Bassy - Love Vine
September 18, 2026
Thirty-one years and six months is a very long time to be involved in ah weekly newspaper. There are 52 weeks in ah year and Searchlight sell-dom miss...
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September 11, 2026
AH NEVER KNEW dat Ebenezer Duncan wrote this very popular patriotic song “We’re Out to Build ah New St. Vincent” around 1979, coinciding wid the indep...
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September 4, 2026
FROM DE TIME one-ahtwo people tell Grampa Nay-tun dey read his letter to de Prime Minister, ah know he will be sending more messages, so said, so done...
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August 28, 2026
De last time Grampa Nathan and I met, he handed me an envelope addressed to de Prime Minister. He said ah could open it and tek ah read but den mek su...
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August 21, 2026
Thirty sum-ting years ago ah young lady who is my cousin, almost got killed in an NDP motorcade when someone pelt ah stone in de passing truck, struck...
Bassy - Love Vine
August 14, 2026
Back in de Co-loan-yell days every parent’s dream was to have ah son or daughter getting into Boys Grammar School (BGS) or Girls’ High School (GHS), d...
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August 7, 2026
The Government of Ghana invited Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, Senior Advisor for The Repair Campaign and former Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadi...
Bassy - Love Vine
July 31, 2026
“GRANDFATHER’S BACK PAY” is a famous 1985 calypso by The Mighty Chalkdust (Dr. Hollis “Chalky” Liverpool). In dis Calypso, Chalky made an open call fo...
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July 24, 2026
Marvin my step-nephew, and Zoey, his fiance were here on ah two weeks vacation. His mom Cindy is Vincy, now Canadian, and his dad African (Ghanain). Z...
Bassy - Love Vine
July 17, 2026
Ah didn’t even know dat Grampa Near-tun was hey, he came to ass-S de Can-ah-fall dat he had nigh-dah seen nor ‘herd’ fee years. He saw what ah wrote l...
Bassy - Love Vine
July 10, 2026
Every July when VincyMas wines-down after de wine-up, ah does find me-self singing Lord Kitchener’s Master-piece of ah Calypso: “De Carnival is Over” ...
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July 3, 2026
It was “Team St Joseph’s Convent, Kingstown” (SJCK) all de way in de Calypso section of dis year’s Junior Calypso & Soca Competition. And dey did not ...
Bassy - Love Vine
June 26, 2026
WAS ONLY LAST weekend ah saw de press confriends on API way P.M Dr Fry-dey very responsibly reporting on de latest development on de Port Project betw...
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June 19, 2026
GRAMPA NATHAN showed up like de proverbial “Bad Penny” No No! Not Grampa, he’s ah “Breath ah fresh air.” Firstly he couldn’t miss Renwick’s farewell s...
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June 12, 2026
Last weekend ah was comfortably “hooked in me gill” ( Ralph Gone-Soft style) watching ah TV broadcast of de East Indian Arrival Day Annual Celebration...
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June 5, 2026
Ah want to big up Come-rid See-me-on-Green for de one-dah-full example of leadership he has assumed lately in de field of Agriculture in SVG. See-me-o...
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May 29, 2026
Dis week ah have more dan nuff to write bout, deys de passing of Renwick Rose,GBHS (God bless his soul), very progressive, versed, vocal and totally c...
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May 22, 2026
TUZ-DEY DIS WEEK was Nah-shun-all Spiritual Baptist Day (also known as Spiritual Baptist Liberay- shun Day), ah Religious Public Holly-dey. And come n...
Bassy - Love Vine
May 15, 2026
AH WANT TO IDENTIFY wid de many sincere tributes on GECCU Ltd Facebook post, and elsewhere, on behalf of our dearly, departed Sister, Myrna Bramble wh...
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May 8, 2026
Ah want to write ah lickle something bout de New Kingstown Chorale (Chorale foh short-cut) on dey three score and ten years of Blessings and Thanksgiv...
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April 30, 2026
Have you ever spoken to someone, or anyone running out ah patience, dey bitching and come-plain-in, dey can’t wait foh dis long overdue something to h...
Bassy - Love Vine
April 24, 2026
IT IS AMAZING how time flies so quickly and not very much seems to be changing. Thirty years ago was de last time ah went to Par-liar-mint. Was in 19...
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April 17, 2026
Lie-Za called to tell me dat FBI (Face Book Infestigators) urgently seeking info on de whereabouts of one ah dey Ex FBP (Face Book Prisoner) alias Pro...
