One Dominica, One People, One Vision
Forty-four years of nationhood is a significant milestone for any nation. It provides an opportunity to look back and examine its successes and failures as a nation; an opportunity for us to ask ourselves, where are we amid a rapidly changing world on the social, economic, technological, and religious/spiritual levels and the like.
It is often said that change is the only constant thing in this world. The simple reason is that life is on a continuum; it is going somewhere and unable to stop in midcourse. In our occasional nostalgic moments, when we reflect on what we regard as the good old days, we easily fall in the trap of wishing that time would stop for just a while, to savour the goodness/sweetness of the past. However, the mind jolts us into reality and forces us to focus on present needs.
This year’s theme: One Dominica, One People, One Vision, provides great impetus for reflection on what we wish to be as a nation. Oneness has always been the goal of any conscientious group of people. However, it is by no means synonymous with uniformity. On the contrary, the oneness of a group or people recognises the giftedness of every part of the community that could bring to the table whatever would work for the common good.
The responsibility to build our nation, the Commonwealth of Dominica, is the one common denominator among all its citizens. No one is too little to contribute to the total of what we ought to be as a people. This realisation, especially among the poor and marginalised, augurs positively towards the oneness which this year’s theme promotes. It is often said that the strength of a nation is judged by the way it treats its weakest member. It can be paraphrased thus: “The strength of a nation is determined by the manner in which the poorest and weakest are permitted to make their rightful contribution to the building of the nation.”
Forty-four years is an age of maturity for the well-integrated human person. At such an age they have offspring of their own, raising them under the principal and values that have contributed to their maturity. What, then, can we say of our nation? What have we to show in forty-four years? Are we a kinder, gentler, more Christian, more humane nation? The answer my friends must come from within, the answer must come within!
Let us pray that our future endeavours as a nation will reflect the achievement of our oneness, working with a common vision for the common good.
Happy birthday Dominica!
Biggest traitor to the Catholic community of Salisbury you too have to feel what the people went through the tear gas, your disgrace man of the cloth Malzaire.
Stupes tan. You look like one of them
What utter nonesence. 44years in human life and experiences to examine is valid as being mature but for nationhood forty four years is still like a baby still in diapers in a cradle. China and England are thousands of years old and America is 245 years old and we read of Older countries in the Bible. Therefore how can Dominca at 44years be mature? When we look back we see that Malzaire is the worst leader of the Catholic Church since independence. There isn’t any doubt because he abandoned the flock and the rest of God’s children for the money the corrupt one man government gave to the Catholic Church. He was moomoo whilst the government and the institutions of good governance got corrupted and became infiltrated into the cabal. I’m sure that many people left the Catholic Church under your stewardship because of your ineptitude. We’ll always look back at your failed leadership and wonder what if. Good riddance.
Why are you still involving yourself in Dominicas business. Haven’t you done enough damage over thee years?
I thought that man went home to St. Lucia where belong, and deserve to be.
Why is his shadow still hovering over our country?
Still trying to brainwashed the weak into voting for the corrupted crook the same as he is Roosevelt Skerrit whom he Malzarie promised will be compensated.
Dominicans even Catholics are not fond of you, stay in St. Lucia, your opinions are not needed nor welcome.