Without Prejudice Mervelee Myers put on record the roles of J I Solicitors Sola Obajuluwa and Barrister Miranda Grell in the GASLIGHTING and MISOGYNY on the date my father IVAN SANDYMAN NEMBHARD was laid to RIP in our yard at Townhead Westmoreland Jamaica West Indies. Because I have given both parties copies of my book, IN HONOUR OF STRONG WOMEN EVERYWHERE. That was signed by Sir Mark Rowley at the launch of “A New Met for London” in Brixton on the 2nd September 2023, a month after I was labelled a violent nuisance by DJ Sterlini on the 1st August 2023. I want the Solicitor and Barrister to take notes of the fact that my book IN HONOUR OF STRONG WOMEN EVERYWHERE is being used by Westminster HUB to motivate TENANTS to challenge the Judiciary of England and Wales, the Criminal Justice System and Crown Prosecution Service. I was given training to use TEAM, and I volunteered to run an ADVOCACY if J I Solicitors were prepared to set one up. The fact that I introduced Ms H Presley to J I Solicitors, and they refused to take her case is clear indication that VULNERABLE TENANTS are not getting representations.
I told J I Solicitors about the claims I had taken out only to be told they can’t help me. But HHJ Richard Roberts can put a Civil Restraint Order on me after DJ Swan strike out 5 of my claims. Let me put on record how J I Solicitors and Barrister Miranda Grell have acted unprofessionally to entrap me with the UNLAWFUL INJUNCTION. During the time when I considered myself VULNERABLE after the death of my husband, I was coerced into accepting Barrister Miranda Grell’s representation. She would only take my case if I agreed to accept, I had breached the injunction that was decided behind my back. My sons Kevin Murray and Valdin Legister were brainwashed into not believing in their mother anymore. Barrister Grell even went as far as telling us about her own “Personal Experiences” and why she trained to be a BARRISTER. I can’t understand why Barrister Grell has decided to entrap me. Since the ZOOM with my sons, I have not had a CONSULTATION with Ms Grell. She comes to Court take the stand and share what she wants with the judge. I recalled once I was trying to tell her how I was made a CRIMINAL needing Emotional Regulation Treatment after the Police came to MURDER ME under cover of www.leyf.org.uk Margaret Horn Lecture on the 30th November 2020. Her response was “If you are a CRIMINAL I don’t want to hear about it. Since my BOOK is being used to INSPIRE TENANTS, I want Barrister Grell to use it in my UPDATED EVIDENCE.
The attitude of the Solicitor leaves much to be desired, and concerns have been raised about his unprofessional conducts with Housing for Women, Devonshires Solicitors LLP and Dr Phil Gregory and the NHS. I confided in Dr Phil Gregory that I was not getting proper representations before realising that Dr Phil Gregory was in the plots to DESTROY me to cover up the SYSTEMIC DISCRIMINATION. Let me put on record when I find out that Sola Obajuluwa was not working in my favour. After I buried my husband and had the time to go through the BUNDLES from the Court and Devonshires Solicitors. I found the Court Order presided over by DJ Greenidge, DJ Swan, DJ Sterlini and realising I was not informed about them, I decided to take the EVIDENCE with the SENCO job offer from Smart Teachers to be EVIDENCED. I was told that the Court could do as they please and my Witness Statement was already prepared. Representing myself at Employment Tribunals and Small Claims Court, and ECRO, I was confused. That’s when I started looking at the patterns of how I have been treated by the Legal System from Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Although the Psychiatric Assessment I did on the 15th April 2024 stated I can instruct my “Legal Team” I was treated with disrespect. The Solicitor actually asked for the report to be rewritten and no EVIDENCE I provided was taken into consideration. I was in SHOCK when the Solicitor contacted me on behalf of Dr Phil Gregory after his unannoinced visit to my home on the 21st November 2024. His coercive control demanding that I removed YouTube EVIDENCE triggered me and this nearly pushed me over the edge. The Solicitor blames me for not having a GP, when I was made an INACTIVE PATIENT on the 6th December 2024. I don’t understand why the Solicitor gave the Court Dr Phil Gregory’s Medical Report as this is DEFAMATION. But let me make it known that the Solicitor has been colluding with Devonshires Solicitors LLP for me to take RESPIREDONE so they can make MONEY out of me.
