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July 26, 2019
Good thinking by de SVG Football Association (SVGFF) for remembering dat in 1979, 40 years ago, our Nah-shun-all Football Team shocked de entire Carib...
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July 19, 2019
Last week ah tek ah ride pon Lord Kitchener’s back wid his Master Piece of ah Calypso: “De Carnival is Over!” Dis week ah riding pon Patches back, ah ...
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July 12, 2019
“The sun is descending, the moon is appearing and the crowd is gone; it seems like nobody is interested in carrying on. When the sky is like a wooden ...
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June 21, 2019
Dey’s ah Rum Shop story dat after Papa Jim had ah belly-full ah roast breadfruit wid roast corn(ed) pork foh supper; he washed it down wid ah cup of C...
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June 14, 2019
It is amazing how lickle things stand out in your memory. Like back in 1969 when ah was studying in Calgary, Alberta, if yuh know yuh Ja-ha-go-fee yuh...
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June 7, 2019
Ah want to congratulate Lyndon James, Chief Instructor of “Be Fit” fitness club for raising funds and providing ah supply of testing material foh Die-...
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May 31, 2019
One of our greatest setbacks as ah Nay-shun is our failure to take full advantage of de expertise of our men and woe-men of Wisdom, our older folks. W...
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May 24, 2019
After 18 years of NDP ‘rain’, de people of SVG had grown tired of an Administration dat needed an injection of new blood wid new I-dares. De Awe-posit...
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May 17, 2019
On ah very touching note, we at Searchlight celebrate de passing of Harold Hoyte, ah great citizen from de Carry-Beyond Village of Bar-bathe-us! Mr Ho...
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May 10, 2019
Back in de 1960s it was de Mighty Sheller, ah seven-time Calypso Monarch who won de crown wid ah song titled: “Big Jobs!” De punch line was in de chor...
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May 3, 2019
Last weekend we had two important functions. De “Everything Vincy Night Market” on Fry-dey Night and de following night, was de Drama Production: “Jum...
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April 26, 2019
Ah was talking ‘bout Birthdays and one ah our Classmates reminded me dat John Horne’s Big Birthday coming up and ah must wish him “Ole Boys Greetings”...
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April 18, 2019
Ley me ask de real question, what ever happened to Lent, 40 days set aside for Repentance thru Fasting with Prayers and reflection on Jesus Christ’s s...
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April 12, 2019
IS AH LOT ah reasons why “my heart aches and ah drowsy, numbness pains my heart” foh Gussy De Roche and his family. Their boat ‘Gem Star’ caught fire ...
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April 5, 2019
I AM EXCITED over our recommissioned Medical Clinics in Shatto and Mespo now proudly elevated to SMART Hospitals. De Acronym SMART is what excites me....
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March 29, 2019
Ole people had ah lot ah co-local expression (sayings) dat dey uses to say, now today when we anal-lies dem dey make scents. When ah hear how our Prim...
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March 22, 2019
One week after the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) paid official homage to our last indigenous ruler, Paramount Chief Joseph Chatoyer on...
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March 15, 2019
“I must congratulate the Faculty, Staff & Students including the College’s Faculty Band, ‘Just in Time’ for a job well done. Skinny’s Address to the G...
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March 8, 2019
Lie-Za has ah de-link-went step-son who is ah Drug-ah-dick, Is like she would see him clean and straight foh six months, den she would get ah call fro...
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February 8, 2019
Was just two weeks ago ah wrote bout de Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH) and ah doh want to write again to look like ah only come out to beat up o...
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February 1, 2019
Ah will not exchange my Primary School days foh Silver or Gold, but doh tempt me though. It was close to de end ah de Colonial period and as children ...
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January 25, 2019
DEY’S HARDLY ah week dat our Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH) does not come-in foh criticism. Is more like ah Cry-ticism, people literally cry whe...
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January 18, 2019
AH DOH BELIEVE dat de Prime Minister realize dat de One Percent Razor-pay dat he giving Public Servants, got lickle no value except yuh talking thousa...
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January 11, 2019
DE TOP STORY foh de past week is about ah Sweet Victory foh five members (Public Servants) of de Public Service Union (PSU). Firstly, ah want to add-w...
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January 4, 2019
OUT AH SHARE curiosity, ah went around asking a few folks in confee- dense what dey thought of Dr Cyrus’s Knighthood. De comments were unanimous: “Gre...
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December 28, 2018
WELL, WELL WELL said de ole man. What ah Christ-Mas! Barrels by the thousands, long lines wid happy faces, daily cashing remittances at Western Union ...
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December 21, 2018
Ah don’t believe dat next week Choose-dey is Christmas! The year really fly fast. Thanks to my faithful friend Dr David Joyette, ah was once again thi...
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December 14, 2018
MONEY-DEY morning was de scheduled day foh Par-liar-mint to meet to dwell wid de Me-dissing-all Marie Won-her Bill. An earlier sitting ah Par-liar-min...
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December 7, 2018
De Nine Mornings Committee Launch on Sunday Night turned out to be very good. Ah packed program dat flowed wid-out hitches. Great performances! La Gra...
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November 9, 2018
De wisest man once wrote dat “dey’s nothing new under de Sun!” So all dat happening now, happened already and will happen again even in lickle SVG. Yu...
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November 2, 2018
Congrats to Invest SVG foh coming strong wid “Everything Vincy Plus Expo”, de theme foh dis year’s Nah-shun-all In-de-pen dance Exhibition. Dis countr...
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October 26, 2018
I went back 20 years to see what I had written in my Column foh In-de-pen-dance dat year. As usual ah was come-plain-in bout how de Clergy was invited...
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October 19, 2018
DE PAST STUDENT Association of St Joseph Convent Marriaqua Secondary School (SJCMSS) hosted an Awards Ceremony last Friday evening, bringing down de c...
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October 12, 2018
Ah got ah call on Sat-dey morning dat Margaret Ince, one ah my dear friends foh over 40 years had passed away. She was ah humble Carib or Garifuna wom...
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October 5, 2018
How about ah massive Big-up foh de Nah-shun-all Parks, Rivers and Beaches Authority (NPRBA) through the “SCRPCC” (ley we use abbreviations eh), basica...
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