Bassy - Love Vine

Bassy - Love Vine
Organic foods all de way
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November 4, 2005
Nah mek nobody fool yuh; all good things must come to ah end, me holidays done and ah have one regret and that is, ah didn't get to full up one ah the...
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Letter No. 2 from Me-Ah-Me
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October 28, 2005
Dear Lie-Za, Ah still dey in Me-ah-Me, high and dry as the ole people uses to say. Ah know yuh anxiously waiting to hear way Hurry-Came Will-Mah do wi...
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Letter from Me-Ah-Me
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October 21, 2005
Dear Lie-Za, This is Me writing from Me-ah-Me. Ah guess yuh fellar Lie-Owe done tell yuh ah gone way. He saw Me at the Airport and ah know yuh done fi...
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Dat Bill is Dead!
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October 14, 2005
No matter how yuh try yuh can’t beat de Come-red when it come to pull-it-tek-all tricks. Ley we do ah Rasta turn around and go forward to the late 1...
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Be Hot.. Be Clean.. Be Straight Mr. Commissioner
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October 7, 2005
Ah believe ah still in time to congratulate all them Police Officers who received promotions. Ah glad foh Bandmaster, Inspector Sam-son; ah hope they ...
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Brer Nansi feeds de village
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September 30, 2005
Dear President Shui-bian, we open we doors, windows, cupboards and closets of our humble dwelling to welcome yuh. Please feel at home while yuh are he...
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Nuff respects for de Green Party
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September 23, 2005
When Elections come around ah does change me pen nib, ah does put down the one that does write serious thing and tek up the one that does kicks-off po...
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When de prophet come home
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September 16, 2005
There is the story when Jesus figured that He been out ah long time and he never actually went to his home-town, so He decided to visit de Yard, look ...
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Another of my heroes gone
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September 9, 2005
Ah would ah been nine years ole at the time; ah was walking to Sion Hill when ah reached Richmond Hill Gardens ah stepped on ah small branch, right aw...
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Keep off de race trace come-red
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September 2, 2005
Ah got ah few calls from NDP Dye-hards foh me to comment on de Come-red’s alleged Race-shall slur. But when yuh been around as long as me, yuh will ...
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The ugly American Tele-vandalist
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August 26, 2005
The Ugly American is the title of ah book, several books actually, one in particular was written by Bill Lederer, ah bestseller for its slashing expos...
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Preparation for banana farmers
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August 19, 2005
Last week Monday and Tuesday ah had to go up to Dickson/Obrien's Valley and Mahoe/Fergusson Valley to look at some lands, Banana lands at that. There ...
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Good promises we hope
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August 12, 2005
Ole people say who dey round longest will see de most. Ah been around long nuff to remember the number ah Ear-Ports that them Pull-ah-trick-hands prom...
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De revolution need ah history book
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August 5, 2005
Oscar Allen will easily get ah ten out ah ten foh his one-dah-full piece on Emancipation that appeared in the Searchlight last week. I have one come-p...
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God is good!
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July 29, 2005
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 he got to Ar...
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Operation eye opener
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July 22, 2005
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...
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Where are de tom-boys?
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July 15, 2005
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...
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Ole boys dat com
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July 8, 2005
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 morning foh the ...
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Unions pon top ah re-unions
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July 1, 2005
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...
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Help those who cannot see
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June 24, 2005
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...
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Riding de Gravy train
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June 17, 2005
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...
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Big up when big up due
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June 10, 2005
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. Management has...
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Ah like de fun-ee kaisoes
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June 3, 2005
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 ...
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Ah barbie doll name Patricia
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May 27, 2005
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 ...
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De day of de classmates
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May 20, 2005
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 ...
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De Come-red gone to moan
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May 13, 2005
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's...
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GOSPEL-I-SING DE COUNTRY
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May 6, 2005
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...
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Car-lie falls for Marie Warner
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April 29, 2005
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...
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Archbishop Pompey’s big day
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April 22, 2005
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 passing ah...
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We have robbed God
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April 15, 2005
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, ...
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Why not call it Searchlight
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April 8, 2005
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...
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Getting dizzy over dizzy-knee
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April 1, 2005
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...
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Easter is ah must
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March 24, 2005
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...
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Ah leader at seven
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March 18, 2005
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...
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Walk free Ole George
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March 11, 2005
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...
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Politics like photography
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March 4, 2005
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'...
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De dog and de tyre
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February 25, 2005
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...
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Is NDP in de wilderness?
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February 18, 2005
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 holding back ...
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LEY WE GO LENT!
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February 11, 2005
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...
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Ah lickle more blues in de fest
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February 4, 2005
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...
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Ah proud to be Vincy
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January 28, 2005
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...
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Ah will defend de Ah-torn-knee General
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January 21, 2005
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 news said th...
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SOON-AH-ME
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January 14, 2005
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 doing...