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- Our Art speaks
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- HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW ST LUCIA’S NOBEL LAUREATES?
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- Government’s Move
- ASSOU SQUARE IS ON!
- Tangie is 2013 Piton Calendar Girl
- SNL Agent Appreciation
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- Karib Cable Rewards Customer $1000 for November 2012
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- Daily Markets Wrap Up – Friday, December 21, 2012
- Christmas time - A season of goodwill to all
- Business Etiquette-Gift Giving
- Tooth brushing Simplified!
- St. Lucian awarded Diamond Jubilee Medal in Canada
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- Christmas Message 2012
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- Agricultural Sector Sustainability in Saint Lucia?
- A light that shines in the dark, A light that dark...
- The Meaning Of Christmas
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- NEW CALL CENTRE OPENED
- Daily Markets Wrap Up – Wednesday, December 19th
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The Square, was a way to defy your strict parents by sneaking and going to watch two reels of a movie at Clarke's or Gaiety's and going to dance without their permission or knowledge. You tested your adult-less-sense on those days.
It was a way too, of getting to know how to manage money. You were sometimes given a budget. Two days or three days? The money had to be spread over those days. Yet you wanted to sample everything that was on sale around the Square.
It was a period of sharing. You would meet friends and relatives you had not seen for several months or even years, if they were visiting the island for the season. They would buy you or friends would buy you things you could eat.
Never rode a bus before? Bus rides were aplenty. When about to be redeposited by the Square, you would squeal that ' ee par nee assay!'
There was even more fun. Toes, Mary, Pye Banann, and Jab together with the dancing masquerade bands were on the streets by the Square.
Not everybody who wanted from around the island could attend. It was therefore, more of a cultural event than a national one.
At this point in time the gov't should be responsible for only security and emergency services. Not a penny more. By june of each year you should be ready to rollout your program for the following year. Your budget should be billboard advertising driven; no more free ride for the brands consumed at the event. Also, you should contract out the infrastructure to the lowest bidder, and diversify the presentations: have an arts and crafts section."assou square"is big...so go for regional advertising too. Then we will be talking $urplus and not skyrocketing cost.
The gov't should only be responsible for security and emergency services to cover this event.Not a penny more! By June of each year you should be ready to rollout the program for the event.This event should be paying for itself big time:billboard advertising. All these brands comsumed at the event is getting a free ride! Stop it!
I think it is about time "Square" becomes more amiable (if that is the word to use here). Need to move away from the roughshod galvanized shacks . . . not pleasing to the eye at all.
@ 3:23 PM.....My friend you know exactly what you talking about thanks for the good old memories. A Happy Healthy and Prosperous 2013 to you and yours with Gods richest blessings always.
One year my mom (God bless her soul) gave me a lump sum of three dollars for a three day assou square (that was a lot of money in those days) I arrived on the square at 12:30pm,and was broke by 2pm LOL. Words can`t express how I felt the rest of that day. My mom had pity on me,and gave me more money. Three things kids in those days looked foward to where...M&C`s toy shop;Christmas day,and Assou Square.
About how many people attend this
event? Numbers matter you know.
Happy New Year!
Seems to me the ASssou Square celebrations is now simply a temporary distraction from the poverty that pervades this country.
Is that the best the government can do under the current circumstances, where people have to pay an extra 15 cents or so on every product they buy?
Wake up people and seek to take care of your families. Assou Square can no longer cut it. We need and end to the continued poverty that is ravaging our country. Assou Square is just a distraction. That is all it is. After Assou Square then what?
What a load of crap! You are blaming the government for continuing the tradition of the bazaar on the Square too?
Man! Come on! Are you a complete idiot or what?
You must be as smart of that Guy Joseph fellow. Are trying to make the argument that the PM held the Assou Square so that he can collect VAT?
What a jackass, you are!
Replace xmas and Assou Square with KWANZAA!!....Then, we will be moving away from BS to real change!
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