KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves almost fell through his chair during the Queen’s Birthday Parade last month.
But his near flooring had nothing to do with his body mass or the structuralal integrity of the furniture.
Rather, it resulted from the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force Band playing “Rule Britannia” during the event.
Gonsalves, during a press conference Monday, voiced his feelings on the band’s playing of the song. He was at the time speaking of “backwardness” in this country.
Gonsalves mentioned former prime minister, Sir James Mitchell’s taking along with him an American who Gonsalves said does not understand local criminal law or the Constitution when he appeared as a guess on “Burden of Proof” during the 1990s.
Sir James during his appearance on the show tried to explain the local judicial process as two Americans were charged with the murder of a Bequia man.
Gonsalves, who was the lawyer for the accused Americans, succeeded in having the case against them dismissed.
Gonsalves, whose government campaigned during the 2009 Constitution Referendum for the removal of the Queen as this country’s head of state, said he was not anti-American or anti-British.
He, however, noted that while “Rule Britannia” says “Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:/ Britons never will be slaves”, the country had colonised many other nations and enslaves the thinking of their populace.
He said that he “could understand” the Police Bank’s playing of “God Save Our Gracious Queen” at the event, since it was her birthday.
But when the Governor General Deputy was inspecting the troops, “they strike up ‘Rule Britannia’,” Gonsalves said.
“I mean, where I there I want to drop through my chair. I haven’t told one person a thing about this thing. I haven’t spoken to the band man, I haven’t spoken to the Commissioner of Police, I just take it all in silence. But sometimes, as I say, I must be permitted to talk a few things if they are on top ah me chest and I am in this business long enough to talk these things,” he told reporters.
“… And even those who unthinkingly play ‘Rule Britannia’, they are good people but they just have to remember the context and where we are and where we live,” said Gonsalves who have often called on citizens to shake off the vestiges of colonisation and colonialism.
“They are an excellent band, I love it how they play good music but not ‘Rule Britannia’. I would understand how they play ‘God Save Our Gracious Queen’, because it’s her birthday. How ‘Rule Britannia’ comes in there now?” Gonsalves said.
This country — which gained independence in 1979 — is one of several in the Caribbean, and including Canada in the western Hemisphere, that are former colonies of Britain that retains the British Monarch as its head of state.
It UPSETS me EVERY TIME I THINK about it.
That WE AS A PEOPLE and a NATION had the OPPORTUNITY to GET RID of the CROWN as the HEAD OF STATE of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and WE ALLOWED ARNHIM EUSTACE, JAMES MITCHELL, SCL, the NDP and Anesia Baptiste TURN THOSE WHO VOTED NO into FOOLS for their own SELFISH AGENDA.
That DECISION to VOTE NO in the REFERENDUM will GO DOWN as the LOWEST POINT in the HISTORY of St. Vincent and the Grenadines as a INDEPENDENT AND SOVEREIGN NATION.
It was TRULY NOT the RIGHT DECISION that this COUNTRY, which had TOILED for CENTURIES as a SLAVE PORT and a COLONY of BRITAIN, made when it RETAINED the QUEEN of ENGLAND as its HEAD OF STATE.
The ANCESTORS, CHATOYER and DUVALLE are still ROLLING in their GRAVES over that DECISION.
WHAT A SAD DAY THAT WAS!!
However, those who CELEBRATED that DEFEAT DID NOT GET IT, and I am SURE MANY OF THEM STILL DO NOT GET IT, which is TRULY SAD.
Posted by VINCYPOWA | July 3, 2012, 16:01GONSALVES, I am not even going to say anything, you very stupid little fat pratt.
Posted by Peter | July 3, 2012, 17:22Rule Britannia is indeed passé. True, God Save the Queen would have been more appropriate. At the end of the day, does it so much matter what we say or sing in comparison to what we do and how we do it?
Posted by Jeannine James | July 3, 2012, 22:33Whatever the police band played must of been prior approved by the Queens Representative, the Governor General.