That’s another reasons why the ITV News documentary with Queen Camilla will be presented as RESEARCH. I did an interview with the University of Huddersfield about DAMP and MOULD. The fact I was a participant in Dr Maria Hudson research paper for the Policy Studies Institute “The Experience of Multiple Discrimination” recommended to ACAS. Before I did “A Voice of a Child” for LEYF CEO June O’Sullivan will be reasons why the Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin will be called to give evidence that I asked her to MEDIATE because I meet her at Housing for Women AGM 2014. I was a participant in Kings College London Dr Faith Matcham RADAR-CNS.
My investment in my Fight4justice campaign and my social media platforms along with my http://www.myvision.org.uk that I built from scratch and stolen in 2022 must be EVIDENCED. My VOLUNTEERING and FUNDRAISING must be evidenced as well as my work from Jamaica to the UK.
I will wrap up saying that Samantha Gibbs started working with H4W in April 2022. In April 2022, Joshua Jacques murdered four people in a brutal attack at a home in Bermondsey, South-East-London. The victims were Samantha Drummonds, her mother Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo, her grandmother Dolet Hill, and Denton Burke, Ms Hill’s partner. How did the Police get involved? Police were called by neighbours who heard shouting at home. Police broke into the house and tasered Jacques. What did Jacques admit to? Manslaughter but tried for MURDER claiming MENTAL HEALTH condition. Prosecution: 3 generations of one family murdered. JJ was only 29 years old who FAILED him? BBC News 4/12/2023. BBC 1 March 2024 Jailed for at least 46 years. I have lost four family who won’t come back. I applied for the role of grandmother for grandson with MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES. Southwark News Joshua Jacques jailed for life for murder of Bermondsey family. Southwark News did a report at BIB LEYF COVID-19 and I contacted them to help me tell my story.
The NHS is a DISGRACE, and the world will know because IN HONOUR OF STRONG WOMEN EVERYWHERE tell my stories and I will update about the NEGLECT of ARNOLD EBENEZER TOMLINSON and Gayle Lewis PALS report.
Sir David Anthony Amess was a British politician who served as MP for Southend West 1997 until his murder in 2021. 15/10/2021 fatally stabbed at his constituency surgery at Belfairs Methods Church Hall Leigh-On-Sea. Amess murder was later declared a “Terrorist Incident” by the Metropolitan Police.
Dennis Amiss I saw hypnotist to heal mental scars after Lillee and Thompson bombardment BRUTAL 1974-1975 Ashes Series left its mark on the shaken batsman, but one good thing came out of it – The Cricket HELMET.
Let me end saying I will be using my Fight4justice to share the stories and the A-Z of CRIMINALS needing Emotional Regulation Treatment and VIOLENT NUISANCES and UURICA-LE will be mentioned during my DOCUMENTARIES. As Queen Camilla’s 100 birthday card for my husband will be the key. I wish DJ Beecham all the best in getting out of the DEFAMATION of MERVELEE MYERS.
