Bassy - Love Vine
God is good!
In his haste to catch the “First Plane to Havana” to get his eyes treated, there was ah mix-up and Leo suite case was not in the van when ...
July 29, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Operation eye opener
Of all the senses, the Sight or Vision, whether mental or physical is de most important foh me. Ah believe it was Solomon, that man of great Vision wh...
July 22, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Where are de tom-boys?
Is amazing how things could change over time. The kids home on summer vacation and the wife done beg me hard to get them into one ah the organized sum...
July 15, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Ole boys dat com
Last week ah end off me article on the “Class of 1954/1955 Re-union” with ah prayer that the fellars dem would wake in time on Sunday morn...
July 8, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Unions pon top ah re-unions
Ah all time say that if ah had ah buy and sell Business, ah would ah have ah department called “Graduation” with every thing that goes with the oc...
July 1, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Help those who cannot see
One ah the things that ah cherish is the privilege to wuk from time to time with the members of the Association Of and For the Blind. Long gone are th...
June 24, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Riding de Gravy train
Vincy Carnival will be like ah quiet Re-cheat at Sin Benny-Dick without Kaiso like Gravey Train by de Man Age. That is what Kaiso is all about, to tel...
June 17, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Big up when big up due
Ah just feel in the mood to Big Up this week. First ah have to Big Up the new look ACE Home Centre, traditionally Corea’s Hazell’s Inc. Ma...
June 10, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Ah like de fun-ee kaisoes
The Kaiso and them this year sounding good. Some very colourful arrangements and catchy music, and like the fellars them ban de smut this year, or is ...
June 3, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Ah barbie doll name Patricia
Any tribute to Sister Pat from my family will have to come from Dollis, my wife. Only people like Debbie knows Sister better. Dollis was a student at ...
May 27, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
De day of de classmates
Great encounters foh me this week. Tuesday ah ran into Charles “ Binot” Francois ah classmate now in Canada whom ah have not seen in years. Binot ...
May 20, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
De Come-red gone to moan
The best news flash foh the year was on Mon-dey. It say de Come-Red gone to Rest his tired Soul. The Good Book says that the Lord breathed into Adam&#...
May 13, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
GOSPEL-I-SING DE COUNTRY
Just imagine Gospel Fest dah buss the scene only two years ago, right now bussing the seam. The Show is so big that ah believe the organizers wonderin...
May 6, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Car-lie falls for Marie Warner
Ah don’t want to join with the rest and pull down Car-lie to the dust, for his call to basically allow Marie Warner to do as she please in SVG and g...
April 29, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Archbishop Pompey’s big day
Ah don’t want to get too deep into Cat-lick-is-him this week, as ah dealt with the Pope ah few weeks ago. Ah must say however that with the pass...
April 22, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
We have robbed God
Ah really feel foh the Banana Farmers so much so, that ah went on ah Fast to see if ah could ah come up with any I-dare that could help save Bananas, ...
April 15, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Why not call it Searchlight
Wow! How time flies. Ten years ago we, as in Oscar Allen, Doc Fraser, Renrick Rose and your’s truly were all writing foh the NEWS. We had some conce...
April 8, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Getting dizzy over dizzy-knee
When the Dizzy-knee People made the movie “Pi-rates ah de Caribbean” here, every body Rate them highly. Hoteliers Rate them, why? Business was nev...
April 1, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Easter is ah must
Is something that does impress me all the time, that’s when ah hear ah Christian say: “ It was on such and such day and date, in such and such mon...
March 24, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Ah leader at seven
Some where in the Bible is the story of ah lickle boy name Joash who was made king at age seven. Two other youths Manasseh, age twelve and Josiah eigh...
March 18, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Walk free Ole George
Ah got to give it to I-van O-kneel he was the first man to come home and do ah Crazy Man walk foh charity from Fancy to Richmond, ah believe after I-v...
March 11, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Politics like photography
Photoman Rogers uses to give me instructions on good Photography. Ah had one ah them fan-see Cameras and when ah carry in me films to clean, what ain&...
March 4, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
De dog and de tyre
Ah live just above the NDP headquarters so ah could stop by me porch and see and hear foh me self way going on. They had ah big crowd at the Conventio...
February 25, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Is NDP in de wilderness?
One ah the hardest Pull-it-tek-all leader ever to hit ‘mother-earth’ was Moses. Ah could just imagine how King Fare-owe Palace Guard was h...
February 18, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
LEY WE GO LENT!
Wednesday when ah went to collect the kids foh lunch me heart skip ah beat. Smack in the centre ah dey forehead, ah notice ah big black smear, like wh...
February 11, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Ah lickle more blues in de fest
Ah giving the organizers ah de Blue Fest nine out ah ten; come next year if they could nice it up with ah lickle Blues sorry, lickle MORE Blues, ah wi...
