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Continuing the conversation on race
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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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The Call for a Conversation on Race
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February 24, 2012
In last weekend newspapers under the caption, “Can we talk about Race, Maia Eustace calls for “open, uncomfortable and sustained discussion of rac...
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Outrage
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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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José Marti, Cuban National Hero – a brief look
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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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An Olive Branch in a Climate of Madness?
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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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Conversation with Elma
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January 20, 2012
There are probably more Vincentians in the ‘Diaspora’ 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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Some Thoughts About West Indies Cricket
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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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As we say goodbye to 2011
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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 Chorale’s 2011 Christmas special “L...
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Some thoughts about Christmas
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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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It’s time for action in SVG
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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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Coming to terms with our economic reality
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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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‘Coming of What Age?’ – Let the debate continue
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November 11, 2011
Many readers might have missed last week’s editorial of the Vincentian captioned “Coming of What Age?” but it should be a must read. The writer ...
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A society in crisis
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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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Linking the 1935 Riots with Independence
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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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Rethinking Independence
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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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Has the American spring finally arrived?
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October 14, 2011
A movement described as the ‘Arab Spring’ that has hit the Arab world appears finally to have reached the United States of America. This connectio...
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Looking back
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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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An Appreciation of Dame Bernice Lake
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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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International Year for People of African Descent
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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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Marcus Garvey’s Visit to St.Vincent
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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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Reflecting on Developments in Libya
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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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In Support of an indigenous research facility
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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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One hundred and seventy three years after…
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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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Emancipation and Education
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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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A Holistic Analysis Needed
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July 22, 2011
SEARCHLIGHT’s Midweek editorial of July 19, 2011, focused on the matter of tourism with a caption “We Must Get Tourism Ready”. It was influenced...
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Our Prime Minister’s Parent letter
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July 15, 2011
The talking point around town and throughout the country over the past two weeks was about the incident at the Girls’ High School that prompted the ...
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2011 Carnival
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July 8, 2011
Well Carnival 2011 is now history, and as usual there will be the post-mortems. I really do not like the word post-mortem, which is more commonly used...
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Looking down the road
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June 24, 2011
West Indian cricket very often flatters to deceive. Some of us are still waiting and hoping to see our cricket begin its ascent, if not back to the gl...
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Common Entrance, Rape and CARICOM
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June 17, 2011
I was terribly aghast by a story in last week’s issue of the News newspaper that was carried under the front page headline “Father Trying to colle...
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Reflecting on the Historic Elections of 1951
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May 20, 2011
As the colony of St.Vincent prepared for the historic elections of 1951, the political climate began to change, particularly after the announcement th...
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Sixty years of adult suffrage
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May 13, 2011
In SVG today, politics rules the day and touches every aspect of our lives, even ones we consider personal and private.{{more}} There is consequently ...
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GHS – A great effort!
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May 6, 2011
Well, this week sees the culmination of activities to commemorate 100 years of existence of the St.Vincent Girls’ High School, and really we have to...
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Continuing Watty’s Conversation
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April 29, 2011
It is always a joy to listen to persons like Reverend Watty who refuses to hide behind his clerical garb in an effort to avoid commenting on issues af...
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Making sense of the recent disasters
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April 21, 2011
In the recent past, we have watched, courtesy the medium of the television, incredible scenes of disaster in virtually every area of the globe, Haiti ...
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