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Heat over monuments
Posted: Sunday, September 1, 2024
Heat over monuments
Clearly there are deep-seated sentiments at play here, even among a microcosm of less than 50 concerned citizens gathered in the auditorium.
Fuelling much of this emotion are threads of learned history that may not have kept pace with the evolving understanding of Caribbean history and specifically what happened in our twin-island state.
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