Bassy - Love Vine

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My-crow-scope
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November 14, 2008
Ah received an interesting e-mail from Cheryl Phills-King, supporting an appeal letter from Dr Julian Duncan in de Searchlight: “Lab equipment neede...
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Our Ah-free-can Ah-merry-can President
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November 7, 2008
Forty something years ago when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was kicking up ah storm in de USA, everybody out here was saying, “Martin Luther foh presi...
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Bike and pan made my weekend
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October 31, 2008
Ah don’t think ah know young Peters, de biker who got killed on de road in an accident on Monday, but ah feel ah pain foh his loss. After Sunday’s...
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Ah sad state of ah-fear
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October 24, 2008
We celebrating our 29th In-deep-and-dense Anniversary dis week-end, but what ah sad state of ah-fear we in. Teachers and Public Servants on strike pre...
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Accept nine percent teachers
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October 17, 2008
Foh de last couple ah years ah been teaching some kids to play de Cuatro at two Primary Schools, three days ah week foh half hour de most. Nice lickle...
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Freely beg freely give
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October 10, 2008
Ah beg to put in my two cents bit on P.M. Bruce Golding’s rebuke: “ all yuh Caribbean PM out dey stop beg!” And ah would like to add “when yuh...
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Mr Adult Educator takes a bow
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October 3, 2008
Hugh Wyllie de lickle black boy from de rural village of Troumaca, who made it to Grammar School in de early 1960’s, breezed thru school, took up te...
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One hundred, not out!
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September 26, 2008
Sunday afternoon as ah stood on de School compound amongst my Alma Mater family, was de first time ah feel ah feeling, dat ah feel ah never would ah f...
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Is good luck dat attend me
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September 19, 2008
This week is massive foh two outstanding Education Institutions here, St Joseph Convent Marriaqua Secondary School (SJCM) and St Vincent Grammar Schoo...
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Fool ah talk nah fool ah listen
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September 12, 2008
Ole people say “who got good foot must go-on in front” and is not ah ting more dan Prime Minister Skerritt of Dominica and his ministers got ah cl...
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Following de rules ah de club
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September 5, 2008
Ah swear dat Patrick Free-R-E does smoke sum-times. Imagine de guy implying in his weekly column dat Bassy got ah money tree bearing in he back-yard, ...
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Lickle Tings Mean Ah Lot
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August 29, 2008
Ah tell me-self dat ah going write bout some ah de Lickle Tings dat does happen and we does let dem slide, only to realise later dat dey could become ...
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Please, not another orphan
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August 22, 2008
Dey say dat Success got many far-dahs and Failure is an Orphan. Look how dem Pull-it-tek-all leaders in de region done declare Carry-Come ah failure a...
Too off-white weddings
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Too off-white weddings
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August 15, 2008
Is always ah big problem foh me whenever ah get invited to ah formal function, and dat problem is clothes, fashion actually. Every day ah de week ah d...
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Nutten we could do
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August 8, 2008
Ah can’t help if ah sound peso-mystic but ah watching de turn ah events and ah beginning to feel dat we are in ah state of serious helplessness. Nuf...
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Jomo has my blessings
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July 31, 2008
Ah giving dem youngsters wid de new Party “ De People’s Movement for Change” (PMC) an endorsement. During my three scores plus years, a’ve dev...
From Cotton to Silk
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From Cotton to Silk
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July 25, 2008
As ah begin to write dis article, ah hearing Lynch on Radio saying that the young Lawyer Stapleton, was assassinated by ah gunmen dis morning. This is...
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Who E Hut E Hut!
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July 18, 2008
This week de ULP scored big wid ah double, two scent-tree. Scent-tree number one is de matter way de Lawyers foh de female Police officer in de allege...
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We got wuk to do here
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July 11, 2008
Vincy Mas 2008 is over and from all indications de Festival was good. It was free of serious violence. Ah look at all dem young people fete-in in dey ...
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No more long talk
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July 4, 2008
When we masH up Carry Come like how we did mash up de Federation, wha we go do next? Form ah next grouping or join ah next grouping ALBA? Ah beg to di...
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Lovely Cricket minus de bottles
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June 27, 2008
Inspite ah some heavy showers late Monday evening, Tuesday turned out to be ah nice day foh cricket. Ah light overcast but no rain and no set ah brigh...
