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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- âAre we really emancipated?â 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
âTonight, we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another...â 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 9, 2008
It is the day after the North Carolina and Indiana Primaries and I have had enough. It is overkill and CNN is revelling in it with its Situation Room ...
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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...
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April 4, 2008
I had for some time been not only concerned about the situation existing in St.Vincent and the Grenadines but also contemplating what the future holds...
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March 28, 2008
St.Vincent and the Grenadines is a country in which so many bizarre things appear to happen every so often. This is compounded by the fact that our pe...
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March 20, 2008
I was deeply moved last Friday evening at a ceremony organized by the Langley Park Fairtrade Farmers Group, held at the LESCO (Langley Park Educationa...
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March 20, 2008
For some time now, the media had been debating the state of the American economy with growing fears that the US was already in recession. The news tha...
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March 13, 2008
George McIntosh is one of the names frequently mentioned as deserving national hero status. In this article, I want to highlight McIntoshâs role in ...
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February 29, 2008
It has now been formalised. 76-year-old Raul has replaced his elder brother Fidel as the new president of Cuba. The change seemed to have had little i...
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February 22, 2008
These are indeed trying times for our nation. We have lost the art of conversation as we speak often what we donât believe, but what is convenient t...
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February 15, 2008
The past week has been a difficult one for this country. Emails were many as the matter that is the current topic of conversation was discussed far an...
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February 8, 2008
It is now Wednesday morning and the time is 10:00am and as I sit in front of my computer after a hard night monitoring political developments in the U...
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February 1, 2008
In December last, the CARIFORUM group, that is, the group comprised of CARICOM and the Dominican Republic, concluded a full âEconomic Partnership Ag...
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January 25, 2008
I really should not be surprised that more Vincentians are not speaking out on the issue surrounding the slapping of IPA. If the matter was not so ser...
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January 18, 2008
The events of last week have left me truly confused. Of course, I am referring to the Teachersâ Strike and developments during and after, including ...
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January 4, 2008
2008 is now well and truly with us. Most of us, maybe many of us, would have consciously or unconsciously pledged ourselves to turn a new page and be ...
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December 21, 2007
It is that time of year again, the time when we claim to be celebrating the birth of Christ. But, look how things have changed! It is always amazing t...
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December 14, 2007
Over the past three months, there has been a lot of discussion in the region about the Economic Partnership Agreement, with Europe, with Caribbean gov...
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December 7, 2007
Our dear friend George Bush is really something else. What a man! He must have been specially made, for certainly he is no ordinary human being. Even ...
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November 30, 2007
True to form the release of the IMF report has sent persons scampering to their respective political camps. This appeared to have been stimulated by e...
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November 23, 2007
It was my first visit to one of the French speaking Caribbean islands, albeit an overseas department of France, apart, that is, from an occasional bri...
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November 16, 2007
(An adaptation of a presentation made to the Antigua and Barbuda International Literary Festival, November 3, 2007) In recent years a lot more emphasi...
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November 9, 2007
(An adaptation of a presentation made to the Antigua and Barbuda International Literary Festival, November 3, 2007) In organising my thoughts for a pr...
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November 2, 2007
As if the Iraq mess is not enough, our dear friend Georgie Bush is at it again with Cuba. Really, I have misspoken because he is always on Cuba as tho...
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October 26, 2007
I am sure at some time on Monday, on one of the news programmes, I heard the Prime Minister pontificating about climate change, at a UNESCO meeting, I...
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October 19, 2007
Usually I do not have the opportunity to read the newspapers until the weekend, sometimes not until the following week. On Friday night I heard two ge...
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October 12, 2007
As we move toward finalising and bringing to fruition the Caribbean Single Market and Economy it becomes obvious that what goes on in any of the CSME ...
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October 5, 2007
Politics reigns as never before in St.Vincent and the Grenadines. (I was tempted to say rains, because that might even be applicable). There is politi...
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September 28, 2007
Following the demise of the ruling parties in St.Lucia, the Bahamas, The British Virgin Islands and Jamaica, and before them, Antigua, any election in...
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September 21, 2007
The 12 days of mourning, the many tributes in speech, writing and song to the work and life of Sir John Melville Compton is only one side of the story...
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DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER Montgomery Daniel has sought to clear around rumours that have been circulating relating to his health. Speaking on NBC radio on...
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