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Jennifer
April 24, 2020
by Margaret Sullivan and Nelcia Marshall Robinson Of the girls in our age group, in the village, I found myself often at the home of Miss Emma, taken ...
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April 21, 2020
St Vincent and the Grenadines has a wide cross-section of vulnerable populations that are now trying to grapple with the realities of Covid-19 and its...
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From the series Almonds and Sunday Dresses
April 17, 2020
by: Margaret Sullivan and Nelcia Marshall Robinson Carnival Monday was both a much looked forward to, and a much feared day. It was old Mas’, and stra...
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From the series Almonds and Sunday Dresses
April 9, 2020
by Margaret Sullivan and Nelcia Marshall Robinson He was the village Head Teacher, a post of considerable status in the society. With perfect diction...
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from the series Almonds and Sunday Dresses
April 3, 2020
by Margaret Sullivan and Nelcia Marshall Robinson When we were growing up, there would be fetes for children, which began at around 2.00 pm, and ended...
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March 27, 2020
This Month in the Security Council – March 2020 THE MONTH OF MARCH, 2020 was a challenging month for our diplomatic team at the United Nations Securit...
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March 27, 2020
by NELCIA MARSHALL ROBINSON AND MARGARET SULLIVAN AUGUST HOLIDAYS were much looked forward to. They were long, and we children got to do many exciting...
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March 27, 2020
by Manuel Otero Director of the Inter- American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) WE ARE witnessing the spread of a new pandemic in the ...
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March 13, 2020
ONE HUNDRED children were screened and six scheduled for surgery when the World Pediatric Project (WPP) held its first diagnostic cardiology mission i...
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from the series Almonds and Sunday Dresses
March 13, 2020
by Margaret Sullivan and Nelcia Marshall- Robinson MR ADAMS was old, slow of steps and walked with a limp. He was almost always seated behind his Anvi...
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March 6, 2020
by Nelcia Marshall Robinson and Margaret Sullivan ATTENDING SUNDAY School was a much looked forward to occasion. Since the Anglican Church was far fro...
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March 6, 2020
By ANDREA BOWMAN Taipei, Taiwan I AM PLEASED and proud to reveal a hidden gem that had remained concealed since its publication in 2006. Honey and Lim...
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February 28, 2020
Seventy-eight patients were seen last week and 34 surgeries conducted by a 10-member team of specialists in ophthalmology and plastic surgery from the...
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February 28, 2020
by Margaret Sullivan and Nelcia Marshall Robinson Miss Amby went to town every Saturday, whether she had to walk or ride. She carried, on each occasio...
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February 21, 2020
From the series Almonds and Sunday Dresses by MARGARET SULLIVAN AND NELCIA MARSHALL ROBINSON HOW CAN WE ever forget those weddings, and the great exci...
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February 14, 2020
From the series Almonds and Sunday Dresses By Margaret Sullivan and Nelcia Marshall-Robinson I WAS REFLECTING on the kind of quiet, gentle, cool, easy...
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February 7, 2020
From the series Almonds and Sunday Dresses by Margaret Sullivan and Nelcia Marshall Robinson SINGLE WICKET CRICKET was a favourite game during recess ...
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February 7, 2020
by TRELSON L. MAPP HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE SVG has had three capitals during post-Columbian times. The first, Princess Town, today called Barrouallie...
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January 31, 2020
1. January 1, 2020 marked the commencement of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines’ tenure on the UN Security Council. Our first month on the Council saw ...
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January 31, 2020
by SIR LOUIS STRAKER JUNE 7, 2019 is a day that will stand out in the history of St Vincent and the Grenadines. Approximately one decade ago, this lit...
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January 31, 2020
by Margaret Sullivan and Nelcia Marshall-Robinson I FIRST MEt Dame Ruth when her daughter Margaret adopted me as her friend, and took me home to meet ...
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January 31, 2020
(continued from last week) by TRELSON L. MAPP PUBLIC SPACES In the public spaces, one can find a confluence of mouth pieces from different political p...
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From the Series Almonds and Sunday Dresses
January 24, 2020
by Margaret Sullivan and Nelcia Marshall Robinson IT FLOWERED IN front of the ‘Excel’ Cottage, and gladdened our eyes as we passed on our way to schoo...
