Sandra Des Vignes-Millington, two-time Calypso Monarch, Singing Sandra. (Image courtesy Singing Sandra Facebook)
Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts, Senator Randall Mitchell, has added his voice to those lauding the contribution of Singing Sandra / Sandra Des Vignes-Millington to this country’s cultural development, and mourning her passing.
“I am saddened to hear of the passing of calypsonian Sandra Des Vignes Millington, Singing Sandra”, he said in an official statement.
Minister Mitchell points out that the 64-year-old two-time Calypso Monarch was well ahead of the times when she stood up for women rights in song.
“Long before the ‘Time’s Up’ and the ‘Me Too’ movements took root, Singing Sandra embraced the women’s movement and provided our women with the rallying call to ‘die with their dignity’,” Minister Mitchell said.
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After months of incessant allegations of voter fraud, fake ballots, and hacked machines, after days spent watching Fox News and Newsmax and scrolling through Facebook and Parler, 60-year-old Sandra has become convinced of one thing.
“If Trump doesn’t win, I won’t vote again,” Sandra said. “Because what good would it do? What good did it do?”
With unprecedented false claims of a stolen election, President Donald Trump incited thousands of his supporters to carry out a violent insurrection last week at the Capitol attacking police officers, looting and robbing buildings, even building a gallows.
In the small city of Weatherford, Texas, what those claims have done to Sandra is much quieter. But for the country, and the Republican Party, it may ultimately be just as damaging. Trump and the Republicans who have echoed his lies about wide-scale election fraud have broken Sandra’s faith in almost everything: in most Republicans, in the election system, in voting