Commonwealth Secretary General designate baroness Patricia Scotland says her major objective is to bring the 53-members states closer together during her term. In the process she will be committed to encouraging greater unity with the Caricom member states, she said.
Dominican-born Baroness Scotland, who was elected at last month’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta, was in T&T to attend the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Wild Fowl Trust in Pointe-a-Pierre.
She said she decided to contest the post because it was an opportunity “to serve region country, and I hope the Caribbean will come together.”
The Baroness represents 53 countries tell me what would Mr Saunders or the African candidate do for Dominica that the Baroness is incapable of doing? the slave mentality we have where by we don’t support our own case in point we prefer to buy imported stuff than ours what a shame
She is a Caribbean woman when it suits her.
The Baroness’ words: “. . . and if you look at each of us, I don’t know one Caribbean person who is pure anything. We are a little bit of this and a little bit of that . . .”
I have been stating this all along and on this Website that we are not a pure race. We are of mixed races which I will not elaborate on.
This is how smart she is to recognize that. I hope you critics read the article and took note of her words and learn from them.
She reserves the right to state she is “A Caribbean woman.” She has visited those places including Dominica all along. None of her critics knew that. This is something else they must learn about her and put their negative comments to rest.
We are the only race of people who cannot accept the fact that our ancestors originated in Africa. The reason being, self-hatred. We are even ashamed to say that we are black. We tend to say, I am brown or I am light skinned. There are Indians who are blackker than some of us and they do not even consider themselves to be black but Indian. All other races acknowledge their own but we have to look for some other race to make an excuse that we are not black.The light skin that some of us have is due to the fact that some of our fore-mothers were raped by these slave masters so that is not even something to be proud of.
I am not ashamed to say that I am black because Africa is the birthplace of civilisation and unless we rid our minds from these lies that we were taught, we will never appreciate the colour of our skin.
Someone said that “black is the colour from which all other colours derived and look into the mirror and don’t move until you love what you see.”
UNAPOLOGETIC
I hope she make progress on reparation for slavery. Money made from slavery is still being invested today.
Say on, my brother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You people are insane. How can you tell the woman that she is not Dominican? All of you who are citizens of the diaspora, what makes you different? stop allowing Lennox to think for you . You are always repeating exactly what he says on Q95. Who is Ronald saunders? I believe the rest of the caribbean is laughing at you all .
Baroness Patricia Scotland of course you are a Caribbean Woman…you were born in Dominica! Enough said!!
Madam, with all due respect, you ARE NOT a Caribbean woman. You might be born in Dominica but you became a woman and gave all you “womanhood” to England. You should be ashamed to say you are a Caribbean woman.
If we only held ourselves to the same standards that we have for our public officials. oh what a great nation we would have.
I guess all the Dominicans in Canada, France, UK etc that wear their wob dwiyet and have their foreign born children speaking patois I guess, they are not Dominicans too right?
Who was England candidate when Dominica nominated you baroness?
It wasn’t de Trinidad candidate!
England had a candidate nuh?
I thought de guy was an Australian!
You glad that now that you have won, the whole region now celebrates you as a daughter of the Caribbean! What were you considered before that?
Since 1978 you been going back to Trinidad?
And what about Dominica?
To those of you who are questioning Baroness Scotland’s right to call herself Dominican, I hope when you return to Dominica after 30 – 40 years overseas and locals treat you like a foreigner, I hope you don’t complain.
Idiot go read on speeches this woman has made in the mass and how she downplayed any strong caribbean ties before you burst a blood vessel. There is a difference between people who lived a hundred years abroad but made a contribution to Dominica, the Caribbean etc and those who totally scrubbed everything out of their heritage and legacy to only now want to associate with the island(s) to advance their cause and agenda. She’s a Caribbean woman, making defensive speeches left right and center because her veil of hypocrisy and the way she backdoored hereself into that position to serve her British masters agenda has been blown wide open. If no one had said a word, she would have remained on mute as in the past. All of a sudden she has a voice and is a Caribbean woman? What has she ever done to serve the interest of Dominica or the region in the past. Read up on the woman before you defend…
@Zandoli December 9, 2015
Nice going! I just love those kinds of rebuke!
But then again, I believe that the majority of those, who comment on DNO, are simply the young and ignorant; empty and futile –definitely repeating what they hear from their negative, older, and foolish counterparts. They simply need to be ignored.
