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Manmay LaKay<br />
Claudette Ubekha<br />
Charles<br />
B Y M O N I C A V I C T O R<br />
n any given day growing up in<br />
St. Lucia, you’d find Ubekha<br />
either playing in the yard or Ogoing on – school adventures like the<br />
Sulphur Springs and country trips that<br />
involved river baths and climbing trees.<br />
Visiting the market, M&C, J. Q. Charles<br />
Ltd., or Valmont. Or eating tamarind jam,<br />
mango in sauce, freshly baked bread,<br />
cassava and squash.<br />
On special feast days you'd find her going<br />
to festivals like Assou Square and LaRose<br />
and carnival. Her story time<br />
involved characters like gajés and ti bolom.<br />
There were sunny days and rainy days,<br />
beach parties and Vigie beach.<br />
“All this, in a tropical bliss,”<br />
she remembers.<br />
But at the age of 10, Ubekha left St. Lucia to<br />
join her parents who had left a year earlier<br />
to pursue economic opportunities in New<br />
York.<br />
Albeit very young, the memories of her<br />
island home St. Lucia, never faded.<br />
Ubekha grew up and had kids of her own.<br />
Remembering her rich culture,
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