough cash to fund their campaigns. Those campaigns do not come cheap. They are often characterized by expansive billboards and posters, huge rallies and expensive ads — racking up astounding bills.

Anthony – mixed feelings

Saint Lucia’s prime minister, Kenny Anthony, says the issue is raised every election cycle and this one is no different. He says the jury remains out on this topic.

“I have mixed views and mixed feelings about it. I’m not so sure it’s as big an issue for small countries as it is for big countries. I’m not too sure about that. I know that there has been some reform in some other islands, for example in the case of Jamaica, but when you look at the reform it is very limited. Very very limited reform,” he said.

A number of voters have called for political parties to declare their financial sources publicly. Some say it should go a step further, with parties and politicians declaring their assets ahead of elections.

We should know

“As citizens of the state we should know where it is coming from, because we don’t know whether it is coming from the taxpayers money or whether it is from outside sources,” said Henry Thomas of Vieux Fort, in the south of Saint Lucia.

For Thomas Mathurin, it’s a case of “knowing beforehand, to avoid any future embarrassments or scandals.”

“Sometimes these fellows, when they come into power, you find out they’re being financed by other agencies that sometimes the country knows nothing about. So I think it should be lawful,” he said.

Advocates for reform say regulating campaign financing could go a long way to establishing accountability and ensuring that infusions of money into campaigns do not give businesses undue influence over the will of the people.

Elections are constitutionally due in Saint Lucia by 2017, but the ruling Saint Lucia Labour Party has ushered in the election campaign with the launch of its first candidate on February 28.

St. Lucia-Cuba Solidarity Association: The pain remains 39 years later

Source: HUMANISTIC SOLIDARITY ASSOCIATION (SAINT LUCIA – CUBA)

October 6 2015

STATEMENT ON THE OCCASION OF THE 39^TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARTYRS OF BARBADOS

The records always speak of the death of 73 people aboard the Cubana de Aviación flight CU 455, on 6^th October 1976. Well, more than 73 people were killed that day on Cubana de Aviación 455!

As of today, when we walk away from this ceremony for the celebration of the 39^th Anniversary of the remembrance of our innocent brothers and sisters killed by that CIA assassin, Luis Posada Carriles, we should speak of the assassination of not 73, but 74 people who day in the waters of Paradise Beach in beautiful Barbados. The historical record shows that Nancy Uranga, a member of the victorious Cuban fencing team on board CU 445 that fateful day, was pregnant. The record must therefore be more widely respected as of today, and we must remember that 74 innocent people (58 Cubans, 11 Guyanese and 5 Koreans) were murdered that day in the name of shameless imperialist hegemony and absurd, ridiculous, reactionary high-handedness in the peaceful Caribbean.

These were the records of nearly four decades ago. The irrational, myopic and misguided anti-Castro behaviour that oozed from certain leaders of United States politics for more than those four decades, 55 years to be exact, was based upon the hatred of those actors for anyone and anything that professed to embrace a political and ideological philosophy that run counter to the politics and ideology of the chief ideologues of Western-styled capitalism.

Today, more than five decades later, the same hatred and intolerance continue to abide, but their fossilized nature is the catalyst for their own gradual dismantling. Thus, President Barack Obama, the embodiment of both a human being, and a spiritual entity unleashed upon America and the world by God, was caught on the record saying to Republicans in the Congress on July 30, 2014: “stop just hating”, just stop “hating all the time”! Yes, the hatred, and the intolerance, and the myopia, are under attack, and today, the entity called Obama, wants to embrace Cuba, and the latter is returning the hug, albeit not the bear-hug reserved for Socialist comrades!

While we encourage President Obama’s search for peace instead of war, and while we embrace education instead of the neo-con, openness instead of darkness, diplomacy rather than theocracy, we must remain vigilant however, mindful of the extremely fluid and contradictory nature of American politics, where one powerful Party generally accepts the facts, while the other Titan is shamelessly “fact-free”, “though the heavens fall”, and entire low-lying territories face certain extinction in the deluge of Climate Change. On this 39^th Anniversary of the Martyrs of Barbados, we will again say to President Obama that it is still not too late to let the murderous terrorist Luis Posada Carriles face the blindness and impartiality of Lady Justice. If the President truly wants to usher in a new era of regional and international relations based on the tenets of truth, reconciliation, innovative diplomacy, and mutual respect among nations, then it is not too late to offer an apology for the sins of his predecessor who functioned as POTUS when the CIA-sponsored Luis Posada Carriles masterminded that cowardly act of 6^th October 1976. It is not too late to offer some words of comfort, and let hundreds of Cubans, Guyanese and Koreans find some closure, that same spiritual substance that so many hundreds of American families seek after every cowardly college massacre, the latest being the brutal terrorising of more than twenty American citizens, at Umpqua College in Oregon, where nine (9) innocent Americans lost their lives.

