Celebrating our Journey Together- To Connect,Unite,and Integrate for Economic, Social and Cultural Development and Sustainability in SENJO, MERO and LAYOU

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This year 2008 has been dubbed National Reunion Year. Dominicans from all ends of the globe from all walks of life will be descending on their homeland in 2008.  In keeping with the National Reunion Activities the St Joseph Community has planned a village reunion carded for October 17th – 26, 2008. The residents of St Joseph and those in the Diaspora are actively planning for and looking forward to this event.
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MUSIC A NOU---- A SYNOPSIS

As it was all over Dominica in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, Senjo inherited a rich store of culture from the ethnic groups of French, English and African. Each made its own impact and it is in this mixture that has given a particular flavor of the songs and music and dance we had before and today. It began with the French music of the ACCORDION which accompanied QUADRILLE and MAZOUK dancers. The STRING BAND MUSIC (guitar and banjo) accompanied by the French Carols, CANTIQUES de NOEL, which used to be sung after midnight at Christmas. The African DRUM-BEAT accompanied BELE dancers at street corners and the LAPEgrammacks thumbnailAU CABRIT drumming for street MASQUERADING (carnival). This was the Fete to celebrate the freedom of plantation labourers (slaves) after the abolition of slavery about 200 years ago.......Read More About Our Music

 

SENJO------A VILLAGE OF CULTURE

Our cultural heritage recalls a people who celebrated life. From the early days of estate life, it embraces the celebration  of village feasts--of Christmas and carnival -of christenings and wakes--of coup d’main and senay bod la mer. Indeed it is of a strong community spirit that made even river-washing a community affair.

Estate Life
From the earliest days the life of our people was centered around those estates: Macoucherie to the north , Hillsborough  ( known then as Gwege ), Clarke Hall  (Clarke), Brokehill ,Gengerette and Carholm up the Layou valley. Those were prestigious  work  places in an extremely fertile area. They produced  the  vanilla, sugar cane,  tobacco, coconuts  and cocoa and later citrus and bananas that largely sustained the  bread basket of  the country.   People came from  every  part of the island to seek employment on those estates. 


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NEWS

 

2008 - 2009 Budget Address2008

"ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) -- Dominica's prime minister has presented Parliament with a new budget that he says will improve quality of life in one of the least developed countries in the region.
Roosevelt Skerrit says the proposed $146 million budget represents a roughly 8 percent spending increase from the last year. It includes relief for struggling islanders by removing import tariffs on food staples such as poultry, milk, rice and sugar"

 


 


 
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