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AST SPEAKS WITH DR. CHEN| SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST | EPISODE 184 · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 3: Thanks greetings, we're navigating through a very new platform. We
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Speaker 3: encourage persons that are here tuning into how Divas on
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Speaker 3: the airwaves to really stay tuned, stay with us because
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Speaker 3: we know we're live and we're looking forward to some things,
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Speaker 3: and we will keep in our frameworks of engagement. You're
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Speaker 3: tuning in to a live broadcast that is forthcoming at
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Speaker 3: the top of the hour, and we look forward to
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Speaker 3: having you join us to learn about things that are
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Speaker 3: happening near and far, things that are linked to culture, healing, arts,
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Speaker 3: technology and spirituality, for life, inspiration, freedom and edification, chats
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Speaker 3: for life. We'll get an opportunity to spend some more
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Speaker 3: time together sharing updates, what's been happening in the Caribbean,
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Speaker 3: what's been going on in the forty eight contiguous, what's
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Speaker 3: happening in Europe, Asia, Africa, Central America, South America, and
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Speaker 3: the world. We're looking forward to having you join us
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Speaker 3: on the first and third Thursdays and tonight it's a
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Speaker 3: special bonus block podcast and our customary piece and when
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Speaker 3: we talk about our speaks, where we get an opportunity
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Speaker 3: to speak of building a new legacy, building legacy, strengthening
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Speaker 3: how we empower ourselves, and also just taking these opportunities
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Speaker 3: to look at a couple of different things through the
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Speaker 3: lens of other activities that we have not had the
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Speaker 3: joint privilege of understanding or engaging in. So we're looking
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Speaker 3: forward to being able to highlight some of those different
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Speaker 3: pieces as we keep learning this different platform. We're also
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Speaker 3: excited about being able to share a combinational thing.
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Speaker 4: Great as I am Doctor transerved as respectfully, and that's
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Speaker 4: powerful because we're really navigating to a variety of different
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Speaker 4: Doctor Channel here on the cultural capital of the version Islands,
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Speaker 4: the Isle of Saint Croix.
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Speaker 3: Why did I join a Planet Martin?
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Speaker 5: Intergeneration of wealth, being able to leave a legacy for
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Speaker 5: my family, helping future generations embrace prosperity, life and wealth
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Speaker 3: Welcome, we try really hard to see how we can
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Speaker 3: actually reconstruct some of the things that we do in
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Speaker 3: these different spaces and being able to bring a different
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Speaker 3: perspective to how we go through some of these different
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Speaker 3: programs and be able to bring this into our fruition again.
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Speaker 3: At the top of the hour, we'll start with a
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Speaker 3: little bit of music, a little bit of engagement, and
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Speaker 3: then we'll just go right into the content that we'd
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Speaker 3: like to share tonight on our Speaks Special Bonus podcasts.
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Speaker 3: Building a new legacy, and we'll do that very very shortly,
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Speaker 3: very very soon. And part of what we'd like to do,
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Speaker 3: because we love what we do, is to always bring
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Speaker 3: that word sound power around some of the vibrations, always
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Speaker 3: being careful of what we do. I didn't.
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Speaker 1: Our Bernie want jellyro bah bah my moron for long.
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Speaker 3: I didn't believe that you yet yellong way.
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Speaker 1: I don't pullieve Mama, tell yah, I can go your
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Speaker 1: own maki. I didn't pully ma want you on my
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Speaker 1: morol for lama. Want you know, oh oh young, I
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Speaker 1: didn't sham won want you know.
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Speaker 3: People went on. They feed you always the first to
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Speaker 3: talk about it. To your life. Look at the irony.
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Speaker 3: Give me your god public, don't do better? Give us like,
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Speaker 3: don't get it twisted, or I know that is a
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Speaker 3: said that ship is not keep him my distance, so
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Speaker 3: some people like watch that pandem. If we go gus
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Speaker 3: my pies, then I got there my lead. If you
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Speaker 3: know me money, do not disolve me. Please. If you
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Speaker 3: go gos my pies, that's not my friend. Say don't.
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Speaker 3: If you know being money, do not disob me. Please.
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Speaker 3: It is money. And that's just like a small portion
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Speaker 3: of what we're going to be moving into tonight. When
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Speaker 3: we talk about the beats and talk about the lyrics
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Speaker 3: and talk about the messages and talk about the songs,
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Speaker 3: we really would like to take some quality time tonight
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Speaker 3: to really bring truth to power and talk about some
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Speaker 3: of the things that are happening within our communities, and
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Speaker 3: definitely definitely bringing some fire to some of the things
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Speaker 3: that we have had the joy, privilege and opportunity to
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Speaker 3: share quite widely. And with that being said, I know
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Speaker 3: we are at the top of the hour. I'm going
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Speaker 3: to keep on moving forward because I am really excited
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Speaker 3: about what we're doing tonight. Part of what I'd like
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Speaker 3: to do is give a little rundown of what our
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Speaker 3: broadcast is for those that are not as familiar. I
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Speaker 3: think that it was wonderful for us to just listen
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Speaker 3: to a moment of it is what it is. This
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Speaker 3: is a piece by Arikunle and African beat artists, and
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Speaker 3: I think it's important that sometimes we overlook how important
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Speaker 3: it is for us to know it is what it is.
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Speaker 3: Certain things happen. You can change up things, try things
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Speaker 3: with the best intentions to deal with discernment, and sometimes
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Speaker 3: it doesn't go the way you would like to go.
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Speaker 3: So I want to just highlight some of that. And
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Speaker 3: I also would like to take this opportunity when we
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Speaker 3: talk about building a new leg, what does that mean?
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Speaker 3: What does that sound like? For your how does that
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Speaker 3: manifest change and transformation and positivity in your life?
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Speaker 6: Right?
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Speaker 3: And I ask these types of seemingly redundant questions primarily
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Speaker 3: because sometimes when we're talking about legacy, for the lack
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Speaker 3: of a better word, we've overlooked it. When we speak
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Speaker 3: of what is our speaks dealing with ancestral sacred traditions
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Speaker 3: and being able to talk about these things that highlight culture, healing, arts,
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Speaker 3: technology and spirituality through a lens of life, inspiration, freedom
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Speaker 3: and edification and being able to speak of chaps for
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Speaker 3: life in a very positive, uplifting way, so that we
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Speaker 3: actually strengthen our personal house, our familial house, our community houses,
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Speaker 3: our nation house, and wider and wider to really helping
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Speaker 3: all the humanity. So speaks and linking that to this
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Speaker 3: particular podcast with them Divus on the Airwaves Vibe is
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Speaker 3: really allowing for us to strengthen. How do you speak
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Speaker 3: about things from an interdisciplinary space? What kind of trans
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Speaker 3: cultural media, broadcasts, techniques and strategies facilitate our ability to
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Speaker 3: talk about some of these things and just having an
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Speaker 3: on conversation. I know, new term conversation sometimes sounds like
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Speaker 3: we're conning people or like we're trying to do something
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Speaker 3: on a less than positive side. So when we say conversations,
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Speaker 3: we're just saying a life filled, life inspiring, life generated,
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Speaker 3: life uplifting type of versation, Like how we're speaking to
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Speaker 3: each other, what kind of messaging are we exchanging and
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Speaker 3: doing that with the best intention and with the best
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Speaker 3: medicinal flavoring, shall we say to what is being shared?
