Consultation needed on declaring Sunday ordinary working day – Letang

Letang

The Dominica Public Service Union (DPSU) has warned of implications if Sunday is declared an ordinary working day in Dominica and has called for consultation on the proposal.

The Dominica Association of Industry and Commerce (DAIC) is the main organization that has been publicly advocating for Sunday as a work day. In its latest call, the DAIC said it will intensify that campaign in the New Year.

However, the DPSU said that cannot be done without consultation.

“You have to look at the possible non-cooperation on the part of some employers who will tell you, ‘it is not my business whether you decide to worship today. Today is your normal working day and therefore my work comes before your day of worship.’” DPSU General Secretary Thomas Letang pointed out.

He added, “It is a situation where the DAIC has an idea and on one hand they are pushing it, having no regard as to how the other stakeholders including the trade unions think about the situation.”

Letang said the unions here will resist the DAIC’s approach as long as it lacks consultation.

Some have criticized the DAIC’s proposal, saying that most Dominicans recognize Sunday as their day of rest and worship but the association believes the move would auger well for the island’s development.

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59 Comments

  1. December 19, 2011

    SUNDAY IS FOR BEACH, RIVER, DRINKING RUM AND FAMILY… NOT FOR WORKING…MY FELLOW DOMINICAN….PLEASE TAKE MY STUPID ADVICE..DONT FOLLOW AMERICA….LEAVE SUNDAY AS IT IS IN DA…….PEOPLE LISTEN!!!!!!!

  2. Oh Good Lord
    December 19, 2011

    Who will benefit? just the shops, the wages are too low to make a great difference to the workers. Anyway I am sure that they will be forced to take a Tuesday or similar instead. They will have no family to see and love, no friends to lime with.

    I lived in England and we did this a long time ago. I wish that we had never done it. It makes Sunday a day like every other. It ruins family time and as a society it went down.

    Saturday is sufficient, there is no NEED to make Sunday the same. People can open their shops and pay overtime or shorter hours …. what is wrong with that?

    It’s about greed. It helps nobody except the Nasseefs of the island.

  3. FORKIT
    December 18, 2011

    these business are more greedy than the devil himself… the salariesare the worst in dominica yet you want them to work on the catholic worship days

  4. Dominican
    December 17, 2011

    The Seventh Day Adventists dont seem to have a problem with worshiping on the sabbath. Lots of businesses and the open market thrive on Saturday as a working day.

    Nevertheless the issue is not with religion! It has more of a legal implication in the way Sunday is treated for business. The way I see it is that if a business establishment wants to open on Sunday then that business would not be saddled with having to pay workers the extra compensation which is awarded for holiday pay. There is no way that any business would require its workers to be on the job 7 days a week. Hence, the opportunity would be available for part time workers to pick up the extra hours necessary for the extended business openings. From an economic standpoint, this means more disposable income in the hands of dominicans; increase in total sales revenue; increase in VAT receipts for the treasury. From a social standpoint, less traffic congestion in the more populated areas like Roseau.

    Many business already incorporate several shifts to keep their doors open for extended hours. Incorporating Sunday as a regular working day only increases the number of hours available to fill these shifts.

    What the too often vocal religious people should do is to make adjustments in their worship schedules to accommodate the change in work schedules, rather than try to dictate to the rest of the population how to run their business.

  5. Humanist
    December 17, 2011

    Of course this is a good move; it will build prosperity and chip away at laziness. Hopefully, it will also show the more ignorant among us that the world won’t come to a fiery end if you–omg!–work on a Sunday.

    • TeteMorne I from...
      December 18, 2011

      You find nothing wrong with people working on a SUNDAY, you call yourself a “Humanist” yet, you call others ignorant? Look again in the mirror “Humanist!” :-|

  6. linzye
    December 17, 2011

    the earth is the lord’s and the fullness thereof the world and they that dwell therein. we as a nation must not forget God

    • FORKIT
      December 18, 2011

      whoever said sundaY SHOULD BE the day of worship

  7. Anonymous
    December 17, 2011

    the earth is the lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein.God must have his time, afterall, he owns us all, we cannot leave him out

  8. Anonymous
    December 17, 2011

    I think this is a good move, however as mr.letang has suggested there needs to be serious consultation to make this a smooth transition.

