Below is a Facebook link to a presentation of the Glanvillia Development Committee on the occasion of World Rivers Day which is being observed today.
Dominican historian and anthropologist, Dr. Lennox Honychurch, speaks on the topic: Heritage and History of Waterways in Dominica.
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For a Dr., sounds so basic, though it went into water conservation towards the end. It begins very childish or just as Europeans historically use their people to show themselves in “great” light when it comes to Caribbean and African history. They finance many writers to soften and flood libraries with books on history of indigenous People in case some of you’d be looking up your history.
I like the guy, but he begins by referring to early Europeans as “adventurers” who went up the river in row boats to seek permission from chiefs to draw water etc. NO LENNOX, it was a slaughter! If you research further in your doctorate, those row boats were French and Brutish armies, pirates, robbers at war with each other out to take kalinago land. Well doctor, the kalinago resisted, as you would, and they were decimated, the Arawaks too; and to extinction up the same RIVERS, in order for the Europeans to enslave them and grow sugar cane. Be brave, quit romanticizing Europeans role my boy.
A well presented advert.
The detail is in the Sponsor .GLENVILLIAS. DEVELOPMENT.
This is just another ad to advertise Dominica for sale. Nothing else. We Dominicans already know about our natural resources. We don’t have money, don’t have jobs. The tourists will come and enjoy and then buy it all.
Let’s not just be “uppish” and brag about how blessed we are to have the best portable water on the planet, while we go hungry and are among the poorest Island in the Western Hemisphere. People, Dominica could be a very bright spot on a prosperous hill if our water was exported. Water is twice value of oil. It’s the richest commodity on earth! And we’ve got it in abundance. Compare the price of a gallon of water to a gallon of gasoline and you will see the vast difference. We need appx. Ten water Tankers to supply the Caribbean regions, meanwhile, the bigger countries will come in with their own at our filling locations. The poorest amongst us could be driving Mercedes Benz and say goodbye to ford and Toyota. The world is thirsty for the water we have here. But instead we sell the water we’re selling the entire Island with its watersheds and streams. Don’t sell Dominica. Sell water. http://www.pelicanwater.com/education/learn-a...
Don’t be so bitter, get up and do something to make a difference.
I’m making a difference by talking to truth. Thus, you responded to what I’m doing. It takes wisdom to see and know what a con man is all about. A nicely wrapped package presented to whom? Certainly not for me and you. I agree with the fact that Dominicans have clogged up most of our rivers by dumping all sorts of garbage in them etc.. But mountain top removal (which are done be the rich folks in Dominica) is the biggest danger to our water supply including our streams and rivers. But that wasn’t mentioned in the video. Check Hall River in massacre next to the airstrip is 10% capacity of what it used to be. DCP spoiled the Belfast River. The massacre river is no more. The Layou River is snailing along. Lespoint ravin is dried up due to the mountain top removal in area. The environmental looters are mostly people with deep pockets. You could be charged if found taking stones from the sea. But breaking the mountains for rocks is ok. The rivers need the Mountain. Break them clog rivers.
Really interesting. Thank you very much Mr Honeychurch.
Waiting For Airport… just be thankful that there’s someone who can provide historical data on Dominica. Since you raised the question, why don’t you volunteer to provide us with our island’s history?
That’s nothing revealing, he may have got these distortions in West Indian Readers from long ago. More revealing truths of their massacres have come out since Mr Honeychurch was sent ‘to study’. When he mentions us is about how we clog rivers with garbage, but the European that extinct the people he meet was an explorer? He needs to study a lot more before just telling us these untruths.
Great job.
To the team who put this project together i commend you all.
I also admire the facebook page of this group
I’m curious to know how Dr. Honeychurch blood line came to be in Dominica. What are your origins sir?
And why is it that the main historical documenter in an 80% African country is not African. Is this by design or coincidence?
Are there any historians of African descent who have historical archives from an African perspective in Dominica? Is it similar in the other islands?
A lot of things that we seem to normalize are very questionable.
Focus on the teachings and instructions rather that the teacher. He was born in Dominica.
Our main historian has done the hard work of documenting an important part of Dominican history. Don’t resent him for making the information available to us and to future generations! We also appreciate that he continues to update us.
However, I believe that you have made a fair point. There is still room for many other historians, now and in the future, to document other aspects of Dominican history that may not have been included in, or will post-date, Mr. Honychurch’s work.
There is no need to compete for first place. One point of view is not better than the other. History is history. It is what took place in the past.