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Speaker 3: Is being said? We will not always agree, and it's
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Speaker 3: not just that we will agree to disagree, as much
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Speaker 3: as it is that we are learning each moment shorter
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Speaker 3: than that we're learning each Squinnett shorter than a second
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Speaker 3: to the best of our ability, so that we can
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Speaker 3: speak of actions that we're all engaged in or actions
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Speaker 3: that we have observed. We're looking at perspectives on global
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Speaker 3: affairs and movements in the Caribbean, one of our highlight
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Speaker 3: spaces and saberside in the Caribbean space, and also looking
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Speaker 3: at Africa because that is a grounding, a foundation of
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Speaker 3: course some of the work that I'm engaged in, and
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Speaker 3: of course looking at Eurasian experiences and other international experiences
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Speaker 3: and being able to share with some degree of clarity
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Speaker 3: how we are moving in these times and these contents,
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Speaker 3: limporary spaces and bringing that type of truth to power
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Speaker 3: to the forefront. And I am really excited about how
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Speaker 3: we are able to keep this type of interaction, this
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Speaker 3: type of vibrational shift, this type of engagement to the
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Speaker 3: best of our ability until such time that we can
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Speaker 3: do something a look different. Hence the month of October
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Speaker 3: breeds a significant amount of informational shifts. We've had a
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Speaker 3: number of celebrities, and that's what I like to always start,
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Speaker 3: having a number of celebrities that are always in the news,
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Speaker 3: sometimes not for the most positive things, really not positive
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Speaker 3: at all, but sometimes there's some very positive engaging experiences,
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Speaker 3: opportunities and so forth. So I really would like to highlight,
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Speaker 3: you know, I would like to highlight an opportunity that
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Speaker 3: was shared with us, and I say shared with us
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Speaker 3: in a very very positive way. I just had the
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Speaker 3: wonderful opportunity to continue with a partnership engagement with the
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Speaker 3: Eastern Caribbean Islands Culture Conference, which is also known as
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Speaker 3: the Islands in Between Conference, and it's customarily for more
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Speaker 3: than twenty three years now every year usually honor about
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Speaker 3: October November, usually in November. It is organized by the
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Speaker 3: University of Puerto Rico, Rio Pedras, alongside the University of
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Speaker 3: the West Indies Cape of Barbadas and this year with
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Speaker 3: the twenty third and first physical conference face to face
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Speaker 3: since twenty nineteen. It was hosted by the h. Lavity
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Speaker 3: Stout Community College in Tortola in the Virgin Islands the
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Speaker 3: UK a side of Virgin Islands under the presidential leadership
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Speaker 3: of the Honorable Doctor Richard of George's and a staff
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Speaker 3: that we can only say exceptional hospitality, exceptional attention to
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Speaker 3: it details and other affairs. You know, we were very,
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Speaker 3: very comfortable with persons that were able to deal without
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Speaker 3: translations or interpretations, but there was enough meaningful exchange so
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Speaker 3: persons didn't have issues because virtually everybody in the space
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Speaker 3: was either bilingual, some trilingual, and even wider in terms
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Speaker 3: of multiplicity of languages. And this brings together scholars literally
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Speaker 3: from around the region and the world that continue to
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Speaker 3: stay interested in affairs around Eastern Caribbean island cultures, their literature,
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Speaker 3: their languages, different types of linguistic stefs, these their educational
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Speaker 3: techniques of variety of areas around psychology and other social sciences,
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Speaker 3: as well as looking at the connections to socioeconomic affairs,
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Speaker 3: nonprofit organizations and philanthropy, private public partnerships that facilitate affairs
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Speaker 3: of dealing with natural as well as man made disasters. Again,
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Speaker 3: we live in the Caribbean. We don't have four seasons,
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Speaker 3: but we do have a hurricane season every year. Ponder
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Speaker 3: on that for a moment. Right, So with that being said,
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Speaker 3: you know, issues that were shared. Some of the presentations
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Speaker 3: were around climate change. Some of the presentations were around
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Speaker 3: different strategies and taxes for how do you infuse Caribbean
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Speaker 3: centered research and studies in contemporary educational spaces. Some of
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Speaker 3: the inquiries were addressing health issues as well as the
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Speaker 3: common misnomer that people overlooked it it's not just any
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Speaker 3: kind of capitalism. You've got a variety of different types
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Speaker 3: of capitalism. While that's a particular economic system, but sometimes
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Speaker 3: it's geared towards disasters, or it's geared towards other types
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Speaker 3: of crises. You know, And what we're seeing is that
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Speaker 3: there were also conversations. You know, there were some undergraduate
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Speaker 3: excuse me, graduate students as well as professors, independent researchers,
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Speaker 3: persons that are in non traditional academic spaces that came
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Speaker 3: together and really share some fantastic research, fantastic work that
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Speaker 3: I can only commend the organizers I've had to join Privilege.
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Speaker 3: And it was mentioned a number of times during the
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Speaker 3: conference proceedings that the University of the Virgin Islands, where
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Speaker 3: I were at teach, has been involved in providing support,
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Speaker 3: particularly from twenty twelve when the Virgin Islands Careving Cultural
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Speaker 3: Center was actually launched at the University of the Virgin
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Speaker 3: Islands or Volcan Campus and Saint Thomas in November twenty
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Speaker 3: twelve and the Islands in Between Conference was hosted there
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Speaker 3: and during that conference convening, the Virginilege grew and Cultural Center,
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Speaker 3: housed inside of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences,
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Speaker 3: was actually launched, you know, under the deanship at that
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Speaker 3: time of the Honorable doctor Simon Abe Jones Hendrickson, who
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Speaker 3: is now retired from the University of the Virgin Mountains
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Speaker 3: after I should say, forty plus years of service exceptional
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Speaker 3: service as well as service to the Government of the
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Speaker 3: Virgin Islands in previous administrations. And I say these things
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Speaker 3: because sometimes when persons hear about a conference, it's like,
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Speaker 3: oh my gosh, and just talk talk talk talk talk talk, talk,
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Speaker 3: talk talk. And it wasn't like that persons came with yes.
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Speaker 3: Some persons read their papers, some persons had their powerpoints
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Speaker 3: or their slide decks to complement what they were sharing.
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Speaker 3: And some persons actually shared with us the practical element
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Speaker 3: of yes, this is the research I've done, but this
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Speaker 3: is the way that it is utilized, for example, in
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Speaker 3: the classroom, or this is the way that it's presented
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Speaker 3: to a particular government to shift and create more progressive
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Speaker 3: and more sustainable and progressive policy. This is what has
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Speaker 3: been used to help divisions or ministries of help and
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Speaker 3: human services to improve the outcomes of what services they
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Speaker 3: do provide to the wider community. So what I enjoy
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Speaker 3: about the islands in between conference and I have to
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Speaker 3: give a special shout out to the upr RP team
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Speaker 3: led by doctor Nicholas power Class and doctor Donnabhan Kuabong,
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Speaker 3: you know, both professors at the university for the fre Corio,
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Speaker 3: and they they integrate literature and linguistics and languages in
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Speaker 3: such a way that it ends up providing a context
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Speaker 3: for how we actually engage in some of these different proceedings.
