Fellow Anguillians I am Lucien Mac Donna Apostle of the LIFE IMPACT CENTRE.
I wish the address the rising issues within our country while there are many others things and issues that needs to be addressed.
I would like to address the most recent one – the UK parliamentary committee proposal.
These islands are very unique and cultural.
I have not spoken publicly on any issues or issuses confronting this country since I last addressed and opposed the position given to the last Attorney General.
While there was some divisions on that matter, there were those who in high and low places and thought that the position I took was not the right one.
ANGUILLA is a very complex place and therefore the way followed seems to me to be more divisive than unified, because politics is put it every cup of tea…
However, we are now faced with an issue that will define us as a people, which will remove our identity as indigenous people.
The barbaric and colonial proposal sent to the UK Prime Minister Theresa May is very insulting to us as a people.
Over 60 years ago Anguilla was in a dark and cold place, where many Anguillans fought and sacrificed their lives to bring us to where we are now.
After all our hard work and many, many sacrifices, the table is now spread for these sons and grandsons of the Colonial slave traders to come and enslave us once again. I say, A BIG NO TO THAT.
We must decide what we want and who we want to become.
If there’s ever a time like now, we as a people need to stand together and break the political lines.
Many say we need progress, but how much are we willing to give up in the name of progress?
This proposal by the UK parliamentary committee seeks to attack and insult our dignity and divide us on three fronts: politically, legislatively and by far morally.
In my view this is an outrage to seek to impose such a nonsensical things on the OI’S.
Fellow Anguillians, if this is really true, our government must think long and hard to ever allow this to be tabled in the Anguilla House of Assembly.
Anguilla must not become like St.Martin – voiceless.
Fellow Anguillians, if this is done, then we would have given over our sovereignty, and our right to govern our own destiny as a people.
Such a preposterous thing should never occur in the OT’S or in Anguilla.
I stand by boldly rejecting this ungodly proposal as an Anguillian.
I pray today that we, as a people, will come to understand that the Bible is clear on this issue .
“In the last days perilous times shall come” but even though they shall come we must not, as a people, stay silent on these issues.
There have been many in this country that have been voicing their disatisfaction on a number of issues.
I believe that this is a position where we all, as Anguillians, should be outraged and reject it.
I say, let us stand firm and not allow anything to be dictated or to be pushed down our throats.
Our future and the future of our children and grandchildren depend on the position and action that we take to confront this ungodly act or proposal.
God bless you and God bless Anguilla
Mac Donna