Take it up with him Gonsalves, instead of berating the poor band members. You should not of even mentioned this without pre-discussing it with the Queens Representative. And remember you have sworn allegiance to the Queen, if you are now taking that back, perhaps it is now time for the GG to remove you.
By the way you never told us all how you enjoyed Prince Williams wedding, you two faced [obcenity].
Posted by Peter | July 4, 2012, 09:21VINCYPOWA, Chatoyee and Duvale are not related to anyone in Saint Vincent, they are not our ancesters, they were slave traders and slave users that sold out to the French in SVG, they are of a past mongrel class whose decendents now lives in South America.
The people decided to keep the Queen, they did not agree with the new proposed constitution that was full of trickeries and nasty’s. Regardless of what you think or say, the people decided, thank God, I can only imagine what type of MARXIST ALBA rule we would be under now, I shudder to think about it, and I am sure you VINCYPOWA you would of been signing detention orders and filling the GONSALVES Gulag for him.
I know that GONSALVES is a huge supporter of the now dead Marxist scum bag ‘Maurice Bishop’ and his works. Bishop locked up hundreds if not thousands, without trial, friends and enemies alike, just for whispering his name. Well if that is part of the work of Bishop, you can take the whole of the Marxist scum in SVG and poke it where the sun doesn’t shine.
Because I am sure VINCYPOWA llke GONSALVES said “I am here to finish the work of Maurice Bishop” you would like to help him finish that work also.
Posted by Peter | July 4, 2012, 09:58PETER, CLEARLY you know not of HISTORY.
CHATOYER and DUVALLE are RELATED to the VAST MAJORITY of VINCENTIANS in this COUNTRY.
Whether you’re of CARIB STOCK, AFRICAN STOCK or a COMBINATION of BOTH, you’re a PICKNEY of DUVALLE and CHATOYER.
That said; the only “trickeries and nasty’s” we witnessed during the referendum came from Eustace, the NDP, James Mitchell and their HIRED HAND from FOREIGN, SCL.
It was the NDP and their MINIONS who told Vinnentians if they voted YES for the REFERENDUM they will be UNABLE to travel to Canada without a VISA.
It was the NDP and their MINIONS who told Vincentians that if VOTE YES, they would not get their PENSION from Britain.
It was the NDP and their MINIONS who told Vincentians that if they VOTE YES, Dr. Gonsalves’s face would be on the front of the EC currency and Chavez in the back.
It was the NDP and their MINIONS who told Vincentians that if they VOTE YES, Dr. Gonsalves would take one of the properties if they have more than one.
I can go on and on.
So when it came and comes to “TRICKERIES and NASTY’S,” members of the NDP have a PH.D in that practice, thus FOOLING the PEOPLE during the REFERENDUM EXERCISE.
This is what the TRAITORS in the NDP PREVENTED St. Vincent and the Grenadines from LEADING the way in the Caribbean.
That said, here is the work of Maurice Bishop that you claim that he wants to finish.
BROTHA BISHOP is a REAL REVOLUTIONARY. He is not a SELLOUT like PETER, EUSTACE and the NDP
In RECOGNITION of GREAT WORKS by MAURICE BISHOP, the GOVERNMENT of GRENADA has renamed the PORT SALINES AIRPORT, the MAURICE BISHOP INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT,
It is only a MATTER of TIME before the TAG of UNOFFICIAL NATIONAL HERO is REMOVED from his TITLE to NATIONAL HERO of GRENADA, MAURICE BISHOP.
I will quote from a GRENADA social medium.
“Maurice Bishop will remain one of Grenada’s Fallen National Heroes and has rightfully earned his place amongst the many outstanding Men and Women. He is an authentic hero to oppressed peoples all over the world. In his words “FORWARD EVER BACKWARD NEVER”.