Each and every Anniversary of the Martyrs of Barbados brings fresh tears to the eyes of our Saint Lucian comrades, brothers and sisters, who love Cuba dearly. The pain remains equally unbearable, year after year, Anniversary after Anniversary. Many thousands of Saint Lucian and Cuban brothers and sisters have not found closure, particularly due to the fact that the despicable intellectual author of the demise of 74 innocent, pure, humble Martyrs of Barbados still enjoys freedom from the noble bonds of justice.

The ties that bind Cuba and Saint Lucia are unbreakable ties, and it was a truly remarkable and unforgettable act of nature that the Official Identification Card of the Captain of CU 455 found its way all across the Caribbean Sea from Barbados, to finally rest in Saint Lucia. This card was found on the beach at Cas en Bas, Gros Islet, by a Saint Lucian comrade, himself incidentally an unwavering and unconditional friend of the Cuban people, Brother Martin “Bob” Phulchere, who is here with us today. Brother “Bob” dutifully did the right thing, and handed the card to the local authorities. Let me ask Brother “Bob” to stand for a round of applause by our distinguished audience of brothers and sisters of Cuba.

The Humanistic Solidarity Association (Saint Lucia – Cuba) wishes to take this opportunity to again reiterate its pleasure and its support for the newly emerging engagement between Cuba and the United States of America, and looks forward to the deepening and consolidation of that new relationship, whose only logical end has to be the ushering in of a mutually productive and deeply rewarding era of economic, social, political and cultural relations between the two parties, not to mention the inevitable positive offshoots that such a new set of relations will have for the wider Caribbean and Latin American family of nations.

Thank you.

Humanistic Solidarity Association (Saint Lucia – Cuba)

BRICS Countries Finance FAO Livestock Project in Saint Lucia

Brazil, India and South Africa are helping to launch a major livestock development program in the Caribbean Island of Saint Lucia, which should boost food security and empower farmers. The government of Saint Lucia sees the South-South solidarity project as one of the keys to poverty reduction. It could reduce the island’s food imports bill, boost employment and improve people’s health, say some residents. The project is being implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Alison Kentish reports from Saint Lucia for teleSUR.

Source:  TeleSUR http://multimedia.telesurtv.net/v/bri…

Saint Lucia and Venezuela celebrate opening of the ALBA Bridge

Saint Lucia has made history with the first ‘ALBA’ bridge.

The Venezuelan people, through their government, are the happy recipients of a grant of US$ 2.7 million from ALBA, he Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our Americas, for the construction of three bridges. One of those, the Grand Riviere bridge in Dennery, Saint Lucia opened last Saturday and was renamed the ALBA Bridge, following a festive ceremony.  The new bridge was officially inaugurated by Saint Lucia’s Prime Minister, Dr. Kenny D. Anthony and Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez.

Grant made available to St. Lucia without any conditions

Dr. Anthony, who said the grant funds were made available to Saint Lucia without any conditions, thanked the government of Venezuela for lending a hand of friendship to Saint Lucia in tough economic times.

“With Venezuela, no matter the difficulties they have, the challenges they have, yet they have extended a helping hand not just to Saint Lucia, but to the entire Caribbean and for this reason the friendship and the gifts they have given us are even more special in our hearts. I ask (you) to take back to President Maduro the thanks, the appreciation and the love of the people of Saint Lucia, for the friendship that we have with the government and people of Venezuela,” Anthony said.

Venezuela has stood at our side since independence

“Venezuela has stood at our side since independence … to date we have received through ALBA over UD$37 million in support to this country,” the St. Lucian leader added.

