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Dis modern age!
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September 7, 2007
Today there are all sorts of terms and words to describe the era in which we live. We are becoming increasingly familiar with these, since we are affe...
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Monday is the day for Jamaica
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August 31, 2007
Next Monday, September 3, Jamaicans will go to the polls. The ruling People’s National Party is seeking a fifth consecutive term of office, somethin...
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Reflecting on Dean’s passage
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August 24, 2007
People in the Caribbean are breathing a sigh of relief after the recent passage of hurricane Dean. In fact we can only say this about Dominica, St.Luc...
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The state of the nation
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August 10, 2007
We are still into emancipation month and this month, 169 years since the shackles were removed from our fore-parents, is as good a time as any to refl...
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Land and emancipation
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August 3, 2007
A lot has been said during the course of the year about the bicentenary of the Abolition of the British Slave Trade. The first of August should have r...
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Looking again at Cuba
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July 27, 2007
Earlier this week the regional media focussed quite a bit on the visit to the region of Stephen Harper, Canada’s Prime Minister and his efforts to f...
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It was all in a week
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July 20, 2007
On Sunday, July 8, while many would have had Carnival on their minds and were looking forward to the Dimanche Gras show, I was making my way out of th...
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Vincy carnival has a long history
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July 6, 2007
I have been completely turned off by advertisements and statements to the effect that we are celebrating thirty years of mas because some of our young...
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US conference on the Caribbean
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June 29, 2007
I am really amused by the reaction of Caribbean leaders to the recent US Conference on the Caribbean. The highlight of the three day gathering was und...
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Of exams and Queen shows
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June 15, 2007
With the news that Common Entrance results are out one expects to see today large numbers scrambling for the weekly newspapers. I am never sure why it...
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A Caribbean comedy playing in the US
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June 8, 2007
The Caribbean has in recent times been making headlines around the world for the wrong reasons. It was not too long ago that a World Bank report descr...
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Cricket and crime
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June 1, 2007
You either have to have nerves of steel or be an unapologetic and fanatic West Indian cricket fan to attempt to look at the West Indies at play these ...
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Never a dull moment in Caricom
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May 25, 2007
As the countries of Caricom try to deepen their relationships and coordinate their foreign and economic policies, issues that create tension and harbo...
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About saying good morning
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May 18, 2007
Interestingly when I wrote from Tortola last week, the thing that prompted my article was strangely omitted. Perhaps, not so strange! In any event, it...
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Writing from Tortola
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May 11, 2007
I am sitting on the balcony of my hotel room overlooking the sea, taking in a scenery that reminded me very much of the view from Cane Garden. Ahead w...
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Is it the dawn of a new day?
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April 27, 2007
It might be that things had to have happened the way they have to convince West Indian cricket fans and organisers of cricket that we are in deep trou...
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The World Cup disaster
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April 13, 2007
Not only was the 2007 ICC World Cup supposed to have been a cash cow for the region, it was supposed to have been a show piece and was expected to bri...
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Tribute to Lloyd Algernon Best
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April 5, 2007
Of the tributes directed to Lloyd Best that I have seen the one that resonates best with me is that given by Professor Norman Girvan. Girvan writes, â...
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Indian Immigration to St.Vincent
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March 30, 2007
On June 2, 1861 the first ship load of East Indian immigrants arrived here on the ship ‘Travaucore’. It had taken 92 days from Madras. On board we...
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March 25,1807- the Day
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March 23, 2007
Next Sunday, March 25, countries in the Caribbean and other parts of the world will hold celebrations commemorating the bicentenary of the abolition o...
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Was Latin America witnessing a Chavez-Bush Show?
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March 16, 2007
It is quite easy to try to pin the blame for the negative reactions to Bush’s Latin America’s visit on Hugo Chavez. Certainly the Venezuelan Presi...
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Let the World Cup show begin
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March 8, 2007
The English speaking Caribbean is hosting its biggest event ever. The real thing starts officially on March 11 but already all eyes are focused on the...
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Where do we go from here?
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March 2, 2007
Wednesday February 28 was one hell of a day in the history of St.Vincent and the Grenadines. I had not seen it like this for a long time, not even at ...
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Black history month
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February 16, 2007
I had in the past been a bit ambiguous about our celebration of Black History Month, arguing that as a country with a predominantly black and coloured...
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UWI Cave Hill ambassador
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February 9, 2007
Last year the Caribbean media featured the achievement of Jamaican, O’Neil Simpson who won the Individual World Public Speaking Championship title a...
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The state of the nation
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February 2, 2007
Perhaps it will always be the best of times and the worst of times, although for different sets of people. To hear the discussions or rather the talk,...
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Big birthday bash for Grammar School
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January 26, 2007
September 2008 will mark one hundred years of existence of the St. Vincent Grammar School formerly the Boys Grammar School. They have been slow off th...
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George W’s new vision?
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January 19, 2007
Hadn’t it been for the terrible cost in lives and money one would think that what is happening in Iraq is one big joke. Part of George W’s ‘newâ...
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Sir James Mitchell’s Beyond the Islands
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January 12, 2007
For a couple days during the holiday season amidst the hustle and bustle I was able to get a quick peak at Sir James Mitchell's autobiography, Beyond ...
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As we enter the year 2007
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January 5, 2007
The passage from one year to another is merely a convenient demarcation point for really there is nothing different in the change from the 31st of Dec...
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Balancing the equation: Christmas, Budget, people
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December 22, 2006
Well, it has been a week or so since the 2008 Budget debate was completed. The whole exercise ultimately has to do with preparing the infrastructure a...
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A stunning result in St Lucia
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December 15, 2006
Following opinion polls that predicted a land slide victory for Dr Kenny Anthony’s St Lucia Labour Party, the overwhelming reaction from persons out...
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Blair kicks off debate on slavery
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December 8, 2006
While our energies and attention have been focused on the 2007 Cricket World Cup and its possible significance to the region, another event promises t...
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End that vicious blockade of Cuba
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November 24, 2006
For 15 straight years the United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to end the 45 year inhumane blockade of Cuba by the United States o...
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Thinking aloud a day after US elections
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November 17, 2006
Last week all eyes were on the US elections and if you were like me you would have been up late into the night soaking it all up. I must admit that pa...
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Remembering October 21, 1935
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November 3, 2006
In recent times October 21st & 22nd have passed with a resounding silence that defies the significance of those days as anniversary dates of the 1935 ...
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Thoughts on Independence
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October 26, 2006
This is a copy of a letter written in October 1978 that reflects on the issue of “Independence”. It was sent to the Editor of the Vincentian newsp...
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The tensions, challenges of independence
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October 20, 2006
Every year we celebrate the anniversary of independence. We celebrate, it will seem, the mere fact that on the October 27, 1979 we achieved what is of...
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Throwing caution to the wind
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September 29, 2006
Like most Vincentians Tuesday was a very proud day and 6:35 pm a very proud time. That, of course, was the day and time when Earl 'Ole' George complet...
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Rethinking development
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September 22, 2006
On October 2, Dr. Michael Witter, Head of the Department of Economics at the Mona branch of the University of the West Indies will deliver a lecture a...