CARIBBEAN TODAY


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VIE W P 0 I n T


* "This is the
importation
of foreign
tribalism" -
Christopher
Tufton, presi- :M t
dent of the
Jamaica
Labour
Party's young professional
arm "Generation 2it it I' -
expressing his disgust last
month after St. Vincent and the
Grenadines Prime Minister
Ralph Gonsalves endorsed the
ruling People's National Party,
accusing him of attempting to
import divisiveness into
Jamaica's politics.

* "It is good
that the con-
stitution has
become a
living instru-
ment and
ordinary cit-
izens aref


 talking about it. I
 think it is progress" -
 Guyana's Health
 Minister Dr. Leslie
 Ramsammy last month
 discussing the renewed
 national interest in the
 constitution.

* "It is hard
to look out
and see the
beauty out-
side the win-
dow and
think that it
can happen
here, but it
can happen here and I think
these countries know it" -
Mary Kramer, United States
ambassador to Barbados and
the Eastern Caribbean, last
month commenting on the
Caribbeani s response to terror-
ist attacks.

* "I cannot put it in more
definitive terms, we have not
agreed and we have no inten-
tion of proceeding down the
path of registering or licens-
ing prostitutes. The govern-
ment of Barbados does not
see the trading in flesh as


something
which we
want to pro-
mote" -
Reverend
Joseph
Atherley,
Barbados's
minister of
state in the
Prime Minister's Office, mak-
ing the government's intention
clear ahead of Cricket World
Cup 2007.

* "At the
moment we
are in no
man's
land...and we
are not pre-
pared to walk
blindfolded
into any situ-
ation" -
Leader of Guyana's main
Opposition People's National
Congress Reform (PNC/R)
Robert Corbin arguing last
month that no provision has
been envisaged in the constitu-
tion for convening Parliament.
Guyana held elections in late
August.


* "It's
deplorable" -
Bermuda's
Minister of
Home
Affairs and
Public Safety
Derrick
Burgess last
month bash-
ing burglars who targeted
properties while Hurricane
Florence battered the island.

* "Election
date don't
belong to me,
it don't
belong to
Portia
Simpson
Miller, it
belongs to
the people of
Jamaica and must be revisit-
ed in the constitution of the
people of Jamaica" -
Opposition Leader Bruce
Golding last month calling for
a fixed date for elections in
Jamaica.

* "It is absolute nonsense to
suggest that a printer or pub-
lisher or newspaper can print


whatever
they want
whether
libelous or
defamatory
under the
dishonest
disguise of
freedom of
expression" Dominica's
Prime Minister Roosevelt
Skerrit last month denying
newspaper reports that he was
seeking to muzzle the media.

* "Cuba gives
freely and
asks for noth-
ing in return"
- St. Lucia's
Prime
Minister
Dr. Kenny
Anthony last
month hop-
ing member-states of the Non
Aligned Movement(NAM) will
take a leaf from Cuba's books
when it comes to offering aid to
smaller Caribbean states.

Compiled from CMC and
other sources.
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Chastity has its place


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seduction.
 Just recently I read where
in one of the states in the U.S.
they passed this seduction law,
where a man can actually be
charged for seduction. There
would be no need for that law
if people lived a life of chastity


and saw people for their other
qualities. People should be able
to sleep in the same bed and
have enough discipline to be
chaste, instead of being chased.
At this point many people will
chime in and say, "But that's
easy, just get married and you'll
achieve that state."


 Hey, it's s fact, mistresses
get more sex than wives, and
wives get more from their
lovers than from their husbands.
 There is a theory that
women who have sex with a lot
of men really suffer from low
self-esteem and are therefore
always seeking acceptance and
love. The same goes for men
who sleep with a lot of women.
The theory is that wanton sex
is a result of low self-esteem. I
know this young lady who told
me that, "Every problem I had
in life is sex cause it."

YOUTH SUFFER
 It does affect our young
people, distracting them from
their schoolwork, diverting
their energies in the wrong
direction. A teenage pregnan-
cy in a young 14-year-old
changes her life forever, and
even at age 40 or more, she


doesn't really get over it.
 Many feel robbed of their
youth, many are still bitter at
the experience, and some find
it difficult to speak about it,
even after 20 years or more.
But are the kids being educat-
ed? Recently a doctor friend of
mine gave a talk at a high
school and was shocked to dis-
cover that not even one stu-
dent knew what the uterus was.
 So instead of sweeping it
under the carpet or allowing
kids to learn it from their
peers, we should educate them
more. I always found it strange
how parents would expose kids
to violence, bombings, shoot-
ings, murder and mayhem on
T.V. shows or movies, even the
nightly news, but just mention
the word sex and it's hell and
powder puff.
 People will say, "How can
you write about sex, this is a
family paper." Yet the same
paper is full of news of murder,
international strife, corruption,
robbery, bodies blown to bits
and such gore. It's our daily
fare, but just brush the topic of
sex and you're disgusting and
damned to hellfire. I wonder
how we all got here anyway,
must have been immaculate
conception?!
 Still, it's easier said than
done, and if we all stop and
think, a lot of our problems in
life were caused through sex.
And as another young lady
told me, "The Lord really has
a great sense of humor, where
he gave us this tremendous
urge, then expects us to prac-
tice self restraint."


 Because of not being
chaste, it leads many people
into the throes and complica-
tions of adultery. But, the irony
is, those so called virtues are
unnatural, and that's why they
are so difficult, nigh impossible
to achieve. The priests who
took vows and were instructed
to be, li h,,l are a prominent
group that proved that theory
to be unworkable. And if
priests, steeped in religion, clos-
er to God (they'd like to think)
than you and I, can't cope, how
can us mere mortals?
 You can't live without sex,
it's unnatural. Okay, you can
live, but is it really living?
 So the struggle continues,
and even as I write this I know
that it is nigh impossible to live
up to the ideals of chastity. For
some people, it's not by choice,
as nobody will sleep with
them. Still, it's just not in our
nature, as temptation is all
around us. And you know
what is true, people look on
virgins, those chaste, practicing
celibacy as almost freaks.
 "Say wha, yu nah do nut-
ten, sumpting must be wrong
wid yu."
 But still, we must be
responsible and talk to our
children early, as times have
changed drastically and it has
reached life and death propor-
tions. As this man said,
"Chastity, has it's place, but
not with me." Later.

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October 2006