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Jewelry Designer, Glenda Lugay is just one of the many talented designers with a Caribbean background to have made it big in the fashion business. Not too long ago, we highlighted Dominican Fashion Designer YolanderJ right here on Dominica –Weekly dot Com – this time we’re featuring a fellow islander and Designer Jewelry Store owner, who ideas about the fashion prove more innovative that any around. Know to be a risk-taker, a woman who knows her mind and tastes; lead Lugay to open a trendy Los Angeles Boutique called “Tres Jolie” and earn the title of Best Designer Jewelry store from MyFoxLA Hot List two years in a row.

Brought up on the Caribbean island St. Martin, Lugay’s career in fashion started at age 12, when she began work at popular, high-end retail stores after school. By age 14, she took on management positions, working at stores like Fendi and Gucci. A multilingual woman, she traveled Europe for four years before being recruited to work in high-end boutiques in New York in the early nineties. She then moved to Los Angeles, where she helped open several extremely successful stores from the ground up like Kitson and earned herself a strong clientele of international celebrities.

After realizing that her potential for success would only take her so far, in September 2001, she opened her very own store, Tres Jolie in West Hollywood. Filled with stylish, hand-picked jewelry and accessories, Tres Jolie became a destination for shoppers from all over. Its popularity was so great that Lugay opened a second location in Beverly Hills, which is also home to hundreds of unique pieces from today’s up-and-coming designers.

Although the two stores are located on Beverly Boulevard and Beverly Drive, one can also order pieces online at www.tresjolie.us, which features an ever-changing array of merchandise as well as the latest fashion press clips about Tres Jolie jewelry and accessories.

Glenda’s small business translates through her big heart in working with many local and country-wide charities. so keep an eye on this fierce Leo lady, who plans to make Tres Jolie an international brand.

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Thousand of Dominicans from all over the island, including those from the Diaspora gathered together at the Windsor Park Stadium on November 3rd 2008 to celebrate Dominica’s 30 years of independence at the traditional National Day Parade.

Some of the recipients of National awards at this year National Day Parade included H.E Fidel Castro Ruiz, who received the Dominica Award of Honour for his contribution in Dominica’s National Development, Rev. Joseph Olive Bower received the Sisserou Award for Religion, WCK Band received the Meritorious Service Award for their contribution in culture/music, and Mr. Mally Peltier who received the Service Medal of Honour for his contribution in Tourism. In all 31 awards were handed out to individuals and organizations.

Here are some photos from the National Day Parade - Happy 30th Anniversary of Independence Dominica

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It is not a pleasant experience, but there will be times in our lives when we come across people who do not like us, and likewise we are going to meet people we don’t like. Take example the situation with the Carib Chief Charles Williams and the Carib Council members, who are still disgruntled about their failed attempts to remove him as Carib Chief. While there are many Caribs who like the leadership style of Carib Chief – there are many who don’t favor his leadership style.

As we know, like attracts like, so usually when someone don’t like us it is because they are not like us. Rather than taking it personally, we can let them be who they are, accepting that each of us allow to have different perspectives and opinions. It’s only when we give others that freedom or level of respect, we claim it for ourselves as well, releasing ourselves from this stereotypical thinking that others must approve of our actions; gives more energy toward more rewarding pursuits.

While approval from other is a nice feeling, when we come to depend on it we may lose our sense of direction in our life. There are those who will not like us no matter what we do, but that doesn’t mean that there is anything wrong with us.

They may see in us something that is merely a projection of their understanding, but we have no control over the interpretations of others. The best we can do is to hope that the role we play in the script of their lives is helpful to them, and follow our own inner guidance with integrity.

There are so many benefits of walking our own path; we grow to appreciate the feeling of fully being ourselves. The need to have everyone like us will be replaced by the excitement of discovering that we are attracting like-minded individuals into our lives—people who like us because they understand and appreciate the truth of who we are.

My advice to Chief Williams and others in this similar situation is to free your self from trying to twist into shapes that will fit the spaces provided by others’ limited understanding and gain a new sense of freedom, allowing us to expand into becoming exactly who we’re meant to be…fully and freely individuals.

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