I just cannot see that mentality in intelligent and well informed adults–but I could be wrong also.
This is just a farce. Now that you are elected as Secretary General all of a sudden you are now a Caribbean woman? What has been and is your contribution to the Caribbean, especially Dominica, which you claim is the land of your birth? What do you even remember about Dominica when you were only a toddler when you left? Don’t come to us with your slave mentality because the people whom you have served and to whom you have given your loyalty, they were and are still slave owners. They are wealthy today because of what they have reaped from the Motherland, Africa.
We do not know you and you have not invested any of your wealth in Dominica, not even so much to create employment for the jobless.
You are a total stranger to us in DA.
LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD
@out of south city December 9, 2015
You are sounding like a broken record–with your slave mentality idea–like most of you are saying here–“it is time for you to give it up and move on” get freed from that slavery trap; no one will do it for you!
Unfortunately, you are not able to do that, because you do not know that the “Primary Slave Owner” is yourself; trapped in your cage of hatred and non-forgiveness, there is no sign of freedom in you.
The Baroness had no control of her existence as a child, right up to her teenage years, or even older that that; she is now at a perfect stage and age, when she can make decisions for herself–she knows who she is and what she is up to for the rest of her Life–no doubt about this.
She has chosen to be part of her homeland, Dominica, to be part of the Caribbean–that is God’s plan for her Life
But how can you accept and understand that, since you continue to remain conformed to slave mentality idea. You keep talking about some sort of “motherland” pertaining to Africa–why did you choose to leave your “mother land” to reside some place else?
Even if some islands of the Caribbean chose to continue with the movement of slavery, for quite a few years later, it was Great Britain who commanded the movement to be outlawed in 1833–todays world was inexistent at that time.
So who is conformed to the slavery mentality, you or the Baroness?
You are the one who is provoking fear and hatred in the minds of those who came after you–just think about that!
Dominicans, you guys remember the NFL player who is of Dominican parentage, born in St. Thomas, was claimed by allu? Why is this woman any different, even though she was born there? Allu ashamed or wha?
https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/sports/another-sportsman-with-dominican-parents-scores-big-in-us/
Stick to your music or you may hit the wrong chord.
You say gay right is first on your agenda. You better come good. We in Dominica need JOBS and more JOBS not gay rights.
LOL, what happened to making gay rights the forefront of her tenure?
Why you all are so negative!! stop it and look at the bigger picture. It does not matter how long she has lived in the UK her roots are in Dominica and will always be. There are many people who left the country of birth and wants to invest in their country. People embrace such opprortunity and try and gain whatever she might put forward for you all in Dominica. Dominica is represented all round the world now, that’s what Dominica needs.
INVESTMENTS -BRING JOBS AND MORE MONEY IN YOU ALL POCKETS
Some return after many years to retire in peace.
Antigua and Grenada remain unhappy over outcome of Commonwealth election, i am also unhappy in the way skerrit double crossed our sister islands, if you can lie to Keith Mitchel who came to our aid after Erika like that i can only imagine the lies u tell Dominicans.
http://caribbeannewsnow.com/topstory-Antigua-and-Grenada-remain-unhappy-over-outcome-of-Commonwealth-election-28628.html
Really! From the Caribbean? An island in the Caribbean called Skerritica?
Whether Baroness Scotland deserves to be the Secretary General of the Commonwealth is not a matter for me to debate. However to question her Dominicanness is wrong.
I know a lot of kids who are born of Caribbean parents in foreign countries and they were raised to be Caribbean people and they identify themselves as Caribbean people.
Take a look at the immigration patterns to countries like England, USA or Canada over the years. It was relatively easy to immigrate to those countries until about the 1980s. Now it is very difficult to be accepted as an immigrant. However, cultural events are crowded with young people who \re chilcren of Caribbean people. Take a look at Labor Day in New York, Caribana in Toronto or the London carnival. Most of the people who moved to these countries back then are too old to actively participate. It is the young who were born in those countries who are embracing these cultural events. And you would say to them they are not Caribbean people?
You are so correct. As our Dominican ancestors, the older ones make way and give way to the younger ones. The younger ones eventually take over. It is their rightful place to do so. This is the way the world of people revolves.