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Speaker 3: What I'd like to do and I'm going to make
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Speaker 3: sure that I do this. And then the quickest manner
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Speaker 3: profossible is I just wanted to I thought of trying
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Speaker 3: to play a video, but because this is a platform
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Speaker 3: that I'm still learning, I will just share with you
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Speaker 3: what were some of the themes, you know, some of
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Speaker 3: the colleagues that came and presented, and some of the
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Speaker 3: works that were just like I said, it was just
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Speaker 3: amazing what transpired in some of these activities, these programs
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Speaker 3: and these proceedings. And then to have a plenary session
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Speaker 3: that opened up the conference that just gave some context
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Speaker 3: to what are some of the realities in side of
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Speaker 3: Tortola and the wider Virgin Islands on the UK side
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Speaker 3: what people like to call the BBI right, and I
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Speaker 3: think it's really critical that this particular convenient that took
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Speaker 3: place between the twenty fourth and the twenty sixth of October,
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Speaker 3: they looked at, you know, through a lens of a
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Speaker 3: couple of things. You know, it was wonderful to have
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Speaker 3: the president of h lavity Stock Community College, doctor Richard Georges,
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Speaker 3: you know, joined alongside you know, a team doctor Laverne Vanderpool, Baptiste,
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Speaker 3: Miss Monique John Latchman, Miss Aqima lets Some, Miss Rochelle Smith,
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Speaker 3: Doctor Patricia Turnbull, Doctor Genevieve Bagu, Miss Dana Lewis Ambrose
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Speaker 3: and Miss Pemberton. And I must say the team worked
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Speaker 3: so efficiently to make sure that everything was put in
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Speaker 3: place for the conference, some of the logists details in
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Speaker 3: terms of transport back and forth and so forth. It
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Speaker 3: was very very well received, and of course they had
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Speaker 3: support from their corporate sponsors, inclusive of biosafe treatment of
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Speaker 3: the BBI, pustlers of the BBI, RTW Tortola and the
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Speaker 3: National Bank of the Virgin Islands, along with SND Security.
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Speaker 3: And I say these things because sometimes we forget that
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Speaker 3: it's some of these corporate and private sponsors that just
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Speaker 3: have an interest in these types of academic intellectual events
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Speaker 3: and it really helps because their resources make it so
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Speaker 3: that it can become a cost effective and a sustainably
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Speaker 3: sound and appropriate convenient From the barbadis side, it was
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Speaker 3: the Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature after the University
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Speaker 3: of the westn DSK Phil Barbadas, and from the Puerto
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Speaker 3: Rico side, the PhD program of the Department of English
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Speaker 3: of the College of Humanities at the University of Puerto
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Speaker 3: Frico Rio Pedras, alongside the University of Puerto Frico Conference
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Speaker 3: Organizing Committee, Professor Crystal Heffelfinger Nieves and Professor Dinaban Kulabong
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Speaker 3: Gabridi Ella Panelli and Professor Nicholas Foderclass and I want
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Speaker 3: to give a special shout out as I did earlier,
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Speaker 3: I mean Professor Gristle Heffo Finger Nims. She just made
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Speaker 3: a lot of things pop and bounce in very quick manners.
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Speaker 3: And the team from the ui KPL Barbadas just navigated
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Speaker 3: in proper forms they customarily do, along with the core
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Speaker 3: local organizing Committee at the h Levity Stout Community College.
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Speaker 3: So it went very well. It was very exceptional, very
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Speaker 3: well organized and just for the purposes of our broadcast tonight,
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Speaker 3: you know, in addition to having like opening and welcoming
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Speaker 3: remarks from these these three entities that were central to
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Speaker 3: the organization of this particular conference, there was a keynote
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Speaker 3: address shared and I'd like to share the title empowering
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Speaker 3: our future constitutional advancement and leadership in the Virgin Islands.
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Speaker 3: And this was shared and presented by the keynote presenter
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Speaker 3: the Honorable Ingrid Moses Scat lives and I need to
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Speaker 3: say esquire because her training, if by profession, is as
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Speaker 3: a lawyer, and she was exceptionally detailed in her presentation
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Speaker 3: on sharing an analysis based again from a legal framework,
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Speaker 3: but also from a framework of how the people are
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Speaker 3: to be central to any kind of governmental, constitutional, any
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Speaker 3: form of social governance advancement, that the people are central
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Speaker 3: to that conversation, and again coming from the Virgin will
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Speaker 3: say the Virgin Islands. We tend to speak of the
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Speaker 3: Virgin Islands in terms of the United Virgin Islands and
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Speaker 3: not just speak as them through a colonial lens of
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Speaker 3: Virgin Islands of the US. On this side sat for
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Speaker 3: a Saint Thomas, Saint John, Water Island and Virgin Islands, UK, Tortola,
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Speaker 3: Jose van Dyke. The list is longer for them, Anagata,
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Speaker 3: there's a number of them. There's a lot of them,
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Speaker 3: so I don't want to try to you know, Salt Island,
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Speaker 3: Peter Island. They've got a lot of islands. Because they
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Speaker 3: always speak of the Virgins, and there's quite a few
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Speaker 3: of them on that side. In the UK side, I
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Speaker 3: think it's important to know that in Attorney Moses Scoutlifts presentation.
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Speaker 3: There were some highlights that I desired to share tonight,
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Speaker 3: but what I would prefer to do is wait until
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Speaker 3: we get all of the snippets together and then that
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Speaker 3: way in the future broadcast we can actually share some
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Speaker 3: of that and app so our guests join us and
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Speaker 3: have some discourse around that. But I just wanted to
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Speaker 3: highlight some key points that she did share, just in
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Speaker 3: terms of the importance of governance being transparent and also
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Speaker 3: being open and accessible to the people that they serve
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Speaker 3: many times, and not just we're not just speaking of
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Speaker 3: the Virgin Islands UK, but in the world, it's important
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Speaker 3: to remind our leaders, especially our elected leaders, not just
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Speaker 3: those that are appointed by elected leaders, but those that
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Speaker 3: are elected by the people, to continue to remember to
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Speaker 3: keep the people informed, aware and engaged. Right. So I
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Speaker 3: thought it was really powerful that in her presentation that
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Speaker 3: that was highlighted. And then after that keynote addressed, there
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Speaker 3: was a planary and the plenary focused on again the
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Speaker 3: political status of being an island in between, and it
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Speaker 3: was really It was emceed by Miss Shana Smith Archer
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Speaker 3: and the presenters that were with us were the honorable
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Speaker 3: Ingrid Moses Scattliffe, doctor, Harlan Banterpool medical doctor want to
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Speaker 3: highlight that as well. And then mister Coy Levon who
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Speaker 3: is an aviation specialist and brought a whole network of
28:29
Speaker 3: information on the connectivity between the corporate and the public sector,
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Speaker 3: which I thought was really the corporate, public and private sector,
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Speaker 3: which I thought was really powerful to show that distinction.
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Speaker 3: And it was a wonderful conversation and it really allowed
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Speaker 3: for persons to engage in a way that was very
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Speaker 3: because there was a Q and A shortly after that.
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Speaker 3: Even though it wasn't a long question and answer the segment,
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Speaker 3: it was wonderful to just know that people are thinking
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Speaker 3: about how do we engage with constitutional affairs, how do
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Speaker 3: you engage with political status? And this becomes important for
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Speaker 3: spaces that are still either in some type of colonial framework.
