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Brief Reflections on the 1935 Riots
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October 8, 2021
Two major events took place in St. Vincent in October, the first was the riots of October 21/22 1935, and the second Independence in 1979. Every year ...
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‘Bigging-Up’ Cuba!
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October 1, 2021
The Centre for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices said recently that Cuba’s Abdala vaccine is 92% effective after 3 doses. Near...
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How and When Will it all End?
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September 24, 2021
One of my difficulties is having to write my column on Wednesday, so that by the time it is available to readers of Searchlight on Friday and those wh...
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We Need to Find a Way Forward
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September 17, 2021
I ENDED MY column last week with a quotation from the Anglican Bishop of the West Indies whom I referred to as the late Drexel Gomes. I am happy to re...
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This has got to be the worst of Times
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September 10, 2021
I WISH I could have said like Charles Dickens, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” In my many moons in this once blessed land I don...
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Do we ever learn?
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September 3, 2021
Today, I want to follow on from where Bassy left off last week. We are now into the month of September, and I suspect plans are already being prepared...
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Let Democracy Reign!
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August 27, 2021
We are into the last weekend of the month we dub Emancipation Month. Clearly a misnomer because whatever limited activities we have are centred on the...
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Difficult times! Will our faith see us through?
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August 20, 2021
(Continued from last week) I ended last week with what was really a rhetorical question because security personnel around the PM are there to assess s...
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Difficult times! Will our faith see us Through?
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August 13, 2021
The talk around SVG is about the Prime Minister being hit by a stone. One understands why this is so! The act should be condemned fully. I do not know...
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August 1st is not about celebration!
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August 6, 2021
Releases last weekend indicated that we were celebrating the emancipation of the enslaved. But what is there to celebrate 183 years after?  Official s...
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It was 183 years ago
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July 30, 2021
Sunday, August 1 would be 183 years since our enslaved foreparents were finally ‘freed’. The Emancipation Act, of 1 August 1834, had freed 2, 959 chil...
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The Kenneth John I knew – In Appreciation
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July 9, 2021
Early last Saturday morning I received news of the passing of Dr Kenneth John. Although I realised that he was quite ill the news certainly rocked me....
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Evil Stalks this Land!
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June 11, 2021
The state of SVG is rotting from head to tail and it appears as if evil stalks the land that someone once called ‘home of the blessed’. There is certa...
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The troubling story of Cornelius John
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June 25, 2021
The Cornelius John story continues to amaze me as it does other concerned Vincentians.  The relative silence of the police and the failure to arrest o...
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What does our silence mean?
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June 18, 2021
At times like these it is useful to reflect on, and remind ourselves of the message which came from Martin Niemoller’s 1946 poem “First they came for ...
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Israel and Palestine- the never ending struggle!
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June 4, 2021
Seventy two years ago when the state of Israel was established as a homeland for Jews, resulting in the expulsion of over 500,000 Palestinians who con...
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The challenges continue
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May 28, 2021
The Soufriere volcano has gone out of its explosive mode but is still active as noted by a series of earthquakes not felt by humans, but recorded by i...
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The way forward cannot be business as usual
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May 21, 2021
While some people outside the Red Zone have returned to their homes, the volcano remains suspiciously quiet, but in any event the nation’s thoughts an...
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Has SVG gone to the Dogs?!
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May 14, 2021
While the country is still trying to come to grips with a volcano that we are not sure has burnt itself out and the continuing coronavirus pandemic th...
The ‘PR’ I knew
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The ‘PR’ I knew
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May 7, 2021
Parnel was my close friend, perhaps my best friend at primary school in Barrouallie. He was then known as ‘PC’- Pernel Campbell. (I suspect that while...
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Trying to make sense of what is happening
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April 30, 2021
In the weeks before Soufriere began its explosive eruption the main issues being discussed nationally had to do with vaccination and questioning the m...
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An historical peep at past eruptions
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April 16, 2021
As we reflect on past eruptions while trying to come to grips with the uncertainties that face us today,  we have to take into account the state of th...
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Brief recollections about Good Friday 1979
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April 1, 2021
“The thing split Good Friday in two And that good new morning groaned and snapped like breaking an old habit (The Volcano Suite – Shake Keane) With th...
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Some Thoughts about the Vaccine Situation
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March 26, 2021
A friend from Antigua wondered why Vincentians were not taking the vaccine. I saw at that time a chart from NEWSDAY indicating the quantity of vaccina...
Marika story continues
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Marika story continues
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March 12, 2021
In my column of October 30, 2020, I lauded Marika Baptiste for her performance at the Lions Club South Public Speaking competition. Her impromptu pres...
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America’s Effusive Civil War
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March 5, 2021
I am using a word we now associate with the eruption of our volcano, to try to make sense of the madness that has overtaken the “land of the free and ...
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Confessions of a Prime Minister
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February 26, 2021
(This is a reworking of a piece initially done in 2014) I was on the Shrink’s couch complaining about serious depression. It was only two months ago I...
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The Shake Keane Story (Part 3)
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February 19, 2021
In a chapter captioned “The View from Tiffany’s Lounge” the author looks at Shake’s New York experience, the US being his final port of migration. Tif...
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The Shake Keane Story (Part 2)
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February 12, 2021
The Shake Keane Story provides not only narrative but analyses his poetry, and jazz, paying particular attention to the link between his poetry and ja...
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The Shake Keane Story (Part 1)
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February 5, 2021
THE SHAKE KEANE story is finally here. Last week Thursday, The Shake Keane Story a short but comprehensive biography of Shake Keane written by Philip ...
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Randy’s Final Step to the Rear
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January 29, 2021
Randy D ended some of his radio programmes with the words “Let me take two steps to the rear and get out of here”. Well, he has taken his final step o...
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Combatting Soufriere and Covid-19: Our Challenge!
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January 21, 2021
I have felt for some time now that one of our biggest shortcomings, as we face the challenges of a possible explosive eruption and combatting the Covi...
Donald Trump exposes America
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Donald Trump exposes America
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January 15, 2021
Many mocked Trump’s Birtherism talk, his pledge to build a wall across the Mexican border, and the verbal attacks on Latin American immigrants. They m...
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Challenging Times
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January 8, 2021
Many of us welcomed with great expectation, even if unable to celebrate, the passage from 2020 to 2021. We hoped that the particular challenges, heada...
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The year ahead!
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December 31, 2020
2020 was one hell of a year. The COVID pandemic and the general election consumed most of our attention and energy. We have generally not taken the pa...
Ill-discipline at its height!
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Ill-discipline at its height!
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December 23, 2020
it is now known that we have 22 active Covid virus cases and that overall, the country has recorded 107 cases. We are informed, too, that one Grenadia...
America unmasked
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America unmasked
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December 18, 2020
It is easy to consider Donald Trump as being unhinged, perhaps mad. We have been following him closely for 4 years and wondered what had become of the...