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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 ...
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October 29, 2021
Ole people say: “Yuh never miss de Water till de Well run dry.” Rain or shine, ah always look forward every In-de-pen-dance Day, at 6:00 a.m. to de fa...
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October 22, 2021
Four-day morning, moon still shining, dis tired, sleep-less looking ole lady, she head tie wid ah big, blue and white scaff, holding ah new brass bell...
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October 15, 2021
I wish to endorse de sentiments expressed in a lovely article in de Midweek SEARCHLIGHT written by Vin-sence-shun, Dr. Rose-Ann Smith nee Williams, sh...
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October 8, 2021
When my brother Villager, Wilfred Dickson said to me on de phone: “Remember I told you we have ah big one coming up soon? Well just add another one to...
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September 10, 2021
HE WAS AH young Country Bwoy, poor people pickney, got his CXC subjects and got ah lickle “hold-on” at ah supermarket. But he had his ambitions, and i...
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September 3, 2021
Back in 1979 ah made ah casual appearance at de annual General Meeting (AGM) of de Civil Service Association (CSA) now de Public Service Union (PSU). ...
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August 27, 2021
Was it plane, boat, bus or donkey cart dah bring we to dis juncture? Back in 1951, ah was ah lickle nine year ole going on 10, when ah group of us ran...
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August 20, 2021
Once upon ah time was ah very good time, when villagers lived like one big family, when near-bars shared only love and good-will; when kids uses to dw...
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August 13, 2021
Ah doh think we could repeat or remind ourselves often enuff dat Violence in any form, whether against woe-man, man, children, leaders of yuh church, ...
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August 6, 2021
It was one ah dem sad-glad moments reading the SEARCHLIGHT’s back page story “The Learning Page Curator Puts Down Her Pen”, a very fitting tribute to ...
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July 30, 2021
We are at the bottom half of Murray’s Village where Edwin and about 50 of us spent our early childhood. At the lower end was nurse and mid-wife Maggie...
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July 23, 2021
I felt special when Dr Kenneth John’s daughter, Andrea John-Robin on the behalf of the family, graciously invited me to team up with Dr. Fraser to del...
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July 16, 2021
If Karl Marx’s quotation: “Religion is de Opium of de People,” is considered an axiom, den de same should hold if ah were to say dat: “Cricket is de O...
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July 9, 2021
We doh hear much about ah plant called “Vomit Bush” de sight or smell alone uses to mek yuh vomit up yuh guts and give yuh ah good clean-out. Now-ah-d...
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June 11, 2021
On November 19, 1922, Marjorie was born in St Lucia to Isabela and Vernon Theobalds. Her mother died when she was only nine years old and she was plac...
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June 4, 2021
Two months ago, close to 20,000 persons living in de Orange and Red Zones, de danger areas located within close distances of de Volcano, were within h...
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May 28, 2021
Is like ah had dis dream dat while de Evacuees from de Red and Orange Zones were under pressure to go back to de Danger Zones near La suffrey, we in d...
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May 21, 2021
Ah read ah very interesting article by IWN bearing the headline: “Christian Council anticipates justice in matter relating to two public figures.” De ...
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May 14, 2021
Lie-Za all-time getting she story and dem wrong. She was telling me, she heard pon de Raid-yuh, how de PM Shot Him-self in Him-foot again. Ah told her...
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May 7, 2021
Before ah start, no, before ah forget, Ah want to ask ah fair-for of NEMO’s Director, Me-shell Forbes, when all de dust is settled. She must change da...
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July 9, 2025
The 'Baddest Boy'- Shertz ‘Problem Child’ James- has copped first and second place for the 2025 Road March competition. The results were announced tod...
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July 7, 2025
With the Soca Monarch finals out of the way, all eyes and ears are turned towards Kingstown in anticipation for who will capture the 2025 Road March t...
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July 4, 2025
The government of St Vincent and the Grenadines has been given a high grade for the strides made in education during its term in office, but is concer...
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July 4, 2025
Four contestants who will be competing in the Miss SVG show later this year, made an appearance at the Junior Calypso and Soca Monarch Competition on ...
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July 4, 2025
Vincentian lawyer, Mikhail Charles, has been appointed Honorary Legal Advisor for St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) at its High Commission in the Un...