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Black Design Guild: The (Re)Launch Hi! We’re Tayo, Amelia and Michael. This is our blog about the Black Design Guild—a fully funded, five-month leadership programme for junior-to-mid level Black researchers and designers working in UK civil society. If you’re new to this blog series you can catch up on the prototyping journey that got us to launch here.···BLOG TWENTY-FOUR: And we’re back…With a mix of excitement, nerves and a touch of pride, we’re pleased to announce that the Black Design Guild is finally back. 🎉After a successful pilot in 2023, a challenging search for funding, and adventures across the country to find a new home for our retreats, the Black Design Guild is now officially launched.💻 Recruitment for our 2025 cohort is officially underway! You can read more about it or register your interest at www.blackdesignguild.org🚀 Or, if you’d like to help us spread the word, check out our comms pack here.A little more about how we got here…···The search for funding.In August 2023, after a successful prototyping journey, we announced we were seeking 1.5 million pounds of funding to run a fully fledged version of the Black Design Guild over five years.You can see the funding proposal here. A slide from our funder proposal deckOur ambition was to run a five-year business, as an experiment in boundaried, regenerative vehicles for impact. Focusing on making a meaningful contribution to the world we wanted to see, rather than on scale and unrestrained growth.We started the founding journey confident, having seen through the prototype just how needed the Black Design Guild was, and how impactful it could be. In the end, it was a lot tougher than we expected. 😅This shouldn’t have been so surprising given the well-documented challenges of finding grant funding (or any funding) for the journey between idea or prototype and delivery or scale. Not to mention the structural challenges of fundraising as a predominantly Black, introverted and woman-led team.···To support us, we sought advice from the amazing team of Advisors who supported the prototyping phase, reached out to funders, commissioned a grant funding consultant to help shape our funding proposal and bids and even (briefly!) considered wading into the corporate world to fund our core ambitions.We found that in the end, the only thing that worked is the only thing that has ever worked for us as we’ve grown other businesses and initiatives.Relationships.Through these relationships, we secured £400k of funding 💸···Looking at our initial funding target and plan this would have funded just over one year of the full Black Design Guild programme we had designed.However, in the spirit of boundaries, and a commitment to impact over ego, we agreed with our funders that we would use this to run a streamlined version of the Black Design Guild over the next four years. Ensuring at least 40 people would benefit from the programme.A huge thank you to our funders, Impact on Urban Health and Joseph Rowntree Foundation and specifically Michelle Ong, Radhika Bynon and Sophia Parker who offered unwavering trust and support.And while wildly grateful for the support of these funders, we reflect that without these existing trusted relationships, BDG would currently have no funding.Something that feels both personal and structural for us as a team.···Refreshing the Guild.Now, after a period of refreshing as a team, reflecting on how to balance impact with budget, and searching for a beautiful new home for our retreats, we’re finally ready with a refreshed version of the Black Design Guild.A fully funded, five-month leadership programme for Black researchers and designers working in UK civil society. It’s designed to support those who are currently junior-to-mid level and are looking to move towards leadership roles.It’s designed as a unique opportunity to learn, heal, and grow within a cohort of fellow Black researchers and designers.···Here are our refreshed vision, role and principles:     Pictures from the refreshed version of the Black Design GuildThe refreshed version includes:👉🏾 a three-day foundational retreat👉🏾 a learning and healing budget for each participant👉🏾 three cohort workshops👉🏾 a celebration event and alumni network for continued supportYou can find out more on the website.For those of you who followed us during the prototyping phase, you’ll notice that to accommodate the new budget we’ve decided to take out:the coaching elementplaying a role in supporting employerswrap-around supportwider cohort and alumni supportThis means that we will have less impact than we’d hoped but we’re comfortable with that. Through this journey, it’s been important for us as a team that we do not try to deliver the same programme on a smaller budget. To achieve this we’ve prioritised using the budget we do have to invest in Black researchers and designers as best we can. And we’re confident that the Black Design Guild will still provide Black people with well-deserved time, space, support and care over the next four years.···Recruiting the 2025 CohortSo now, we’re on the hunt for the 2025 cohort of the Black Design Guild. Recruitment is officially open and you can sign up here 🎊The deadline to apply is 10 March 2025.···Who can apply,We’re looking for 10 junior-to-mid level researchers and designers to join the first cohort. We’re hoping to reach people who are:➔ Of Black or mixed Black heritage.➔ Living and working in the UK.➔ Employed, self-employed or have recently occupied a paid research or design role.➔ Between three to eight years into their research and design career, or at junior-to-mid level.➔ Interested in progressing into a more senior role within the next 3 years.If that sounds like you, visit blackdesignguild.org to read more and register your interest.···How else can you help?🚀If you know someone who fits the bill, please share this opportunity with them and encourage them to sign up!🚀Share our website with your network — our comms pack makes it easy to spread the word to designers, researchers, and supporters.🚀Amplify our posts on Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, and other social media platforms.···We’re so honoured to be able to do this work and we’re super excited to see what the cohort of 2025 will bring.We’re pretty proud to have got to this point, but we couldn’t have done it without the support of our network. We’re so grateful to all of the people who have collectively guided and amplified the Guild and helped to get us here. So thank you, thank you, thank you.As always, feedback and ideas are still very much welcome, so feel free to reach out.That’s it for now.The Black Design Guild Team.···This work is housed by Hello Brave and funded by Impact on Urban Health and JFR.Respond on MediumView storySent to ratty.nembhard1956@gmail.com by Hello Brave on MediumUnsubscribe from this newsletter or unsubscribe from all newsletters from Medium Manage your email settingsMedium, 548 Market St, PMB 42061, San Francisco, CA 94104Careers·Help Center·Privacy Policy·Terms of service |
Troubled histories: UK Caribbeans on King Charles and the royals
British Caribbeans share their views on the king’s coronation and relevance of the monarchy.
