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March 27, 2009
Following the West Indies series victory over England and the impressive performances in recent times of Gayle, Chanderpaul, Sarwan and Taylor, West I...
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March 20, 2009
I was particularly pleased with last week’s editorial in the Vincentian newspaper. It raised some important issues and asked the right questions abo...
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March 13, 2009
“The Deepening Crisis of Political Confidence and Trust” I was quite intrigued by a piece that appeared last week in at least two of the weekend p...
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February 27, 2009
Many persons in SVG as in the rest of the Caribbean must have followed closely President Obama’s address to the US Congress on Tuesday evening. Apar...
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February 20, 2009
In last week’s issue of the Searchlight newspaper the editorial captioned “Responding to the Crisis” looked at the disquiet caused by the Global...
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February 13, 2009
It was Aristotle, I believe, who said that ‘One Swallow does not make a summer’. When I reflect on last Saturday’s fine moment in West Indies cr...
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February 6, 2009
For months we had been caught up following not only Obama’s move to the White House but also the economic crisis that had overtaken America and the ...
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January 30, 2009
Last week was all Obama. The focus then was on the Inauguration and the build up to that momentous day. We all looked at the spectacle and gloried in ...
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January 23, 2009
In my life time there has never been a day like this, like the 20th January when we recognised that not only was history being made, but we were consc...
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January 16, 2009
For the past three weeks two issues have been fighting for a prominent place on our television screens, the Israeli assault on Gaza and the Obama inau...
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January 2, 2009
The writing had been on the walls for some time, but there was a great deal of caution. A black man becoming president of the United States of America...
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December 23, 2008
The New Kingstown Chorale is like old wine. The taste gets better with age. It seems now that there can be no real Christmas without the New Kingstown...
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December 12, 2008
During the closing ceremony of the recently concluded 3rd Caricom-Cuba Summit, Caribbean leaders presented the “Order of the Caribbean Community” ...
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December 5, 2008
These days the saying that no news is good news really hits home to us more than ever, for every time you open your newspapers or even look at televis...
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November 28, 2008
It is almost hard to believe that we are into the final days of November and that the end of the year is really just around the corner. Many of us are...
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November 21, 2008
This weekend friends of Joel ‘Toby’ Huggins and his family and no doubt workers at Vinlec where he stood as a colossus for many years, at Domlec, ...
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November 14, 2008
It is about ten days now since America’s historical presidential elections. The excitement has continued as the world looks forward to see the first...
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November 7, 2008
For a while on Tuesday night, the world watched and waited and then erupted. Tears, cheers, dancing was the response not only in America but around th...
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October 31, 2008
I was invited by the Vincentian Association of the British Virgin Islands to participate in their Independence Anniversary celebrations and in particu...
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October 17, 2008
Today, as I do on most Wednesday evenings, I sit before my computer penning my column for this week. As I am about to undertake this exercise, the wor...
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October 10, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, was celebrated as International Day for Disaster Reduction. I am not sure if it was commemorated here or if many persons knew or...
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October 3, 2008
Prime Minister Bruce Golding of Jamaica created a big stir recently when he lambasted his regional colleagues for always bringing out the begging bowl...
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September 26, 2008
I must thank Reverend Jobe for starting the debate on wire-tapping, following the call for its introduction by Deputy Commissioner of Police Bertram P...
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September 19, 2008
The American media this week was filled with news about the continuing economic woes in that country. The collapse of Lehman brothers and the sale of ...
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September 12, 2008
When I came across the Manley Memoirs at the Cave Shepherd Book store I took it up immediately. It is the life story of Beverley Manley, the wife of M...
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September 5, 2008
The regional media has been taken up over the past weeks with news and commentary on the fate of the regional movement. One finds a portrait of a regi...
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August 22, 2008
Today’s article really came naturally. I sat before my computer at about 11 am on Wednesday trying to decide on the topic for this week’s column w...
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August 15, 2008
I was quite intrigued by an article in the Kaiteur News that highlighted the 38th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Public Services Association (CPSA...
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August 8, 2008
Every year on the anniversary of Emancipation we tend to ask the same question- “Are we really emancipated?” We arrive at the same conclusion. We ...
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July 31, 2008
Tomorrow will be one hundred and seventy years since our big day. Yes, the day when we were finally given the space to begin to work out our own lives...
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July 11, 2008
Vincy Mas 2008 is now history, and persons would be left with their own impressions of what took place. It is always important that organisers do thei...
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July 4, 2008
Carnival Time Again Rain is a constant factor in Vincy Carnival ever since the dates were changed from the Pre-Lenten period to June/July. And maybe i...
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June 27, 2008
Once hailed as a revolutionary leader for his role in the struggle against the Ian Smith white racist government, Robert Gabriel Mugabe is now seen as...
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June 20, 2008
The third consultation on the proposed OECS Economic Union was held at the Peace Memorial Hall here in St.Vincent on Monday, June 16. I was unable to ...
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June 13, 2008
It is easy to get depressed when reflecting on the issues that dominate the news in our weekly newspapers. Really I am not about to shoot the messenge...
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June 6, 2008
“Tonight, we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another...” So said Barack Obama in a speech to a rally in Minneapolis, Mi...
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May 30, 2008
This country went into some kind of frenzy last week with the arrival of thirteen pieces of equipment and a carnival type parade through Kingstown in ...
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May 16, 2008
The murder of Lorna Small has sent shock waves around the country and has made us aware that the surge of violence that is overtaking or has overtaken...
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May 2, 2008
The issue surrounding the availability and high cost of food is making the headlines around the world. There have been riots in Haiti, in Egypt, Afgha...
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April 25, 2008
I searched the Caribbean media for information on Earth Day celebrations and realised that very little seemed to have taken place, at least within the...
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April 18, 2008
A lot of things were supposed to have happened once Fidel Castro vacated his position as head of state; the country was to have gone into a serious cr...
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April 11, 2008
American presidential elections have always generated interest around the world largely because whenever America sneezes most of the world catches a c...