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‘Vincy Heat’ look weak
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June 20, 2008
Goodness gracious, our “Vincy Heat” soccer team played like “Vincy Cool” last Sunday against Canada. Ah not giving up, ah hoping foh ah miracl...
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Another Fardah’s Dey
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June 13, 2008
Is ah lickle too late now to ask de Annual Day of Prayer Committee to dedicate dis Sunday as another Day of Prayer foh Far-dahs, Pray dat “Fardahs D...
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How bout repentance
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June 6, 2008
Somehow dis Annual Day of Prayer scheduled foh Monday not really registering on me. We been resorting to dis Day of Prayer ting since dis wave of Crim...
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$umting fee-she on de bay
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May 30, 2008
Just when de Buccama Bay Hotel project beginning to tek shape, looking good like it ready to start operations, it suddenly get ah bout ah hiccups, de ...
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It’s all about to-gather-ness
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May 23, 2008
Over de last few months or so, negative publicity dominated de print and electronic media to such an extent dat full publicity, coverage and recogniti...
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Give me freedom and dignity
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May 16, 2008
Forty years ago in de late 1960’s and early 1970’s SVG experienced an Intellectual Rev-all-yuh-shun organized by ah group ah young progressive thi...
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No food cry-sis eh… wait…
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May 9, 2008
When ah was ah youth ah looked forward foh de Sunday lunch, that was de day when de main course was rice and some kind ah meat, either home grown chic...
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Way hut eye mek nose run
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May 2, 2008
Dis week ah find me-self like dem Pastors who at times does have to Christen dey own pick-me, only difference is dat in my case is me grand pick-me, K...
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Talk talk and more talk
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April 25, 2008
Ah had fun wid my lickle ten year ole son preparing his Earth Day project. He’s very artistic, think he tek after his Mom. His own I-dare foh ah pro...
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Poverty – den and now
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April 18, 2008
When it rains it pours, last week after reading Cims Martin’s lovely piece on his boy days, ah couple ideas foh an article popped up in my head. Den...
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Can Junior back-us save Buccama
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April 11, 2008
Tour-is-him provides ah quick dollar dat could split up into many lickle ten cents pieces hey and dey and every way, one foh Tax and one foh Taxi, one...
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Sexiest beach… what
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April 4, 2008
Hip! Hip! Hip! Who...foh SVG. Big headlines “SVG among sexiest beaches”. At first it sounded like de person said “SVG among Sexist Beaches”. Y...
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Does Jomo have ah message?
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March 28, 2008
I am amused at how Jomo Thomas’ writings could create so much ah problems foh both pull-it-to-kill parties here. In de ULP dey glad dey don’t have...
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Is Good Friday worth celebrating?
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March 20, 2008
Christians all over will celebrate Easter dis weekend. So starting from dis Thursday night, Holy Thursday, into Good Friday, ah break on Sat-dey and b...
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We hit rock bottom last Thursday
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March 13, 2008
Maybe an expert from Kay-Blue & Why-Less or D. J. Sell should spend some time on Radio and TV and tell dis nation dat while some ah we might think we ...
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Give God de Glory
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March 7, 2008
Nearly two years ago my friend Andrew Cummings put me on oath not to tell anyone what he was going to disclose. He said dat he was informed dat he was...
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One scape-goat set free
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February 29, 2008
I am still hearing de shouting and screaming from the crowd on de morning dat de police were taking de young man Francis Williams to de Courts to be c...
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Long love Fidel Casro
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February 22, 2008
Dr Fidel Castro came on de scene when ah was in senior form, and as youngsters, we all admired dis bearded young hero, so much so dat every youth-man ...
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Landrina ah woman to her word
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February 15, 2008
Way back in 1986, dat’s over twenty-one years ago, ah group of us students who were attending Spanish classes at the Venezuelan Institute were invit...
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Sex-shall-harass-men
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February 8, 2008
Dis Sex ting started way back when dem two people disobeyed de Lord and did dey own ting, maybe de temptation was too much foh young Adam and his wife...
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Our good Catholic boy
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February 1, 2008
President Chavez might ah sounded like Santa Claws when he first launched his Caribbean Initiative, de ALBA machine. Remember, cheaper fuel was in dat...
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How dare yuh utter-sum
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January 25, 2008
Ah couple weeks ago ah wrote say dat Utter-sum as well as Fitz Jones in his time, sold out de Teachers Union lock, stock and barrel to de ULP. What el...
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