You could have fooled others but not me Mrs. Patricia Mawhinney, because that is the name under which you are listed on the U.K. electorial list. You are first and foremost British and your track record is there to attest to that. Nothing wrong in being British but please, do not come with a spurious claim that you are Caribbean because of your place of birth and bloodline. You yourself have claimed that you are a descendant of a family of land owners in Dominica, the Mourillons if I am not mistaken, who are listed in the British records as slave owners.
Titiwi
I hope you did the same research on Sir Sanders/Saunders and I mean everything about him, so you can probably advise us how he would have advanced Dominica’s cause had we abandoned one who was born here in preference to him.
I have never seen a person born in a country having to do battle with people to accept that she was born there. How are all the patriots who live in the US and France and where ever else listed on their adopted countries’ electoral lists? What gives them the right to even hold demonstrations in their adopted countries and sit everyday and curse Dominica where they were supposedly born, yet Baroness Scotland must relinquish her claim to where she was born?
The lady’s parents lived at Goodwill after leaving England as hundreds of born Dominicans do and she was a regular visitor to Dominica at that time. I believe either one or both her parents have since passed. Why can’t she say she is Dominican? Are you responsible for who your…
forefathers were? do you even know who they were? is she responsible for who hers were? Man you guys are sick indeed!
Her birth in Dominica was not due to her, not a merit but purely incidental. That does not make her Dominican. She more British than Dominican and you can argue till you blue in the face but that is a fact.
You are what your parents are and it does not matter where you were born it matter who you were born to.
Ms. Saunders, I agree with you that she is not responsible for who her forefathers were or what they did or did not do but please, go and explain that to those of us who are clamoring for reparations payments for slavery, especially those who are descendants of slave owners themselves! I bet our Baroness, will be a supporter of that too although her forebears already benefited from payments made by the British to slave owners. There are some people who want it both ways and get it too.
I have a few friends who are from St. Joseph. We reside in Toronto. After the election, I telephoned one of them that Baroness Scotland was elected. She told me she was a child in St. Joseph when the Baroness and her parents resided in Dominica and then migrated to England.
It is still home for me and all of us who reside abroad, including the children who are born here. They are acquainted with Dominica.
I have relatives from St. Joseph. There are some who still reside there. Some have since passed on. I would always visit there. Whenever I return home, St. Joseph is a must to visit. Note, I stated home without even thinking.
I am disappointed to read how some D/cans carry on. I am sorry to state, they project their ignorance. One of the reasons is that she was nominated by the PM and they do not support the PM. Anything he does, they detest and criticize. As far as I noted, it is all political for them.
This friend told me that when her father was sick the Baroness returned to D/ca to help take care of him and that he resided in Goodwill..
I am still very much Dominican. That has not changed and never will.
Many people reside abroad but their hearts never left home. Someone told me that I reside here but my heart is still in Dominica. Why not?
The Baroness was two years and had no choice but to migrate with her family I am certain, as she said, her parents spoke to her of Dominica and she knew as much about Dominica as those of us who resided there and those who still reside there.
I hope she does not read that nonsense that some of them have written about her.
Now that she is the Commonwealth SG, even though we do not know her or may never meet her, in effect we should feel closer to her and proud of her for she is Dominican-born. Nothing can erase that.
The country you born that’s where you from like it or not, I know grown folks moved in the U S when they were a baby and they committed terrible act, After they served jail time guess what they were deported to the country they were born.
Miss Tourist, put your money where your mouth is and come live in Dominica.
Baroness….please stop the nonsense. Yuh never say boo to Dominica in yuh life and yuh don’t know anything about Caribbean, more than the average tourist. You left Caribbean as a toddler and never looked back. now you just using caribbean name for your gain and Dominica politicians using you to ‘big up’ their small island selves.
MADAME what have u ever done for Dominica? name a major initiative or project or fund as an influential person you ever did in dominica
Lady you sold your soul to Skerrit,have no kind of support for you,good riddens.
What happen to mamsel? We know u born in Dominica. We telling u, u lived all your life in Britain, u was attorney general for britain, u are a british national. Stop lying! You never held a job in Dominica, u don’t pay taxes in Dominica, and u don’t and will never live in Dominica. You claiming Dominica for u to head the commonwealth for Britain. Dishonest.