February 4, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Ah proud to be Vincy
Maybe my ignorance in Far-reign policy will explain why ah feel like vomiting when ah listen to my Caribbean Prime Ministers, one after the other, rep...
January 28, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Ah will defend de Ah-torn-knee General
All yoh notice that ah ain’t say nothing ’bout the Ah-torn-knee General and that dirty Ole More-go-on at the funeral trip in England. The ...
January 21, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
SOON-AH-ME
Every time ah watch CNN and the coverage of the ravaged towns and villages in Asia ah ask me-self “what one earth those people been doing or not...
January 14, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
DE LOVE VINE AH-WARD
Ah-Ward and Ah-nah is not really my thing, nevertheless ah does be happy foh those who get New Years Ah-ward and Queen’s Birthday Ah-nah. The ch...
January 7, 2005
Bassy - Love Vine
Just keep nine mornings clean
Ah writing this article on Tuesday, day number six, with three more mornings remaining to complete what would be another Vincy Nine Mornings. Nine Mor...
December 23, 2004
Bassy - Love Vine
Give love foh Christmas
Christmas, as ah always does say, is my time ah year. As ah lickle boy ah uses to look forward foh everything that Christmas had to offer: the Nine Mo...
December 17, 2004
Bassy - Love Vine
De Budge-it just like cricket
Ah must add-myth that ah will not be able to hold me own when come to matters pertaining to Fine-Ants, Budge-It or D-con-ah-me! Not my girl Lie-Za tho...
December 10, 2004
Bassy - Love Vine
De first day of Christmas
Ah called Lie-Za to tell her that we had yet another murder, the Taxi driver at Cane Hall. She finally agreed with my suggestion that the best way to ...
December 3, 2004
Bassy - Love Vine
Bishop Free gets it free
There was ah time when Sion Hill was the headquarters foh the Spiritual Baptists. Converted members uses to come from near and far to hear Mother Bird...
November 26, 2004
Bassy - Love Vine
Ah new thing fuh nine morning
Ah wish ah was one ah them people who uses to go sleep and get Visions. Or maybe ah should do like some ah them who, when they eat ah whole set ah hea...
November 19, 2004
Bassy - Love Vine
Caught between ah lie-on an ah tie-gah
Not too long ago ah heard there was to be ah Cabinet re-shuffle and, Senator Francis was suppose to be one ah the Ministers to be removed from Works a...
November 12, 2004
Bassy - Love Vine
Lighting up de cemetery
My kids got excited when ah told them we going to Light-up dey Granny and dey Grampa graves on All Souls Night. But first ah had to explain to them wh...
November 5, 2004
Bassy - Love Vine
Ah get back de feelings
Year go year come, ah keep complaining that de Independence Salt, because ah not getting de Feeling. And year after year ah would reminisce ’bou...
October 29, 2004
Bassy - Love Vine
Do thing de fair way
My happiest moments is when ah see another Vincy open ah business, so ah will have big, big problem with the way Private Contractor, Bishop Edmund Joh...
October 22, 2004
Bassy - Love Vine
Give me de ole time religion
Ah remember when ah celebrated my 40th Birthday my kids got me ah Card that said “You know you’re over 40 when you help your children with their H...
October 15, 2004
Bassy - Love Vine
Mental Health Weak
This is Mental Health Week and ah get the feeling that Mental Health in this country is not regarded as ah Health problem like say Diabetics, Hyperten...
October 8, 2004
Bassy - Love Vine
To read or not to read
Look how times have changed eh! There was ah time in our history when the whole nation would ah been holding we breath, wondering what would happen if...
October 1, 2004
News

E-EDITION
ePaper
coogle_play
app_store
Subscribe Now
Editorial
SVG aiming high again
Editorial
SVG aiming high again
On Tuesday, January 24, leaders and representatives of 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean will meet in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argen...
January 24, 2023
Fight Against NCDs, A National Effort
Editorial
Fight Against NCDs, A National Effort
It was heartening to hear the Minister of Health, in his Budget address place emphasis on the continuing efforts to combat the spread of Non-communica...
January 20, 2023
Opinion
What is the Name of the Heavenly Father?
Our Readers' Opinions
What is the Name of the Heavenly Father?
EDITOR: Are you still searching for that group of true worshippers within whose midst dwells the message of salvation which has descended all the way ...
February 3, 2023
National Insurance Services and Pension Reform
Our Readers' Opinions
National Insurance Services and Pension Reform
EDITOR: Currently, the NIS is conducting a public dialogue on pension reform and has expressed concern about the fact that a public servant can become...
February 3, 2023
Supporting the local Productive Sector
Our Readers' Opinions
Supporting the local Productive Sector
EDITOR: There is much that can be done in the choices we make to support the local productive sector. This is a specific mindset that we must adopt if...
January 27, 2023
FOLLOW US