    Secondly the structure of compensation and taxation for employees who choose to work on Sundays have to be clearly defined and adhered to.

    While many people oppose this idea, there are many individuals in Dominica who work on Sundays with no problems. Additionally,I have met numerous individuals from Dominica, who would not normally work on Sunday in Dominica, but are gainfully employed on Sundays in Guadeloupe, St.maarteen, Tortola, The US VI and the US.

    It all boils down to the nature of the job and the rules that support taxation and compensation for working on a Sunday.

    So I am in support of it.

    • Eagel Eye
      December 18, 2011

      Dont forget the rules that apply to payment for Sunday work if it is decalred an ordinary working day. No overtime.

  9. apache
    December 17, 2011

    sunday is not and will never be the 7th day.but i support the fact that there must be a day of rest.even machines need a rest.we are heading for a heavy confrontation.

  10. Pastor Marcus
    December 17, 2011

    The issue of making Sunday a normal work day is one we need to resist. The question of one’s day of worship comes into sharp focus and while many may gloss over it its implications will be dire for us as a nation.

    I encourage each blogger to scan the Caribbean environment and tell me which country is open for “business” on Sundays except for the Hopitality services and other essential services. Barbados? no trinidad and tobago? no Puerto Rico? some Malls not the business centre.

    I have chosed three of the more leading economies in Caribbean. Sunday is the day that families get to rest and worship. even for those who worship on Saturdays, Sundays are still important family time for them.

    Whatis the motive for wanting that change? what are the economic benefits?
    what are the social consequences?
    How will employers react when employees are not able to work on Sundays because of the fact that it is their rest day?

    Are we going to ammend the labour laws to remove the protection of worship clause?

    We need to think carefully before we act.

    More importantly the principle of rest which is biblical advocates in being observed

    • December 17, 2011

      @ pastor macus in todays world many businesses are now open on sundays .well not Government but majority of private business anyway whats the differences if people work on sundays? its not like they really rest on sunday they do go church straight from church they clean up ,do laundry,they go party they drink their rum they go to the shop and the list goes on so they can as well work on sunday.

  11. dominican over seas
    December 17, 2011

    a work week is 40hrs, any thing after that is time ans a half. the only people that will profit from that, will be the owners of the business not the employees.don’t let them make you all work with days off, that how they work in china with no rest.

  12. Marian Jno-Finn
    December 16, 2011

    Don,t we have a family desk or something like that? aren,t they suppose to defend everything that is endanger the family unit.

    Why would you invest in creating a help desk for the family yet trade unions are working to implement rules set up to destroy the family?

    • Oh Good Lord
      December 19, 2011

      Not trade Unions … The Dominica Association of Industry and Commerce (DAIC) is NOT a Union.

      It is for greed.

  13. Dominican
    December 16, 2011

    Dominica nees to improve its productivity and since Parry can’t seems to resolve the problem, we just need to ad another days work, simple as that. So letang man get with the program.

  14. Marian Jno-Finn
    December 16, 2011

    please note that this move will add to the destruction of the family. It is an insult to even have this kind of discussions. when you have sunday as an ordinary working day what time are you making available for family life.

    If you compare the american way of life and the european way of life. THE europeans work less, take longer lunch break and spend much time with their family. they are more contented and happy, stress free and healthy. Now take a look at the American society and their way of life- it is all about getting more, more material stuffs, while they are sick, their children are a disaster, unhappy, unheathly.

    Need i say more.

    Family life must take a front row seat – making money should not be all. Then we are crying foul and looking for money to help family and children in crisis which we so selfishly have created.

    I say Saturday workers should be day and a half payment and sunday double day

    Please be careful of the decisions taken – oru family is already at risk don,t add more to it – IN JESUS NAME!!!!!!!!

  15. December 16, 2011

    We Dominicans are always trying to push our head where the rest of our body will not go through. Someone in Dominica, an individual, or collectively as an organization seems to be fighting to gain a reputation, the kind that history will recognized as ” they caused that!”

    There must be a purpose for everything, something must be accomplished from our efforts, there must be a purpose served.

    What purpose will legalizing Sunday as a regular work day in Dominica serve?

    First of all I do not know of any industrial country in the world where Sunday is recognized as an official, or legalize working day. People do work on Sundays, if they are ask to do so. There is something known as overtime, once an employer asks the employee to work after their regular working hours, that employer knows overtime must be paid to worker.

