Four Dominicans were among 900 who graduated from Ross University School of Medicine with medical degrees at a ceremony held at the Izod Center, New Jersey recently.
They are Ayodelle LeBruin, Charis James, Silda James and Tamara Augustine.
Dr. Silda James, who graduated with highest honors, is a former graduate of the St. Andrews high school and the Clifton Dupigny Community College. She is the first child of Rickey Hillary James and Emelda James both of Marigot. She holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Biology from Andrews University in Trinidad. She will be beginning post graduate training in Internal Medicine at the renowned SUNY Downstate Medical Center (Brooklyn, NY) this July. She eventually wishes to sub-specialize in Gastroenterology.
Dr. Tamara Augustine from Loubiere, the daughter of Ephnie Roberts and Swinburne Augustine, who owes much of her success to her grandmother Edith John, graduated with high honors. A Dominica Grammar School graduate, she has a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Spanish from Middle Tennessee State University. Presently she is a part of faculty at her alma mater, Ross University. She plans to return to the US to specialize in Emergency Medicine with an emphasis on international emergency medicine with hopes to improve emergency health care in developing countries especially in Dominica.
Dr. Ayodelle LeBruin, also from Loubiere, is the daughter of retired civil servants Anthony Errol and Rosalind LeBruin. She attended the Convent High School and the Clifton Dupigny community college before receiving her B.Sc. in Chemistry at CUNY York College. She is currently involved in clinical research in the U.S. and hopes to continue her training in the area of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine in the near future.
Dr. Charis James is the daughter of Brenda Harney James of Wesley and Ned James of Marigot. Before attending Ross, Dr. James attained her B.Sc. in Biology at Rutgers University. She also has a Masters degree in Public Health from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She looks forward to pursuing post graduate training in Family Medicine and is particularly interested in international and women’s health.
big up urself tams,im in need of sum of ur therapy right now doh
My Dear Niece Silda and Baby: I am extremely proud of you and happy for you and family. I am proud of the way you persevered and realized your dream. Your Grandmother (Pato)is standing tall and proud wherever she is at this time. The angels cannot contain her.We all wish you the best now and in the future. From Aunty Eunadie and Family
Well,Well the time has come and you did it Silda you made your family and your country proud, especially the babe and me. You go girl!!!!!!!God’s richest blessings.
love jw
just saying I am proud of these young ladies
congrats ladies.keep making us proud back home.
I knew that I recognized those faces. James Women Rock. Congratulations to you ladies and definitely your parents. Keep up the good work. Baby or family or not… Watch out we shooting for the top.
Congrats to Ayodelle from all of us…we are so proud of you. Hugs always
Congrats to Ayodelle from the entire family….we are so proud of you. Hugs always
Big congratulations to all you you. It’s such a joy to see young women excel!
this is a great achievement but i wonder whether any of them will ever work in dominica in the future.
I want to add my voice of Congratulations to these women in science. I am ever so encouraged by this. Way to go ladies! Congratulations!
Proud of you all ladies!
Well done Drs. CONGRATULATIONS!! The very best wishes in your career.
Congratulations to all the ladies especially Sida James and her daughter of Marigot and their families and Brenda James and famlies from Marigot and Wesley.Wesley
Congratulations young ladies. May Dominica be your place of employment. Dominica needs you with your knowledge and modern expertise.
God bless you!
Congratulations to the young ladies!!! It takes hard work and determination to make it this far and you guys did it. Way to go!!!This also serves as an inspiration for young people in Dominica!!Education is really the key to success!
Silda my dear you have been a bright spark all the way back in elementary school (Wills Strathmore Stevens School) Congratulations on your achievement, Dr. Silda James, I Love the way that sounds. We are proud of you. I am proud of you. Keep holding on to the motto that says “We Will Achieve” As your 5th and 6th grade teacher I am bubbling over with excitment at your accomplishments. Remember ambition is fortune’s ladder. Job well done.
To the other young ladies I say hats off to you for a job well done. I am also very proud of you. Your hard work has paid off. Take a bow! Congratulations.
THREE CHEERS TO ALL FOUR Doctors. HIP HIP, HURRAY! HIP HIP, HURRAY! HIP HIP HURRAY!
