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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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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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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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April 20, 2007
One of the things the World Cup has done is to cause us to reminisce about old times and to look at our early cricket heroes. Channel 63 has been repl...
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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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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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March 30, 2007
On June 2, 1861 the first ship load of East Indian immigrants arrived here on the ship âTravaucoreâ. It had taken 92 days from Madras. On board we...
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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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March 16, 2007
It is quite easy to try to pin the blame for the negative reactions to Bushâs Latin Americaâs visit on Hugo Chavez. Certainly the Venezuelan Presi...
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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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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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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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February 9, 2007
Last year the Caribbean media featured the achievement of Jamaican, OâNeil Simpson who won the Individual World Public Speaking Championship title a...
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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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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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January 19, 2007
Hadnât 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 Wâs ânewâ...
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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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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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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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December 15, 2006
Following opinion polls that predicted a land slide victory for Dr Kenny Anthonyâs St Lucia Labour Party, the overwhelming reaction from persons out...
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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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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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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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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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October 26, 2006
This is a copy of a letter written in October 1978 that reflects on the issue of âIndependenceâ. It was sent to the Editor of the Vincentian newsp...
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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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October 13, 2006
The news that Ordon Graham is to be charged for treason or for uttering seditious words arising from a comment made at a public meeting at Buccament h...
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October 6, 2006
The year 2007 in the Caribbean will be important not only for the staging of the Cricket World Cup but it will mark 200 years since the abolition of t...
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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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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...
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September 15, 2006
On a radio programme some months ago the issue of the service industry as a key player in the growth and development of the Vincentian and Caribbean e...
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September 8, 2006
I was pleased to note that the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies is now offering a Master of Science in Cricket Studies. It aims t...
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September 1, 2006
Some weeks ago in this column I made the point that the Cuban people were the ones who had the sole right to decide their future. Among the comments f...
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August 25, 2006
Dr. E.G. King Before I deal with the issue that I want to address in my column this week I have to offer a brief tribute to Dr. Errol King, someone I ...
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August 18, 2006
Why does America feel that it has the right to determine the destiny of post-Castro Cuba? Cuba and its people certainly do not belong to them. It was ...
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August 11, 2006
It is indeed full of irony that in a month when we celebrate the anniversary of emancipation the issue of land should surface in the way it does. I re...
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August 4, 2006
Well, I am back again after a long break. I had hoped in this week during which we celebrated another anniversary of slave emancipation to share some ...
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December 16, 2005
One would have thought that after December 7, we would have been able to settle down, enjoy Christmas and work towards healing the nation. It appears ...
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November 25, 2005
Two recent stabbings, one at the Grammar School, or rather involving Grammar School boys and another involving two students from the Intermediate High...
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November 18, 2005
On Sunday and Monday last, this country was subjected to extremely heavy rainfall, perhaps the heaviest we have experienced for a long time. At times ...
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November 11, 2005
Well the bell has sounded loud and clear and the race is well and truly on. One would have thought that this would have prevented the tension that a p...
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November 4, 2005
"...For we should never assume that the political man is always suitably equipped to articulate a commanding vision of a new society. The politician i...
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October 28, 2005
By the time this issue of the newspaper reaches the street we would have celebrated perhaps the most important Independence Anniversary since 1980. Th...
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Local calypsonians are gearing up to bring their best game as the preliminary judging round has officially begun. This year is a big year for the frat...
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St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has emerged as the top-performing Caribbean destination for growth in tourism arrivals from the United States (US)...
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