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A mission to rebuild what is broken!
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December 4, 2020
While the political parties continue their post-election reflections, is it the mission of the people to rebuild what is broken? This column is meant ...
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Continuing elections review
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November 27, 2020
Now that the election appears to be over, pending some uncertainty about North Leeward, which can at most only change the composition of parliament, n...
A Vincentian Surgeon’s Swan Song
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A Vincentian Surgeon’s Swan Song
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November 20, 2020
Sir Cecil Cyrus has presented us with what he calls his swan song, his fifth publication, entitled “A Potpourri – The Swan Song of A Caribbean Surgeon...
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Time to face the music!
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November 13, 2020
Well the Ole talk is over. It’s time for delivery. Time to begin converting promises into reality. These are difficult times with Covid still hanging ...
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The People have Spoken
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November 7, 2020
Well the people have spoken and the ULP has been given the green light. The NDP secured the majority of votes cast but this has little meaning in the ...
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A bright spark in a season of insanity
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October 30, 2020
I can no longer refer to the election season as Silly. What we have is sheer insanity! I was reflecting on this and then came across a video of Marika...
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Political tidbits
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October 23, 2020
Last Tuesday, Nomination Day for the impending elections, I saw something courtesy Facebook that was pleasing to my soul. After filing his nomination ...
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A bizarre moment
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October 16, 2020
THE YEAR 2020 has been an extraordinary year and if there was any thought that it could not get any more bizarre, the announcement that general electi...
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Remembering Alphonso Dennie
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October 2, 2020
The passing of Alphonso Dennie has forced me to reflect on my intellectual development, for he was one of four teachers/lecturers who made a tremendou...
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Making Sense of the Silly Season
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September 25, 2020
I intended writing a completely different article, but as I turned on my computer the caption of an article in the I Witness News dictated otherwise. ...
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SVG needs serious political fogging!
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September 18, 2020
But will that be enough! Our country is standing at the edge of a precipice and something will have to be done soon because this land is being transfo...
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In These Times
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September 11, 2020
It is deplorable to see a country which pre-Covid, was struggling to stay afloat, existing virtually at the bottom of the Eastern Caribbean countries’...
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Politics and ‘We the People’!
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September 4, 2020
Perhaps one of the best things in recent years to have emerged to get our people involved in the political life of the country has been the growth of ...
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey lectured in St Vincent
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August 21, 2020
Last Monday, August 17th, would have been 133 years since Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born at St. Ann’s Bay on Jamaica’s North Coast. In commemorating th...
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Lest we forget
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August 14, 2020
We are still into the month of Emancipation, one hundred and eighty two years after our D-day and also still into our 40th year of Independence.Moreov...
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Remembering Jerry George
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August 7, 2020
Like thousands of people throughout SVG, the region and the diaspora, news of the death of Jerry George sent shock waves down my spine. Jerry was my n...
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Politics in the service of development
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July 31, 2020
ONE UNDERSTANDS why the period leading up to elections is referred to as the Silly Season, for really, we do a lot of silly things. Normally sensible,...
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Our Politics Sickening! Our Democracy Farcical!
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July 24, 2020
I was driven to this topic after seeing on mornings trucks lined up outside BRAGSA, waiting for goodies; lumber, cement, galvanise, I believe, to be d...
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Covid-19, Black Lives Matter and Reparations
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July 17, 2020
The brutal killing, as I care to describe it, of George Floyd, by Minneapolis police on May 25,sparked an almost unprecedented reaction not only in Am...
A tribute to Sir Everton Weekes
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A tribute to Sir Everton Weekes
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July 10, 2020
I consider Sir Everton Weekes my cricketing hero. At a very tender age I was addicted to cricket. Unable to leave home I was from the veranda able to ...
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LIAT is no more – A few thoughts!
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July 3, 2020
It was a mere few days ago that LIAT’s CEO announced that the airline was going to extend its suspension of service until July 15 while they monitor a...
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We Need to ‘breathe’!
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June 26, 2020
I am back this week on a theme I started last week as I reflect on the Black Lives Movement. I said then that we need to show solidarity with the stru...
Groundings in remembrance of Walter Rodney
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Groundings in remembrance of Walter Rodney
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June 19, 2020
LAST SATURDAY, June 13, marked the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Walter Rodney. This year’s anniversary is a special one, coming in the mid...
Are we at a turning point?
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Are we at a turning point?
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June 12, 2020
The last two weeks have seen something that is almost unprecedented engulfing the US, with repercussions in Europe and other areas. The killing of Geo...
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SVG needs a total overhaul
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June 5, 2020
We are still in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic with a great deal of uncertainty as to when things can return to a near state of normalcy, that is ...
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Trump is positively negative!
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May 29, 2020
Not only did President Trump test “positively toward negative”, but he tested perfectly, “meaning I tested negative.”  One way of coping with the stre...
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We Really are Special!
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May 22, 2020
I am back on this issue because we really special! Over the past week we saw photos of a large gathering outside the Social Welfare Department with pe...
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Looking ahead
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May 15, 2020
There are two issues that face us as a nation and as part of a regional grouping that is still dreaming of the CSME. We first have to contain this kil...
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Our collective responsibility
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May 8, 2020
The current crisis presents serious challenges, some of which naturally were not contemplated.  It cannot be business as usual, because much is new an...
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Let’s be serious!
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April 30, 2020
As I write my column today, Tuesday, April 28 (This being a shortened week), the main talking point appears to be about getting home persons working o...
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Period of Despair!
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April 24, 2020
I begin this week’s column by recognising that Wednesday, April 22, was the anniversary of the day John Horne left us. Too much can never be said abou...
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There will be no Village Dog Fight!
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April 17, 2020
While we are trying to understand this still-new virus COVID -19 we have to confront a crisis in leadership.  In past crises, health or otherwise, we ...
Easter in the Time of COVID-19
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Easter in the Time of COVID-19
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April 9, 2020
In 1979, as Shake Keane reminds us, “The thing split Good Friday in two”. This year Covid-19 will determine how we spend Easter. Well, possibly, for w...
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We in Vinceyland are a Special People!!
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April 3, 2020
I had started writing this weekly column when I received news that SVG has a second positive case of the COVID-19 virus. It does not detract from what...
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Our time of gloom
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March 27, 2020
ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT the Prime Minister finally addressed the nation on the issue of COVID-19. To me the most important statement he made is that we are...
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It is the worst of times
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March 20, 2020
WE ARE INTO challenging and unprecedented times where the global village is being taxed to its capacity. The village is virtually at a partial shutdow...
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From villain to National Hero
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March 13, 2020
TOMORROW, March 14, we pay homage to Chatoyer whom we have declared our first national hero. Although he is central to the story, it is much larger th...
A system of National Honours needed!
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A system of National Honours needed!
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March 6, 2020
I HAVE on different occasions suggested that a system of national awards or honours is needed. This really should have gone along with the establishme...
The election bell has rung
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The election bell has rung
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February 28, 2020
The election bell is certainly ringing, but the question is when will it stop? Once the new year rolled in election was very much in the air. Only the...
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The challenges of living in the Global Village
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February 21, 2020
DURING THE LAST ten days or so this country was in a state of near panic as word spread about the deadly coronavirus. Fifteen or 20 years ago it would...