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Story- telling
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.RNov. 4, 2015There is relatively a lack of story-telling in the Caribbean. The truth is that we are a dislocated people. Although we live in the Caribbean, we seem to have one ...
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Loss and gain
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.ROct. 15, 2015No one likes to lose anything. People strive hard to win a simple game, although there is no material reward. People work hard to win a competition. Most of the ...
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Growth in maturity
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.ROct. 7, 2015Throughout the world, there is the tendency to recognize important social needs only when there is a crisis. However, we need not wait for a time of crisis to attend ...
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Respect for the environment
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.ROct. 2, 2015Recently, Pope Francis of the Catholic Church issued an Encyclical on Care for the Environment. It was the first time that the head of the Roman Catholic Church had veered ...
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Making sense of our lives
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.RSept. 28, 2015We live in a very crucial moment in our history. There are immense challenges which confront us. Prominent among them are events like, Tropical Storm Erika. These are special, unusual, ...
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West Indian identity
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.RSept. 18, 2015One characteristic feature of all living things is the search for identity. It is an essential concomitant of everything that walks upon the earth. It is as if without it ...
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The hurricanes of human life
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.RSept. 9, 2015Since Hurricane David, August 29, 1979, we have had much talk and discussion about Disaster Preparedness. And this is good. We have realized that a country demands a certain level ...
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On the edge of existence
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.RJuly 15, 2015The best thing we can do for people is not to give them anything material but to give them a sense of dignity. It is to make them feel that ...
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1979-Watershed Year
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.RJune 30, 2015The year 1979 was one of the most eventful years in modern history. In any discussion of Bloody Tuesday, May 29, 1979, we need to envisage that incident not in ...
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The sublime and the ridiculous
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.RJune 24, 2015In 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, with an army of six hundred thousand men invaded Russia. After a campaign of a few months, Napoleon was forced to retreat. No ...
