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Is the Audit Office of SVG a safety hazard?
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January 28, 2011
28.JAN.11 Editor: Upon a recent visit to the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Audit Office, I was most surprised and immediately disgusted upon the real...
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Baptiste and Camillo in today’s politics
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January 25, 2011
25.JAN.11 Editor: I’m a supporter of the New Democratic Party and was hoping that they would have won the December 13th, 2010 election. I am Disappo...
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Silver lining in West Indies cricket
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January 25, 2011
25.JAN.11 Editor: Congrats to a disciplined Trinidad and Tobago cricket team for deservedly recapturing the premiere, regional Twenty20 title. There w...
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Farmers want assistance now
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January 25, 2011
25.JAN.11 Editor: Recent developments in the farming community in the rural districts are hampering farmers, especially banana farmers.{{more}} One su...
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Public assistance is not a political football
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January 25, 2011
25.JAN.11 Editor: When I served at the Barrouallie Revenue Office, as a Probationary Clerk, from 1st May 1956, the Poor Relief was then $2.50.{{more}}...
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Conservation of turtles at Bloody Bay
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January 25, 2011
25.JAN.11 by Louise Mitchell-Joseph, Chairperson, SVG National Trust Unlike the sparrow, the iguana or the dolphins, who are all happy to exist in rel...
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Those vagrant/homeless people
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January 21, 2011
21.JAN.11 Editor: Those vagrants/homeless people sometimes can be a harassment to passers by, especially Tourists. Nonetheless, they are humans and de...
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Quo Vadis Arnhim Eustace?
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January 21, 2011
21.JAN.11 Editor: The NDP continues to be a weak political party in disarray. So much so, one now wonders if party leaders and top operatives are losi...
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Private Prosecution run amok in SVG
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January 21, 2011
21.JAN.11 Editor: Last week, for the first time in living memory, the pot went to court to call the kettle black. In a series of private criminal pros...
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I want to see… Part 2
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January 21, 2011
by Maxwell Haywood 21.JAN.11 Last week, I highlighted what I want to see the ULP-led government succeed at doing for the whole nation. This week I do ...
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Be careful what you say on a political platform
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January 18, 2011
18.JAN.11 Editor: Filing private complaints should not be new to old people like me.{{more}} I think the DPP was not born when the late Stanley Morris...
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Van Drivers, show some compassion
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January 18, 2011
18.JAN.11 EDITOR: Minibus Association, can you please encourage the van drivers, especially those in the North Leeward area, to show compassion to sch...
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Parliamentarians need a trade union
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January 18, 2011
18.JAN.11 Editor: Mr. Prime Minister, I am writing this letter in the media out of concern for our democracy.{{more}} I remember vividly in the 1990â€...
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Politicians and reconciliation
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January 18, 2011
by Roy George 18.JAN.11 Can politicians be responsible for bring about national reconciliation? Can the same people who spend millions of dollars and ...
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Mr. Eustace, thirteen is more than nine!
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January 14, 2011
14.JAN.11 Editor: So just how does Arnhim Eustace and his “frenemy” Frank DaSilva hope to topple the Gonsalves government? Does Eustace not unders...
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I want to see … Part 1
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January 14, 2011
by Maxwell Haywood 14.JAN.11 When Barack Obama became president of the United States, many of his opponents wanted him and his government to fail. The...
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Anesia – Heading down the wrong road
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January 14, 2011
14.JAN.11 Editor: It is with much elation that I wish all Vincentians a happy 2011. God has granted those of us who are alive a chance of seeing anoth...
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Is Troumaca geting a park, or left in the dark?
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January 14, 2011
14.JAN.11 EDITOR: Madness indeed! It’s the WORST scenario I have ever seen! I heard about it before but then I went to observe firsthand. WOW!!!{{mo...
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Congrats, Dr. Bailey! But you’re not the first
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January 14, 2011
14.JAN.11 Editor: This article is in response to that titled “Bailey earns PhD in Entomology” which was published in the Searchlight Newspaper of ...
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A memory of Belto
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January 11, 2011
11.JAN.11 Editor, Every now and then, something happpens to persons very close to me. Among them is the death of Belto. He was very close to my own ch...
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NDP: Please stop the lies
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January 11, 2011
11.JAN.11 Editor: The Opposition New Democratic Party and its propagandists on Nice Radio will not learn that lies poison the politics of our country,...
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Representation throughout the year/s please!
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January 7, 2011
07.JAN.11 Editor: It is the beginning of a New calendar year, and it is also a new term in office for the ULP administration. It is quite fitting to c...
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Whither the NDP and Mr. Eustace?
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January 7, 2011
07.JAN.11 Editor: My ULP and NDP friends have dared me to write again about the issue of leadership style of Mr. Arnhim Eustace. My apparent preferenc...
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Parents, stop lying to your children
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January 4, 2011
04.JAN.11 Editor: There seems to be a trend where people appear to be taking pleasure in lying. People lie for various reasons. For instance, schoolch...
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Don’t throw stones if you live in a glass house
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January 4, 2011
04.JAN.11 Editor: What has been revealed in last weekend’s “Searchlight” and “The Vincentian” newspapers about Dr. Lewis’ concern with reg...
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My wish list for ‘Mother Hairouna’
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January 4, 2011
04.JAN.11 Editor: Every year Old Year’s Day rolls around, and along with it, a plethora of New Year’s resolutions (we make mostly for ourselves). ...
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Answering ‘signs of a religious cult’
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January 4, 2011
04.JAN.11 Editor: I wish to answer one Benson Plaugh-Feddows in his piece “Signs of a Religious Cult”, published in the midweek Searchlight of Dec...
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Will the NDP serve the nation?
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January 4, 2011
04.JAN.11 Editor: First, let me highly compliment “SEARCHLIGHT” newspaper for your wonderful coverage of the recent General Elections in St. Vince...
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Is Ivan O’Neal a better expert than the Cubans?
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January 4, 2011
04.JAN.11 Editor: I would like to know, is Ivan O’Neal a better expert than the Cubans, or is he a better expert than those at the International Civ...
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Hats off to the PM
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January 4, 2011
Editor: The Prime Minister must be commended for creating a Ministry of National Reconciliation. This action further demonstrates Dr. Gonsalves’ com...
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A Statesman is not just a dead politician
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January 4, 2011
04.JAN.11 Editor: The political campaign just ended saw innumerable editorials, as well as letters from citizens printed in the local papers, pleading...
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THANK YOU LORD
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January 4, 2011
04.JAN.11 As I enter into another year, I have to pause for a while, To give thanks to my Father, For blessing me, His child;{{more}} So many blessing...
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What do we do now?
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December 30, 2010
30.DEC.10 Editor: Less than 1,100 persons shy of half the voting population decided on December 13 to support the New Democratic Party. And given that...