So PETER, as you can see, he TRULY wants to FINISH the JOB of MAURICE BISHOP. Therefore, EXPECT the INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT at ARGYLE to be COMPLETED under his WATCH unlike the one started by Maurice Bishop in Grenada.
And with that, I END by SAYING, “SOON WE WILL FIND OUT WHO IS THE REAL REVOLUTIONARY, BECAUSE I DON’T WANT MY PEOPLE TO BE TRICKED BY MERCENARIES.”
THE MERCENARIES are SCL and the BEQUIA YANKEE from TEXAS
Posted by VINCYPOWA | July 4, 2012, 17:13Thanks for the videos. However this revolution was like the seeds planted in the sand, with little or no root. Hence it failed because it wasn’t a genuine revolution for freedom for Grenadians. Maurice like Gary was a dictator who lived by the sword. And like the old saying: He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword. Is this what Ralph had in mind for SVG? Today Grenada is a peaceful nation with very little traces of that revolutionary crap.
The referendum issue was not only getting rid of the Queen, but it had the ingredients of installing a dictator. This more than anything else was the reason it was rejected. Look at where T&T and Jamaica is today. Crime is on the rise and there is little being a Republic can do to stop it.
Once again, thanks for the videos.
Posted by Vere | July 5, 2012, 03:28VINCYPOWA, thanks for an insight into you and GONSALVES, I am sure that your latest blog has frightened a whole lot of people in the Diaspora and also here at home.
Thanks again for the untold damage that you have done to the ULP and GONSALVES in particular by at last unequivocally exposing what is likely in store for us under this Marxist regime.
PEOPLE, VINCYPOWA IS THE PAID ONLINE INTERNET PRESS SECRETARY FOR THE ULP AND GONSALVES.
Posted by Peter | July 5, 2012, 06:01PETER, I showed you how a TRUE BLACK LEADER in the Caribbean decided to take the bull by the horn and did what he NEEDED to do to DEVELOP his COUNTRY in the ADVANCEMENT of his PEOPLE.
Now he is a HERO and an INSPIRATION to his PEOPLE, to Blacks in general and to the BLACK INTELLIGENTSIA around the GLOBE.
The GREAT NELSON MANDELA has SPOKEN HIGHLY of BROTHA MAURICE BISHOP, because he can IDENTIFY with his CAUSE of trying to UPLIFT his PEOPLE out of EXTREME POVERTY.
That said; unlike you, Eustace and the NDP, who wants to SELLOUT our COUNTRY to the ADMIRERS of ADOLF HITLER, SCL, and to the BEQUIA YANKEE from TEXAS, I SUPPORT Dr. Gonsalves, because he has been a CHAMPION of the UNDERCLASS. His RECORD in and out of POLITICS speaks for itself.
He has given POOR PEOPLE in SVG a CHANCE to LIFT themselves out of POVERTY, through the EDUCATION REVOLUTION, the MANY FREE SCHOLARSHIPS that he has SECURED for Vincentians throughout the GLOBE, and the MANY SOCIAL PROGRAMS IMPLEMENTED by his GOVERNMENT.
So yes, PETER, we know who you ALIGN yourself with.
By the way, the BEQUIA YANKEE from TEXAS, his STATE of TEXAS has EXECUTED close to 200 BLACKS out of 482 executions from 1982 to the present, more than any other STATE in America.That is an EXTREME NUMBER when you look at the FACT that Blacks are only 12% of the POPULATION of Texas, which is close to 26 MILLION people.
In closing, give me MAURICE BISHOP any day, every day, over SCL and the BEQUIA YANKEE from TEXAS.
FORWARD EVER, BACKWARD NEVER!!!
Posted by VINCYPOWA | July 5, 2012, 10:16BOLLOCKS
Posted by Peter | July 5, 2012, 20:21Maurice Bishop, had the books fixed to get money from the IMF and WORLD BANK, he instructed people to be sent to Russia and Cuba to learn how to keep two sets of books to enable fraud to committed against the IMF and WORLD BANK.