Published On 4 May 20234 May 2023
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London, England – Preparations are under way for the coronation of King Charles on May 6, which will mark the inauguration of a new head of state in the United Kingdom after 70 years.
Across towns and cities, bunting decorates the streets, shops are full of memorabilia and fancy dress, and Britons have an extra public holiday on Monday to mark the occasion.
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But while a sense of joy feels palpable for many, 64 percent of Britons said they did not care about the upcoming coronation, according to a recent YouGov poll, while 48 percent said they were unlikely to take part in coronation celebrations.
Al Jazeera spoke to some of London’s Caribbean community about their views on Charles and the royals, whether troubled histories can ever be forgiven, and the Caribbean push to remove the monarchy.
Here’s what they said:
‘The way that he treats Meghan and Harry is disgraceful’
Ivor John, 82, retired:
Will you be watching the coronation?
Perhaps I will watch, but I’m not one for watching celebrity news. I don’t think anyone is better than me. I celebrate myself, I don’t celebrate other people.
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What do you think of King Charles?
Well, I think he’s alright. But, I think the way that he treats Meghan and Harry is disgraceful. I don’t know, but I think there is some sort of bias or racial discrimination there.
What do you think of the monarchy?
My father came up here to visit me in 1984, I took him to Buckingham Palace and he was overjoyed. I was so happy to see him happy, however, I’m 82 now. I don’t feel the same as him about royalty. I don’t believe anyone is better than me, so I treat people with due respect. So, if I saw the king, I would treat him with the respect that he deserves.
What do you think about Caribbean nations removing the monarch as the head of state?
I think the Caribbean should have their own thing. Have something to celebrate their heritage. England has the heritage of the royal family.
‘Their history is based on colonialism, racism, slavery, corruption’
Cheryl Phoenix, independent legal advocate for education law:
Will you be watching the coronation?
No. I have no interest whatsoever. Watching them waste millions of pounds, yet refuse to support or do anything by way of reparations. It’s amazing how they’ve come up with that money so quickly.
What do you think of King Charles?
He, from what I understand recently, is having a look into the history around the slave trade. So with regards to King Charles, it will be interesting to see more about who he is and what he’s about. However, I’m 70-30 where he’s concerned, because of some of the racist dialogue that has come out over the years.
What do you think of the monarchy?
Their history is based on colonialism, racism, slavery, corruption. There’s not much positive I can really say, unfortunately.
What do you think about Caribbean nations removing the monarch as the head of state?
We have to cut ties. How we became a monarch state in the first place wasn’t because we volunteered ourselves. For us as a people back in the Caribbean, it’s important that we do become independent from the monarchy. I think it’s important that we also tell them to take their military forces out of our countries. You have no business being there.
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‘I don’t know if he has the same kind of gravitas as the queen’
Donald Waugh, 61, actor, creative artist, tutor:
Will you be watching the coronation?
If I’m being totally honest with you, no. No, because it doesn’t really interest me.
What do you think of King Charles?
He wants to be in tune with the younger generation. He wants to be more modern, but I don’t know if he really has much power or weight [as his mother]. Because of her silence and her anonymity, that gave her more mystique – if there were problems, she always kept her mouth shut and dealt with it in a dignified way.
It’s a different generation now. King Charles is moving into a new era. I don’t know if he has the same kind of gravitas or the same kind of respect that the queen commanded.
What do you think of the monarchy?
My parents are from the Caribbean. They came over in the sixties and I still remember the problems that the British caused for what would be my grandparents or my great grandparents.
[My parents] came over here full of life and they wanted to embrace this country, the motherland. But when they got here, they faced a lot of hardship.
