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Coping with tragedy
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January 3, 2014
I am assuming that when we refer to the hurricane season we take into account related weather “patterns or systems”. The old jingle tells us that ...
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Our public officials must stop lying!
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December 27, 2013
Something is rotten in our State, if I am to borrow from William Shakespeare; not Denmark, but SVG! I have tried for some time now to force a conversa...
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The Christmas season
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December 20, 2013
For the past few weeks we have been caught up with Mandela’s death, reflecting on his life and about the legacy he has left. There was much talk abo...
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A giant passes
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December 13, 2013
How does one begin to write about Nelson Mandela who, in my view, was the most outstanding personality of the 20th and 21st centuries? Here was a man ...
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The Hundredth Anniversary that is Not!
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December 6, 2013
So, it is now official! The year was 1913. This year is therefore the 100th anniversary of 'Nine Mornings'. So says the Ministry of Culture, which has...
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Beyond the boundary
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November 29, 2013
This is not really about cricket but the dreadful and embarrassing state of West Indian cricket parallels and reflects the state of a region that is i...
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The transfer of Glebe lands – the background
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November 22, 2013
The “Glebe Barrouallie” Project, involved much more than the transfer of land. It was an integrated development project aimed at developing the ar...
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Kenny Anthony bells the cat
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November 8, 2013
It had to be done at some time, since the region is in need of an honest reality check. Now Dr Kenny Anthony of St Lucia has at last spoken out. This ...
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What did we celebrate last Sunday?
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November 1, 2013
I was really moved by the number of people I saw dressed in the national colours, many of them, I must say, beautifully designed. Then, there were tho...
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‘Send out you hand,’ by Dorbrene E. O’Marde
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October 25, 2013
On Saturday, October 19, Antiguan-Vincentian Dorbrene O’Marde, more familiarly known as “Fatz”, launched two books at the UWI Open Campus as par...
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The Silly Season – Pappyshow Time!
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October 18, 2013
Whenever I read newspapers from other Caribbean countries, I do so with SVG in mind and try to find out what lessons we can learn from them or to what...
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A call to journalists
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October 11, 2013
"My fellow Journalists, not every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of a politician is news. We are reporters, not scribes. That means we’re sup...
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The Caribs and reparations
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September 20, 2013
On the issue of reparations, the persons who have to be singled out for special attention are the Caribs. At the end of the second Carib War, some 4,3...
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Rev PAB Anthony
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September 13, 2013
I am writing this column on Tuesday, September 10, at a time when the situation in Syria still remains quite fluid. Yesterday, Putin’s proposed init...
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The reparations talk
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September 6, 2013
There has recently been much talk about reparations. I refer to it as "talk” because there has really been no meaningful dialogue, since at play are...
Marcus Garvey and St Vincent
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Marcus Garvey and St Vincent
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August 23, 2013
Imagine the first two decades of the 20th century, the United States of America overripe with racism and black leaders like Asa Philip Randolph, Chand...
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LIAT – Never a dull moment
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August 16, 2013
I go to sleep with LIAT on my mind and get up to hear a lot of complaints and to read incredible stories about LIAT. The LIAT planes pass fairly near ...
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Emancipation continues
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August 2, 2013
On May 11, 1838, the St Vincent Legislature passed the required legislation to ensure that full freedom came on August 1, 1838. Roderick McDonald, in ...
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Then there was no one left to speak up for us!
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July 26, 2013
In Germany they first came for the Communists and I did not speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak u...
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Now it’s back to reality
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July 12, 2013
Well carnival is over. Of course there was the good, the bad and the ugly, but plenty madness too. A few women went overboard in their manner of dress...
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Carnival 2013, as we move into the last lap
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July 5, 2013
The 2013 Carnival celebrations were supposed to have gotten into full stride last Friday with the Miss Carival show having been used to kick it off. M...
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Are we zombies? What is wrong with us?
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June 28, 2013
The series of protests that have rocked Brazil in past weeks have pushed me into a reflecting mood. These protests are somewhat different from those t...
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A response to Jomo – My take on the 1935 riots
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June 7, 2013
Continued from last week My disagreement with Jomo has to do with the role he has carved out for Sheriff Lewis. He argued that once the decision was t...
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A response to Jomo – my take on the 1935 riots
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May 31, 2013
I have read with great interest Jomo's pieces of May 17 and 24 captioned "Sheriff Lewis, a National Hero." I have had an interest in the 1935 riots fo...
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The things we do and say
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May 24, 2013
A story in the weekend newspapers caught my attention. It was about a young lady who stole a cellphone and was caught with it in her handbag when one ...
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Our ‘National Essence’ at stake!
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May 17, 2013
In recent issues of SEARCHLIGHT, Louise Mitchell Joseph and Vonnie Roudette have been raising issues about what they call our "National Essence,” wh...
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Assassination of political leader in Curacao
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May 10, 2013
The assassination of Helmin Wiels, leader of the political party Pueblo Soberano in Curacao, came as a real shocker to me. It is not only that we shou...
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Another Labour Day – same old story!
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May 3, 2013
I searched last weekend’s newspapers seeking information about activities for May 1, the Labour Day holiday. I found nothing. Has the leadership of ...
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The Reparations Issue
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April 26, 2013
The political climate in SVG is not one conducive for any sane discussion on the matter of reparations. I could well understand why some persons being...
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I cry for my country
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March 22, 2013
Things in SVG seem to be becoming grimmer as the days go by. We have to admit that there are problems all over the world and that these are rough time...
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President Hugo Chavez — what will his legacy be?
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March 15, 2013
The death of President Hugo Chavez on March 5 at the age of 58 is bound to have a profound impact on Latin America and the Caribbean and perhaps put i...
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The words of George McIntosh
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March 8, 2013
I have been trying to present a case for George McIntosh to be made our next national hero. For my column this week, I have reproduced extracts from a...