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Speaker 3: Give an example, in the Virgin Islands of the United States,
29:19
Speaker 3: we are non incorporated, non self governing territory of the
29:22
Speaker 3: United States in twenty twenty four, even though there was
29:25
Speaker 3: a transferent purchase from the Kingdom of Denmark to the
29:31
Speaker 3: United States of America in nineteen sixteen, formalized ceremoniously in
29:38
Speaker 3: nineteen seventeen, so over one hundred years and we're still
29:42
Speaker 3: navigating through that process. You know, we're getting ready now
29:46
Speaker 3: to actually vote for in our forthcoming elections for new
29:51
Speaker 3: Senator Senatorial representatives as well as Board of Election representatives
29:57
Speaker 3: as well as Board of Education presentatives and also new
30:03
Speaker 3: representatives for the sixth Virgin Islands Constitution Convention, where there's
30:11
Speaker 3: going to be for the six times since nineteen sixty five,
30:15
Speaker 3: a process pulling from the existing drafts. One of the
30:20
Speaker 3: more recent drafts was completed in two thousand and nine
30:26
Speaker 3: during the fifth Constitution Convention, and for a variety of
30:30
Speaker 3: reasons that I won't go into tonite, it did not
30:34
Speaker 3: pass the policy and procedural component to be able to
30:41
Speaker 3: become the new constitution for the Virgin Islands in the
30:44
Speaker 3: United States. In contrast, in the Virgin Islands on the
30:47
Speaker 3: UK side, the BBI there is they do have a constitution.
30:51
Speaker 3: It's quite engaging document that provides governance in terms of
30:57
Speaker 3: their different type of association association with the United Kingdom,
31:04
Speaker 3: and therefore they're doing a review of the of their
31:07
Speaker 3: constitution and so their engagement again at this conference, it
31:12
Speaker 3: became very, very very I won't say loud, but it
31:17
Speaker 3: was clear that there's a lot of conversation amongst intellectuals
31:21
Speaker 3: and academics, amongst commons, community scholars, amongst corporate and private
31:28
Speaker 3: sector and private and public sector eputies, as well as students,
31:35
Speaker 3: as well as persons that are in and out of
31:38
Speaker 3: the region that are seeing all of these changes in
31:41
Speaker 3: these spaces that for some it's just stands see sun
31:44
Speaker 3: and fun. And we have to remind people this place
31:48
Speaker 3: that you're calling your vacation paradise, people live here. I'm
31:54
Speaker 3: going to say that again. This place that you see
31:56
Speaker 3: is your vacation paradise. It is respect, hope for you
32:00
Speaker 3: to remember that people live here and there are the
32:06
Speaker 3: same realities that you experience wherever you come from. You know,
32:10
Speaker 3: people have to deal with housing, clothing, healthcare, education, jurisprudence
32:19
Speaker 3: and law, agriculture, food security, public security, general survival all
32:28
Speaker 3: the time. Transportation and then remember we're in islands, so
32:32
Speaker 3: our transportation is you're flying or you're on the water.
32:37
Speaker 3: We don't have highways between our islands yet, so we're
32:42
Speaker 3: very dependent on how things are shipped here, how things
32:46
Speaker 3: are mailed here, how things are transported here. Our inner
32:52
Speaker 3: island travels sometimes. For example, I listen to people tell
32:56
Speaker 3: me I got a plane ticket from New York to
33:00
Speaker 3: Lane for one hundred and fifty dollars round trip. I
33:04
Speaker 3: haven't seen a ticket like that in a long time.
33:06
Speaker 3: But I will give you some context. To travel between
33:11
Speaker 3: Saint Croix to Saint Thomas, all of twenty minutes flight,
33:16
Speaker 3: and that includes getting on a plane, it's more than
33:20
Speaker 3: two hundred dollars round trip. Let that simmer for a minute.
33:27
Speaker 3: Forty miles twenty minutes small plane. And we haven't navigated
33:37
Speaker 3: how to make that more cost effective so that at
33:39
Speaker 3: least more exchange, more commerce, more trade, more engagement can
33:46
Speaker 3: happen between. And this is all within the Virgin Islands
33:50
Speaker 3: of the US. We won't even speak of the estimated
33:55
Speaker 3: eight hundred and thirty plus dollars for to fly from
33:58
Speaker 3: here in Saint Croix to Saint Thomas. Whenever I told
34:02
Speaker 3: you forty miles, go another forty to Tortola and right
34:08
Speaker 3: Airlines will try to charge you four hundred dollars for
34:11
Speaker 3: each leg. Was that it was really a strange experience.
34:14
Speaker 3: And I say these things because that also connects to
34:19
Speaker 3: empowering our future and political status because our relationships in
34:26
Speaker 3: the region. You know, we're still the Virgin Islands on
34:30
Speaker 3: this side. On the US side, person's coming out of
34:34
Speaker 3: the US the forty eight contiguous US states, they will
34:37
Speaker 3: not need a passport to come here, but you will
34:40
Speaker 3: need you know, identification, you know, government issued identification in
34:44
Speaker 3: order to gain entry. But you don't need a passport.
34:48
Speaker 3: There's no customs piece like that per se, even though
34:53
Speaker 3: it feels like it, because you're still going through TSA
34:55
Speaker 3: and customs and immigration. There's a long story to that.
34:59
Speaker 3: If you're treated like a territory colony, then the sovereign
35:04
Speaker 3: country in this case, the United States can create whatever
35:09
Speaker 3: entry and departure requirements state desire because they are the
35:13
Speaker 3: sovereign country. So I'll leave that one pronounced. Let's go
35:17
Speaker 3: back to some of the themes that were part of
35:20
Speaker 3: this conference, which I thought were really fantastic. So some
35:23
Speaker 3: of the combined sessions, and I want to highlight that
35:27
Speaker 3: these were sessions that were happening at the same time
35:29
Speaker 3: in different rooms, different suites on the campus, and it
35:33
Speaker 3: was just a wonderful experience. The themes were like riding
35:38
Speaker 3: in between and we had a presentation from part of
35:43
Speaker 3: the h labd Stout Community College faculty, Genevieve Ruth Fagou
35:51
Speaker 3: on BBI Flight and Fracture, excuse me, Flight and Fracture,
35:58
Speaker 3: Crash and shipwreck and Baralas by such a parting light.
36:03
Speaker 3: We had Betsey Needs of the University of North Florida
36:08
Speaker 3: writing the Trauma of Coming of Age in Trinidad, the
36:12
Speaker 3: young adult works of Kevin Houssein and Tamika Gibson. We
36:18
Speaker 3: had Blanca Penya Juis again from RePr Unraveling Contemporary Diaestopias
36:27
Speaker 3: Puerto Rican science fiction. And then the next session focused
36:32
Speaker 3: on dimensions of in between this and this was led
36:38
Speaker 3: through the work of doctor Peter Roberts, a pioneer and
36:42
Speaker 3: founder of the Eastern Caribbean Island Culture's Conference. He's a
36:46
Speaker 3: professor emeritus from the University of the West Indiast Cape
36:49
Speaker 3: of Barbadas, and he did a book presentation on Cocabelli
36:53
Speaker 3: Turned yellow Tail and it was amazing. I can speak
36:56
Speaker 3: to this one because I was present, because we're on
36:59
Speaker 3: the same panel, and the paintings that he shared, the
37:05
Speaker 3: art work that he shared and showed how Caribbean art
37:09
Speaker 3: has transformed from early twentieth century, from the nineteenth century
37:15
Speaker 3: to the twentieth century, coming into the twenty first century,
37:18
Speaker 3: it was really fantastic and we know that we're looking
37:20
Speaker 3: forward to more time for this publication that doctor Roberts
37:24
Speaker 3: is going to be sharing to highlight some of the
37:26
Speaker 3: connections in regard to the Caribbean art literature and the
37:33
Speaker 3: impact it has on the wider Caribbean in American communities.
