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Bassy - Love Vine

Bassy - Love Vine
Ah lot ah-salt passed
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May 4, 2007
MANY MOONS AGO ah Police Sergeant name L.O. Primus came to our school to tell us about de Police. When he was finished we were all quite clear about o...
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VAT ah gift foh labour day
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April 27, 2007
It is interesting how men could lose dey tongue over-night. Next Chose-Day May first is Workers Dey or Labour Day and to date not ah sound from de Tra...
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Listen to de lickle birdie
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April 20, 2007
We don’t bother wid de Seasons out here, we don’t have to, foh us is either rain or sun, wet or dry. But during my first winter in western Canada ...
Bassy - Love Vine
Colonial-I-Say -Shun all over again
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April 13, 2007
Ah had ah look at the News this morning way de International Red Cross Society is begging de world to do something about de inner-saint people of Iraq...
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Sing loud Hosannas
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April 5, 2007
Another Easter is here and may be the Christians to whom this festival means so much, should let this one be special and celebrate it big, like how de...
Bassy - Love Vine
Reparation or Reap-Ah-Ration
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March 30, 2007
Reparation was de debate in Par-liar-mint dis week. Ah prefer to say Reap-ah-Ration but really and truly ah would much prefer to say as lickle as poss...
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Prayers not praise foh Rabacca Bridge
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March 23, 2007
Rabbacca Dry River will be all fire-works next When-is-day as a Bridge that was donated and constructed in the river-bed by de Tie-one-knees will be o...
Bassy - Love Vine
Alice in One-Day land
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March 16, 2007
After watching that spectacular opening ceremony of the ICC World Cup Championship last Sunday night, ah could say one thing foh sure, Caribbean peopl...
Bassy - Love Vine
Oritsa our Cuban amiga
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March 8, 2007
Ah knew dat once Lie-Za heard dat de Cuban Social Workers were distributing energy saving bulbs in my area on Sat-dey dat she was going to visit, so e...
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NDP supporters march wid ah passion
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March 2, 2007
Last week ah write say that de NDP March in February will mark de beginning ah de end ah either Gonsalves or Eustace. It was ah simple piece ah logic,...
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It wouldn’t be always so!
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February 23, 2007
Too often ah been hearing bout corrupt Public Servant. When it ain't boh-bull at Port or Customs is claim making out foh mammy foh catering wuk dat po...
Bassy - Love Vine
Strive foh ah still tongue
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February 16, 2007
While playing around with the radio dial last Sunday night, ah bumped into a Service coming all the way from Canada. The Preacher was talking about th...
Bassy - Love Vine
Be nice to de Cubans
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February 9, 2007
Our Cuban friends, supposedly professional bulb-fitters are here and ah want to well-come dem to my country. Even though ah overs why dey must come, a...
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Enquiry yes but watch de cost
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February 2, 2007
Ah must write on de Ottley Hall Re-leaf because ah believe that years to come when dem school children studying it in His-story class, dey will be loo...
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Look foh we in 2008
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January 26, 2007
Well we finally got started last Sat-dey to prepare foh de Boys Grammar School 100th Anniversary Celebrations. When we see how far the Girls High Scho...
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All yuh got to clap foh dat
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January 19, 2007
Interestingly it was only during de Christmas Season last year, ah met an ole friend and wished her “Seasons Greetings” expecting of course to hea...
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We need to develop more foot soldiers
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January 12, 2007
One ah my concern over de years is that our education system like it getting carried away with producing Generals, Chiefs and Chief-mates only and to ...
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Ah 2007 resolution foh de Prime Minister
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January 5, 2007
From all reports and de general comments, De Christmas was good. Most people seem to have had ah Quiet and Peaceful Season, some welcome de long weeke...
Bassy - Love Vine
The joy of Christmas
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December 22, 2006
Many moons ago ah had to share my place of Sunday worship, Salvation Army in de morning and Gospel Hall Sunday School in de afternoon, one foh de fath...
Bassy - Love Vine
Kenny-an-tony tun man-he-koo
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December 15, 2006
Kenny Anthony would never know how many Vin-sin-shun people he offended when he came here last year during de heat ah de elections and referred to Arm...
Bassy - Love Vine
Going house-to-house dis Christmas
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December 8, 2006
Is no Season like Christmas. Some people say dey still get de feelings of Christmas from the smell ah de air alone, some feel it when de nights start ...
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Something Dey Up Dey
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December 1, 2006
Mr Hoax decided to mek ah fool ah de town folks, so one day at noon, sun hot like fire, he walked onto de edge ah de pavement and looked up fixing his...
