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Let us attempt to transform our society
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September 6, 2011
Editor: We are now into a new school year and what we want to achieve must be absolutely clear in our minds. The goal must be to create rounded indivi...
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Staff, villagers, cooperate, cooperate, cooperate
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September 6, 2011
Tue, Sept 6. 2011 Editor: In a certain village on the Leeward side of our island is a primary school that has some problems involving teachers and vil...
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Vote for a soccer team with fresh, new ideas
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September 6, 2011
Tue, Sept 6. 2011 Editor: When I took over Avenues United as Manager, I had a single goal in mind: that was to transform the team into one of the best...
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Frustrated with minibus system
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September 6, 2011
Tue, Sept 6. 2011 Editor: Permit me a few words in your newspaper to air my view on the minibus situation.{{more}} I am a Vincentian by birth and love...
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What has the SVGFF achieved?
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September 6, 2011
Tue, Sept 6. 2011 Editor: Fifty years of administrating soccer in SVG have passed. The questions many will ask are what has the SVGFF achieved since a...
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Big celebrations in small countries
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September 6, 2011
Tue, Sept 6. 2011 The curtain may have come down on the 2011 World Athletics Championships in the Korean city of Daegu last Sunday, but in some tiny c...
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Police Force should not just be a source of income
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September 2, 2011
Fri, Sept. 02, 2011 Editor: This is not the first time we have heard about officers not responding to complaints, but there seems to be some sort of r...
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Let’s save our innocent children
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September 2, 2011
Fri, Sept. 02, 2011 Editor: There is need to protect our innocent children from satanic exposures and influences by adults. Many may not realize it, b...
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It is time to lighten our ship
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September 2, 2011
Fri, Sept. 02, 2011 Editor: No one in St. Vincent and the Grenadines can say that conditions in our country are satisfactory. Despite the fact that ou...
Grenadian from Gouyave makes Caribbean proud
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Grenadian from Gouyave makes Caribbean proud
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September 2, 2011
Fri, Sept. 02, 2011 Editor: Caribbean people have a way of poking fun at persons from more remote communities. Every island has its own way of saying ...
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What’s happening with Capitalism?
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September 2, 2011
by Nilio Gumbs Fri, Sept. 02, 2011 When Adam Smith mentioned the role of the “Invisible Hand” in his book the Wealth of Nations (1776), he was ref...
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Dyslexia Aixelsyd
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August 30, 2011
Tue, Aug 30, 2010 by Lynden Punnett What is Dyslexia Dyslexia is a combination of difficulties that affect the learning processes of reading, spelling...
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We must have the will to succeed
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August 30, 2011
Tue, Aug 30, 2010 Editor: The strongest man I have come to know goes by the name of Will and his surname is Power. His full name is therefore Will Pow...
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Shockwaves running through Indian cricket
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August 30, 2011
Tue, Aug 30, 2010 Editor: Shockwaves are sweeping through all levels of Indian cricket, from the boardroom of the official authority, the BCCI, right ...
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What do we really want?
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August 30, 2011
Tue, Aug 30, 2010 Editor: Construction work on the Argyle International Airport Terminal Building has begun and whereas most Vincentians at home and a...
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Congrats and advice to successful students!
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August 26, 2011
Fri, Aug 26.2011 Editor: In a society where many youth are unfortunately choosing the path of crime, violence and laziness, it is heart-warming to hea...
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‘Shake down’ on Shake Up and public apology
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August 26, 2011
Fri, Aug 26. 2011 Editor: Sir Vincent Beache and Elson Crick got an earful during last Friday’s (August 19) Shake Up show on WEFM radio. Several cal...
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STOP Ill-treating our innocent chidren, please
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August 26, 2011
Fri, Aug 26. 2011 Editor: Mothers, how would you feel if when you were a young child your mother ill-treated you mainly because your father left the h...
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What went wrong with our female cricket team?
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August 26, 2011
Fri, Aug 26. 2011 Editor: What went wrong with the SVG female cricket team in the just concluded West Indies tournament in Barbados?{{more}} In 2010, ...
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Fix the roads, please!
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August 26, 2011
Fri, Aug 26. 2011 Editor: I am requesting of the Public Works Department and the Government to please fix the bad roads in different parts of our beau...
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Hott Vibes Summa campers visit Searchlight
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August 26, 2011
Fri, Aug 26. 2011 The children of the Hot Vibes Promotion Summa Fest programme visited SEARCHLIGHT last Tuesday as part of an educational tour. The st...
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The airport and the economy
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August 26, 2011
by G.E.M. Saunders Fri, Aug 26. 2011 There is now a growing consensus that international air access for SVG is vital for its national economic develop...
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More about the Registry Department in Kingstown
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August 26, 2011
Fri, Aug 26. 2011 Editor: Some persons might be wondering why I keep writing about the Registry Department. My main reason for doing so is to bring to...
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An open letter to LIAT company
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August 23, 2011
Tue, Aug 23. 2011 Dear LIAT, Thank you for the Subway sandwich and the large Canning sorrel drink and the KFC chicken strips and the bottled water, as...
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Premier Distributors: a good corporate citizen
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August 23, 2011
Tue, Aug 23. 2011 Editor: One of SVG’s adoptive corporate citizens, Premier Distributors - a private limited company of Trinidadian origin, has been...
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We ought to spend more time reasoning
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August 23, 2011
Tue, Aug 23. 2011 Editor: One of the things I find lacking in our society is open discussions on things that affect our lives. We are either concerned...
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Thank you, Camillo Gonsalves!
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August 23, 2011
Editor: “...Camillo Gonsalves said he is open to contesting electoral politics in St Vincent and the Grenadines but will only run if the people ask ...
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The Minibus fare
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August 23, 2011
Tue, Aug 23. 2011 Editor: There has been some increase to the bus fare in some areas. This, of course, will make operational costs a little easier and...
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Are we the architect of our own problems?
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August 19, 2011
Fri, Aug 19. 2011 Editor: We always blame the economic policies of the state for making us poor, but have we looked at it from the other side and conc...
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In Support of Chow
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August 19, 2011
Fri, Aug 19. 2011 Editor: It is almost unbelievable that in this twenty first century when we here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines will soon be cele...
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When the machine crashes
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August 19, 2011
by: Kenyatta Lewis Fri, Aug 19. 2011 Anyone who knows me in any capacity beyond a perfunctory hello and nod of the head knows that economics and finan...
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Evil thoughts NOT acceptable, Hans King!
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August 19, 2011
Fri, Aug 19. 2011 Editor: At a time when many Vincentians are lamenting the frequent murders in our country, Prime Minister’s press secretary Hans K...
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Train the Children while they are Young
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August 16, 2011
Tue, Aug 16. 2011 Editor: A story has been told of a father who had a little son that practised stealing. Whenever the boy stole things in the neighbo...
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Towards an indigenous research facility
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August 16, 2011
by Phillip C. Jackson Tue, Aug 16. 2011 In a recent article, I raised a number of issues related to education, development and brain drain. It was not...
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