Silda, we are so proud of you, you did the family proud and we are all celebrating here in Toronto
love to you and all the best we will see you soon
god bless you
Big SiS….
special congratulations to you and your course-mates. Silda you are my rock and the example for me that whatever i put my mind to achieving that with God and positive support i can also be of the Highest honors like yourself 
Love you girl…. Oh and little James looking good in that pic
congrats all special congrats to Silda and Charis Ah fu ah we
congrats to all of you!
Many Congratulations to the four young ladies. Well done on your achievements. Keep aiming for the skies, in the hope of changing your little corner, one by one, positive step after positive step, and inspiring and encouraging those who’ll come after you. I am proud.
Nice pic. Silda I love how you making sure my nephew in the pic too, please save that one. He will need it for inspiration. Cograts, girl! Well done. To all the others congratulations as well and may the good Lord take you all through your continued journey of success!
great job ladies love you all.
Congrats to the all the Doctors, special congrats to the JAMES Doctors, sure made Marigot proud, God bless and go make a difference in the world.
i feel proud of the girls from marigot congrats
congrats to you all you make me feel proud to be a woman
The sky is the limit go for it
Congrats ladies!
Thaa’s wonderful news. congratulations ladies.
Congrats Ayodelle!!!
Congratulations! Will they be of service to Dominica
Congrats to Silda James . We at Ross-PMH salutes you on a job well done and also congrats on your first baby . I love the way you held your baby taking that pic , it means when you look forward to achieve , let nothing stop you , overcome all the challenges . Take a leaf young people . You can make it if you aim for what you wish to achieve .
Impressive very impressive!!!
I am a proud Marigotian and Dominican… Well done ladies… Laureen Charles – Dintzner..
Oprah was right afterall, change in developing countries will come faster with the education of young women.
Congrats to these four intelligent and gifted young women but I would have liked to see a couple of men among the graduates. Perhaps Ross University should have an affirmative action program to put more men through the MD pipeline.
Congratulations young ladies. We are proud of you all. Great job.
Congrats Girl…. Especailly to Tamara and Silda…. I am so proud of you girls…
Congratulations! to all four of you, Dominica has so many Brilliant minds.
Yea Tammy! Nikolai must be so proud of you girl. Keep striving. It was not easy but it is worth it. God is good, take care of yourself and mom. To all of you I am so proud of you. Although is not my children or relatives it makes me feel so good. God bless you all.
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WELL done loubiere gurls lebruin and Augustine we wish you the best and may jah blessings continue over you all.
THE SAME ALSO TO THE JAMES FAMILIES you all have done very well and we are al happy.
congratulation ladies……keep on shining
CONGRATS in order to all the young laies. Keep up the good work while you strive to make us proud Dominicans.
In this day and age in Dominica where heroes are so lacking, where political constipation and vocal defecation is the order of the day, you have given me hope in believing that “We shall overcome some day no matter what the obstales may be in our path”.
Assertive, Not Agressive
you askign where the young men i have personally written 5 articles about the jobs dominicans are doing out in afghanistan and in iraq as part of the british forces out there and to this day DNO has not poasted any of those articles i even made the army reporting branch send articles to dno from when me and my unit built a school in iraq and also for water purification systems we placed in afghanistan and DNO has never poasted none of those articles now tell me where are the guys or is DNO kinda biased against the young men who are out there actually making a difference
Good…personally I don’t want to read what Dominicans doing for America in a war America started.
Let America praise them, or let George Bush or Tony Blair give them medals.
The barrels and the money you receive is from Uncle Sam. Ungrateful!
Be quiet! Your ignorance and jealousy is showing..
Only fools die for a country! Sorry guns don’t impress me! They aren’t fighting a war they are being part of an occupation. A complete difference. You all can disagree until your head burn the only war is the one in the minds of these gun happy people. Its a war of greed!
@me Seriously you all go right afghanistan to build well when in DA have people in the carib reserve and all over the island needing water and assistance in constructing their homes? You pick up arms for another country and yet you want to be highlighted in another. You doh hear them DA people tell all you if you guys have US citizenship they don’t care about all you? Who send you over there?
@ robin
This is not nice to state. They went there for a cause. It was also an opportunity to work, get paid and later an education. It served a good purpose.
It is sad that this war or occupation that you call the latter occurred with numerous loss of lives and exorbitant sums of money expended. At first I supported it. I personally wished it had never occurred but it did and it is too late for regrets, words and hatred.
Many of the people of Iraq and Afghanistan were happy to have the Armed Forces in their country. Those people suffered at the hands of Saddam, his sons and supporters. The Afghanistans suffered as well and from the hands of the Talibans.