He shut down newspapers and radio stations. He personally signed detainment orders and hundreds if not thousands were imprisoned without trial.
He locked up most of the Rasta’s, wouldnt allow their children to attend school unless their hair was cut.
He had thousands of telephones tapped.
Put an increased house and property tax of 15% on everything, wrecking house and property sales.
He stock piled enough arms and ammunition to sustain a ten year war in the Caribbean involving millions of people.
These are just a few of the things found in the public records office, recorded fact.
And you and GONSALVES want to finish the work of Maurice Bishop, and regard him a hero. Well to MARXIST scum he may well be regarded as a hero, but by any decent thinking person he was scum.
Remember that GONSALVES was in Grenada during certain time of the revolution, riding in Bishops car and writing his speech’s.
YOU SEE WHEN THE STATEMENT IS MADE “I AM HERE TO FINISH THE WORK OF MAURICE BISHOP” UNLESS IT IS QUALIFIED WHICH PART OF HIS WORK THEN WE WILL ASSUME GONSALVES MEANS ALL ASPECTS OF HIS WORK. THAT OPENS UP A HORROR STORY FOR SVG. FOR INSTANCE DOES THAT INCLUDE COOKING THE BOOKS, SHUTTING DOWN NEWSPAPERS, RADIO AND TV COMPANIES, TAPPING TELEPHONES AND A THOUSAND AND ONE THINGS THAT I HAVE NOT LISTED HERE.
LETS ALL JUST THANK GOD THAT THE NEW CONSTITUTION WAS REFUSED BY THE MAJORITY OF SVG CITIZENS.
FOLKS, YOU BE THE JUDGE ARE THESE PEOPLE SCUM?
Posted by Peter | July 5, 2012, 20:52I suppose the playing of a CUBAN or VENEZUELAN revolutionary song would of brought GONSALVES to his feet in applause. How about training the police band to play ‘Nueva trova’
Posted by Peter | July 6, 2012, 20:09Or how about a song which GONSALVES knows the words of “The Internationale”
“The Internationale” (“L’Internationale” in French) is a widely sung left-wing anthem. It has been one of the most recognizable and popular songs of the socialist movement since the late 19th century, when the Second International (now the Socialist International) adopted it as its official anthem.
The original French refrain of the song is C’est la lutte finale / Groupons-nous et demain / L’Internationale / Sera le genre humain. (English: “This is the final struggle / Let us group together and tomorrow / The Internationale / Will be the human race.”) “The Internationale” has been translated into many languages.
It is often sung with the hand raised in a clenched fist salute and is sometimes followed (in English-speaking places) with a chant of “The workers united will never be defeated”. “The Internationale” has been celebrated by socialists, communists, and anarchists.
Posted by Peter | July 6, 2012, 20:13The International Communist League;
The International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) is a proletarian, revolutionary and internationalist tendency committed to the task of building Leninist parties as national sections of a democratic-centralist international. Our aim is the achievement of new October Revolutions—nothing else, nothing other, nothing less.
The ICL bases itself on Marxist historical, dialectical materialism and seeks in particular to carry forward the international working-class perspectives of Marxism developed in the theory and practice of the Bolshevik leaders V. I. Lenin and L. D. Trotsky and embodied in the decisions of the first four Congresses of the Communist International as well as key documents of the Fourth International such as the Transitional Program (1938) and “War and the Fourth International” (1934). We also look to James P. Cannon, a leader of the early American Communist Party who was won to Trotskyism and went on to become a principal founder of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), working in close collaboration with Leon Trotsky. The origins of the ICL are in the Spartacist League/U.S., which began as the Revolutionary Tendency in the SWP and was bureaucratically expelled in 1963. Our ICL “Declaration of Principles and Some Elements of Program” was modeled on the Declaration of Principles adopted at the 1966 founding conference of the SL/U.S.
