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Don’t accept ‘worse’, better is proposed!
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September 25, 2009
25.SEP.09 Editor: I was born on November 15, 1978, to parents Pearla Bowens-Mofford and Carlos Stay of Fancy. So I, too, have established that I am Vi...
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We must take another look at the way we educate
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September 25, 2009
25.SEP.09 Editor: We’re into another school year and I do believe that there has been little or no change in the way we educate our children. We con...
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Senator Leacock, put conscience before party
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September 25, 2009
25.SEP.09 Editor: Senator St. Clair Leacock is waffling on the proposed Constitution and putting his party before principle, conscience and country. T...
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Sir James and his plot from the dressing room
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September 25, 2009
25.SEP.09 Editor: Sir James Mitchell represents the occupier. When he is at the crease he scores no runs; serving the interest of his foreign masters,...
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New Start to Constitutional Reform in SVG
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September 25, 2009
by Maxwell Haywood 25.SEP.09 SVG is at a critical juncture in its history. On November 25, 2009, it must decide on the supreme law of the land - the C...
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Who would be removed from Cabinet?
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September 18, 2009
18.SEP.09 EDITOR: I support the new Constitution for many reasons. One of them is the limit placed on the size of Cabinet, 12 in addition to the Prime...
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All eyes are on us!
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September 18, 2009
18.SEP.09 Editor: To try to convince Vincentians to vote ‘yes’ in the November Referendum, Senator Rochelle Forde sought to remind Vincentians tha...
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Wrong View, Sir James
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September 18, 2009
18.SEP.09 Editor: Sir James Mitchell’s vitriolic attack on the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Tuesday evening at the NDP headquarters was for t...
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Why I am voting YES!
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September 18, 2009
18.SEP.09 Editor: We are now in serious debate about our constitution. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines a constitution as “the basic pr...
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Our three constitutions
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September 18, 2009
by Oscar Allen 18.SEP.09 Right now, the struggle for a new Vincentian Constitution to be born is a struggle to decide which one out of three (3) const...
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Taking issue with my friend Saboto Caesar
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September 11, 2009
11.SEP.09 Editor: Saboto Caesar and I have corresponded in the past and I regard him as a friend. Yet I must take issue with what he wrote in Searchli...
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Importance of reading to your development
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September 11, 2009
11.SEP.09 Editor: Most persons find it more relaxing to look at television than reading a piece of literature. However, both can play a significant ro...
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We need better service at Ministry of Education
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September 11, 2009
11.SEP.09 Editor: The service provided by some public institutions is deplorable. The Ministry in question is the Ministry of Education. How is it pos...
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Why are members of the NDP confusing the public?
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September 11, 2009
11.SEP.09 Editor: Vincentians are asking about our new constitution bill which was read and passed in parliament 3rd September, 2009. I listened to ou...
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The New Constitution: Will the Poor get justice?
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September 11, 2009
Dr. Richard A. Byron-Cox 11.SEP.09 Before entering upon our discourse for this piece, I wish to note a serious flaw in the thinking of a section of th...
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Community College uniformed disorder
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September 4, 2009
04.SEPT.09 Editor: First of all, let me extend congratulations to the fortunate students who were able to make it to upper six of the St. Vincent Comm...
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We are living in the last days
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September 4, 2009
04.SEPT.09 Editor: The recent increase in murders in our land has again raised concern. The Commissioner of Police and his force must be complimented ...
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Good Governance
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September 4, 2009
‘Make it your business to examine the issues that affect us’ 04.SEPT.09 Editor: The philosophical ideas of men and women should be properly scruti...
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An Emancipation Poem
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September 4, 2009
by Oscar Allen 04.SEPT.09 Roque Dalton (1933 - 1975) entitled this poem “Solo El Inicio” - Only the Beginning. I have reworked the 1989 translatio...
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Do not postpone the Referendum!
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August 28, 2009
28.AUG.09 Editor: I do not support the call by a few letter-writers to the newspapers and by some on the radio programmes to postpone the holding of t...
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The President should be elected by the people
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August 28, 2009
28.AUG.09 Editor: “The people are the true political sovereign of the State; power belongs to the people. Therefore, the will of the people shall be...
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PMC statement on Constitutional Reform in SVG
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August 28, 2009
28.AUG.09 As the time draws closer to the referendum on the Constitutional Bill 2009, the People’s Movement for Change wishes to commend the Governm...
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Is Daniel Cummings against trade unions?
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August 21, 2009
21.AUG.09 Editor: Last week Thursday (August 13th), there was a debate in Parliament on the new Bridges, Roads, and General Services Authority (BRAGSA...
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PetroCaribe and ALBA are helpful to the Caribbean
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August 21, 2009
21.AUG.09 Editor: The helpfulness of PetroCaribe and ALBA to our Caribbean is clear to all, except the foolish and unpatriotic. Last week’s announce...
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SVG’s ALBA ties a good move
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August 21, 2009
21.AUG.09 Editor: The decision of Dominica, Antigua and St. Vincent to join The Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) has drawn the ire of some ...
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Thanks to hospital staff
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August 21, 2009
21.AUG.09 Editor: On Monday, August 17, 2009, I visited the clinic at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital a few minutes after their normal operating tim...
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Senator Leacock is too arrogant
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August 21, 2009
21.AUG.09 Editor: Senator St. Clair Leacock is far too arrogant to be a Member of Parliament. He is too bitter and angry to be able to serve. He is fu...
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In defence of PR Campbell
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August 21, 2009
21.AUG.09 Editor: I get the impression that there some persons in this country who think that they have a constitutional right to malign, insult, slan...
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An answer to a pseudo writer
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August 21, 2009
21.AUG.09 EDITOR: In an article entitled “Hypocrisy and Falsehoods coming from Ralph haters” published in the Friday, August 14, 2009’s edition ...
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SVG really needs the international airport
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August 14, 2009
14.AUG.09 Editor: Like many Vincentians who have emigrated, air travel is essential to our maintaining significant links with our homeland. Objection ...
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Our Prime Minister leads in the OECS
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August 14, 2009
14.AUG.09 Editor: We in the OECS-ECCB countries are thankful that we have our Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, being called upon to take the lead ...
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Has the system failed in reforming persons?
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August 14, 2009
14.AUG.09 Editor: We are seeing many persons who were in prisons continue to go in and out of prisons, thus lacking reformation. The question, therefo...
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Examining Logos’ seven steps to knowing God
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August 14, 2009
14.AUG.09 Editor: The floating bookstore Logos Hope which docked at Port Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines from July 27th to August 11th provi...
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Questions about the proposed Constitution
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August 14, 2009
14.AUG.09 Editor: Section 92(1) says: “The President may at any time prorogue Parliament”. This appears in Chapter VI, part 7: Summoning, prorogat...
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Hypocrisy and falsehoods coming from Ralph haters
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August 14, 2009
14.AUG.09 Editor: Our country’s Prime Minister and Political Leader of the ULP, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, has led a very successful government, is pursui...