billyworld99
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Today is another sad day. I am from Barbados and we just learned that our Prime Minister has pancreatic cancer, one of the worst and only 5% survival. He has been away from office since March and everybody wondered what was wrong with him, he is only 47 years old. He made a recorded public speech to our Nation and their was a section at the end that just made me cry my eyes out all over again. It went like this:
"If we can unite first and foremost as sons and daughters of these fields and hills we call our very own, nothing will hold us back. We did it in the 60s and 70s, and we make no wanton boast of what we can achieve.
"Michael Jackson of late memory reminded us in his song WE ARE THE WORLD that change will only come when we stand together as one. In his seminal work he wrote:
"There comes a time when we heed a certain call, when the world must come together as one. There are people dying, and it's time to lend a hand to life; the greatest gift of all.
"We can't go on, pretending day by day, that someone, somewhere will soon make a change. We are all a part, of God's great big family, and the truth, you know,
love is all we need."
That's me fondest wish for Barbadians. That we use adversity to reforcus our energies on what's best for Barbados and that we wrap our actions and our utterances in the national flag and the furtherance of this great nation we call home. That's my challenge to you. UNITE AND LOVE
This is coming from our dying Prime Minister and whom would he quote none other than Michael J. Jackson.
Its a sad day for Barbados.
got this article from facebook
"If we can unite first and foremost as sons and daughters of these fields and hills we call our very own, nothing will hold us back. We did it in the 60s and 70s, and we make no wanton boast of what we can achieve.
"Michael Jackson of late memory reminded us in his song WE ARE THE WORLD that change will only come when we stand together as one. In his seminal work he wrote:
"There comes a time when we heed a certain call, when the world must come together as one. There are people dying, and it's time to lend a hand to life; the greatest gift of all.
"We can't go on, pretending day by day, that someone, somewhere will soon make a change. We are all a part, of God's great big family, and the truth, you know,
love is all we need."
That's me fondest wish for Barbadians. That we use adversity to reforcus our energies on what's best for Barbados and that we wrap our actions and our utterances in the national flag and the furtherance of this great nation we call home. That's my challenge to you. UNITE AND LOVE
This is coming from our dying Prime Minister and whom would he quote none other than Michael J. Jackson.
Its a sad day for Barbados.
got this article from facebook
But how wonderful that he is inspired by Michael. I'm glad Michael can guide him in that way during this period of his life. 