For your information I would like to report on an article in the Dominica  
LINK Newsmagazine recently published by Parbel Enterprises , Editor Parry R  
Bellot 

It covers a wide range of subjects  from National Awards through  Nation 
Building to People.. Under People, the Good and the Bad the magazine has  
singled out Clayton Shillingford, Gabriel Christina and Thomson Fontaine as the  
persons who 
 
 " gave their organisation such a bad name that DAAS is now at the  cross 
roads. The Dominica Academy of Arts & Sciences ..was once a great  example 
for the extraordinary contributioins that individuals in the Diaspora  can 
make to thier homeland . The organisation,  however , has become very  
political..according to some of its own members! There have been internal  problems 
and very conflicting visions with suggestions about inflexibility on  the 
part of some members of its leadership"
 
I do not wish to speak for others but I fully intend to reserve the right  
quite separate from DAAS official non partisan policy to speak my mind 
openly on  any matter where I hold my individual view..as does anyone else. 
regardless of  what organisation they belong to. I hope I have made my position 
clear once  again. Should the DAAS leadership and members feel that I have 
violated some  constitutional rule they need only initiate a process to have 
me removed. 
 
Parry Bellot says "other members joined the chorus and CRIED that DAAS  
should remain apolitical and neutral.". I never shared the neutral view ..  . 
There..I admit my guilt .. Trust others in the Dominica political leadership  
can be honest enough to do the same. 
 
At this point I would like to remind Parry Bellot that he owed  DAAS EC$300 
given to him to help organise the DAAS Local Chapter..The task  was not 
done ...and he did not repay and forced me to take him to Magistrate  Court to 
recover funds that I was responsible for..Is that political ?  Is that event 
in part the genesis of his hostility?
 
C A Shillingford