I’m not really in favour of the monarch, also because of slavery – a lot of money is still being made from the slavery period … I’m not really a royalist, if I’m totally honest.
What do you think about Caribbean nations removing the monarch as the head of state?
I think the generations that are coming up behind us, which would be like our nephews or our younger brothers, even though they’re scattered in different parts of the Caribbean Islands, they feel the pain that we went through. They want to cut the ties, they no longer want to be dictated to, you know, “Our country: new rules, new school.”
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Let us sort our problems out for ourselves. The problem with the British Empire … they took and they raided and they plundered. The younger generation is little bit more educated on the history that was hidden.
‘I don’t respect them’
Merl Reid, 67, retired:
Will you be watching the coronation?
No.
What do you think of King Charles?
I don’t recognise them. I don’t respect them. I have nothing good. As far as I’m concerned, they don’t exist.
What do you think of the monarchy?
I don’t think about the monarchy because the monarchy is not there for poor people like us. I think it’s a waste of time. They steal all the properties and just sit there in the tower with all these golds, all the riches, all these diamonds. If they give it back to some of these countries, they wouldn’t be poor and starving. What are you doing with it? You can’t take it with you. The queen is dead. What did she take with her? Nothing.
What do you think about Caribbean nations removing the monarch as the head of state?
Well, they should have done that a long time ago. Why are they there? What are they doing for the country every time they turn up what they do? Nothing.
‘Whenever I hear the term commonwealth, I often think the wealth was not common’
Chukuma Wagadugu, 54, business owner:
Will you be watching the coronation?
There’s a degree of curiosity on my part. I’m not necessarily going to watch it avidly. But it’s possible I will watch some aspects of it.
What do you think of King Charles?
When I was growing up, he was just like a playboy guy, you know, just gets all the women. I didn’t really have an opinion really about him beyond that if I’m honest.
But that started to change when he married Diana – and I watched the wedding. The breakdown of that marriage and how he appeared to treat her, that was something I didn’t like.
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He represented perhaps a pernicious aspect of the royal family.
What do you think of the monarchy?
There’s a mixture of curiosity, as well as the criticism of the monarchy and what that institution is, and what it represents.
In terms of their involvement in the Caribbean and in Africa, and what they represent as an upper-class institution – they undoubtedly represent colonialism, slavery. What I would consider some of the most heinous acts have been perpetrated on Africa and the Caribbean.
What do you think about Caribbean nations removing the monarch as the head of state?
Whenever I hear the term commonwealth, I often think the wealth was not common. It’s an organisation that stems from slavery, colonialism, neocolonialism.
“Uncle knows what’s best for you, we know what’s best for you ‘natives, you come under this umbrella and we tell you what’s best for you. And when we visit you, you dance and you sing for us, and we continue the ravages of colonialism but in a different form.”
‘Yes, I’ll definitely be watching’
Mervelee Myers, 63, activist:
Will you be watching the coronation?
Of course, definitely. You grow up in a certain way, and those are the things you look forward to. So yes, I’ll definitely be watching.
What do you think of King Charles?
Well, me personally, I am respectful of all the elders but my husband would say Charles is ageing and having a younger person might have been more beneficial. We have to prepare the future generation for taking up leadership and managing and doing the work that the older generation once used to do.
What do you think about Caribbean nations removing the monarch as the head of state?
Well, it has been done already by Barbados. I come from Jamaica, and they are thinking about it, but my view is, are they ready? Barbados made their preparations and they are out. But in my country, there’s so much happening in my country at the moment in terms of leadership, crime and all that.
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‘I like Prince Charles. He does a lot of good’
Howard Facey, 71, retired:
Will you be watching the coronation?
Yes.
What do you think of King Charles?
I like Prince Charles. He does a lot of good. I can’t bite the hand that feeds me. I phoned my sister and she said those things [like state security] that are in England are not in Jamaica.
What do you think of the monarchy?
I like them, because I was in Jamaica when the queen of England came here and she drove around and waved to everybody.
What do you think about Caribbean nations removing the monarch as the head of state?
When the queen of England used to run Jamaica, it was better.
Source: Al Jazeera
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