dominica2day: DLP honours party stalwarts

DLP honours party stalwarts
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admin on 25 May, 2006 05:00:00
 
The Dominica Labour Party,as part of its 51st anniversary, honored and awarded
plaques to 25 of the party faithful at a ceremony held at the Arawak House of
Culture on Monday May 22nd, 2006. The awardees were seleted from each of the 21
constituencies and honoured for their commitment and unwavering support to the
party.
The Dominica Labour Party (DLP), as part of its 51st anniversary, honored and
awarded plaques to 25 of the party faithful at a ceremony held at the Arawak
House of Culture on Monday May 22nd, 2006. The honourable Roosevelt Skeritt
presented the plaques to the awardees. The awardees, selected from each of the
21 constituencies, were honoured for their “continuous support and unwavering
loyalty to the DLP over the years.”
Ed Registe, General Secretary of the DLP, in paying tribute to the awardees
told labourites that they were being honoured as comrades and heroes. “Tonight
out of many we have chosen a few of the great stalwarts of Labour for whom we
shall raise a banner of tribute and honour signifying our love, appreciation and
respect for the sacrifices and struggles that laborites here and everywhere have
endured. Your commitment, resilience, strength and determination over the years
have brought us to this point in our history. And tonight we take our hearts out
to you our comrades and we honour you as our heroes.”
Among the 25 being awarded were well-known Roseau businessmen Hubert
‘Flossie’ Joseph and Austel Anslem, longtime Labour MP Elford Henry and the
2000 Labour candidate in the Marigot constituency, Terry James. An entire
family, the Jeanne family of Pennville, was also honoured for their loyalty and
commitment to the party.
Dereck Parker, described by Registe as a man who wears ‘labour day in, and
day out’ has been a diehard labourite for the last fourty-one years. He told
Dominica Today that he felt elated to have been singled out for such an honour.
“I feel very joyful, very elated and very delighted to have received such an
award. I have been working so hard for many years not realizing that people have
been looking at you and to give you such an award like that makes you feel so
great and joyous.” Parker, who hails from the Roseau Valley constituency
(Wotton Waven), said he has been following the DLP since the days of Leblanc and
has stuck with the party through its best days and worse days.