In keeping with its mandate, the La Salette Global Association will be donating a plaque commemorating the Hurricane Maria victims from the village of Pointe Michel.
This 5 feet tall plaque will be donated to the Pointe Michel Village Council on March 7, 2019 at a ceremony which will begin from 5 pm on the grounds of the St Luke’s School Upper Division in Pointe Michel.
The La Salette Global Association was established in 2018 with one of the main objectives being, to work together as one entity, bringing together the United Kingdom, Canada and United States to enhance the village of Pointe Michel which is the native village of the Association’s members. LSGA will work with all existing organizations of Pointe Michel and by extension the people.
The group says We chose this as our first project, as we felt this will assist in the healing process for the families and friends and by extension the villagers.
Telemakac you take great pride in stating that the patois spoken in Dominica and St Lucia etc. is ‘broken’ French and that it is the language of slaves. Well what about the broken English spoken in Antigua and in the part of Dominica where you state you are from, was that not spoken by slaves also. You take every opportunity you can to denigrate Dominica and its people. Even an article about the La Salette Community in Pointe Michel cannot escape your negativity. French may be listed as the official language of Haiti, but the fact is the local tongue is French patois. Just as English is listed as the official language of Jamaica, Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia etc etc. However, we all know that the locals speak patois be it French or English. They also speak standard English or French when that is required.
I am grateful that my parents spoke the French patois to my siblings and I when we were growing up and I make sure my children speak it also. It has not hindered them in any…
Easy Calty… I know with you being at the helm of La Salette Global Association all’s in good hands. Some really good, young and vibrant Dominicans / children of Dominican parentage (UK) are behind this new movement to transform Pointe Michel.
Well done guys my god continue to bless u all….straight from La Pwete.
LSGA all the way …
This initiative is a wonderful idea I think this will bring some closure to the families.LA salette is well known village name if you from that vincity ,and the name speaks volumes to the arganization nothing to do with creole even if the word itself is .Karen Pointe strong .
Congratulations to my Pointe Michel peeps for a job well done keep up the good work and let’s all try to be there for each other in time like this we in Canada is supporting you guys all the way.
“In keeping with its mandate, the La Salette Global Association will be donating a plaque commemorating the Hurricane Maria victims from the village of Pointe Michel. ”
Are you all ignorant or something; what La Salette Global Association are you all lying about? First of all La Salette is a Patios word. As far as I know creole patios which is broken French is spoken only in St. Lucia, and Dominica respectively.
Anywhere on the planet one finds two, three, or more people speaking patios, they are from Dominica and St. Lucia, so this garbage about Global La Salette thing is a myth, the French priests who came to Dominica to religiously enslaved, and corrupt the mind our peoples with some crap called feasts of La Salette!
I live in England, I go to Canada anytime I wish, I been residing in America for more than thirty years, I never heard about La Salette, neither heard Americans, Canadian, nor British people speaking patios, not even the descendents of Dominica.
Get a life and travel more! Pointe Michel people from around the world respecting its people should not be a problem for you. You must be a hater who have no respect!
Are you a fool or what?
List all the places you’ve been, on this planet earth, and let me list all where I traveled let’s see if you covered as much ground as I have!
Point Micheal people around what world?
I am in America for almost 40 years, the only people I know from Point Micheal are some cousins of mine, Lisa Telemaque an d sisters: I never met one single individual in the State of California who hales from Point Micheal, they might be here, but is perhaps invisible!
You need to hush!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
How you fool nuh?
If you have Point Micheal people all over the world that implies there are more people from your village around the world than the amount born in your village from the time of creation!
The only one who is ignorant is YOU telemakac. LA Salette is NOT a patois word. It is in fact a village in the French Alps. It became famous due to a Marian Visitation which took place there in September 1846 witnessed by two children. Hence the story of Our Lady Of La Salette. Since this Marian visitation, many miracles are said to have occurred and people started making pilgrimages to the village and so started the traditions associated with La Salette. Obviously this is a Catholic tradition and was exported to many parts of the World through Catholic missionaries, hence the tradition in Point Michel (or LA Point as my grand parents generation called it). Just because you do not have that background which our ancestors in the South of Dominica bequeathed to us I.e. the language that they made up from the French, (patois) which we note that you treat with disdain, although it is equivalent to the English patois that was made up by the ancestors in Jamaica, Antigua etc.
“The only one who is ignorant is YOU telemakac. LA Salette is NOT a patois word. It is in fact a village in the French Alps. It became famous due to a Marian Visitation which took place there in September 1846 witnessed by two children. Hence the story of Our Lady Of La Salette. Since this Marian visitation, many miracles are said to have occurred and people started making pilgrimages to the village and so started the traditions associated with La Salette.”
All above is Roman Catholicism hogwash!
If you read all I wrote on the subject matter you will find somewhere where made mentioned about some so called priest came with that pile of garbage. Our lady of what La Salette?
The Roman Catholic brainwash you all, take a look above Point Micheal you will find the Roman have the Choice flat land, while you the puppets and peasant are limited on a strip with your back to the Sea! All La Salette gave you is poverty!
You should also note that it is not only in Dominica and St Lucia that French Patois is spoken.
In Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Patois was widely spoken. over time it gradually phased out with only the elderly people speaking it. However, in Carriacou both young and old still speak French patois, and of course in Haiti. Thank God for our ancestors who were forbidden to speak their own language
Yet took French and English (and even Dutch) and made up their own lingua franca!
We in Dominica should NEVER lose that part of our history.
French is the national official language of Haiti, I do not know they speak patios in Haiti, if you say they speak Patios in Trinidad, that is due to migration by St. Lucian, and Dominicans.Now they say people in some small environment in Louisiana speaks patios: that is different to what is spoken in St. Lucia, and Dominica. What they speak is simply broken English in a way that you might not understand, nevertheless, it is not the Dominica or St. Lucia Creole Patios.There are people in Jamaica they claim to speak patios also, again that has nothing to do with broken French spoken in Dominica and St. Lucia!How many places in the Caribbean was colonized by the French?If you research it, you will find with the exception of Guadeloupe, the Saint, Marie Galante, Martinique, The France colonized Dominica for a number of years, hence broken French Patios was the language of slaves.The Grenada thing, and another place you mentioned (I doh know about!)
Wow you have taken the time to tarnish efforts made by a group of people whos agenda is only to help. Its a name for godsake calm down.
I am not a Dominican born and bred but both my Mother and my husband are from Pointe Michel. Long before i visited Dominica we have always celebrated the feast of La Salette and spoken creole. I am born and raised in London and creole is spoken everywhere. When i go to church , when i go to the market, on the bus and even in the playgrouond when i drop my son to school. I am not sure where you resided when you lived in britain but it must of been sonewhere where West Indian people were in the minority.
LaSalette Global Association keep up the good work.
Clearly that Tele- Who? is an angry and hating individual who refuses to see any good in the efforts of others. Who would argue the name to overshadow the effort of this UK group? Well done Pointe Michel Global Association, Dominica salutes you! You have raised the bar in the eyes of Village respect and remembering those gone too soon as a result of the most terrible storm in our lifetime.
Great initiative La Salette Global Association. Keep up the good work. Pointe Michel appreciate the effort.