    When people are ask to work on holidays, and Sunday’s they are supposed to be paid time and a half, to double, and triple time, depending on the number of hours they work, on such days.

    Could it be that someone in Dominica, has calculated a way in which to robbed the working class in our country?

    Dominica, is not an industrialized country, there are less than sixty thousand inhabitance in our country, there are less than a hundred miles of paved roads in any direction, half the population of Dominica does not have a job, so, what purpose will this Sunday compulsory work day serve?

    The more industrialized nations, Britain, Germany France, Canada , and the United States of America, all are thinking in terms of a four day work week ( these nations depend on their industries some which operates around the clock), the people of the country’s mentioned are seeking a four (4) day work-week, nevertheless, a dead country like ours where more than have the population does not have a job, some idiot, or idiots want people in our country to work eight days per week.

    How ridiculous?

    Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque

    • Mahaut
      December 17, 2011

      Francisco,
      I always thought you was a man of great intelligence, but now you making your aggorance get the better of you. Please show me where you getting that the US is trying to have a four week work day? I am in Education and they talking about longer school days and shorter breaks.

      Does who stay up late at night and put in the extra hours to get their work done are usually the ones who succeed more. There are more positive that can come out of having Sunday as a working day. For one, as a business owner, I dread, when people have to take the day of to go to dentist, doctor or anything like that. This disrupts my business. Take your day off, and come to work on Sunday. A work week should consists of 40hrs, not matter what days you make it. Anything above that is OT. Then comes more employment opportunities for those that want to work. I would rather employ someone else to work on a Sunday that pay Overtime.

      Food For thought

      • December 17, 2011

        First of all, I reside in the United States, of America, in Los Angeles,within the State of Califorina.

        I do not go by they say, I deal in facts: for the past thirty years people are trying to get a thirty two work hour week.

        For your information that is based on known facts that the shorter period a person works it is the more they produce, it anticipated, that a four day work week will be more productive than a forty hour work week!

        Be informed, that places such as Japan, people are allowed to nap, on the job.

        Indeed take some time out to sleep, and that is within an eight hour day, by doing so, the keeps fresh and rested, therefore productivity becomes greater.

        Most of us sit in Dominica, play big shot, talking crap, which serves no useful purposes. Dominica, is a none-industrialized country, and even at that you cannot point out a single well developed industrialized nation on earth where Sunday is a documented legal working day.

        And trust me I have either lived in all of them, or have visited them all, so I am not simply babbling; even in the four hundred years of slavery, Sunday was designated as the day of rest.

        In the heyday of communism, the communist allowed people to rest on that day and not work. My position here has nothing to do with God and the Sabbath Day, which if we follow to the Bible, Saturday would be the appropriate day of Worship, nevertheless, this is not the time and place for me to focus on that.

        If I do I would have to explain also why Saturday, as the true day of worship is not all that relevant, since Jesus was crucified, if we keep Saturday as the Sabbath, then we would have to practice some of the old system of the law in the old Testament, and I am not going into that.

        Once again I would like to point out, although some, or all of the major industry’s in this country, and others, continues around the clock; people are working around clock, Sunday, is not a legal working day.

        You live in a country, with a population of less than fifty thousand people, in any direction you look, you have less than fifty miles of paved roads, you have a few rum shop, and other stores, some of which would be very lucky to net two hundred dollars per day; how much more would they profit from opening on a Sundays?

        I read a lot of stupid comments about productivity, and how Dominican lazy.

        All baloney, the longer hours people work, the less productive they are, the less hours they work the more productive they become, and that is a scientific fact, proven trough years of research!

        And if the idea is about tourism as some of you claim, it is even a more ridiculous way of thinking, because it is not common for tourist ships to enter ports-of-call on Sundays.

        Antigua, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad, St. Martin, St. Thomas, gets more tourist ships visiting on a single day in the tourist season, than Dominica, gets in a complete season, and I assure you their ports’ are usually empty of Tourist Ships on a Sunday.

        One does not have to be smart to detect, and identify rubbish when they hear it or read about it, mere commonsense can determine that!

        Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque

    • December 17, 2011

      @ francisco that is not really truth only a full time worker gets pay for time and a half or full time i leave in the V.I I work every sundays and i get regular pay because i’m not a full time worker .as a matter of fact if a employer feels he can benefit by opening on a sunday i dont see why he cant open on a sunday for business. he have control to open his business whatever is best for him not you or the Government have no control over that.