37:37
Speaker 3: And then the next presentation by doctor Alma Simone and
37:42
Speaker 3: her son Huhenio hi hel Esquire lawyer, and it was
37:50
Speaker 3: powerful to see this mother and son presentation again she
37:54
Speaker 3: is a tenured professor of more than fifty years to
38:00
Speaker 3: count that no, take it back sixty years. There we
38:03
Speaker 3: go at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Edra, and
38:07
Speaker 3: the theme was in Puerto Rico a nation that belongs
38:11
Speaker 3: to but is not part of a human rights dilemma
38:15
Speaker 3: for the United States, a legal and cultural anomaly like
38:20
Speaker 3: that presentation that we could probably need to have them
38:24
Speaker 3: come as guests so that they can really give some
38:27
Speaker 3: more detail of the essence of what they were saying
38:31
Speaker 3: in terms again, because Puerto Rico is a commonwealth, but
38:35
Speaker 3: it's still not a state and it's not independent. So
38:39
Speaker 3: America again is the sovereign entity for even Puerto Rico.
38:44
Speaker 3: And there's a lot of contingent because again it's three
38:46
Speaker 3: million people strong, their communities are very wide to out
38:51
Speaker 3: the forty eight contiguous US in the world, and there
38:54
Speaker 3: are a number of persons that would like statehood. However
38:58
Speaker 3: America has never really offered that is an option. And
39:01
Speaker 3: then there's other persons that are very comfortable with moving
39:05
Speaker 3: towards independence, not a majority yet, so that's a whole
39:09
Speaker 3: other conversation. And then we already know that there have
39:12
Speaker 3: been previous presidents of the US. Will leave them unnamed,
39:17
Speaker 3: that thought that Puerto Rico had and the Virgin Islands
39:21
Speaker 3: had their own president, So we're gonna leave that alone.
39:25
Speaker 3: So the last presenter and the dimensions of in between
39:29
Speaker 3: US was yours truly, Sincerada vis Kahina in this capacity,
39:35
Speaker 3: you know, in my work through the University of the
39:37
Speaker 3: Virgin Islands here on the Albertichine campus, as well as
39:42
Speaker 3: the work that I do through a new parent institute,
39:45
Speaker 3: and I did a presentation entitled Sovereign Resilience, Maroon's Legacy
39:51
Speaker 3: and afra futurists, innovations in the Caribbean, and so I
39:56
Speaker 3: had a chance to share a conversation if if you
40:00
Speaker 3: will catch yourself concrusation around marinage and most people when
40:08
Speaker 3: they think of memors, they just think of like runaway
40:10
Speaker 3: and slave Africans. But it's a little deeper than that,
40:13
Speaker 3: because it was not only the exercise of freedom or
40:18
Speaker 3: commanding their freedom. It was also creating community that was
40:25
Speaker 3: secure to protect those people that ran away. It was
40:29
Speaker 3: also spiritual exchanges and engagements to help people get the energy,
40:36
Speaker 3: the thrust and drive to run away. And then it
40:40
Speaker 3: was also the security and care for persons, health, wealth
40:49
Speaker 3: and beyond when they did make the decision to leave
40:53
Speaker 3: plantation life with some degree of permanence, knowing that if
40:57
Speaker 3: they were captured, they could be tortured, blogged, discipline very
41:04
Speaker 3: heavily and even in some instances killed. It was really
41:09
Speaker 3: and so we spent time in that presentation sharing some
41:13
Speaker 3: of the legacy building pieces that people have engaged in
41:18
Speaker 3: to understand maor Naje and spaces like Jamaica. So we
41:21
Speaker 3: talked about the different Maroon communities and highlighted what are
41:25
Speaker 3: the more popular communities. However, there are for standing communities
41:30
Speaker 3: in Jamaica more Town, Charlestown, Scott's Hall and the component
41:37
Speaker 3: Maroon communities that operate as sovereign entities and have been
41:43
Speaker 3: working through different relations and relationships amongst themselves as well
41:48
Speaker 3: as indigenous keepers of the traditions there in Jamaica, as
41:53
Speaker 3: well as sharing an example of what some of the practices, events,
42:01
Speaker 3: annual observances that allow them to have some degree of
42:05
Speaker 3: resilience to this sovereignty that is claimed specific to Jamaica
42:10
Speaker 3: from literally more than for more than two hundred and
42:16
Speaker 3: sixty years. So we went through that conversation. So I'm
42:19
Speaker 3: not going to redo my paper. I'll just come back
42:22
Speaker 3: to that another time. I'd like to continue on so
42:24
Speaker 3: that you couldn't get a feel for what were some
42:26
Speaker 3: of the other themes. It went into identities in between.
42:31
Speaker 3: And in that session you had Catherine Miranda Lurch from UPR.
42:39
Speaker 3: Her piece was entitled in Position, Appropriation Resistance Attitudes towards
42:45
Speaker 3: English in Puerto Rico. I think that self explanatory. Sometimes
42:50
Speaker 3: you can come to Puerto Rico and depending on where
42:52
Speaker 3: you go, you will ablain Espanol. If you're not a
42:56
Speaker 3: blain Espanol. Your tourist car won't go that far. Even
43:00
Speaker 3: your green dollars, what is it greenbacks? You know you
43:03
Speaker 3: need to practica speak a little bit and practice, That's
43:11
Speaker 3: what I'll suggest. It was an excellent presentation. And then
43:14
Speaker 3: when then Villa Nueva from the University of Puerto Rico
43:19
Speaker 3: but and Kaye different campus, spoke on Machel Jumbi the
43:23
Speaker 3: search for a Caribbean identity. And then Kevin Kelly from
43:28
Speaker 3: u PR at Sibo another campus on lesbian desire in trepidation,
43:34
Speaker 3: and Shaani Mutus about Miki's daughter again looking at literature
43:38
Speaker 3: and looking at intersexuality. And then in between this and
43:43
Speaker 3: Afro Atlantic identities, we had Nogui Latti, doctor Niki Nagie
43:53
Speaker 3: Alti Warren from Emory University spoke on women architects of Negraitude.
44:00
Speaker 3: And for me, again I was present for this one,
44:02
Speaker 3: so I like that she did a cross pollination of
44:07
Speaker 3: women that were instrumental to the Negitude movement. We know
44:11
Speaker 3: the names of the men. We always can you leave.
44:14
Speaker 3: Paul Saint Gore may say there, we can go on
44:17
Speaker 3: and on, but we tend not to speak of the
44:19
Speaker 3: Suzanne in any of the other powerful women, and that
44:24
Speaker 3: was part of that piece. And I like how she
44:27
Speaker 3: referred to the women as architects of the Negatude movement.
44:33
Speaker 3: And then there was a presentation by Italian Jon Lobetes
44:37
Speaker 3: from Carlton College on Homon Narans Meets the Slave, a
44:43
Speaker 3: reading of Wilderson's and Winter's answer to the Apordia of
44:47
Speaker 3: the Black Subject, and was a very wonderful presentation by
44:53
Speaker 3: a grad student that was able to articulate differences in
44:59
Speaker 3: how literary scholars and you know, the work through the
45:04
Speaker 3: works of Wildersons and in Winter were able to be analyzed.