The Member of Parliament for Dennery North, Shawn Edward said this was a special day for the people, who are witnessing the biggest infrastructural project in their area since independence. “The old bridge was a source of worry for not just constituents of Dennery North but for citizens across the island, because daily, thousands of Saint Lucians had to cross this bridge to get to work either in Castries (in the North) or in Vieux Fort (in the South). And also, we had hundreds of students traveling to Castries to get an education and they had to encounter that bridge sometimes twice daily,” Edward said.

“On days when it rained heavily, the bridge was a source of worry for most of the individuals who travelled the highway day in and day out. Anytime it rained we were always on the lookout for the flood waters causing the bridge to be completely submerged.”

Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez congratulated the people of Saint Lucia on their 36th anniversary of independence and said that Venezuela and ALBA continue to fight for happiness for people and against poverty.

“Every time we see the result of ALBA, for us it is always more than numbers. When we think that almost more than four million people who were liberated from illiteracy, it is more than just a number,” the Venezuelan minister said. “We are also thinking about the millions of people who had the sight restored because of the Mission Milagro. So standing here, in the name of ALBA, inspires us to continue to assist.”

Saint Lucia became a member of ALBA in 2012. The 20-meter long ALBA Bridge is a two-lane reinforced concrete bridge measuring includes two pedestrian sidewalks.

ALBA consists of eleven member countries.  These are Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Grenada, Nicaragua, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Venezuela.  Suriname was admitted to ALBA as a guest country at a February 2012 summit. ALBA nations may conduct trade using a virtual regional currency known as the SUCRE. Venezuela and Ecuador made the first bilateral trade deal using the Sucre, instead of the US dollar, on July 6, 2010.

Source:  Saint Lucia and Venezuela celebrate opening of the ALBA Bridge  stlucianewsonline.com

Venezuela Donates Laptops to Saint Lucia

The government of Saint Lucia’s secondary schools laptop program began in 2013. This year, the government of Venezuela is donating 7,000 laptops to the program. 

Laptop Recipients of the Ciceron Secondary School, Saint Lucia | Photo: teleSUR

Saint Lucia has received its first batch of laptops from the government of Venezuela. The donation will expand the government of Saint Lucia’s laptop for students initiative, which seeks to boost information and communications technology in teaching and learning.

Saint Lucia has received 1,000 laptops from the government of Venezuela’s Canaimas Educational Project. Another 6,000 laptops are expected to be shipped to the island in February.

Bridging the gap between the rich and the poor

Saint Lucia’s Education Minister Dr. Robert Lewis has described the laptop programme as an “equaliser,” an initiative that bridges the gap between rich and poor students, ensuring access to technology for all students at a crucial stage of their secondary school lives.

“It can give you social mobility for those who are at the bottom and make us feel like we have the same power that everybody has and that is the beauty of education,” he said.

The laptop scheme began in 2013 and students say it has helped them tremendously.

Seventeen-year-old Chris Wenceslaus is in his last year of secondary school and is a student of architecture.  He says the laptop has helped him to do assignments at home that previously he would need to stay back at school after hours to complete.

“Normally we use the laptops to type our essays … and it will help me also with things that I can’t do at school. So if I have to do a drawing for example for technical drawing instead of doing it at school, I can do it at home.”

The island’s Prime Minister, Dr. Kenny Anthony, says the programme is a costly one, but is important to the island’s students. He says despite the challenges of tough economic times, the government decided it must go ahead with this programme as an investment in the lives of its students.

Educators say in an age of technology, the laptop programme ensures that no student is left behind.

Source:  Venezuela Donates Laptops to Saint Lucia TeleSUR

St. Lucia: Shouting for Freedom from the top of the mountain

FREE THE FIVE CUBAN HEROES!
“Arriving at the top of this volcanic sculpture, we read about the lives of our heroes and spoke about their release and return to Cuba.  The Five Cuban Heroes have carved out and left for history to recall an unforgettable page of sacrifice along with dozens of pictures and memories.”

On Saturday, September 6, members of the Cuban Medical Brigade in Santa Lucia, along with the Cuban Diplomatic Mission, the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and St Lucian friends participated in a day of celebration as part of the campaign for the release of our Five Heroes unjustly imprisoned by the American empire.

The main activity for the day was the climbing of the Gros Piton in Soufriere which was