Bassy - Love Vine

Bassy - Love Vine
Is only Squash dah ain’t gone squash
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July 16, 2010
De latest FIFA rankings put SVG at number 160, imagine we were number 72 not so long ago. Our Cricket. Netball and Basketball struggling. Wid all hope...
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Carnival Over
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July 9, 2010
garbage along the side walks cleared, de Pans heng up, Mas and Kaiso tents tek down, young people done ley go all dey steam and cool down, dey waiting...
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Satan Mask-Ah-Raid in Culture
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July 2, 2010
how Searchlight wondering how best to come-pen-say-it E.G. Linch foh de publicity he gave de last Mid-week publication. De talk foh de last couple ah ...
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Why dey bran we corrupt
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June 25, 2010
He was wanted by de FBI, dey claim dat his international operation spans the Caribbean, North America and de U.K. De US Justice Dept. placed him on de...
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No more Buccama sankey please
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June 11, 2010
De reports coming out ah Buccama is not very encouraging, but dey’s still hope. Only a few months ago, there was good coverage of de project on TV, ...
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Massah King goes naked again
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June 4, 2010
Well, de battle is on, and what is coming to light is dat Common-is-him and Social-is-him dat both dwell and feast in de Capit-all, are still very un-...
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Have mercy on can-one
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May 28, 2010
Ah want to appeal to de Guv-ah-mint to pay some attention to de people ah Can-one. Ah was down dey November last year and again on Monday dis week and...
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Met-dis-is-him 250 years but…
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May 21, 2010
When de Met-dis community meets dis month to celebrate 250 years in these parts, dey will have ah lot to think about, in particular how dey plan to st...
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Democracy vs De-muck-we see
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May 14, 2010
I admire de British Politicians how dey deal wid dey pull-it-tek-all problems whenever dey surface. Traditionally, de British put de interest ah de co...
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Ah life jacket foh Gospel Fest
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May 7, 2010
Somewhere in one ah de Newspapers last week ah read way Gospel Fest is losing its impact, ah was kind ah surprised. Nevertheless, de man who bin Taylo...
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dey’s ah bar on lovers’ lane
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April 30, 2010
Ah want to Big Up de Headmistress ah de Girls’ High School, foh putting pen to paper and signing her name big and bowl, Andrea Bowman, to ah letter ...
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One and ah half step quadrille
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April 23, 2010
My son-in-law went to Grenada and brought back samples of dat island’s spices and the various bi-products. Ah bar ah chocklit, nicely packaged wid a...
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Beating the messenger ah-gain
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April 16, 2010
Ah just don’t like how every body, de media, de various Ministries, from Education to youth, to culture to way-ever, beating up pon de lickle messen...
Ah camp full ah yo yo
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Ah camp full ah yo yo
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April 9, 2010
Ah wish ah was among dem Cubs camping at Villa, just to see what it’s like to sleep under ah tent again pon de hard ground; way ah would ah get to b...
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Wow! No Cray-fish dis year
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April 1, 2010
Ah want to lament de loss of our Cray-fish; and ah mean de real River Cray-fish and not de metaphorical Craw-fish dat Jomo and his twin Dr. Richard Co...
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British American helped me
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March 26, 2010
Last year when de Insurance boulie buss, ah Bo-beer-Jon fellah name Parris, flew in on ah private jet to address some ah de disturbed policy holders a...
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Making Ministers and Prime Ministers
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March 19, 2010
Lie-Za was telling me dat easy, easy like kissing hand, Anesia Baptiste, wid-out much effort will be handed a seat in Par-liar-mint, and who knows mig...
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Come together right now
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March 12, 2010
My Sunday afternoon schedule was tight so ah got to de Potential 30th Anniversary Church Service at Calliaqua Met-dis Church in de middle ah Rev. Sain...
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SVG TV celebrates thirty
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March 5, 2010
Ah want to congratulate SVG TV and Vinlec Potential Steel Orchestra as dey celebrate dey thirtieth birthday. Ole people got ah ting dey does say “me...
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Don’t have to dread to be Grassroot
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February 26, 2010
Ah want to grant Connell de Grass Root Awe-ward for his contribution to Law’n Tennis. Grant-ed that Connell would have spent his early childhood on ...
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Warning: Touch not de…
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February 19, 2010
Ah first started out to write in de Papers back in 1979 when ah was president ah de Public Service Union; Labour Party was in power and Mr Cato was de...