      • Oh Good Lord
        December 19, 2011

        That is not what kis being discussed. You are missing a big part of the equation. NOBODY is stopping the business owner from opening on a Sunday. With double time and shorter hours …. why not?

        But The Dominica Association of Industry and Commerce (DAIC) are talking about making Sunday like any other day. That is a big difference. Imagine ‘having’ to work Sunday or losing your job and being dealt a Wednesday instead. Nobody to be with all family and friends at school, work whatever.

        I personally dpon’t think business should be open on Sunday for religious and society reasons, but I will not oppose a business to open under current working laws.

        In fact … this whole thing is a sideshow. Why are we even discussing this?

        Basically mr naseef … if you want to open on Sunday go ahead … but pay your workers well and do not threaten them with the sack if they don’t cooperate.

      • December 19, 2011

        You and I are on two different pages, you hid not read any place in both my submission where I mentioned one single word about part-time workers.

        By the way, whether a person is a full-time or part-time worker, as long as they work for eight consecutive hours in any single day, and they are ask to work beyond that first eight hours, they are entitled to time and a half pay.

        I do not know where in the world you reside, however, I have stated it to you according to the labor code in America, and there overseas territories.

        I do not know what kind of work you do, if you are part-time, and you work for less than eight ours per day, why should you expect overtime?

        Know what you are talking about before you try to contradict people, because if you want a copy of a book with the labor codes of America, along with the most recent Workers Compensation Law books I can provide you with that also.

        Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque

  16. foreman
    December 16, 2011

    Dominica doh need sunday to be regular working day. Clear Harbor already paying sunday workers extra for weekend bonus, if sunday become a regular day den dat will stop. so protest against sunday self. i will work my sunday proudly

  17. Rastafari
    December 16, 2011

    ……and he rested the 7th from all his work……

  18. want to know
    December 16, 2011

    It has been a while now since this issuse has bought public debate as to whether sunday should be a working day or not.Well my point is that making sunday a working day should not be so much an issue,cause we all wants dominica to develope and in other to do so every day should be a working day. Is up to individuals if they want to serve their God for them to abstain from working cause saturday being the real day of worship biblicaly and those who wants to obey god dont work on saturday so if those who worship on sundays love their God and wants to obey him then dont work but that should not be a reason why sunday cannot be a working day.In the mean time those who oppose the idea are very much happy to know that on sunday they can go get something to buy from those who work on that very day.So i support sunday being a working day and if we really want to protect a day for worship lets talk saturday cause its really the day.

  19. waiting
    December 16, 2011

    OK, DAIC DOMINICA SO BROKE ALREADY, WAT AMOUNT OF COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY CAN TAKE PLACE ON A SUNDAY, THROUGHOUT THE WEEK DAYS BUSINNES IS SO SLOW MUCH LESS 4 SUNDAYS,….. WILL THE WRKERS GET MORE MONEY OR JUS WRK AS USUAL. NEXT THING INCLUDING SUNDAYS AS WWRKIN DAYS NOT GOIN TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY SINCE MOST OF THEM PLACES LACK WAYS TO MOTIVATE EMPLOYEES, ALREADY MONDAY IS ALREADY A HOLIDAY.LOL… JUST TAKE A WALK INTO ANY BUSINESS PLACE OR EVEN ONE OF THE MINITRIES…… EVERYBODY STILL TIRED ….

  20. waypapa-pas febe
    December 16, 2011

    Just make it a double time for the employees, no problem in sunday being a business working day.Government have to look after the interest of the people, some industries need sunday working not all.

    but i think it would be a bad move for Dominica.

  21. Door Man
    December 16, 2011

    That’s a good move. When it comes to development, Dominica is one of the worst in the Caribbean. Adding Sunday to the work week for some workers will stimulate some kind of positive movement. The Asians know how it’s done. As ma Joe from community high always said “the roots of success are bitter but the fruits are sweet.”