Adopted at the Third International Conference of the ICL in early 1998, the declaration presently exists in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, German, Russian, Polish, Italian, Turkish, Indonesian, Greek and Tagalog. In this post-Soviet period, marked by a deep regression of proletarian consciousness, we continue to be guided by Trotsky’s statement that “the task of the vanguard is above all not to let itself be carried along by the backward flow; it must swim against the current.” [backward never forward ever] Reforge the Fourth International, world party of socialist revolution!
http://www.icl-fi.org/
Socialist International
Observer Member: The Unity Labour Party, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
St. Vincent & the Grenadines Unity Labour Party
Posted by Peter | July 8, 2012, 09:00Have the Cubans already chosen Dr. Douglas Slater to become the new SVG prime minister, will he replace Gonsalves, is he the new Cuban choice?
Slater completed his studies in Havana Cuba in 1986, speaks Spanish fluently and has Cuban socialogical indoctrination.
Good choice CUBA at least he is not known to be two faced or mentaly challenged, he has never pissed you off in WIKILEAKS, Cuba he loves you.
Posted by Peter | July 8, 2012, 09:18By the way when GONSALVES was in England he made awards of certificates to British based Vincentian business men and entrepreneurs. The hotel in London where the cermony was held charged £100 a bottle for Champagne, it was totally over the top, and according to my friend a dreadful waste of money, just to try and catch a few future votes for GONSALVES.
WHY DIDN’T GONSALVES COME HOME AND TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT THAT? TELL US ABOUT THE MONEY HE SQUANDRED IN ENGLAND.
OUT OF CONTROL
Posted by Peter | July 8, 2012, 14:00i really don’t see any reason to get rid of the queen just yet, for all i know as a young man the nation hardly stands on it own and there for getting rid of the queen is not for the best. vincypowa or who so ever you are .. you do need a reality check, I do hope u rode Liat before and I hope you have traveled to a developed country for a period of time, because i am going to give you am example, countries that are so developed and can stand on their own still have the queen , they have not one day think of getting rid of her. The man who drafted the referendum was in total disagree of it but it was job worth thousands of dollars so hey he took it. Now if the PM or The opposition want to fall off a chair because something touched them what that really has to do with anyone?? getting rid of the queen is a total destruction of people lives the only reason you are in support is because you are set to benefit one way or the other. i guess you love it look at people the PM are pulling down, send them to jail trying to do all thing. in my life i have never come across a Prime Minster who is the minster of finance, the minister of security ,, so hear what he control the county, the money and the justice system. so mr get a blasted life people like you help increase poverty only by increasing support for wrong doings.
Posted by meargi | July 9, 2012, 20:52MEARGI, all I could do was SHAKE MY HEAD as I read through your post.Your CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL is so POOR that it SADDENS me the way you think, especially with you being a young man.
The mere fact that you’re a YOUNG MAN with that KIND that LEVEL of THINKING, it tells me that the EDUCATION REVOLUTION desperately needs a NATIONALISTIC and CULTURAL COMPONENT to it
1. Do you UNDERSTAND why those COUNTRIES, for EXAMPLE, CANADA and AUSTRALIA, still have the QUEEN as HEAD of STATE?
2. Are you sure that they have NOT THOUGHT or are THINKING of GETTING READ of her as HEAD of STATE?
3. Is this the man that you claimed drafted the the referendum?
My PEOPLE, MY PEOPLE, MY PEOPLE (SHAKING HEAD) still have ways to go in their NATIONALISTIC and PATRIOTIC DEVELOPMENT. One of these days, they will get it. Hopefully it won’t be too late.
4. How is getting rid of the QUEEN a TOTAL DESTRUCTION of PEOPLE’S LIFE?
Aryo see what I have to DEAL WID on a DAILY on this BLOG. It takes a person with the PATIENCE of JOBE to deal with some of these so-called VINCENTIANS.
