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Wiltshire believes the Old Market Square should be turned into a international monument<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Former attorney general, Bernard Wiltshire, is of the opinion that a Maroon Day should be instituted in Dominica and the Old Market Square be made into a international monument in honor of those who died in slavery and those who fought against it.<\/p>\n

He was speaking on the weekend at the square during a ceremony commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Maroon chief, Jacko.<\/p>\n

“There should be instituted and established in Dominica one day of the year dedicated as Maroon Day,” he stated.<\/p>\n

He is of the belief that Dominica should revise its understanding of its own history and how it has been taught.<\/p>\n

“And therefore I believe we should institute a movement, a July 12 movement, to be a radical movement to look critically at our culture and to be able to pass on the things that we think are great for us, and to correct the deficiencies in our present cultural arrangements and consciousness which has been caused by the fact that our culture has largely been dominated by the needs of others rather than our own,” he said.<\/p>\n

Wiltshire said the Old Market Square should be turned into a international monument with a perpetual flame burning “in remembrance of all those people who died suffering from slavery in this island.”<\/p>\n

“And not just those who died, but those who fought against slavery as well,” he remarked. “So that we don’t make it just a narrow national institution but an international monument.”<\/p>\n

He believes that the Old Market Building should be redeveloped and and improved “in its own historical truth and authenticity” and be made into a “central focal point in Dominica.”<\/p>\n

“So that when visitor comes here they begin to imbued almost immediately with the sense of the narrative of the people who live on this island that will give a greater respect for us and make Dominica’s tourism product much more interesting,” Wiltshire said.<\/p>\n

Maroon chief Jacko was killed on July 12, 1814. He was considered the most important Maroon chiefs on the island. He was born in Africa but was transported to Dominica in the late 1760’s. He escaped from the Beaubois Estate in Castle Comfort and established a camp on a plateau near the present day village of Belles.<\/p>\n

Jacko’s camp was one of the main targets of a big offensive launched by the British during the Second Maroon War in 1812.<\/p>\n

He was eventually surrounded and killed after living in the forest for over 40 years.<\/p>\n

Several other Maroons were executed at the Old Market Square.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former attorney general, Bernard Wiltshire, is of the opinion that a Maroon Day should be instituted in Dominica and the Old Market Square be made into a international monument in honor of those who died in slavery and those who…","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":120625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCall made for "Maroon Day"; Old Market Square monument - Dominica News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/general\/call-made-maroon-day-old-market-square-monument\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Call made for "Maroon Day"; 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