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November 21, 2025
Editor: It’s another election season in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) and we continue to see certain patterns in relation to the selection of...
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November 21, 2025
Editor: For several years now, I have been endeavouring, as I consider it my responsibility as a citizen to draw the attention of the relevant authori...
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November 21, 2025
Editor: I am responding to an article in a November 7, 2025 issue a local newspaper, entitled “NDP promises Public Servants 50% duty-free concession o...
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November 21, 2025
Editor: The Vincentian working class faces the November 27th elections divided in its support of the political parties – co-worker against co-worker, ...
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November 21, 2025
Editor: We had a beautiful thing going-oil, sanctions, coups, you name it. Venezuela? We were gonna flip that place like a condo in Atlantic City. I s...
Dr. Jason Haynes responds to Dr. Linton Lewis
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November 21, 2025
The fallacy of a constitutional crisis: why a constitutional claim against the election of dual citizens will likely fail  By: Jason Haynes, PhD. In h...
Part 3: Is Friday Worth the Chance?
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This is the final  of a three-part Opinion series titled: “Gratitude, Grievance, and the Future: A Look at Election 2025” written by: Allana K. Cumberbatch LL.B (Hons.) UWI, LEC HWLS Barrister-at-Law & Solicitor.
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November 19, 2025
The series offers a balanced and thought-provoking reflection on key issues shaping the upcoming general elections- from the achievements and shortcom...
Part 2: The Vaccine Mandate
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This is part two of a three-part Opinion series titled: “Gratitude, Grievance, and the Future: A Look at Election 2025” written by: Allana K. Cumberbatch LL.B (Hons.) UWI, LEC HWLS Barrister-at-Law & Solicitor.
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November 19, 2025
The series offers a balanced and thought-provoking reflection on key issues shaping the upcoming general elections- from the achievements and shortcom...
Part 1: Have They Earned Another Term?
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This is part one of a three-part Opinion series titled: “Gratitude, Grievance, and the Future: A Look at Election 2025” written by: Allana K. Cumberbatch LL.B (Hons.) UWI, LEC HWLS Barrister-at-Law & Solicitor.
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November 19, 2025
Recently, while sitting in the Miami International Airport, someone asked me a simple question: "When was the first time you flew?" It took me back to...
Constitutional Crisis
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Why NDP Must Win Ten Seats in the General Elections on 27th November 2025
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November 17, 2025
by Dr. A. Linton Lewis Introduction The candidacy of two representatives of the New Democratic Party (NDP) was challenged on the 7th of November 2025 ...
Let our choice be done peacefully
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November 14, 2025
EDITOR: The countdown to general elections [has] begun and soon it will be time to cast our X to the candidate of our choice. As emotions run high, le...
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November 14, 2025
EDITOR: Tucked away in the northeastern pocket of St.Vincent and the Grenadines are the flourishing villages of Sandy Bay, Owia, and Fancy, affectiona...
Standing with Jamaica
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November 7, 2025
Editor: In 2021, when La Soufrière Volcano erupted and our homeland, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, was covered in ash, the Jamaican community here i...
A Taxing Task
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November 7, 2025
A year and a half after Hurricane Beryl, there is no revenue office where residents of Union Island can pay their taxes. After so many years, there is...
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October 31, 2025
Editor: While loved ones were gathered at West Indies Mission Church at Biabou to say farewell to our precious sister Nurse Danae Bailey Lockhart on S...
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October 31, 2025
Most of us know that uneasy moment when a phone screen suddenly flashes “low battery.” The brightness fades, performance slows, and everything we depe...
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October 24, 2025
EDITOR: President Donald Trump has brokered a 20-point Gaza peace plan between Israel and Hamas. Stopping the bombing and securing the release of the ...
Time for a no confidence motion in CWI
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October 17, 2025
Editor: The state of Windies Cricket calls for resignation of the Management, Board, and Coaches of the West Indies cricket team. If there is no resig...
Where is the voice of the Church in these times?
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October 17, 2025
Our constitution declares that we are a democratic state founded on the belief in the supremacy of Jehovah the creator and the freedom and dignity of ...
Reject Trump’s false climate narrative
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October 3, 2025
IN HIS ADDRESS to the United Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump portrayed climate agreements as a “globalist concept” that forces succes...
The Feast of Trumpets
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October 3, 2025
“FOR YAHSHUA HIMSELF shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of Yahweh: and the dead in the Mes...
Crime is everyone’s Responsibility
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October 3, 2025
EDITOR: Crime is everyone’s responsibility. The rise in crimes, mainly homicide, gives us no joy and is something that ought to concern each one of us...
Stop taking credit for other people’s work
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October 3, 2025
EDITOR: The Parliamentary representative for East Kingstown has made an unfounded claim regarding his discussions with the media about the ongoing wor...
A choice between your children and the NDP
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September 30, 2025
In the upcoming general elections, the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines will be making a choice between the future of their children and the N...
The winds of change blowing in CARICOM Education
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September 30, 2025
“Our world is not short on resources, it is short on fairness and courage.” — Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, 25 September, 2025. This week marks fiv...
The time for serious discussion is here
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September 26, 2025
We here in St Vincent and the Grenadines are now distinctively on the eve of our next general elections. It is the process by which we select the pers...
The fallacy of the NDP
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September 26, 2025
EDITOR: Within recent times candidates and members of the NDP have been publicly supporting the capital projects of the ULP. In particular, the Kingst...
Three stalwarts – Browne, Mckie, Barker
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September 19, 2025
EDITOR: There can be little doubt that the constituency of West St George has experienced an upward trajectory of growth and development over the past...
Taking Math Matters into your own hands
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September 19, 2025
EDITOR: The truth is that most of our children are failing in Math and apparently no one else cares about this. The high officials send their own chil...
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September 12, 2025
EDITOR: Many times we do not appreciate kindness and take it for granted. Also, we as a people have become so political that we place politics into ev...
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September 12, 2025
EDITOR: “But holiness with contentment is great gain: for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry anything out; but having food an...
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September 12, 2025
EDITOR: The Hidden Cost of Entrepreneurship in St. Vincent and the Grenadines Entrepreneurship in St. Vincent and the Grenadines is often hailed as a ...
Protecting our  confidential information
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September 5, 2025
EDITOR: I would like to share my observations regarding privacy issues in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, which I believe warrant careful attention an...
Math Madness
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September 5, 2025
EDITOR: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. This quote attributed to Rita Brown, perhaps aptly descr...
Death is an Appointment
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September 5, 2025
EDITOR: Death is something we would never get accustomed to and it is visiting every family, it would seem. It is but a reminder that we all have an a...