Dr. Fraser- Point of View
July 19, 2019
Carnival is over so we have to take off our masks and face the stark reality. I said begin, because some people are still in the carnival mode. On Fri...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
June 28, 2019
I know it is carnival time, but I have to write about cricket. After Monday’s game against New Zealand, I went to John Keats: “My heart aches and a dr...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
June 21, 2019
At this time every year the results of the CPEA commands our attention. The highflyers and schools from which they come are celebrated in the media. S...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
June 14, 2019
The Indians left their country for different reasons but among them was the promise of good wages and living conditions. Unlike the African slave trad...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
June 7, 2019
On Sunday, June 2, the SVG Indian Heritage Foundation celebrated the 158th anniversary of the arrival here of East Indian indentures. Following Slave ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
May 31, 2019
The Silly season or what some call Seasonal Cockfighting time is very much on us. What happened recently in parliament is a manifestation of it.We hav...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
May 24, 2019
At this time of year, the issue of education is very much in the air as students write their local and regional examinations. Last week I tried to loo...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
May 17, 2019
Today, 16 centres throughout SVG will accommodate about 1,785 Grade 6 students for the Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment examination. This exam is sti...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
May 10, 2019
On Wednesday, South Africans went to the polls to elect a new government in what will be, perhaps, the most important election since the historic one ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
May 3, 2019
Today the body of the late John Horne will be laid to rest in the graveyard of his regular place of worship, the St. George’s Cathedral where he playe...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
April 26, 2019
I really could not think of another way of describing the late John Horne. He was one hell of an individual, genuine as one can be. He lovedpeople an...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
April 18, 2019
We are now into what is called ‘Holy Week’ in the Christian tradition. Then from tomorrow we move into the two most important days in Christian societ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
April 12, 2019
THIS WEEK was a sad one in the life of many Vincentians with the talk shows on Wednesday taken up with calls about the fire on board the MV Gem Star. ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
April 5, 2019
I MUST admit to bias and some sentimentality when the issue of whaling comes up. Some people do not realise that the blackfish is also a whale - “pilo...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
April 5, 2019
I MUST admit to bias and some sentimentality when the issue of whaling comes up. Some people do not realise that the blackfish is also a whale - “pilo...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
March 29, 2019
Over the past 10 days a number of issues have commanded the attention of the populace in SVG and the rest of the region. Here are some thoughts on two...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
March 22, 2019
As I ‘pen’ this column from Toronto on this day, March 20, I am fully aware that Spring has sprung. It is fittingly, the warmest it has been for a lon...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
March 15, 2019
What seemed to have overshadowed those messages was the push for bragging rights by some enterprises, highlighting the number of women in top leadersh...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
March 8, 2019
The Leon “Bigger Biggs” Samuel issue is still very much in the air. It was sometime around 2011 that he was accused of damaging the environment at Rab...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
February 8, 2019
After West Indies 381 run defeat of England in four days in Barbados my immediate reaction was that “One swallow does not make a summer”. After all We...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
February 1, 2019
What is happening in Venezuela is messy and demands more than one article to grasp the magnitude of what is at play. It should be of importance to us ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
January 25, 2019
SOME OF US probably do not remember or perhaps never knew that January 22 was once a holiday here, celebrating our ‘discovery’ by Columbus. The histor...
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January 18, 2019
WE SHOULD REALLY have made a collective resolution to wake up from our deep slumber in 2019. It appears to manifest itself more visibly every January....
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
January 11, 2019
ON JUNE 27, 2018 my column was captioned “A View of the Public Service from Outside”. It was in response to the PM’s call to the public to report dire...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
January 4, 2019
WELL THE resolutions for 2019 have been made with many resolving to do a multiplicity of things. It is something that we feel we ought to do. But wher...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
December 28, 2018
AFTER ALL THE excitement of Christmas one is left to ponder the view that Christ is being increasingly left out of Christmas. On Christmas day we have...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
December 21, 2018
December is usually a very challenging month. It is of course the Christmas season, that brings its own demands and creates its own agenda. It’s a tim...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
December 14, 2018
We are into the season that most of us anxiously awaited. Belief in the birth of Christ, in fact, of Christianity, does not seem to matter these days....
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
December 7, 2018
On November 21, 1918, a notice in the Gazette informed the public about the signing of the armistice signalling the end of World War 1. Christmas of 1...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
November 9, 2018
It will be sometime before one can come to grips with the complexities of the mid-term elections, so I offer here some brief reflections. America used...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
November 2, 2018
On Tuesday, on the occasion of the Annual Independence Lecture series of the Open Campus, SVG, I was able to present some reflections on the Universit...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
October 26, 2018
I feel deeply that our theme for Independence this year should be a reminder to all of us, but especially to the politicians, that we have a country t...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
October 19, 2018
I TRY AS MUCH as possible to avoid going into Kingstown and do so only when I have something to do there. Quite often I run into persons who tell me t...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
October 12, 2018
I always found Barbados a fascinating and intriguing country, a country labelled ‘Little England’ because of its long interrupted colonial association...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
October 5, 2018
OCTOBER is the time we celebrate the recovery of our ‘Independence’. Let us never forget that our early ancestors lived in an independent society unti...
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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
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April 2, 2026
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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...