45:08
Speaker 3: And then there was this group presentation by doctor Nicholas
45:13
Speaker 3: Fataclaus and doctor Donovankovo along with a group of students
45:18
Speaker 3: and other colleagues, Gabriel Panelli, Suan Aponte, Aduda, Elizabeth Battles,
45:27
Speaker 3: Itza Hernandez and Emily Hernandez, Marienne Belan, Nueva Valeria del Toro,
45:34
Speaker 3: Alicia Peroa, Gracielo, Graciela Martinez and Nemesis Morales. And again
45:41
Speaker 3: there was like a combination because there were persons from
45:43
Speaker 3: u pr Pedras. But then it was also Desmond Odugu
45:49
Speaker 3: from the University of Illinois and Champagne that shared inside
45:54
Speaker 3: of this and it was this whole piece of long
45:58
Speaker 3: dure that sport and trans performances, time space, intersectionality and
46:03
Speaker 3: radical rereadings of Afropolitan and Apropean belonging. You can tell
46:09
Speaker 3: these are academics because the titles are not short, so
46:14
Speaker 3: just for the purposes of what we're conversing on. So
46:17
Speaker 3: for those it may have just joined and we're on
46:20
Speaker 3: on our next half of tonight's broadcast, we're actually talking
46:24
Speaker 3: about the Islands in Between conference that I just had
46:27
Speaker 3: the honored privilege of presenting at and being a part of,
46:31
Speaker 3: hosted at the H. LaVey Stout Community College in Tortola,
46:36
Speaker 3: co organized by the University of put Frigo Rio Piedras,
46:41
Speaker 3: University of the West Indiest Cape of Barbados, and it
46:44
Speaker 3: was just a phenomenal exchange. So we're going through some
46:46
Speaker 3: of the themes, some of the papers that were shared,
46:50
Speaker 3: and mind what I'm sharing. That was just day one, okay,
46:54
Speaker 3: and then it was a wonderful culture night a carava
46:56
Speaker 3: and I like to highlight that the previous president of
47:01
Speaker 3: ah Livy Style Community College, doctor Carl Dawson, was our host,
47:08
Speaker 3: and that was really wonderful to see the platypole where
47:11
Speaker 3: they take the long ribbons and they dance and they
47:17
Speaker 3: definitely mark them around the whole. It was amazing to see.
47:22
Speaker 3: It was the style of dance, the music that was using.
47:26
Speaker 3: I'm always excited whenever I hear in the Virgin Islands
47:30
Speaker 3: are different bands from all of our islands, whether it's
47:34
Speaker 3: from Saint Thomas, Dortola, Joseph Dyke, Virgin Florida, Saint Croix.
47:41
Speaker 3: It was wonderful right to be able to hear again
47:43
Speaker 3: I always you know, it was a good highlight to
47:45
Speaker 3: hear Stanley intensity. This night's being played for a culture
47:48
Speaker 3: night in our United Virgin Islands sister island of Cortola.
47:54
Speaker 3: And then on the second day on Friday, we opened
47:57
Speaker 3: up with we just went straight with Barrius Sessions right.
48:00
Speaker 3: So the theme was for this opening session was coloniality,
48:07
Speaker 3: gendering and in between us and so Professor Sally J.
48:11
Speaker 3: Delgado and Dylan X. Vasquez Sulivan from the University of
48:16
Speaker 3: Puerto Rico and Caye how Puerto Ricans define their English
48:21
Speaker 3: variety both challenges and perpetuates colonial legacies. So I thought
48:26
Speaker 3: it was really interesting how they juxtaposed language that can
48:32
Speaker 3: actually work to actually perpetuate more colonialism or actually shift that.
48:39
Speaker 3: So again showing how Puerto Ricans define their English variety.
48:44
Speaker 3: And then val Valeria Acevedo in dialogue with Alma Simone May.
48:51
Speaker 3: It was a wonderful conversation on enslaved women's bodies, literary archaeology,
48:58
Speaker 3: critical faculation and the story of Rosa and that was
49:03
Speaker 3: really powerful to hear the conversations around listen to that
49:10
Speaker 3: term and slay women's bodies, ponder on that for a second.
49:17
Speaker 3: And then Suan aponte Aduja from the Universitat Fabre and
49:23
Speaker 3: Barcelona and the University of Puerto Rico Rio Perdras on
49:28
Speaker 3: Identila Strengths Estudio de Casso sore El descuso Mobinadio, so
49:34
Speaker 3: again looking at trans identities and some of the binary
49:39
Speaker 3: ways that you study, the binary analysis for how you
49:42
Speaker 3: study that type of engagement and discourse through a literary
49:47
Speaker 3: as well as a linguistic lens. And then the next
49:51
Speaker 3: segment was on music and literature in between, and there
49:55
Speaker 3: you had Suzanne Mulissen from by Rut University of Germany
50:03
Speaker 3: and what was interesting is this was listed, but we
50:05
Speaker 3: didn't get to see this paper and we were all
50:09
Speaker 3: excited because we were it was all pecong and punks,
50:12
Speaker 3: boasting and complaining and oral performance in the language of Calypso.
50:16
Speaker 3: So we're looking forward to seeing that work be integrated
50:20
Speaker 3: because there were a number of Calypsonians in this space,
50:23
Speaker 3: just so we know Calypso is not just the genre.
50:26
Speaker 3: It's obviously to somemmer wave life in the Caribbean. Right.
50:31
Speaker 3: And then it was a presentation by Sixto j Metston
50:36
Speaker 3: Julia la Garcia, and this is part of the Collectivoja
50:42
Speaker 3: and Puerto Rico del Vile de Bomba al Bombaso, Mirava Aljenero,
50:49
Speaker 3: Musical Lamba in a aria de Puerto Rico and those
50:55
Speaker 3: momentos historicos medios. Right. But I want to highlight, okay English,
51:04
Speaker 3: that this was an overview of this Eumosia, this unity
51:09
Speaker 3: collective that exists in Puerto Rico and has done extensive
51:14
Speaker 3: studies on the traditional dance style form, the music and
51:20
Speaker 3: the dance and the songs and the meaning to the
51:24
Speaker 3: cultural heritage to Puerto Rico of the Bumba, which is
51:27
Speaker 3: an African rooted traditional form of dance in Puerto Rico.
51:33
Speaker 3: And then there was a presentation by doctor Donavan Kuabong.
51:37
Speaker 3: She did a book presentation on Rhetoric of Resistance, labor
51:41
Speaker 3: of Love, the eco poetics of Nationhood, and the poetry
51:46
Speaker 3: and prose of Losana m Sku Andlasana m Sku in
51:50
Speaker 3: addition to being the lead Chief Edita of the Neahss
51:54
Speaker 3: House Publishers out of Saint Martin. All of Saint Martin.
52:00
Speaker 3: I think it's really was a wonderful delivery of a
52:06
Speaker 3: very unsung yet powerful contributor to literary arts. Publication part
52:15
Speaker 3: excellence in the embodiment of the work of us, still living,
52:19
Speaker 3: still breathing, still active, still engaging, still revolutionary, still powerful,
52:25
Speaker 3: beyond words, brethren, the honorable brother, the Sna Seku. So
52:33
Speaker 3: I'll keep going to the next section. And then we
52:35
Speaker 3: went into education in between, and there you had Iris
52:39
Speaker 3: Hewitt Bradshaw, Lynnette Tyson, Noel and Cynthia Celestine from the
52:45
Speaker 3: University of Carinada and Tobago, along with independent researchers out
52:49
Speaker 3: of tnt on developing students knowledge of conventional standard English
52:56
Speaker 3: spelling in English Creole speech communities soundra Ghatto Henry from
53:01
Speaker 3: the UI Saint Augustine and TNT Trinidad and Tobago on
53:06
Speaker 3: a topic titled Facing Fate, Flexibility in the Future, a
53:12
Speaker 3: plausible appliable path for higher education in Caribbean Islands. And
53:16
Speaker 3: again these are those themes that were really providing practical
53:20
Speaker 3: ways to improve and increase literacy in all its forms written, spoken, digital, etc. Yes.
