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As a St. Lucian-American I only began celebrating this fete approximately five years ago. I left the Island of St. Lucia when I was two years old and did not experience the culture in its truest form like others who grew up in St. Lucia.

The newest Dutch Pot Restaurant, located at 7301 Pines Blvd. Pembroke Pines, Fla. across from Broward College South, had its grand opening on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016 and offered a stew chicken, rice and peas, vegetables meal with a drink for only $2. As you can imagine the line was long and out the door.

Too many people were coming through the doors of Miami-Dade’s public health system with advanced cases of HIV in an era when the virus that causes AIDS is generally treated as a disease you live with, not one that kills you. Injection drug overdoses were rising, too.