Bassy - Love Vine
April 10, 2026
When Attorney General, Louise Mitchel-Joseph read how ah say dat since she tek office whale knocking down de country, for de whole ah Holy Week, when ...
Bassy - Love Vine
April 2, 2026
ACTUALLY DE FIRST TIME ah ever heard about “Latin” was in primary school 1953-54 in Grade 5, Richmond Hill Government School (RHGS). Miss, our class t...
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March 27, 2026
It is fair to say dat ah comfortable wid de current placements of Diplomats, Am-bassy-dors, Counsel Generals, High Commissioners, Board Cheer-men/wome...
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March 20, 2026
Ah have not seen Lie-Za since her party’s November 27th Elect-shun (1-14) “one-foot-in” victory. She reminds me she is ready to rumble because nex’ we...
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March 13, 2026
Ah playing neither Prophet nor Priest but ah was delving thru de Book of Matthew, one ah de chosen twelve Disciples whom Jesus tutored, literally walk...
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March 6, 2026
Someone wrote ah lovely article last week on social media bigging up Netball and in particular “one of” SVG’s truly great netballers, Stella (Stellar)...
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February 27, 2026
ONE AH MY most memorable messages in church was from de late, Major Louvine, a very noble, female Salvation Army Officer who served here in de 1970’s....
Bassy - Love Vine
February 20, 2026
Times have changed. Long ago dey was always dat ole person in yuh life who was either yuh grand-mother (Granny) or her perfect substitute, yuh nanny p...
Bassy - Love Vine
February 13, 2026
WAY ECONOMICS and Budgets are concerned, ah doh have ah clue. Like ah bush Doctor is to Medicine, I’m like Ahcan-ah-mess to E-conomaches. So ah couple...
Bassy - Love Vine
February 6, 2026
Pardon me if ah sound overly buy-us towards de new add-mini-stray- shun, but how could I not be, when my wife who has bin ah public servant, ah teache...
Bassy - Love Vine
January 30, 2026
I HAD NOT SEEN Grampa Nathan since “de NDP Clean Sweep” in de November 27th hysteric elect-shun. Ah asked him if he cares to comment on de NDP’s “Four...
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January 16, 2026
Thank God for words like “Overwhelmed and Humbled.” Combined, dey express a powerful sense of gratitude, great honour, love, a sense of profound appre...
Bassy - Love Vine
January 9, 2026
De Love Vine wishes our new Governor General Stanley “Star-Key” John K.C. and his dear wife Maureen. God’s blessings and Good Health on dis one-dah-fu...
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December 19, 2025
AH WANT TO CONGRATULATE Young Danielle Veira on her appointment as Prime Minister’s Press Secretary. De lickle ah know bout Danielle is dat she is You...
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December 12, 2025
THANK YUH JESUS foh sparing my life to see November 27th 2025, de day when dat wicked and evil ULP Administration was voted out of office. And ah than...
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December 5, 2025
IF AH EVER NEEDED sum-ting to mek me proud to be Vincy, elect-shun night, November 27th, 2025 was my proudest moment since ah born. Was like de loser ...
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November 28, 2025
NOW DIS ARTICLE is being written Wednesday, before the electshuns Thursday, hours before anybody even voted or should have voted. But last Thursday ev...
Bassy - Love Vine
November 21, 2025
One Man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Different strokes foh different folks. So dat is why next Thursday November 27th, 2025, Vin-scent-shuns by ...
Bassy - Love Vine
November 14, 2025
DE THING DEY CALL “Karma” as we all know is ah “situation in which things happen to people as ah result of dey previous act-shuns.” In simple Creole “...
Bassy - Love Vine
November 7, 2025
Does anybody in Go-venom-mint notice how dark de streets of Kingstown and surroundings are at nights. De street lights remind me of de 1950’s when yuh...
News
September 18, 2026
The Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), is advancing a data-driven partnership to connect local farmers to international buyers while d...
News
September 18, 2026
Forty persons, many of them members of the Kingstown Cooperative Credit Union (KCCU), benefitted from a one-day workshop, ‘An Introduction to Record k...
News
September 18, 2026
Appointed as Chairman of the Carnival Development Corporation (CDC) in 2016, Ricardo “Ricky” Adams has now resigned from the position. Word of his res...
From the Courts, News
September 15, 2026
A 20-year-old farmer of Fitz Hughes, who has been charged with the offence of criminal assault, will appear at the Magistrate’s Court in Chateaubelair...
News
September 11, 2026
A POLICE OFFICER investigating a crime in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) cannot, by law, conduct a search of a cellular device, without a warrant...
