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June 1, 2012
It was less than a year ago that we marked sixty years since Adult Suffrage. That, perhaps, is putting it wrongly for we paid little attention to it. ...
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May 25, 2012
I really get peeved when I hear it being said that the West Indies Cricket team is now getting into the fifth day of a Test match, whereas previously,...
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May 18, 2012
(continued from last week) This is a continuation of an article on education that I started last week. My intention was mainly to bring attention to a...
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May 11, 2012
The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Community College has over the past year been presenting a series of lectures that have been very informative, thou...
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May 4, 2012
1979 was certainly an eventful year for the people of this country. The April eruption of the volcano probably set the tone and made its early impact,...
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April 27, 2012
Friday, April 13 would have brought back not so fond memories to many Vincentians. It was thirty-three years ago, Friday, April 13 that Vincentians we...
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April 20, 2012
The policy of excluding Cuba from meetings of countries of the Americas came to a boiling point last weekend at the Summit of the Americas held in Col...
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April 13, 2012
The Catholic Bishop and the Word âDotishâ During the Holy Week period, I heard briefly, courtesy Nice Radio, part of what I assumed were some refl...
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April 5, 2012
It would appear that by March next year this country will have another national hero. We are told that the process will soon begin to select that pers...
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March 30, 2012
Closure of the Registry I very often wonder about my county and its attitude to services. We complain quite often about the inadequacy of service to t...
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March 23, 2012
The West Indies win over Australia in the second ODI match at the Arnos Vale Playing Field on Sunday and the Governmentâs decision to declare Tuesda...
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March 16, 2012
I never imagined that there would have been so much unease with the call for a discussion of race. What is even more astonishing is that the persons e...
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March 9, 2012
The conversation that has been going on now for a couple of weeks has been described as a conversation about race, but any conversation about race in ...
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March 2, 2012
The day after the Oscars, the Daily Beast (a news reporting and opinion website) carried a story about Viola Davis, the black actress who was nominate...
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February 24, 2012
In last weekend newspapers under the caption, âCan we talk about Race, Maia Eustace calls for âopen, uncomfortable and sustained discussion of rac...
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February 17, 2012
It appears to me that we are not getting the kind of public outrage that is needed for some of the despicable, atrocious and horrifying things that ar...
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February 10, 2012
It is good to know that preparations are underway for the restoration of the Botanic Garden as part of the celebration of its 250th anniversary in 201...
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February 3, 2012
When we identify ourselves today, we do so primarily as members of the Commonwealth Caribbean, and specifically as English speaking people, despite th...
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January 27, 2012
I cannot help but continue to marvel at the madness that prevails in this country and which we see through acts of cruelty, disregard for regulations,...
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January 20, 2012
There are probably more Vincentians in the âDiasporaâ than they are at home, and when we add to this the fact that many of them would at least hav...
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January 13, 2012
This week the focus of attention has been on the countryâs Budget. I will refrain from commenting on it since I have not been able to read and diges...
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January 6, 2012
In March of this year, after a period of cricket drought at the Arnos Vale Playing Field, we will see some cricketing action. While many cricket fans ...
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December 30, 2011
There was no better way for me to have ushered in the Christmas Season than to have taken in the New Kingstown Choraleâs 2011 Christmas special âL...
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December 22, 2011
It is possible that in the same way many children today associate milk with the supermarket rather than with cows, we will at some point in the future...
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December 16, 2011
Trinidad and Tobago and the wider CARICOM body were clearly shocked by the imposition of the widely condemned Helms-Burton Act that forced CARICOM to ...
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December 9, 2011
The murder of Ells King on Sunday, the chopping of a woman while working as part of a road gang on Monday morning in Bequia and the snatching of a gol...
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December 2, 2011
I am pleased to see that the debate about our economic reality is beginning to touch on some of the serious issues that many of us have avoided for qu...
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November 25, 2011
I take as my point of departure the editorial of the SEARCHLIGHT of November 11, 2011. Referring to the theme of this yearâs solidarity week, âRek...
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November 18, 2011
Later today, members of the St.Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers Union will hold their annual march which will allow them to reflect on that day in ...
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November 11, 2011
Many readers might have missed last weekâs editorial of the Vincentian captioned âComing of What Age?â but it should be a must read. The writer ...
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November 4, 2011
The discovery of the decomposed body of a female that was found in the Dauphine-Fenton area on Sunday morning near to a freshly dug grave has once aga...
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October 28, 2011
We have, particularly since 1979, been paying very little attention to the riots of October 21 and 22, 1935. The month of October is dedicated to comm...
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October 21, 2011
Next Thursday, October 27, we celebrate our thirty second anniversary of independence. What do we really have in mind when we put our energy into comm...
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October 14, 2011
A movement described as the âArab Springâ that has hit the Arab world appears finally to have reached the United States of America. This connectio...
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October 7, 2011
This week has been something of a strange one for me. For a large part of my life, the demands of work had created a particular routine. Everything el...
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September 23, 2011
The Caribbean has recently lost one of its outstanding legal minds, Dame Bernice Lake, who was born in Anguilla but lived most of her life in Antigua....
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September 16, 2011
Following the proclamation by the UN General Assembly of the year 2011 as International Year for People of African Descent, UN Secretary General Ban K...
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September 9, 2011
Marcus Mosiah Garvey visited St.Vincent twice in October 1937. His movement was then no longer the force it had been following his forced relocation i...
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September 2, 2011
August 17 was one hundred and twenty four years since the birth of Marcus Mosiah Garvey who was born at St. Annâs Bay in Jamaica. Garvey created a m...
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August 26, 2011
This week has been a fascinating one as we stood awe struck by the manner in which the Libyan regime which had been in place for forty two years seeme...
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August 19, 2011
Let me first of all applaud Phillip Jackson for his article in the Midweek issue of the SEARCHLIGHT calling for an indigenous research facility. I was...
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August 5, 2011
The first of August would have marked one hundred and seventy three years since our great great grand parents were legally relieved from the bonds of ...
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July 29, 2011
August is usually a very challenging month for parents as they have then to marshal whatever resources they have to equip their children for school. T...
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