    • Ras Fatha
      December 16, 2011

      u stupid man,

    • Anonymous
      December 16, 2011

      u talking nonesense, u ever been to any country in asia? they are developed because they work hard monday to friday, opening for business on sunday will only add to overhead not profit,,,,

    • axa 4 life smallzzzz
      December 17, 2011

      u is a every were weekend if u work u have to get a day an 1/2 pay dominica always backward axa, sxm ,skb an u go on an on n on

  22. December 16, 2011

    so how many hours a week a person suppose to work?what day is the off day?
    i guess the chinese will like that. :lol: :lol: :lol:

  23. Door Man
    December 16, 2011

    Thats a good move. When it comes to development, dominica is one of the worst in the caribbean. Adding sunday to the work week for some workers will stumulate some kind of positive movement. The asians know how its done. As ma Joe from community high always said “the roots of sucess are bitter but the fruits are sweet.”

  24. December 16, 2011

    DA 2 D Bone, I totally agree with you. If you tell them that they will have to pay the workers double time for working on the Sunday do you think they will agree. (No). When I came to the US and I was asked to work on a Sunday I refused. I said that in my country I do not work on a Sunday so I am not going to work on a Sunday. I have always regarded Sunday as a family day or a day to worship. I will work on a Saturday but not on a Sunday. Dominicans should protest that, let them know that Sunday is a day of rest, worship and family time. What is it that you think you will not make on a Sunday that you will make on a Monday. There are some business places that are close on Sunday’s here in New York. Learn to put your faith, family and health first before all things.

    • Anonymous
      December 16, 2011

      People worship on Saturday as well or did you forget.
      Most places in Canada you are given a choice Saturday or Sunday. The country does not close down it’s called progress.

      • Ehdi
        December 17, 2011

        It’s called manipulation of the weak and vulnerable…!

  25. Yes I
    December 16, 2011

    Alcoholics gets drunk whereas Workaholic are Restless. I though Dominica Is a Christian Nation with the majority whom a Catholics. Hey DAIC, Why do you all want to employ Sunday as a working day as the US. Our society has been built on religious beliefs and tradition. WE DON`T WANT SUNDAY A WORKING DAY, PERIOD!!!!!!!

  26. Jayson
    December 16, 2011

    This has nothing to do with the islands development but has everything to do with the GREED of a few prominent Dominican business places.

  27. Da 2 D Bone
    December 16, 2011

    Just make Sundays a double day…….problem solved. See if they will agree to that condition for employees.

  28. Tears
    December 16, 2011

    All lot of homes will be broken trust me

  29. Domerican
    December 16, 2011

    Even the God of all creation saw it fit to have a day of rest. Genesis 2:3.

    • imhotep
      December 16, 2011

      which god a u talking about?the imaginary one

      • Truth Seeker
        December 16, 2011

        Nice one, Imhotep (big shoes to fill there). Give me Karl Marx. Religion is the opiate of the people. Look how many of us waiting and living on handouts. And no, it’s not just the Red Clinic, though that does not help create an industrious Dominican.

        So much dooley and immorality in the country, propagated by bearers of the cloth, too. If these people are closest to God, well help us!

  30. kevin
    December 16, 2011

    skerrit is the one that causing allof that.

    • want to know
      December 16, 2011

      yes i agree with u but is skerrit that start the YES U CARE PROGRAM, the free transpotation for school children,THE BEAUTIFUL ROADS THATS ALL AROUND,the windsor park sport stadium AND ALL THE MANY GOOD THINGS THATS HAPPENINS. So before u give Skerrit blame for all the things you dont agrre with pliz try to remember the good things he is doing if u are a person with conceince.GOD forgive you for your ignorance.

  31. DMS
    December 16, 2011

    The DAIC boss is a 7th Day Adventist and therefore he worships on a Saturday.

    • December 16, 2011

      i knew i smelled a rat

    • December 16, 2011

      sunday is not the sabbath it is a commandment keeping brought about by the catholic church which revelation 17 describes as a whore read people read enlighting yourselfr

  32. hope
    December 16, 2011

    What DAIC think ppl a donkies man to be working whole week, where is the family time what is going to happen to our children when we have no time to spend with them because we always working , so now money and development comes before family. Sorry but that Sunday thing is not for me eh .

    • Out of the Box
      December 16, 2011

      We should start boycotting all the DAIC members that are vocal about Sunday should be a work day!!!!!!

      These people just refuse to pay overtime to their workers and they are finding all kind of reasons why people should not have a holiday or a day of rest.

      All islands in the Caribbean have some sort of business opening on a Sunday but is overtime pay that talking.