Americans debated pro and con to invade Iraq. They should have been secretive about it. They gave Saddam and his followers the opportunity to plan their defense strategy.
When the communists invaded countries they did not broadcast it to the whole world. They did so in secrecy. This is something the U.S. should at least have adopted.
Let me further inform you, in my opinion, I have nothing against George Bush. However, I thought that he underestimated the force and wickedness of Saddam, his supporters and the Talibans. Saddam told them to fight to the end. If they had surrendered, cooperated and allowed the U.S. and the other countries to assist to build up their countries, this war (occupation) would have been over some years ago with few loss of lives and they would be living happily and in peace but the Talibans would not allow it to this day. You know the harm they also did to women, children and teachers when they attended schools. Therefore, I leave the rest to God. May peace be restored in that region of the world. God knows it is badly needed. May God put a hand.
@truth and justice human beings have one life to live. If you pick up a gun and fight for a no cause or on bad advice thats your business. There are many ways these dominicans could be successfull in the the US like other Dominicans who’ve lived here. Saddam hussein was a tyrant but there was no need for America to go over there. he people of iraq should have been left to decide their own fate. See how martin luther king protested and alongside him other blacks for desegregation in the US. No other country came to the United states brandishing guns to free blacks or get black rights. You don’t think something is wrong when another country have free reign to come and go as they please add chaos with guns? Innocent schools being bombed by American military killing inncoent kids by mistake they say but don’t you think that’s wrong? Not every soldier is a hero because I’m sure you’ve heard of those hideous stories of abuse by American soldiers. Did you hear of the one where these soldiers raped a 14 yr old girl and burned her and a her family alive to conceal evidence? There are stories that never even get into the media about these supposed heros. Nope what I said is the truth they are nothing but a means to an end! Soldiers are nothing but politicians puppets! You all can say whatever you like they are puppets!
you askign where the young men i have personally written 5 articles about the jobs dominicans are doing out in afghanistan and in iraq as part of the british forces out there and to this day DNO
What a shame if this is true. To all
The MILITARY PERSONNEL. They will never understand that FREEDOM IS NOT FREE.
Congrats to all of you ladies. You have put to use the talents that God has given you. I’m certain that we can say “Thank You” to your families, mentors, past schools for having been such a strong support network throughout. Special congratulations to my village people, Ayodelle and Tamara. Blessings!
Tammi
Conggrats to ALL the ladies!!! Keep up the Good work!!!
Hats off to you, ladies. You have made yourselves and families proud, and Dominica by extension.
The Highest of Congratulations to all of you “Doctors”……..may many other Dominicans emulate your path…I challenge you to make yourself available to the youth. For they are the Future……..
Congratulations to the ladies. Dont know u all but I am very proud of U guys. Keep up the good work and wishing u much success in all u’all future endeavours.
Now is time for the men to step up there game.
WOW IM VERY PROUD OF THESE YOUNG LADIES!!!
GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND WISH U ALL SUCCESS IN EVERYTHING U HOPE TO ACHIEVE!!
Dominica does produce the best!!
Congratulations ladies!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ayodele it’s been so long. Silda oh my -can’t believe this is how I’m seeing the little one for the first time! Tamarah and Charis.. oh my this is so exciting! Wish you guys all the best!
Marvelous!
Awesome news. Congrats ladies!!!
kudossssssssssss ! good job dominica!
Congratulation ladies, Continue riching for the stars. Special congrats to Silda for achieving highest honors and also on your baby. God blessings to you both
Congratulations to the Dominican sistas. Go do well in the world…the future is even a little brighter.
My hat off to you, Doctors.
Congratulations girls!!!!! Now ask yourselves, where are the young men?
You know when I was reading this article I was asking myself the same question.
Where are the young men? I guess on the road side smoking ganja and harassing the young ladies as they walk by. SMH.
Congrats to these young ladies.
Anyone of them single? LOL
LOL… not all young me are the same eh; am young and single and working hard to get my degree online
so maybe u want to check me out?
lol………
LMAO…..if you are a young, beautiful woman, yes, I can check u. lol
dem felaz in DA playing fra smoking weed and some in the US buying motorbike and stunting in other people ride!! lolol way off topic but yeah……lollololols
I have to admit that Tasha.P was right. Its woman time…soon we will see another woman PM in Dca or even at the UN giving us effective representation
Congrats Ayodelle.