5. In what way am I going to BENEFIT from GETTING RID of the QUEEN?
Oh yeah, St. Vincent and the Grenadines will have its own CONSTITUTION, written by its own people. Moreover, it will LEAD to the DEEPENING of our DEMOCRACY and rid our NATION of the LAST VESTIGE of COLONIALISM in our land. Yes, that is the BENEFIT that I am going to get.
6. Find out if James Mitchell and Arnhim Eustace were Ministers of Finance and Security when they were the PRIME MINISTERS of SVG.
When you find out nd it turns out that they were, let me know if those SENTIMENTS toward Dr. Gonsalves should be attributed to them as well.
As for your last statement, I am not going to respond to it, only because you’re YOUNG and OBVIOUSLY GULLIBLE.
I was going to use the word ignorant to DESCRIBE U, but I feel that you would have taken it the wrong way, so I left it alone.
IGNORANT=LACK of KNOWLEDGE.
I am SUGGESTING that you do more READING, especially on CURRENT events around the GLOBE, because I think it will HELP to BROADEN your THINKING a BIT.
Posted by VINCYPOWA | July 10, 2012, 00:10Welcome MEARGI, you obviously have your own views on things which may or may not change as you go through life, congratulations on having your own opinions.
VINCYPOWA, as a known liar and Marxist scum bag and supporter of all that decent people reject, your reaction to Meargi is just what I would expect from you. I am sure you frequently shake your head, as its so full of crap.
I am sure that what your wishing is that it was possible to force educate this young man in traditional Marxist style, poison his brain and fill him with the same crap that your full of.
Yes that is the man that was the main draughtsman of the new failed constitution, he even went to Cuba to see how they do things, came back a total convert. Thank God that the people rejected that document.
As for reference to colonialism, we are in the grips of new colonialist’s CUBA and VENEZUELA, our sovereignty is slowly but surely being usurped by ALBA, which GONSALVES signed us up to without reference to, or permission of, the people. The only reason for getting rid of the Queen is so as GONSALVES can become our president, and render unto us the dictatorial rule that he so craves for.
VINCYPOWAWOPYCNIV, you are a backward Marxist-Leninist sun dried dogs turd.
Posted by Peter | July 10, 2012, 09:51PETER, I do not THINK for ONCE you BELIEVE the GARBAGE that you write on this BLOG.
Your SOLE AIM is to try and HOODWINK those INDIVIDUALS who are just PLAIN GULLIBLE and IGNORANT.
You BELIEVE that if you tell these “BIG LIES” more than once, that somehow you’re actually going to get someone to BELIEVE them to be TRUTHS.
I am SUGGESTING that you ask SCL or whomever for BETTER TRAINING than what they have been GIVING U, because I can ASSURE you that your “BIG LIE” modus operandi is not working.
Using PETER’S ILLOGICAL LOGIC, the SOVEREIGNTY of SVG, Dominica and Antigua and Barbuda are being USURPED because of ALBA.
Peter, how about the COUNTRIES that SIGNED on to PETRO CARIBE, are their SOVEREIGNTY being USURPED because of SIGNING on to PETRO CARIBE?
PETER PETER, THE PUMPKIN EATER, I am SUGGESTING that you LAY OFF from EATING PUMPKINS
Posted by VINCYPOWA | July 13, 2012, 10:02The last referendum because he was paid a $hi£ load of money and ordered what to put in it, it was a typical Marxist stitch up.
Posted by Peter | July 10, 2012, 09:57“Playing of ‘Rule Britannia’ almost causes PM to drop through chair”
The only thing that would make GONSALVES drop through a chair is the weight of his pig like body, 362lbs, and still inflating.
Can’t tie his own shoes, and has aim difficulty when urinating.
When filling out airline food request’s for special dietary requirements he writes ‘LOTS’.
Posted by Peter | July 13, 2012, 06:38POOR PETER is THROWING another TANTRUM.
Posted by VINCYPOWA | July 13, 2012, 09:45