      If these business people were manufacturers I would not object that much, but these dam lazy business men and women that only buying cheap stuff and selling it very expensive in Dominica and not adding any value – there is no warranty on most of these items; no returns policy; all sales are final are talking foolishness!!! We do not have consumer protection legislation in Dominica up to now DAIC!!!

      The International Labour Organisation – a worldwide body for workers caters for a 40 hour work week and Dominica is a signatory to many of the ILO conventions and therefore Dominica government cannot be in violation to a convention it has already signed.

      The DAIC Rep made mention about the various holidays that an employee is entitled to. But the questions that he must answer are these : Do all employees including men get maternity leave every year? Does every employee get two days compassionate leave every year? How many people die in a year or a month in Dominica? How many babies are born in Dominica every year? It is very ridiculous and wicked to point out that all the holiday’s available leads to low productivity.

      The DAIC Boss no doubt confuses lack of effective demand with low productivity. People must wait in lines at banks and at the private sector businesses. If there is low productivity it has to be the result of the poor managerial decisions that are adopted and implemented by the business owners to begin with – like little or no involvement of the customer in focus groups, surveys, taste tests and timely adverts!!! Not having the right combination of technology and persons to deliver great service. That is your problem DAIC!!!! Poor managerial decisions – taking your bank overdraft and buying expensive vehicles instead to taking a term loan for the vehicle and having most of the O/d facility as hardcore and thus non-performing. More poor managerial decisions again follows when members of DAIC playing with their employees sexually. What you expect – that is extra work that needs to be paid for.

      If we were to have Sunday as a normal work day the DAIC will later turn around and request longer working hours when they will realize that there is no improvements in their businesses.

      The problem is little effective demand in the country and the solution for this is investment by the private sector in plant and machinery and human resource – manufacturing for sure and changing the basic business model. These business men who make up the DAIC need to open up their businesses to the Caribbean stock exchange and give persons with money including their staff and equity position.

      Foreign direct investment ad encouragement of our Diaspora in commercial activities – good and services.

      When there is effective demand and there is a sync of quality and prices then businesses will realize better profitability, and productivity. Why the cost per employee will be lower and marginal cost and marginal revenue will cut at a greater volume of output.

      These guys know that but will take out the results of their poor management decisions on the employees and fool themselves by saying to their shareholders that their daily rate of pay has dropped since the denominator is larger. The fundamentals will still be there to deal with DAIC.

      You need to challenge Government to place greater emphasis on fostering a better business environment – incentives to manufacturers, capacity building, technical support and bankruptcy legislation.

      • Patat
        December 18, 2011

        You made some strong points. Wonder if Parry would have a person like you on a debate panel with Mr. Joseph

      • Oh Good Lord
        December 19, 2011

        “If these business people were manufacturers I would not object that much, but these dam lazy business men and women that only buying cheap stuff and selling it very expensive in Dominica and not adding any value – there is no warranty on most of these items; no returns policy; all sales are final are talking foolishness!!! We do not have consumer protection legislation in Dominica up to now DAIC!!!”

        Excellent.

    • want to know
      December 16, 2011

      So u mean to tell me before the DAIC bought this up ppl was not working on sundays? Did’nt they have children then? Did’nt u know about families?,Was’nt money always ppl concern? So wats ur points nobody say u must work on sunday if u dont want to but your reason is out of taste get real bro.

    • Anonymous
      December 16, 2011

      There are laws in place that says how many hours or days people work. Maybe being home 1 day in the week will help us to be better parents.

    • D/CAN TO THE BONE
      December 16, 2011

      you people so stupid..this does not mean you will work 7 days a week..there is two days in the week where you can get your day off..you people must learn to accept changes for the betterment of the country..it has nothing to do with who worship when or what..this will also allow some persons to get enployed because the companies will have to do more hiring..STOP BEING SO NEGATIVE

      • Oh Good Lord
        December 19, 2011

        The countries with Sunday as any day are the ones with a society that is dying. It has ALL to do with religion and family.

        Look at US and UK, dying. Do we want the same for DA? NO.

        People here do not want to trade a Sunday with their children, friends, family for a Tuesday alone.

        What makes Dominica so unique … many things right? Well, let’s keep the differences until somebody show us a society that works. Until then we can live in a place that has family and society as it’s main concern.

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