Our Readers' Opinions
November 11, 2022
Editor: Our streets are narrow so we crave the consideration of landowners in not putting their fence right up to the road but rather about four feet ...
Our Readers' Opinions
November 11, 2022
Editor: I wish that THEY would stop trying to rubbish the students’ accomplishments when they write and pass 15 to 21 plus subjects at CSEC. All of th...
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November 8, 2022
EDITOR: My name is Alex Forbes. The intent of this letter is to request official confirmation and/or documentation of my current status within the St....
Our Readers' Opinions
November 8, 2022
EDITOR: Prime Minister Gonsalves repeatedly declares that we’re not better than anybody and nobody is better than us. Well, you will think that he wil...
Our Readers' Opinions
November 4, 2022
EDITOR: For the last two decades or so, we have been hearing the voices of persons who present themselves as leaders of progressive thinking, yet we h...
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November 4, 2022
EDITOR: It was not too long ago I have written to you telling you that God has given me a job to teach his word. But I am now 82 years old. I have los...
Our Readers' Opinions
November 4, 2022
EDITOR: The Hon. Carlos James continues in North Leeward to be frequently talked about. He is often talked about in a negative way and is losing popul...
Our Readers' Opinions
November 4, 2022
EDITOR: We must not underestimate the important role the library must play in our communities. Where possible, there should be a library in every town...
Our Readers' Opinions
October 21, 2022
EDITOR: Ear piercing and the wearing of rings on the ears and different parts of the body are very popular, not just here in SVG, but worldwide. Ear p...
Our Readers' Opinions
October 21, 2022
EDITOR: The charge that we must “transform education” is the latest from the United Nations and education professionals must find this idea banal, if ...
Our Readers' Opinions
October 21, 2022
EDITOR: As we celebrate our National Independence this month, let us spare some thought for a significant milestone in our history which occurred in t...
Our Readers' Opinions
October 21, 2022
EDITOR: All of us need to learn the skill of “handling money.” At what stage do we begin? How can we be responsible? Is Preschool too early? Who manag...
Our Readers' Opinions
October 21, 2022
EDITOR: The message of service can be found throughout the Holy Scriptures. Deuteronomy 10 v 20 tells us that we must fear Almighty Yahweh and give ou...
Our Readers' Opinions
October 14, 2022
EDITOR: Recent rises in the price of goods and services remind us that there is a cost to everything that we should pay once they are reasonable. Begi...
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October 14, 2022
Editor: Roads play a very vital part of any country’s development as it aids the movement of people to and from various destinations. So it is importa...
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October 14, 2022
EDITOR: Every country has the requisite resources, human and material, to create prosperity and peace for its inhabitants that leads to human flourish...
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October 7, 2022
EDITOR: Are the children these days prepared for the real world? Many of us who are older would recall our days of growing up where we had little to l...
Our Readers' Opinions
October 7, 2022
IN RECENT TIMES a number of Smart Hospitals were opened to enhance our capacity to deliver better quality Health care. Additionally, there is a promis...
Our Readers' Opinions
October 7, 2022
EDITOR: Garbage is waste material or unwanted things that you throw away which come from homes, schools and businesses. Special days are usually alloc...
Our Readers' Opinions
September 27, 2022
One prime minister, many quotable quotes by Ted Anthony Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves addresses the 77th session of ...
Our Readers' Opinions
September 27, 2022
EDITOR: Giving relationship advice is fraught with many dangers. Let me explain. Say Sharon approaches you and shares with you how horrible Gavin is t...
Our Readers' Opinions
September 23, 2022
This is definitely poor customer service. Making an account dormant is the last resort that any financial institution should take. When customers inte...
Our Readers' Opinions
September 23, 2022
Editor: Prostitution is not a new thing or a ‘just come’. It was in existence in bible days. Rahab was a harlot. Who in effect was prostituting and so...
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September 23, 2022
Editor: The entire world is addicted to plastic. This addiction is crystal clear and it is very easy to find. Have a look at the condition of some of ...
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September 16, 2022
EDITOR: Students generate and test hypotheses in their ordinary everyday living. They make evaluations and judgments. They make decisions based on wha...
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September 16, 2022
EDITOR: Death is something we could never get accustomed to. Yet we are faced with death of loved ones so often these days. It reminds us of how fragi...
Our Readers' Opinions
September 9, 2022
Contributed by JAUSHIEH JOSEPH WU, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan) THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY is confronting a number of unprecedent...
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September 9, 2022
EDITOR: CSEC, CAPE, Community College, Police Academy, University, and Technical Centers are all turning out students who may join the ranks of the al...
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September 9, 2022
EDITOR: Street kids are a norm it would seem in Kingstown. Far too many of them line the streets on a daily basis throughout the day begging. This to ...
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September 9, 2022
EDITOR: It is dreadfully disturbing to hear of the number of gruesome and senseless homicides across the Caribbean nations, including our own St. Vinc...
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September 6, 2022
EDITOR: I recently saw a very short, and therefore edited, clipping of a conversation between two people. In the conversation, (which I feel I must sa...
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September 2, 2022
Editor: Missing teens is a regular headline of late. The regularity at which teens go missing is cause for much discussion and concern. Thankfully in ...
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September 2, 2022
Editor: As a child growing up the Man O War was a most fearful vessel mainly because of its destructive power. More fearful though is the Child O War....
Our Readers' Opinions
August 30, 2022
EDITOR: It is apparent to me that our policy makers et al, including Members of Parliament, Cabinet and Service Commissions are either not aware of th...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 26, 2022
EDITOR: I supported the government’s proposal to vaccinate all frontline workers, as protecting the community took precedent over individual rights. H...
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August 26, 2022
EDITOR: My great grand mother lived in a grass house. It was well laid out. There was another building nearby that served as a kitchen and a smaller o...
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August 26, 2022
EDITOR: An honest analysis and survey would show that many married couples are not happily married. It would also show that many are living together, ...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 20, 2022
By Chevanev Charles Our ocean is our largest biosphere and is home to about 80 percent of all life on Earth. The delicate ocean ecosystems play an int...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 19, 2022
EDITOR: I am kindly asking if I could be given a space in your newspaper, to speak to the nation. I am now 82 years old, and when I was 15 years old a...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 19, 2022
EDITOR: It was clear to all that the old man was no longer able to function as he used to. All the visible signs were there. His walk was no longer st...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 19, 2022
EDITOR: Permit me to write this short letter for publication in your next edition of the Searchlight Newspaper. I have just concluded my BSC in Manage...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 19, 2022
EDITOR: If I were you and I was Vincentian, I would for sure trust the science. Especially the science about little-known viruses that no one knows ab...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 12, 2022
EDITOR: I admire how the Bank Clerks put back the carbon paper into the booklet from which they wrote records of their transactions. Whoever uses it n...
From the Courts, News
November 4, 2025
A teenager, who stole a Corea’s shirt from someone’s clothes line, and wore it in Massy Stores where he allegedly stole more than $100 worth of items ...
From the Courts, News
November 4, 2025
A young man who beat his baby’s mother in her face with a stick, and struck her brother while he was defending her, was remanded pending sentencing. J...
News
November 4, 2025
Leader of the Opposition New Democratic Party (NDP), Dr. Godwin Friday wants the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines to have full confidence in th...
News
November 4, 2025
Persons who want access to a top-class venue for the staging of their events now have access, at a price, to Invest SVG’s newly developed facility on ...
News
November 4, 2025
Madungo, derived from the residue of the arrowroot starch, is more than just food. “It is something steeped in our history, in our society, to which w...