53:34
Speaker 3: And then Cynthia Pittment from the UKR Rio Pedras applying
53:38
Speaker 3: mindfulness techniques to teaching pedagogy an integrative approach in Puerto
53:44
Speaker 3: Rican classrooms. I thought, again, techniques that we can share
53:48
Speaker 3: with teachers see if they were to help strengthen the
53:54
Speaker 3: edification and the educational skill sets and being mindful of
53:59
Speaker 3: these skill sets for our young people. And then the
54:03
Speaker 3: next theme was the discourse and pragmatics of in between us.
54:08
Speaker 3: So we had Elizabeth Barrows from UPR a brief analysis
54:12
Speaker 3: of discourse and counter discourse in the documentary Landfall. Professor
54:17
Speaker 3: Crystal high full Finger Nieves also UPR the pragmatics of
54:23
Speaker 3: politeness on Anglophone radio stations in Totolo BVII, which I
54:27
Speaker 3: thought was interesting because her data analysis really brought up
54:32
Speaker 3: even her voice samples of what people say on radio
54:36
Speaker 3: on how people speak in formal tones and how people
54:38
Speaker 3: are polite even when they're adding shade. We know what
54:43
Speaker 3: that means. And then the last paper of that segment
54:47
Speaker 3: was by godd L. L. Suarez from UPR on Billboards,
54:52
Speaker 3: junk food and Colonial Neo Colonial Gemini and Puerto Rico,
54:58
Speaker 3: a multimodal critic will discourse analysis. What was deep was
55:02
Speaker 3: that there was a whole piece on billboards pushing fast food,
55:09
Speaker 3: but then also highlighting the impact that fast food consumption
55:13
Speaker 3: has on person's ability to learn and function in the community.
55:18
Speaker 3: Thereby these billboards that are bigger than life and that
55:22
Speaker 3: are constructed in ways that they survive hurricanes or the
55:25
Speaker 3: house right next door to them don't. It was an
55:28
Speaker 3: interesting presentation and it was right of coin and I
55:31
Speaker 3: wanted to thank Gofri Lspius for that. And then we
55:36
Speaker 3: moved on to language making and breaking. So we had
55:38
Speaker 3: Cherry Lynn Boquer, an independent researcher from Sava Saba the
55:45
Speaker 3: Secret Handshake of Dutch, how the Dutch have systematically denied
55:49
Speaker 3: access to their language. That self explanatory. Then doctor Nicholas
55:54
Speaker 3: Foutaclass along with doctor ellen vetra Caestre and Eric Mitched
55:59
Speaker 3: of up Are the University of the Netherlands and University
56:03
Speaker 3: of Aharuba in Chambuca. It's that they basically spoke, let's
56:09
Speaker 3: get it right Chambuca. This is basically what we do
56:14
Speaker 3: with language in our work. We make the best of
56:16
Speaker 3: a bad situation study for a language policy for Banera
56:20
Speaker 3: and that's what they focused on. They've been working on
56:23
Speaker 3: strengthening an actual language policy for Banair in a similar
56:28
Speaker 3: form to neighboring islands like Aruba and Coursaw, which had
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Speaker 3: made papuamental part of central part of their langue their
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Speaker 3: national language, and just making sure that the way in
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Speaker 3: which the language policies are it's not forcing Dutch, even
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Speaker 3: though they'd still do that periodically. And it was a
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Speaker 3: lot of good conversation. And then there was a presentation
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Speaker 3: a Kini Gill from the University of Trinidad and Tobago
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Speaker 3: book presentation from Behind the Bridge to the Apostible Dream,
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Speaker 3: and then the next segment in between this and performance
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Speaker 3: shared by Camilla Stevens out of Rutgers University. One of
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Speaker 3: my alma maters was a book presentation the Coloniality of
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Speaker 3: Catastrophe and Caribbean Theater and Performance. Then Cajup Balance from
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Speaker 3: Salem State University on nyaming and naming Virgin Islands native recipes.
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Speaker 3: Nyaming is like yaming, like how we eat, so we'll
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Speaker 3: come back to that as a colloquial term. And then
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Speaker 3: Professor Megan Sylvester shared a presentation's a music sociologist, author
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Speaker 3: and researcher. She shared from Trinidad and Tobagol presented on
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Speaker 3: nostalgiam and memory in Caribbean music. And then we had
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Speaker 3: a business meeting and there were different book launches and
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Speaker 3: sharings and messages, and I want to see a special
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Speaker 3: thank you to a grad student, Gabriela Pinelli studying at
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Speaker 3: the University of toar Rico Rio Pedras. She did a
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Speaker 3: presentation and has actually, well, let me just pause, digitalizing
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Speaker 3: the islands in between annual volumes on the languages, literatures
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Speaker 3: and cultures of the Caribbean. So they have actually put
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Speaker 3: all of the publications from as far back I believe
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Speaker 3: it's two thousand and eight to two thousand and eight forward,
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Speaker 3: and we usually have a volume annually and from two
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Speaker 3: thousand and nine ten. I believe it was two volumes annually,
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Speaker 3: one that focused on wider Caribbean spaces and one that
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Speaker 3: focused on the ABC Islands to Aruba, Veneer and Kira Sol.
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Speaker 3: And I've shared this so that people will know the
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Speaker 3: website for the Islands in Between is forthcoming and you
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Speaker 3: too will have access to this wonderful resource of literature
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Speaker 3: and publications that have been put out. So please look
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Speaker 3: forward to what's coming forward with Islands in Between. If
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Speaker 3: you don't remember all of that, iibc upr ui you
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Speaker 3: find us right. And then we had a wonderful opportunity
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Speaker 3: to fellowship, share notes, network have suffered for those that engage.
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Speaker 3: And on the final day we compressed most of the
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Speaker 3: remaining presentations into the art, architecture and languaging of in
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Speaker 3: between this and in between this literary voices and translation.
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Speaker 3: And I want to highlight that these papers were so deep.
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Speaker 3: It was like a feast of information. But it wasn't
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Speaker 3: just a feast of information. It was a feast of
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Speaker 3: practical application of a lot of disinformation. How you can
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Speaker 3: use it in your places of work, your places of education,
59:48
Speaker 3: your places of worship, in your wider community, in your
59:52
Speaker 3: health care facilities in your emergency management administration facilities. That
59:58
Speaker 3: one had isis Cajiga and who is completing her dissertation
1:00:04
Speaker 3: now at Brown University returning the Colonial Gays, eighteenth and
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Speaker 3: nineteenth century painting in Jamaica and the counter esthetics of
1:00:13
Speaker 3: its modern arts movement. We had doctor Elizabeth Rizzendi, who
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Speaker 3: independent researcher and also the president of the Society of
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Speaker 3: Virgin Island's Historians and a retired educator, historian, librarian, archipists
1:00:28
Speaker 3: and much more. And she did a presentation on Saint Croix.
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Speaker 3: Each building uphollsed the character of a town. Cumberland castle.
