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January 27, 2012
If ah didn’t have another engagement last Sat-dey night ah would ah crash Dennis and Didy George’s Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary Party. Dat is no e...
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January 20, 2012
Water was always ah scarce and treasured commodity. When ah was ah youth-man, no house in de village had pipe-borne water. De Villagers collected rain...
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January 13, 2012
Some time ago ah group of Cat-lick Christians from SVG went on ah Pilgrimage to de Holy Land,and from all reports most of dem had ah spiritual renewal...
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January 6, 2012
Happy New Year to all! One person who refuses to ‘Be Happy’ is Lie-Za. Somebody in Guv-ah-mint set her up, dey told her dat her name was among tho...
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December 30, 2011
De Christmas was peaceful. No mad rush on de streets wid people spending on things dey don’t need; actually it seems like dey was no money to bad sp...
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December 22, 2011
It was like ah warm welcome home hearing all these nice Vincy Nine Morning Songs. Ah yet to hear one by Ashley Kirby, sung by Lennox Bowman,but from t...
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December 16, 2011
Well ah reach back safe and sound, and happy to be back too, even though ah was treated at, and to de very best Canadian Hospital and Hospitality. In ...
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December 9, 2011
Yes, ah hear bout de Liat Pilot’s Sick-out, ah didn’t get de pieces ah de puzzle (both sides) surrounding de reason foh strike action, but ah find...
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December 2, 2011
Monday morning when ah read Kenton Chance’s ‘breaking news’ story that a prominent Trade Unionist was robbed/mugged around the Rio Foods area, j...
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November 25, 2011
“It’s beginning to look ah lot like Christmas.” Man it’s freezing cold in Canada, two nights ago we had freezing rains, yesterday it snowed an...
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November 18, 2011
St. Vincent was in de news big-time in de ‘Toronto Star’ weekend newspaper and again on Tuesday 15th in the Metro News, a free newspaper available...
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November 11, 2011
In de game ah cricket, one ah de greatest ambition of any batsman. Male or female, is to score ah century / one hundred runs in any one innings; mek i...
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November 4, 2011
“Come-reds and friends, Behold I bring you glad tidings and good news, ah givin’ all yoh ah Second National Hero!” Bla! Bla! Bla! Bla! “I know...
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October 28, 2011
Pardon me if ah boring all yoh wid dem set ah “Non-cents Stories,” ah keep writing bout. Ah believe is how ah is ah “never see come see,” man ...
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October 21, 2011
Bishop Friday’s article “Capital Punishment Part 1” published in the Searchlight Newspaper last Friday, was ah Gem. De Bishop, in an inspired pi...
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October 14, 2011
Whenever there is de usual annual Awareness Calm-Pain foh de various diseases like HIV/AIDS, Pressure and Sugar, Heart, Eyes, Cancer and so on. the lo...
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October 7, 2011
When man like Renwick Rose says dat Agriculture Minister, Gurmry Daniel must go or be replaced, things got to be overbearing, water more dan flour! Re...
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September 30, 2011
Exactly 42 years ago ah passed thru Toronto on my way to Calgary, it was my first time in ah metro city, man ah was like de naughty boy who did run wa...
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September 23, 2011
Hello SVG, just touching base from Canada, ah dey up hey addressing ah personal matter which ah will deal with in de tail later, every-ting under cont...
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September 16, 2011
Dis murder ting has raised its ugly head again dis week in Camden Park, and Redemption Sharpes, which is now ah regular. Ah must add-myth dat de tense...
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September 9, 2011
Ah beginning to feel dat dis “We-Key-Leak” Intelligence Agency is an Arm-in de NDP or Vie-see Ver-saw. Like dey really come out to create con-fuse...
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September 2, 2011
Some plants must die to give life to fresh flowers; some men have to step aside so dat de talents of de young ones may gain full recognition. If Usame...
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August 26, 2011
De GHS Scent-an-yell Committee was angling foh 100 per cent passes but, de ninety-six percent dey got is STILL ah tree-mend-us performance foh any Edu...
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August 19, 2011
Pardon me if ah sound like de Kid from Dooms Avenue, but all of ah sudden it beginning to look like SVG is on ah big close down sale! “Ah Still Tryi...
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August 12, 2011
No honest and fair minded Vincentian would want to downplay P. M. Gonsalves’ bold and commendable effort in making an International Airport a realit...
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August 5, 2011
Foh de whole week ah dey glued to de TV watching de demise ah former Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, de Pharaoh-like dictator.{{more}} Mr. Mubarak ...
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July 29, 2011
Is like ah weekly fixture on de front pages ah de Newspapers. When is not “Young man shot dead”, is “Man killed in drive by shooting” or “bu...
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July 22, 2011
Dis has been two long months of add-fussy-tea foh SVG and its Chief Executive Officer, Dr Gonsalves, yuh would think some-buddy “jump de PM Sheep! I...
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July 15, 2011
Ah want to wish Ferne Cato belated but still “Happy 60th Birthday” and ah won’t miss de 70th foh nothing. Yuh notice how ah give out Ferne’s a...
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July 8, 2011
Nuff respect to de people ah de North, Windward and Leeward. Tajoe and GAO foh de Kaiso and Road March honours and Fireman Hooper foh Soca Monarch. Ah...
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July 1, 2011
Ah made it to de Junior Pan Competition last Sunday; de crowd could be ah lot better, but nobody listens. Ah keep writing dah CDC should hold dat show...
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June 24, 2011
Dem ole people had ah rule foh correctness dah dey uses to drive in we head: “Nothing done half-way ever done right”! And while ah want to big-up ...
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June 17, 2011
Dis week ah driving in de centre ah de road; a not even stopping to pass me Fowl-mouth pon dis Giant Chicken Project ah read about last week. Dat is o...
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June 10, 2011
Before ah forget, ley me congratulate Skinny Fabulus foh ah one-dah-full I-dare hosting ah “Uncle Skinny Kiddies Carnival Fair”.{{more}} CDC deaf ...
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June 3, 2011
“de country is in trouble”! Basically what de article said was dat foh de first quarter ah 2011, Guv-ah-mint, Customs and Income Tax departments c...
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May 27, 2011
De talk about reincarnation came up and Lie-Za was listing de names ah persons she wanted to come back as, pure big shots. So ah told her dat many yea...
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May 20, 2011
Bible gives all de warning signs. De Jews who never accepted Christ as de Son of God, have dey own signs, seven major signs to be exact, when de end i...
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May 13, 2011
ah heard de police siren coming towards us, same time one ah de fellars seated in front de shop-door say: “de bass ah come”.{{more}} In ah jiffy d...
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May 6, 2011
May Day or Labour Day is ah special day on my calendar. Ah started to wuk as ah Votes Clerk at Public Works on de fuss ah May, 1960. My pay was $ 2.60...
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April 29, 2011
camp site in de forest, standing among the tall trees is dis simple but striking piece ah architecture; ah two storey, wooden toilet wid 2 ft by 4 ft ...
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April 21, 2011
Lie-Za fuming mad! She say in all her years pon dis earth, is de first time she ever see Easter fall at the end ah April. How school children went pon...
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April 15, 2011
Ah don’t like to go back to things ah write, ah left dat to school pickney when de time come; but last week ah ended de article like dis: “ Ah wan...
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April 8, 2011
Lie-Za asked me if ah read ah letter in de Searchlight’s midweek paper signed by “Former Patient”. Unfortunately ah don’t read letters way peo...