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The Baltimore-based writer and artist has penned ‘Uptown One Saturday Night,’ a longform look at the night Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed by Izola Ware Curry at a book-signing in Harlem. Curry, a Black woman, was later found not mentally competent to stand trial and would spend the rest of her life institutionalized; the comments she made about her motivations for the attack aligned with her schizophrenia diagnosis.
Several elderly and vulnerable persons in areas affected by the 2021 volcanic eruptions received food baskets from Rubis West Indies Limited just in time for Christmas Day. On Wednesday and Thursday, December 23 and 24, members of the Rubis team led by country representative Elroy Edwards, journeyed to Fancy, Owia, London and Sandy Bay, where they made the distributions to needy persons, a release from the company states. Children of …
Several elderly and vulnerable persons in areas affected by the 2021 volcanic eruptions received food baskets from Rubis West Indies Limited just in time for Christmas Day. On Wednesday and Thursday, December 23 and 24, members of the Rubis team led by country representative Elroy Edwards, journeyed to Fancy, Owia, London and Sandy Bay, where they made the distributions to needy persons, a release from the company states. Children of …
STANDING FIRM!
THIS PHOTO captured from a video making the rounds on social media, shows some of the devastation from weekend flooding in the Sandy Bay area. Social Share
BY KATHERINE RENTON
Despite everything they have been through and are still going through living beneath the Soufrière volcano, many, especially older individuals, who live in the Northern most portion of the country will not contemplate leaving their homes.
“The river run in on me how many times,” 64-year-old Thomas Sutherland said speaking about his Sandy Bay residence a short distance away.
The river in that area, formed when there is rainfall, has been cutting more routes since the time it travelled with mud, boulders and trees, and stacked these by the bridge which is around 100ft away from his home.