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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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October 21, 2005
Something seems to be happening in this country. What it is I am not sure, but you pick it up everywhere. More and more people are talking although so...
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October 14, 2005
St.Vincent and the Grenadines is in a state of heightened political alert. This has become obvious with the many calls to radio stations about issues ...
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October 7, 2005
I have not for a long time come across a book that was as gripping as John Perkins' "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man". In fact it was difficult to ...
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September 30, 2005
I had indicated before that I was once of the view that we had gone beyond the kind of issues of class and race that had been surfacing in recent week...
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September 23, 2005
The word fever according to my Collins English dictionary means intense nervous excitement. It also means delirium that is a state of lunacy or madnes...
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September 16, 2005
In my column last week in giving an off the cuff response to Dr. Kirby's death about which I had only then been informed, I mentioned that a book whic...
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September 9, 2005
I was actually sitting at my computer trying to decide my topic of conversation this week when I was informed about the death of Dr. Kirby. This took ...
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August 26, 2005
Last week's newspapers were all about the proposed international airport and bridge over the Dry River. In fact in some circles there is a sort of hys...
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August 19, 2005
Over the past couple weeks the atmosphere in this country has become electrified with much publicity and even glamour surrounding a number of governme...
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August 12, 2005
The Times newspaper in 1938 on the hundredth anniversary of total legal freedom from slavery had the following to say, "Physical emancipation of the b...
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August 5, 2005
Is SVG forgotten? A couple years ago while following the weather channel to view the progress of a hurricane that was threatening the Windward Islands...
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July 29, 2005
Monday, August 1, marks 167 years since emancipation. We continue to celebrate the occasion but to what end it might be asked? One has to question whe...
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July 22, 2005
Last week in Jamaica my life was dominated by that lady we named Emily. Well the week really started on a bad note. I got to Barbados only to find tha...
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July 8, 2005
The idea of an international airport is once again news. What worries me is that this surfaces before every election and then to disappear until the f...
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July 1, 2005
It is Carnival time again and we are about to get into the big weekend, a weekend that builds up to and prepares us for the final bash on Monday and T...
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June 24, 2005
The Caribbean has not really greeted news of the 100 metres world record set by Asafa Powell of Jamaica in the way it should. This is an outstanding f...
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June 17, 2005
• Continued from last week. Last week I ended with a reference to Rodney's outstanding polemic How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. I continue with a c...
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June 10, 2005
Included in the recently published book of poems by Shake Keane was one written in 1973 that was dedicated to Walter Rodney. It is entitled ‘Private...
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May 27, 2005
What more can one say about West Indies cricket that has not been said before? The pundits are stunned and of course, everyone is a pundit. Really, We...
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May 13, 2005
The Digicel Connection There is definitely never a dull moment in West Indies cricket. It takes different forms and shapes, but these days it assumes ...
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May 6, 2005
(This article was written on April 27th for last week's edition) The appearance of reigning Miss SVG, Javorne Williams on an NDP platform, doing I bel...
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April 22, 2005
I was unable to view the launching of the Caribbean Court of Justice in Trinidad on Saturday, July 16, but nonetheless felt the pride of this historic...
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April 15, 2005
Despite the caption, 'FINAL REPORT', the CRC does not conceive of finality and suggests that there are a number of things that need to be done before ...
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April 8, 2005
It was on April 7, 1995 that the Searchlight was turned on. Today it is ten years and a day old. In a country and region where entities have a short l...
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April 1, 2005
I have only had a quick look at the Constitutional Review Commission’s (CRC’s) report but will make some remarks by way of thinking aloud rather t...
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March 24, 2005
There is never a dull moment in West Indies cricket but these are moments we would rather do without. It is sad that West Indies cricket which means s...
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March 18, 2005
I write this article today, Wednesday March 16, with certain doubts in my mind based on rumours that have been circulating about the historic walk by ...
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March 11, 2005
On monday next, March 14 we celebrate another National Heroes Day. I am sometimes forced to ask myself what it is all about and what the point of havi...
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March 4, 2005
Trinidadians will tell you that there is always some bacchanal at play in their homeland. The big news, or really, the latest confusion, has to do wit...
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February 25, 2005
Caribbean politicians are a strange breed of people. I have often wondered if it is the acquisition of power that makes them so or that individuals wi...