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Ah necklace foh Jomo
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February 12, 2010
Ah had planned to challenge Commissioner Me-Law wid de way he seems ready to leygo his three convicted officers foh de wolves to nyam dem up, but poor...
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The last of the mohicans
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February 5, 2010
De Matriarch of Murray Village, Louisa Edwards was ruled ‘run-out’ by de third Umpire. She was stroking de ball beautifully all thru de innings, b...
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Ah went to de animal farm
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January 29, 2010
Ah got ah confession to mek and is dat up until last weekend ah couldn’t figure out which way de country going. Yuh see years ago ah read ah book on...
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Way were we when dey needed us?
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January 22, 2010
Ah know ah go sound sin-ah-call. But ah keep asking me-self if is poor-rathed Hate-he dat getting all dis attention. Ah country way de world sat back ...
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No wuk no bread N butter
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January 15, 2010
Monday night our Prime Minister spent 45 minutes on radio and TV addressing de nation on de way forward foh SVG in 2010. When he done he left me wid a...
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To win… first yuh must lose
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January 8, 2010
Dey’s dis Wait-Loss competition in de US foh owe-beast people, real overweight folks, 300 and 400 pounds. It’s ah contest way de person who looses...
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De good ole Penny Bank
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December 30, 2009
Is ah few Institutions in SVG dat keep reminding me dat “Together as ah people, we could turn things round”. One is de “Bun Pan Society” dat w...
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Starlift and Friends made my Christmas
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December 23, 2009
First to begin wid, ah got to big up Mrs Clarke, GHS Music Teacher and her team and students foh ah lovely Christmas Concert, it uses to be “Nine Le...
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Ley we celebrate wid Starlitf
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December 18, 2009
Dis Friday night we going to see what is possibly de greatest musical presentation ever put-on in SVG. It is going to be unique and again possibly one...
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Ah shopping list foh Santa
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December 11, 2009
De Christmas Season is supposed to dey hey but ah ain’t feeling it. Ah wonder if is nah de Death ah dah Riff-random dah got de place still Dead-he, ...
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One Caribbean, one constitution
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December 4, 2009
MY “ONE CARIBBEAN” is at it again. First it was Federation, we mash up dat and everybody tokk In-deep-and-dense along wid de Queen, like she hurt ...
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Humble or tumble and cumble
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November 27, 2009
What ah Riff-around-dem, it was dirty, it was corrupt with deception and lies, abuse ah state funds and state employees, it was more about men’s pri...
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Five more shopping days to go
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November 20, 2009
“Well, well, well” said de ole man, “ way nah happen in years will happen Wednesday”. Dah’s when we will vote “Yes” or “No” to ah Co...
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Ah vote yes belly-full
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November 13, 2009
IT WAS NICE ah de Guv-ah-mint to get National Commercial Bank (NCB) to host ah Vote Yes dinner in recognition of de Bank’s valuable customers at de ...
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It takes more dan academics
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November 6, 2009
Time and time again ah does tell dem fellars dat in my book, dis country was built by ah special group ah people, who by strange coincidence, never go...
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Vote yes bribe money… beware
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October 30, 2009
Lie-Za giving me hell say ah got bref-fruit mentality because ah went to de Bank last Monday and draw-out de $200. “Vote Yes bribe money” dat de P...
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She will mek dem laugh up dey
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October 23, 2009
Just in case yuh miss de death announcement last Monday, my Mom moved on, so ah join de bunch ah motherless children. And strange enough was only sat-...
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Do yuh still beat yuh wife… Yes or no?
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October 16, 2009
PR Campbell is right, is only ah Law-yah dat could overs de pramble and de different sex-shun and sub-sex-shun ah de constitution. May I add, only ah ...
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He does it wid books
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October 9, 2009
When de new Public Library opens later dis month, and by de way it is really ah beautiful building, as ah was saying, among de thousands ah books on d...
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Ah Manifesto Constitution
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October 2, 2009
As we get closer to November 25th, it is becoming more and more obvious dat de real reason to hold dis “Vote No, Vote Yes” Riff-around-dem Calm Pa...
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Call me Mamma
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September 25, 2009
Growing up as kids de Edwards’ yard was way we gathered to pitch marbles until Mamma reach home from Market way she did her vending. She was strict ...
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Sir James say bury it
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September 18, 2009
If the NDP was looking foh someone wid ah jumper cable to give de Party Engine ah Jump Start in dey “Vote No” to de proposed Constitution Calm Pai...
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