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Speaker 3: Fredericks did Saint Croix eighteen hundred to nineteen twenty one,
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Speaker 3: and she really shared, showed some past pictures and current
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Speaker 3: pictures and just the intention of the restoration possibilities of
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Speaker 3: this Cumberland castle. Then we had a presentation Bythella m
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Speaker 3: Premirez of pr unless we forget post Hurricane Maria artistic
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Speaker 3: and literary responses in Puerto Rico and the United States
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Speaker 3: Virgin Islands, you know, And then she recalled herself. She said,
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Speaker 3: now I know it's state Virgin Islands in the United States,
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Speaker 3: so I appreciate her willingness to be more empowering and
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Speaker 3: less colonial in that reference. And then Assan Point from
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Speaker 3: the University of the West Indies Cavehill, Barbados did a
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Speaker 3: presentation on filling in the gaps tense aspect and modality
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Speaker 3: in Beasian and like gave this serious, definitive, detailed analysis
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Speaker 3: of the Beijing English and made it very clear that
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Speaker 3: it is a clear language, and it's not a dialect.
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Speaker 3: It's not bad English. It's a clear, culturally appropriate and
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Speaker 3: definitely in herited, sensitive language. And amongst in Barbados. And
1:01:51
Speaker 3: then there was mm hmm, and then there was I
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Speaker 3: you know, there were there were number of pieces on
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Speaker 3: in between this and literary voices and translation. There were pieces,
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Speaker 3: you know. Sharyan Shahada did a piece on contemporary historical
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Speaker 3: narratives of slave resistance in the Caribbean, the case of Jamaica,
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Speaker 3: and I can tell she's going to be continuing to
1:02:14
Speaker 3: do some fabulous work that will also crossover into looking
1:02:19
Speaker 3: at things of Maranaj and the Maroon legacies and sovereignty
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Speaker 3: and so forth. Emily Taylor the Cuban version the Casa
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Speaker 3: Stella's America's translation of why Sargasso CI from the Presbyterian College,
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Speaker 3: Helene Garrett and Wilhelm Tibam, independent researchers out of Canada
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Speaker 3: and Germany, how memories of the past influenced our present
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Speaker 3: a story from Surinama and Professor Garrett retired amazing scholar
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Speaker 3: and really bringing a lot of the clarity around the
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Speaker 3: Dutch speaking elements in the Caribbean, but specific to number
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Speaker 3: and I think it's really important to highlight that. And
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Speaker 3: she's a dear friend and provides a lot of resources
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Speaker 3: in that regard in terms of translations zero a lens
1:03:11
Speaker 3: of literature right. And then Abigail Claggett putting In from
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Speaker 3: Tarrant County College on constructing an antigue and literary voice.
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Speaker 3: Judy rock Akinni Gill and Cynthia Celestine from the University
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Speaker 3: of Trinidad and Tobago on composing Calypso lyrics with reference
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Speaker 3: to the Paul Elder critical thinking model at a teacher
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Speaker 3: education institution in Trinidad and Tobagel And that was badulous
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Speaker 3: in terms of the detail of seeing Calypso, pulling out
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Speaker 3: the inappropriate content, but using it as a tool to
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Speaker 3: really strengthen literacy of students in Trinidad to Bagel in
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Speaker 3: Caribbean spaces. And then Katrina A g Welch from the
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Speaker 3: ui K pill also an examination excuse me Barbados an
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Speaker 3: exams emanation of students' ability to apply and transfer to
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Speaker 3: the writing skills taught in a university expository writing English
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Speaker 3: course to see how persons will actually and what's being done,
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Speaker 3: not just what is theorized, but what is theorizing and
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Speaker 3: what is being done and how it's changed even the
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Speaker 3: policies of how they're engaged in this type of instruction.
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Speaker 3: And we were looking forward to a presentation by Jason
1:04:23
Speaker 3: Siegel and Ronald Francis, also of the UIK Hill on
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Speaker 3: linguistic inequality and education. The denial of mother tongue education
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Speaker 3: in the Caribbean self explanatory. If people can't talk the
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Speaker 3: way they know the pata, they're going to not be
1:04:38
Speaker 3: able to get involved in a lot of things, and
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Speaker 3: the education system gonna give crash. I know you didn't
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Speaker 3: understand what I said right now, because I'm gonna say
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Speaker 3: it differently. Persons need to speak in the language that
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Speaker 3: is most comfortable and learn in the language that is
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Speaker 3: most comfortable while they're learning other languages as well. American
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Speaker 3: Standard English is not or British Standard English are not
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Speaker 3: superior to. I want to make sure we highlight that.
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Speaker 3: We'll come back to that. And then we closed out
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Speaker 3: with presentations again on this in between this work and
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Speaker 3: organization with Dana Lewis Ambrose of Age Celebrity Style Community
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Speaker 3: College on the BBI plying business continuity Plans and risk
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Speaker 3: management models to nonprofit organizations in the Virgin Islands. And
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Speaker 3: I sat in for that one also because it was
1:05:34
Speaker 3: amazing to see the similarities what's being done, what's being
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Speaker 3: studied in the Virgin Islands and the UK side as
1:05:41
Speaker 3: well as in the Virgin Islands and the US side,
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Speaker 3: and how important it is to see the significance of
1:05:46
Speaker 3: not for profit organizations, non governmental organizations as their role,
1:05:54
Speaker 3: their important role that demands respect, acknowledgement, recognition and funding
1:06:01
Speaker 3: to then help the communities that they serve, because the
1:06:05
Speaker 3: government cannot do everything and we all know that. And
1:06:09
Speaker 3: then in SOACA says, keep you the Financial Services Regulatory
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Speaker 3: Commission of Antique and Barbuda, Adjusted Realities, Employment Law and
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Speaker 3: Antique and Barbuda during the period of the pandemic from
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Speaker 3: March twenty twenty to March twenty twenty one, Jose Montannes
1:06:29
Speaker 3: from Interamerican University of Puerto Rico on Las Houegos de
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Speaker 3: Mesa the electronicos como Midolos. They in Senanca del and Pendiniento,
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Speaker 3: so again looking at the different table games that put
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Speaker 3: in the impact of electronic methods for how persons really
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Speaker 3: deal with certain elements of learning. And it was another
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Speaker 3: portion on Latin America and the Caribbean. And I think
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Speaker 3: again some papers there were like few that were in Spanish,
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Speaker 3: and so persons gave a summary in English for persons
1:07:05
Speaker 3: that were not comfortable in hearing everything in Spanish. But
1:07:08
Speaker 3: again this conference, in these gatherings facilitate our ability to
1:07:14
Speaker 3: go to a variety of activities. And then we did
1:07:17
Speaker 3: a wonderful tour of the island of Tortola. You know,
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Speaker 3: we went from literally from east end to west end
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Speaker 3: and back and it gave people an opportunity to see
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Speaker 3: not just say seas sound and fun, but to see
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Speaker 3: how people live in these spaces that we visit, to
1:07:34
Speaker 3: see their schools, their elementary, junior, high and secondary institutions,
1:07:41
Speaker 3: and of course their college, and it was a well
1:07:44
Speaker 3: rounded experience. With that being said, and tonight, I had
1:07:47
Speaker 3: no idea it was going to be so short. But
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Speaker 3: I'm very grateful, very appreciative of being able to share
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Speaker 3: a little bit of knowledge, a little vision of what
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Speaker 3: we have experienced in the islands in between conference that
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