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Solidaridad EN
Radio Program of the Humanistic Solidarity Association (Saint Lucia – Cuba) entitled “The Cuba Hour” and broadcasted on Caribbean Harmony Radio 107.9
Friday, August 05, 2011
The host Radio Program of the Humanistic Solidarity Association (Saint Lucia – Cuba) entitled “The Cuba Hour” and broadcasted on Caribbean Harmony Radio 107.9 FM, July 9th, 2011.
The host of the Program, Rossini Francois, gave the name of the third Saint Lucian Scholarship Student through the said Association, Kaela Gerald; who will be leaving for Havana at the end of August with the group of 4 Scholarship recipients who will go to study Medicine in our country. These scholarships were awarded by our Revolutionary Government. We also have 2 more Scholarship recipients from the Association; Selva Wilson, who is studying for his Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Education and Melissa Francois, who is studying Medicine, all of whom are from Castries, Saint Lucia.
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Solidaridad EN
A birthday reflection in verse for Fidel.
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
All this must be so clear from your Sierra Maestra height
I wonder how Cuba now seems from that view:
a young woman at a mirror, beautiful, trembling with unmade decisions;
a daughter, half-wanting to leave home and aching with her fidelity to you.
In a car outside, Uncle and madam wait, with gold anklets and white, powdery persuasions.
Cuba, in a fierce trembling at the mirror, eyes searching left, then right.
I’m tembling too. Till I remind myself: You raised her. Very well.
She’ll know how to keep both eyes open
to walk a path without the signposts you had, but still with your vision.
She’ll show a way, for her scattered archipelago family who have kept hope in her, in Caribbean civilization. Her history, El Jefe, has been your absolution.
Cuba, senor, is your best gift to yourself. And us. A happy 85th, Fidel.
Kendel Hippolyte
Aug. 1st, 2011.
Santa Lucía
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Solidaridad EN
A birthday reflection in verse for Fidel. To be fallowed.
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
From the Sierra Maestra heights of your eighty-five years
what do you see when you look back
at the long journey, always uphill, that has brought you here?
This journey that began as a young man’s fierce, questing track
through the unending campesino poverty and Habana’s corrupt streets and palaces where
Uncle Sam’s Mafia nephews gambled for Cuba with goons and profiteers.
What do you see, El Commandante, when you scrutinize
a more than half-century of Revolucion?
Green fields of schoolchildren; muralled workplaces; the shared grain of material progress;
a peasant unbending upward, exclamation mark from his own question;
and between Moncada and Playa Giron, a people finding a lost consciousness.
Such memories no doubt must fill and overbrim your eyes.
But you see too the shadows of the clouds over your island:
thunderheads swelling; a threatening nuclear rain;
a fifty-two year siege; a bomb-barrage of lies; a strangling embargo;
638 assassination plots (and even now they still would try again);
a static swarm of truth-obscuring flies; the continuing insult of Guantanamo.
Yet Cuba’s history remains – imperial waves of onslaught that ebb into sand.
You faced the same devil-and-deep sea dilemmas Toussaint came upon,
determining who the ally, who the enemy.
Like him, you struggled, almost lost, then broke the rack
your country suffered on, undid the golden shackles, then when she was free,
met the irrational rage of the defeated master who wants his slave-mistress back.
It’s what they all want, whether the star-spangled emperors or Napoleon.
All this must be so clear from your Sierra Maestra height
I wonder how Cuba now seems from that view:
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Relaciones Bilaterales EN
Message from Kenny D. Anthony, Leader of the Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) to Fidel Castro, Leader of the Cuban Revolution, on his 85th Birthday.June
Friday, July 01, 2011
Dear Fidel,
It is said that “age is just a number”. Yes it is, but not when the number is 85. That score, in the game of life, is not just another number. It’s a lifetime achievement of monumental proportions.
Eighty five is a score that most of us would like to achieve in our celebrated sport of cricket, but can only aim for, without certainty. Once achieved, however, it is an achievement worth noting and celebrating.
Your eighty five, Fidel, is indeed, a life worth celebrating.
You have been a lifelong inspiration to millions upon millions around the world for over five decades.
You, and the Revolution you led, inspired millions upon millions around and across the globe to aim for equality for all, freedom, justice and liberty from oppression.
You, and Cuba, for all of 50 years, have demonstrated to the world that it is possible to effect and sustain meaningful change.
You, and the Cuban Revolution, have demonstrated to us that it is possible to be self-determined and to proceed towards genuine and popular national goals, even under the most sustained pressure from powerful foes.
You, and the Revolution, have repeatedly demonstrated that Cuba’s solidarity with friends and people around the world can always be reliably counted on, irrespective of the circumstances.
You, Fidel, have inspired men and women everywhere, who have listened to your words and read your writings and found ways to connect what they heard and saw with their own realities.
Your international stature, my dear friend and comrade, is unequalled.
You, Fidel, have given to mankind, life’s example of just who and what a revolutionary is and can be, yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Yes, 85 is a great score in life’s long game.
I greet you today on achieving that score, on behalf of my wife and myself, the Party that I lead, and all the people of Saint Lucia,
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Solidaridad EN
Cuban Ambassador receives the Key to the Capital City of Saint Lucia in recognition of Cuba’s contribution.
Friday, July 01, 2011
SAINT LUCIA, June 29th, 2011: The Mayor of the City of Castries, Mr. Irving John; accompanied by the City Councilmen and women received the Cuban Ambassador on the island, Lydia González at his Office. After a long exchange on the realities of both countries, those present expressed their recognition of the selflessness of the Cuban people, subjected to the strictest Economic, Commercial and Financial Blockade for more than 5 decades by the successive U.S. Administrations, at the same time that they reaffirmed their solidarity with the Cuban People, in particular, in the battle for the release of the Five Heroes, Prisoners of the Empire.
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