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July 1, 2022
After two and ah half years of Sabbatical without any renumeration, com-pen-say-shun,remittance, subsistence or whatever to de components of Vincy Mas...
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June 24, 2022
Ah was telling my buddy in de US dat ah keeping ah low profile foh Vincy Mas 2022. Despite numerous reminders or warnings to de population dat COVID-1...
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June 17, 2022
Pardon me if ah sound Eve-ill when ah say “Ah Jumping Foh Joy” ah not rejoicing eh, but when ah heard and red, ah think is better if ah quote CNBC: “D...
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June 10, 2022
All my years growing up ah always thought dat de quotation:” Order is Heaven’s First Law” came straight and direct from de Bible. Order might not be d...
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June 3, 2022
Long ago as ah small youth in Church ah had to sit stiff and straight next to my grandmother foh three hours non-stop, sometimes longer, depending on ...
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May 27, 2022
LIE-ZA CALL ME pan-aching saying she remember late last year we were Officially told dat Vincy Mas will be packed into two weekends this year, with sc...
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May 20, 2022
WHEN AH READ dat ah lady from Park Hill whose photo was on Facebook holding ah gum and ah Caption: “ 380 to do god’s knows what in park hill,” was cha...
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May 13, 2022
Now-ah-days people ain’t as superstitious as dey uses to be long ago. Remember when yuh hear ah “fowl-cock” crowing in de middle in de day, dat was ah...
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May 6, 2022
Ah was telling Lie-Za how Medical Science has come ah long way, and if ever ah tek sick wid any Excruciating Pain except (ULP) Labour Pain, get me to ...
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April 29, 2022
Ah do get emotional when ah hear terrible things, repeatedly happening to our original Ancestors, now casually referred to as “de people above de Dry ...
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April 22, 2022
Platinum (70) years ago, in 1952 ah remember when Headteacher, Sir Tommy Saunders made de announcement dat King George VI had died, even though we wer...
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April 14, 2022
Ah would love to remember OT as ah Master Builder, ah Nay-shun Builder! He built just about any and everything dat could be made from wood, from ah Cr...
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April 8, 2022
Allow me dis week to recognize ah piece of work done by my villager, Primary School class-mate and life-long friend, de Mighty Sheller, one of SVG’s g...
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April 1, 2022
Nah-shun-all He-rose month is over, ah bet nothing will be said or heard about dat subject till next year March when dat or he-rose again. Ah was tell...
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March 25, 2022
According to We-Key-pee-dey-yah, de term De-famo-shun or De-famo-tree is the act of communicating whether oral or written, false statements about a pe...
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March 18, 2022
WID DE WAR between de Ukraine and Russia heading foh World War 3, ah remind me-self dat ah was born during World War 2, and ah survived some real Hard...
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March 11, 2022
Vibrating Scakes, former Calypso Monarch of SVG and raining In-de-pen-dance Monarch, sent me ah “Whats Up” or “Whats App” message asking what I knew b...
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March 4, 2022
Dis is Madness, ‘Ras Putin’ de fear-most Rush-on Mad Monk of 1869-1019, is not even half as mad as President Vladimir Putin, who has now become nothin...
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February 25, 2022
When las’ yuh bin ah church…. period? When las’ yuh bin church and de Service so nice, yuh promise de hosts and de Rev, Mini-star-ess dat yuh ‘coming ...
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February 18, 2022
About 25 years ago, de Sunday Morning Service at de Salvation Army was about to start. The Lickle Brass Band rendered ah short item, den de Commanding...
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February 11, 2022
I am told by Physical Planning dat if ah developer wants to operate ah Quarry in SVG, s/he has to mek an application providing all de technical inform...
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February 4, 2022
Now-ah-days when West Indies win ah Cricket Match, be it an ODI, T/20 or Test, is Celebration wid reservation. Reservation because another win foh W.I...
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January 28, 2022
Ah told Lie-Za dat dey’s ah lovely front page picture and story entitled “Warm Wales Welcome” (WWW) in Choose-dey’s issue of de Searchlight Midweek pa...
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January 21, 2022
‘No one size fits all” says Mr Didier Trebucq, UN Resident co-ordinator foh B’dos and de Eastern Caribbean, at de conclusion of ah wide ranging study ...
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January 14, 2022
Dis week ah revisiting an article ah wrote in June of 2018 about an unsung Hero named Frank Laborde. Ah very quiet, humble and approachable man. Oh ho...
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January 7, 2022
Tevin must have bin disrupting the class at Community College that day, why else would Ms Persaud move him from the back to the front row? But in his ...
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December 31, 2021
Ah Jel-Us Lie-Za bad. She called me early Christmas Morning to tell me ah miss ah High Mas at de Kingstown Anglican Church, Christ-Mas Eve Mid-night S...
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December 23, 2021
Doc Adrian Fraser and I born in different “Time” some sixty months apart to be exact; and ten miles “Distance” separate us “From whence we Came” (Bagg...
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December 17, 2021
MONDAY GONE AH got ah call from Arabesque Shippers saying dat my barrel has arrived at de Customs. By now dey all know dat I am ah regular, every year...
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December 3, 2021
“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” Last week when West Indies score was 19 for 6 in reply to Sri Lanka 204, ah swore to Doc Fr...
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November 26, 2021
Is only lately ah read about Eva Durate, dis young Argentinian girl from de small rural village of Los Toldos (Awning). Conscious of her beauty and ta...
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November 19, 2021
Forty-six years ago dis week, November 1975, the SVG Teachers Union went on strike foh all sort ah outstanding grievances. Premier Cato bluntly refuse...
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November 12, 2021
“Ward”, a separate room in a hospital is a very interesting root Word. Add de letter “A” to Ward yuh get “Award” which is ah mark for high quality ser...
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November 5, 2021
First let me quote what ah read from two separate News stories published last week in SEARCHLIGHT. The first reads: “ Organization in the Republic of ...
News
October 31, 2025
New Democratic Party(NDP) candidate, Shevern John, has outlined numerous plans for the constituency of North Windward which she is contesting in the u...
News
October 31, 2025
The candidate of the New Democratic Party (NDP) for the West St George Constituency, Laverne Gibson-Velox claims that St Vincent and the Grenadines is...
News
October 31, 2025
A civil war, or any war in Venezuela will not only be problematic for the Nicolas Maduro-led nation but will create serious security concerns for coun...
From the Courts, News
October 31, 2025
A man from Chauncey and Kingstown who broke into His Majesty’s Prison and was trapped inside for approximately two hours after he was unable to escape...
News
October 31, 2025
Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has indicated the need for a serious conversation with the developers in the north of Canouan, as things are not goi...
