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Dennis Jones is a Jamaican-born international economist, who has lived most of the time in the UK and USA, and latterly in Guinea, west Africa. He moved back to the Caribbean in 2007. This blog contains his observations on life on this small eastern Caribbean island, as well as views on life and issues on a broader landscape, especially the Caribbean and Africa.

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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Rihanna needs help

I heard at St. Matthias Church this morning that a 2 year old, Rihanna Alleyne, who attends Sunday school there, has had to be taken to England to receive treatment for a bad liver. A transplant is needed but donors are scarce, so another procedure will be used, hoping that this works well. The family needs 100,000 pounds sterling (the equivalent of B$400,000) to cover the costs. Parishioners have given generously at several collections. However, if everyone in Barbados gave a mere B$2, the cost would be easily covered. If Barbados' more famous Rihanna (Robin Fenty--see official website) offered a small portion of her earnings, I'm sure that would easily make a huge contribution to the needs of the Alleyne family.

I am not a spokesman for either the Alleyne family or for St. Matthias Church, but felt a strong irony when I heard of the needs of little Rihanna Alleyne and thought of the help, which every Barbadian could offer.

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