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January 24, 2020
by TRELSON L MAPP THIS ARTICLE is the third in a series that highlights peculiarities of the Vincentian culture. The first, “ Tek Yo mouth off Vincy C...
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from the series Almonds & Sunday Dresses
January 17, 2020
by Margaret Sullivan and Nelcia Marshall Robinson He was a little man, thin and wiry, with a permanent goblin grin on his face. He was an alcoholic...
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January 17, 2020
by Joseph Mapp Marriaqua District Health Team A gentle look at the meal packages that are offered for sale in Kingstown and their affordability is ver...
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January 3, 2020
by Philbert John So, I gave an acquaintance a ride on my way to work on this morning (Monday, December 30). It turned out that she was headed to the s...
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from the series Almonds & Sunday Dresses
January 3, 2020
by Margaret Sullivan and Nelcia Marshall Robinson We would hear the ringing of the bell before we saw him. We would wonder whether he had a death anno...
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December 20, 2019
by BISHOP HOLLIS CHARLES, Bethel Gospel Assembly Mary was born into a very poor family but her parents were God- fearing. She was brought up in a Godl...
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December 20, 2019
by Margaret Sullivan and Nelcia Marshall I used to plait Corn Row or Cascadoo in my god-daughter Mishma’s hair. She used to be so proud of this wonder...
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December 13, 2019
I never eat a golden apple without remembering Harold. He belonged to one of the two families in our village. Harold was a farmer and would pass our h...
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by Margaret Sullivan and Nelcia Marshall
December 6, 2019
As children, we loved the rain, even when it came thundering over the mountains. Rain meant the water pouring from the galvanized roof into the gutter...
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December 6, 2019
(continued from last week) (final part) by Paula Prescod History and identity are strongly influenced by collective and individual attitudes to naming...
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by Margaret Sullivan and Nelcia Marshall
from the collection “Almonds and Sunday dresses”
November 22, 2019
As children, we licked our lips in anticipation when we realised that a main component of our Dinner would be “Sweat” Potatoes. We would be hoping tha...
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November 22, 2019
by Paula Prescod Place names or toponyms, as they are formally called, are like signposts that tell us a great deal about a nation’s past. They are a ...
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September 6, 2019
When the Memorial Funeral Home opened its doors on August 11, 2018, its main aim was to provide modern, affordable and efficient services to its clien...
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September 3, 2019
by Carnival Ken In the words of Alston Becket Cyrus, “carnival is mas and music! carnival is calypso! carnival is mas and steel-band! carnival is peac...
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August 16, 2019
Early life Vincent Ian Beache was born on August 13, 1931 in South Rivers, St Vincent. He had his early education at the St Vincent Boys Grammar Schoo...
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August 16, 2019
by Donald H.S. Thomas Customs Broker, Retired Educator & Sports Administrator Sir Vincent Ian Beache, the man I knew from age 22, mere words can never...
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August 16, 2019
by Godfred ‘Toffee’ Pompey In the late 1970s, I was introduced to one Vincent I Beache by my adopted mother Lucy Miguel when the Labour Party played t...
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August 16, 2019
by David Comissiong Barbados’ High Commissioner to SVG It is with great regret and a deep sense of sadness that I learnt of the recent passing of Si...
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August 16, 2019
Tribute to the late Sir Vincent Ian Beache, KCMG – from the Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) Commissioner of Police, Mr. Coli...
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August 16, 2019
With the death of Sir Vincent Ian Beache, St Vincent and the Grenadines has lost a great human being. This is the view of former Governor General Sir ...
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September 2, 2025
THE COMMERCIALTECHNICAL AND ALLIEDWORKERS UNION (CTAWU), and Republic Bank St.Vincent and the Grenadines branch, have inked a new three-year collectiv...
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August 29, 2025
AFESHA SIMMONS, who pursued studies in Global Financial Management in Taiwan through a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Scholarship in 2019, has gra...
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August 29, 2025
OCTOBER, this country’s month of independence is the new period that is being targetted for completion of the Port Modernisation Project, located at R...
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August 29, 2025
THREE THOUSAND day-old chicks were distributed to 10 satellite farmers as part of efforts to bolster poultry production and food security across St Vi...
From the Courts, News
August 29, 2025
A LAWYER IS DISSATISFIED that camera footage which captured an incident where a civilian was allegedly shot by a policeman was “erased” because of lac...