Bassy - Love Vine
Get de people on board LIAT
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November 24, 2006
I am heartened by the contributions in de press by some of our young people, in particular de regular columns by Soboto See-saw and less regular piece...
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PM giving jokes in Par-liar-mint
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November 17, 2006
We don't get to see enough ah de live debates in de British Par-liar-mint but de lickle we get at news time shows there is ah great deal ah genuine he...
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Ah letter to de Lord from Lie-za
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November 10, 2006
Ah story appeared on the Internet about ah plastic bag containing letters that wash-up on de east coast of de USA next to way ah father and son were f...
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Kyron: Who Jah bless no man cuss
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November 3, 2006
In my book of books Bro Bob Marley was ah modern day prophet, and ah believe that he uses to get his lyrics from de most High! Songs like “Who Jah b...
Bassy - Love Vine
Keep me in deep and dunce
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October 26, 2006
One ah de things that ah treasure bout our Independence is that ah have been blessed to be around from de beginning. Yes, it’s ah short period, ah n...
Bassy - Love Vine
Nuff respects to de Amish Community
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October 20, 2006
Foh weeks now ah promising to big-up de Amish Community. Ah never paid much attention to them until ah saw de news way ah disturbed man invaded an Ami...
Bassy - Love Vine
Dial zero foh de merry go round
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October 13, 2006
Ah very interesting letter was in the Searchlight last week written by CAK about the time wasting experience he had at one ah the Commercial Banks. He...
Bassy - Love Vine
Finally, VAT is here!
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October 6, 2006
Ah listened to parts ah de debate this week on VAT and at one stage, it looked like if the motion was presented by de Opposition. Apart from de Prime ...
Bassy - Love Vine
Wheel and come again NOBA
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September 29, 2006
It does not surprise me that Mini Van Drivers who are members of NOBA had to throw in de towel in de middle ah de fight. Industrial disputes are like ...
Bassy - Love Vine
Dat nah no line foh join
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September 22, 2006
Information out is that folks who left Latin America and the Caribbean to look foh wuk in de USA sent home some US$45 billion in 2004. Jamaicans muste...
Bassy - Love Vine
Give me a banana cider vinegar instead
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September 15, 2006
Ginger Reporter set me up good last week when he roped me into his Apple Cider Vinegar story. Phone calls foh so! Everybody want to know if this can-c...
Bassy - Love Vine
Dread Bill, Greedy, Bill, now de Bully Bill
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September 8, 2006
Two weeks ago ah went to de Supermarket and there was no Brown Sugar on de shelf, only White Sugar; one ah de floor wukers who overheard me kicks-in-o...
Bassy - Love Vine
An Anglican Bishop name Spong
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September 1, 2006
My cousin Earle who is from de USA is a committed Anglican and while he was out here on ah short vacation, we got into some Bible talks that literally...
Bassy - Love Vine
Murder advantage
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August 25, 2006
When de electricity went on Sat-dey night ah realized that ah didn’t check me lamp wick, it ain’t wuk, so ah had to use me cell phone and look foh...
Bassy - Love Vine
Farewell to E.G.
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August 18, 2006
Just over ah year ago the Classes of 1954 and1955 celebrated ah milestone that marked fifty years since we had entered Grammar School. In our preparat...
Bassy - Love Vine
Ah support de people in Bequia
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August 11, 2006
My position on Guv-ah-mint selling-out prime Vincy lands to Far-rainers is written in concrete, spell't with ah long two-letter word Nooooooo! And tha...
Bassy - Love Vine
Changing of the guards
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August 4, 2006
There will be ah changing of de Guards at The Salvation Army this weekend as Majors Ronald and Junie Ellis hand over the Garrison keys to Majors Henry...
Bassy - Love Vine
Our bananas need ah Allen Stanford
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July 28, 2006
Years ago ah went to study as ah far-reign student and had to explain de game ah Test Cricket to my Canadian hosts. It was then ah realized that an aw...
Bassy - Love Vine
Cent-less bombing in de Middle East
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July 21, 2006
Dis war dat fighting in de Middle East started some four to five thousand years ago when Father Abraham's wife, Sarah, realized she couldn't mek child...
Bassy - Love Vine
RSVG Police is my band ah de year
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July 14, 2006
De Carnival done and mention must be made of some ah de positive initiatives that were introduced this year. Like no bottled drinks, every thing was s...
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National properties meking ah mess
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July 7, 2006
Before ah begin let me apologize foh ah mix-up in last week's Article entitled "Ah want ah Bacoo, ah Stick and ah Pen". The computer like it start ah ...
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