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Published: 12 July 2021
by Rhoda Arrindell, PhD
PHILIPSBURG: - While authority figures regularly condemn our youngsters, calling out undesirable behavior, they seem misguided in how to adequately address these behaviors and empower our youngsters.
In 2011, I created the program “Get off the Block, Get on the Bus, and Get Busy” (GB3) to try to address the immediate needs of our wandering youth. The program was praised by a number of people, including subsequent ministers, as a step in the right direction.
Yet today, a decade later, not one person in the office has presented a plan to address the empowerment of our young people, especially our young men, in a comprehensive and sustainable manner.
Honorable Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs Emancipation Day Address
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158th Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Abolishment of Slavery on July 1st, 1863
Good morning to everyone here in this space and within the sound of my voice. Last evening, I heard one of our Honorable Members of Parliament on the floor of Parliament, and she’s here today, the Honorable Ludmila Duncan say, “We are living in historical times.” History is being created in times in which we now live. Even as we commemorate history and our heritage that has passed on before, today, you can, we can make history. Those words touched me. As one of our Xenials as she calls herself, in between some of us as Gen Xers, even the baby boomers, and the millennials, generation Z, all of those who are still to come; Together we can!