Dr. Fraser- Point of View
August 12, 2022
It has been a few years now that the National Heroes Day Committee had submitted to Cabinet four names of persons to be considered for national hero s...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
August 5, 2022
At this time when we have just commemorated another Emancipation Day my thoughts are on Oscar Allen. Before he went to the hospital where he spent his...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
July 29, 2022
I begin my column this week with a brief tribute to Nigel Greaves whose sudden death on July 17, at age 63, sent shock waves throughout the nation. Th...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
July 22, 2022
The SVG UWI Open Campus, last Tuesday and Wednesday held its Country Conference on the theme “Ancestry and Heritage- The Vincentian Identity and Herit...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
July 15, 2022
In my column last week, I stated that I had heard no reason given to explain why Zion I’s calypso “Hypocrites” was not shown to those persons who paid...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
July 8, 2022
Vincymas is over so I guess now is the time for post-mortems, reviews, bad talk and getting rid of any steam left. Seriously, much will be said about ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
July 1, 2022
It was good of the CDC to remind us that we are still in the pandemic for over the past weeks it appeared that we had finally killed the virus. Little...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
June 24, 2022
After an absence of two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic Vincy Mas will return later this evening with the calypso semi-finals where 22 calypson...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
June 17, 2022
Anyone who has never worried or thought about the future of the US must be doing so following the revelations of the January 6 panel on the US Capitol...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
June 10, 2022
Last Saturday, June 4, the Caribbean lost one of its foremost Literary giants, George Lamming who died at age 94, four days before his 95th birthday, ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
June 3, 2022
Last Wednesday, July first, the Indian community continued their annual celebrations and reflection about that day 161 years ago when their ancestors ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
May 27, 2022
THERE WAS SOME good news last week after the depressing and sad news of the last weeks. We had been hearing so much of murders, particularly that of P...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
May 20, 2022
SOMETHING is fundamentally wrong in this land we call “Home of the Blessed”. We are drifting but to where? We sometimes forget how small we are, that ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
May 13, 2022
The Russian “special military operation” has certainly clouded important news in the Caribbean. We are not even hearing much about the pandemic which ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
May 6, 2022
I listened to a discussion on radio, part of which was about Reparations, and realised that we have not done a good job educating our folks about that...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
April 29, 2022
I have first to acknowledge that the Queen is still our Head of State and is this year celebrating her Platinum Jubilee, but we are constantly reminde...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
April 22, 2022
Or is it the real McCoy? What am I talking about? The reaction of Senate Republicans to the nomination of the first Black Woman to be a Justice of the...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
April 14, 2022
This paper hits the street today, Holy Thursday, the last working day of the week. Tomorrow is ‘Good Friday’ the day on which Jesus was crucified and ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
April 8, 2022
The visit to the region by Prince William and Kate Middleton, described in some circles as a ‘Charm Offensive’, part of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jub...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
April 1, 2022
I listened to an interview given to I Witness News by Ronnia Durham -Balcombe after representing her client, Kenson King in Court on Monday last. Mrs ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
March 25, 2022
It is really painful these days to look at cable/tv news. Most is about the Russian-Ukraine war with its harrowing images. Scenes of destroyed apartme...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
March 18, 2022
We are really off by a few hours because Chatoyer actually died in the early morning of March 15. He was killed after an ambush by British soldiers an...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
March 11, 2022
I got some interesting reactions to last week’s article, most by email, pointing to the hypocrisy of the US and the West, and to NATO’s eastward expan...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
March 4, 2022
As I write today, March 2, I am quite aware that by the time this article is read the situation would have changed significantly, with so many things ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
February 25, 2022
In the issue of Searchlight of February 11, I had reflected briefly on the carnival riots of February 11, 1879, 143 years ago. In this piece I will tr...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
February 18, 2022
As a young boy I used to think that the US was the fountain of democracy, before I found out the truth. Is the real US now revealing itself? I wrote s...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
February 11, 2022
On a recent radio programme with Bert Francois, I expressed the view that the history of St. Vincent and the Grenadines is a history of struggle and r...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
February 4, 2022
Thirty-seven Vincentian students are now in the United Kingdom pursuing undergraduate studies in a number of subject areas at the University of Wales....
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
January 28, 2022
While we have been paying close attention to the number of deaths from the Covid virus, it must have dawned on us that there has been a large number o...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
January 21, 2022
I have run out of adjectives to describe what is happening in our land. To secure passage of the budget we had to refer to the highly comic action of ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
January 14, 2022
There is never really a dull moment in SVG. How many times have I said this! Today is such a time with about seven of 14 ULP parliamentarians declared...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
January 7, 2022
Many of us start the New Year making resolutions, a ritual really, ‘a rite of order’ that we feel we have to do. It probably gives us some measure of ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
December 31, 2021
Let me first correct an error I made some weeks ago when I referred to Barbados as being the only Commonwealth Caribbean country to have appointed liv...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
December 23, 2021
Last week really belonged to James ‘Son’ Fitz-Allen Mitchell, its highpoint being Saturday, December 18 with a farewell ceremony that lasted practical...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
December 17, 2021
BARBADOS’S MOVE TO Republican status has created quite a stir in the region, with some heads of government urging others to follow suit. It was as if ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
December 3, 2021
I ask myself the question- Wasn’t it possible to resolve this vaccine issue without creating the kind of hostility, distrust, divisiveness, and threat...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
November 26, 2021
This week was another hell of a week when our nation was at war with itself. The acquittal of the two persons involved in the Cornelius John case, whi...
News
December 16, 2025
THE Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS) was a central partner in a major joint anti-narcotics operatio...
News
December 16, 2025
A JETBLUE AIRWAYS pilot said he narrowly avoided a “midair collision” with a U.S. military aircraft that entered his flight path while the JetBlue pla...
News
December 16, 2025
WHAT IS PROBABLY the first philosophical book written by a Vincentian was recently released and is now available to the public. “Living in Wisdom- an ...
From the Courts, News
December 16, 2025
A COLONAIRE MAN will be spending the rest of the Christmas season behind bars after he was remanded for breaking into the home of a Peruvian Vale resi...
From the Courts, News
December 12, 2025
A ROCKIESWOMAN, who apologised to the police for stealing a dozen eggs and less than a pound of onions from Coreas Supermarket, was given a suspended ...
