Dr. Fraser- Point of View
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...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
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 ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
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...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
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...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
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...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
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...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
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...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
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...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
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...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
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...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
February 14, 2020
WHEN I REFLECT on what has been happening in the political domain in the US over the past 12 months, a number of questions come to mind. Is President ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
February 7, 2020
ONCE AGAIN, the talking point around the country is about domestic violence and abuse. This time, it has more than ever, enraged the country. A Cuban-...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
January 31, 2020
ON WEDNESDAY hundreds of Vincentians, diplomats and friends of Sir Frederick packed the Methodist Church to bid farewell to an outstanding Vincentian ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
January 24, 2020
THERE IS no need for any diagnosis of the sickness that is besetting this country. This is really the time when the fever that grips and controls us o...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
January 17, 2020
ON NOVEMBER 7, 2019, the United Nations General Assembly passed its 28th consecutive year resolution condemning the United States economic embargo of ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
January 10, 2020
January 1 was 216 years since Jacques Dessalines declared Haiti a French Republic. The Haitians celebrated the occasion with the traditional pumpkin s...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
January 3, 2020
The town was a mad jumble of people, of children of all ages galore, including those still in their mothers’ wombs, of vendors, of carts and vehicles....
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
December 20, 2019
I applaud the Christian Coalition for its recent statement on Rape and Sexual Assault. It seemed to have been motivated by the annual UN Sixteen Days ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
December 13, 2019
After that grotesque and ridiculous sham Dominica elections that they claim reflected the will of the people, it ºwas good to be greeted with the news...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
December 6, 2019
You are reading this column on December 6, General Election Day in Dominica, but it was written on December 4, two days before. A lot would have happe...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
November 29, 2019
This week has turned out to be an explosive one with startling revelations made by an Al-Jazeera investigative report that focused largely on Dominica...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
November 22, 2019
It is amazing that in a region that embraces the OECS and CARICOM we know so little about each other. Our television station provides us with a multip...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
November 15, 2019
The season when a lot of foolishness happens is with us once more. Over the next year a number of elections will be held in the region, some within we...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
November 8, 2019
I have in the past wondered about and reflected on the relationship between Jomo and his Comrade leader. Two things stood out for me.Quite often in th...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
November 1, 2019
In my recent publication I argued that “an Independent country with the basic structures of colonialism still intact needed to reconstruct its society...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
October 25, 2019
Premier Cato on his return from England where he discussed procedures for reclaiming the country’s Independence indicated that the day was to be Janua...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
October 18, 2019
Grenada achieved its independence on February 7, 1974, making the matter of Independence a talking point particularly in St Lucia and St Vincent. The ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
October 11, 2019
As we begin to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the recovery of our Independence with the expected pomp and ceremony, we will do well to reflect on t...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
October 4, 2019
The process of decolonisation that informed our ultimate path to independence can be traced back to the second decade of the 20th century when at conf...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
September 27, 2019
Two decisions on Tuesday, one in the UK and the other in the US would have warmed the hearts of those concerned about the dictatorial tendencies preva...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
September 20, 2019
ON THE FRONT PAGE of the Searchlight of August 23 was a piece written by Lyf Compton, captioned “We can’t pretend a rape culture does not exist”. It w...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
September 13, 2019
Video clippings and reports of what appears to be the virtual destruction of the Abaco Cays and to a lesser extent Grand Bahama in the Bahamas were pa...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
September 6, 2019
An element central to our post-independence development is missing. It has to do with the absence of civil society groups. I say this as I reflect on ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
August 30, 2019
Since the assumption of the presidency of the US by Donald Trump I have been describing that country’s politics as tragicomic. Comedy and tragedy pla...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
August 23, 2019
IT IS DIFFICULT to think of anything else that could have contributed to the growth of racial consciousness at that time than the Garvey Movement and ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
August 16, 2019
What I remember most about Patrice is the occasion on which I first met her. This I am fond of relating because it says something about the kind of pe...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
August 9, 2019
I am appalled by the level of discourse in this country. If we are serious about lifting our country, we have to be honest to ourselves and be prepare...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
August 2, 2019
Yesterday, August 1, would have marked 181 years since our foreparents emerged from some of the darkest days in human history. It had been a long and ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
July 26, 2019
In this 40th year of the recovery of our independence we will be marking 181 years since our foreparents were freed from chattel slavery. Those 40 yea...
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April 2, 2026
THE DEPARTMENT OF Culture, in collaboration with the Peace Memorial Hall, officially unveiled the first ever large-scale sculptural mural in St.Vincen...
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April 2, 2026
PRIME MINISTER, Dr. Godwin Friday, has issued a statement addressing a series of recent incidents of violence, public disorder, and growing concerns a...
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April 2, 2026
UN SECRETARY-GENERAL Antonio Guterres, has strongly condemned an incident that led to the killing of two Indonesian peacekeepers of the United Nations...
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April 2, 2026
THE NATIONAL Society of Persons with Disabilities (NSPD) in St.Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) held its annual Melanie McKenzie Educational and Medic...
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April 2, 2026
SIX SECTIONS, ALL representing some aspects of the way Vincentians live, will be turned into costumes when the Lynx Mas Band makes it presentation for...
