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December 12, 2008
12.DEC.08 Editor: A few months ago, a lady demonstrated outside the gates of VINLEC. Her grouse stemmed from the digging up of the road in front of he...
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December 12, 2008
12.DEC.08 Editor: It is only a relative few people who are diligent enough to investigate the facts which are pertinent to understanding the drift in ...
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December 12, 2008
12.DEC.08 Editor: The accusation of police brutality is becoming too frequent. One may argue that there are three sides of a story, the alleged victim...
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December 12, 2008
12.DEC.08 Editor: Buy the cheapest currently available return airline seat from Barbados to St. Lucia and you will pay US$200.45. Of that figure, US$1...
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December 5, 2008
05.DEC.08 Editor: Even if David Wilson is not trying to throw sprat to catch whale with his recent Searchlight article of November 28, 2008: âRalph ...
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December 5, 2008
05.DEC.08 Editor: I was extremely pleased to hear Dr. Ralph Gonsalves mention Dyslexia whilst addressing the teachersâ graduation in Special Needs t...
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December 5, 2008
05.DEC.08 Editor: Never before in its over one hundred years history has there been so much criticism leveled at the SVGTU. Gone are the days when tea...
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December 5, 2008
05.DEC.08 Editor: Last week I wrote that some elements of the Teachersâ Union Executive were pursuing their own agenda, and that recent developments...
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December 5, 2008
by Andrea Bowman 05.DEC.08 Pee Johnâs article in last weekâs edition of the Searchlight entitled âOne must sign up or sign out!â highlights a ...
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November 28, 2008
28.NOV.08 EDITOR: I supported the NDP and Arnhim Eustace in the last general elections, but now I support Ralph Gonsalves to be my Prime Minister. I h...
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November 28, 2008
28.NOV.08 Editor: Ill discipline in children, mainly at schools, has caught the attention of many and has given cause for much debate. There are certa...
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November 28, 2008
28.NOV.08 Editor: I kindly wish to bring some very serious matters to the attention of the public and relevant authorities. In recent times, a group o...
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November 28, 2008
28.NOV.08 EDITOR: I hate to disagree with my Union in public, but the barrage of attacks on the President of the SVGTU by the traditional Nice Radio a...
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November 28, 2008
by Philbert John 28.NOV.08 By the time this article is published, most, if not all, secondary schools will have completed the registration process for...
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November 21, 2008
21.NOV.08 EDITOR: I have listened to arguments from different sides on the issue of âReclassificationâ. A very strong view of the government is th...
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November 21, 2008
21.NOV.08 Editor: I was about to use the heading âTribute to my former Bossâ, but after carefully analyzing the word âBossâ I decided against ...
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November 21, 2008
21.NOV.08 Editor: I heard our Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves saying sometime ago that he is hurt but he is not angry. I found that statement alarm...
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November 14, 2008
14.NOV.08 Editor: I read in Searchlight last week that âTwo female graduate teachers came to blows last week in the staff room of the Dr. JP Eustace...
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November 14, 2008
14.NOV.08 Editor: We have just celebrated yet another Independence anniversary. There are many persons who have contributed much to nation building an...
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November 14, 2008
14.NOV.08 Editor: One only has to review Gonsalvesâ short endorsement of Americaâs president-elect Barack Obama to realize the shortcomings of gov...
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November 14, 2008
14.NOV.08 Editor: Last week, lawyer Nicole Sylvester, President of the Human Rights Association, put out a press release commending the Commissioner o...
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November 14, 2008
14.NOV.08 Editor: A soft-spoken Black intellectual of whom it is said that he built his campaign on moral high ground wins the presidency of the Unite...
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November 14, 2008
By Dr. Garrey Michael Dennie 14.NOV.08 On February 2, 1990, I stood at a television screen in Johannesburg and witnessed Mandelaâs release from a So...
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November 7, 2008
07.NOV.08 Editor: The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Teachersâ Union (SVGTU) went on strike unreasonably without the support of its members. The str...
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November 7, 2008
07.NOV.08 EDITOR: I returned to St. Vincent and the Grenadines almost seven years ago from Britain. Since then I am most impressed with the work of ou...
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November 7, 2008
07.NOV.08 Editor: 2008 so far has been quite interesting. When we think of the international scene, the first thing that comes to mind is the power sh...
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November 7, 2008
by Maxwell Haywood 07.NOV.08 I read with high interest the Searchlight newspaper editorial of 31 October, 2008. That editorial raises some very import...
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November 7, 2008
07.NOV.08 Editor: The issue of sports management has been a subject of great importance to many people in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the world...
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November 7, 2008
07.NOV.08 âHIGHGRADE, STRICTLY HIGHGRADE, DONâT BE AFRAID, WE LICK DE CHALLIS...â EDITOR: Those words are the introduction to the Reggae Song ca...
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October 31, 2008
31.OCT.08 Editor: I must first of all, though belatedly, compliment the Principal and staff of the Troumaca Ontario Secondary school for the improveme...
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October 31, 2008
31.OCT.08 Editor: Since St. Vincent and the Grenadines acquired its independence from Great Britain on October 27, 1979, every year around the time of...
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October 31, 2008
31.OCT.08 Editor: Residents of the Bay Hill, Cane Garden community are asking for the removal of garbage and debris left on the sidewalk and on the ve...
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October 31, 2008
31.OCT.08 Editor: The rise in the cost of living has left many Vincentians struggling and looking for answers. The Teachersâ Union and the Public Se...
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October 31, 2008
31.OCT.08 Contributed by the Rastafari Community Taken from Rastafari Beat Magazine (1993) âThe invited foreign envoys begin to arrive around Octobe...
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October 24, 2008
24.OCT.08 Editor: I agree with Renwick Rose that Barack Obama becoming the first black man to win the nomination of a major American political party i...
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October 24, 2008
24.OCT.08 Editor: I sit and remember the late Glenn Jackson on a daily basis, why? He was my very best friend. I miss him! Why? He made an outstanding...
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October 24, 2008
24.OCT.08 Editor: The government of St Vincent and the Grenadines and the St Vincent and the Grenadines Teachersâ Union (SVGUTU) and the Public Serv...
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October 24, 2008
by Oscar Allen 24.OCT.08 At the Independence Festival of One people, One Nation, now moved to Friday, 31st October, Heritage Square will come alive wi...
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October 17, 2008
by Maxwell Haywood 17.OCT.08 Recently, the foreign policy of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has attracted much attention at home, in the Caribbe...
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October 17, 2008
17.OCT.08 Editor: The St. Vincent Boysâ Grammar School - of which I am an alumnus - celebrated the centenary of its existence this year. I am told t...
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October 17, 2008
17.OCT.08 Editor: I often wonder if I would live to experience a Caribbean political union - for that matter, a political union of some of the Caribbe...
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October 17, 2008
by Oscar Allen 17.OCT.08 âHow these children get big in the twink of an eyeâ was the nervous muttering of some adults in 1966. They watched mouth ...
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October 10, 2008
10.OCT.08 Editor: Please allow us to express our sincerest condolences to the family of the lady that succumbed while in flight on Grenadine Air Allia...
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