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The opportunity was also taken to recognize\nthe contribution of food business operator Clydette Dupont.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dupont\u2019s son is a former national\nfootballer who was also a member of the 1979 team that achieved 2nd<\/sup>\nplace in the CFU competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his comments to highlight distinguishing\nfeatures between a political and community event, Major Leacock noted that\nduring the promotion of the event, it was the Old Montrose, Lower Kingstown\nPark and Lodge Village Community Group that was named as organizer and not the\nNew Democratic Party (NDP), even though it was held under his auspices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere are some things that are bigger than\nthe political culture and you cannot compromise the parties. For example,\nStarlift steel band participate with us big time. But that\u2019s an institution\nthat\u2019s even older than the New Democratic Party \u2026 and can\u2019t be allowed to be\ncompromised or contaminated by participating in a community event and people\nbrand it,\u201d Major Leacock stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Central Kingstown MP noted that the\nmembers of Starlift in their own right support different political parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, last week Thursday\u2019s honouring\nceremony was the third and brought to 8 the number of persons so far honoured\nby the community group. The other persons\/organization honoured before were:\nthe late Walton \u2018Tanny\u2019 Peters, a songwriter and cultural artist; Starlift\nSteel Orchestra; calypsonian Kingsley \u2018Hero\u2019 Roberts; Dorothy Barrow and Monica\nBaisden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Performances at the event came from Starlift\nSteel Orchestra, calypsonians \u2018Azarra,\u2019 and \u2018Hero\u2019 among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Proceeds from the annual event go towards purchasing items for Christmas packages to be donated to the less fortunate and elderly residents of the constituency. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Old Montrose, Lower Kingstown Park and Lodge Village Community Group, as part of the annual National Heroes Day fair and cultural event held at New Town, formerly known as Block 2000, recognized three icons who made valuable contributions over the years to the development of that constituency. Those recognized were: former Minister of Culture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n