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Let me X-plain
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May 2, 2008
02.MAY.08 Editor: My letter in the March 28th issue of Searchlight seems to have upset X. It was not my intention to upset any one but rather to addre...
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Is New Grounds Primary School targeted by the MoE?
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April 25, 2008
25.APR.08 Editor: This writer, in a previous article titled “Why New Grounds Primary School?”, explained the injustice meted out to teachers at th...
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A son’s wish for his father
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April 25, 2008
25.APR.08 Editor: My name is Allen McGillivray and I had previously sent a letter into your newspaper in regards to my friend Mathew Llewellyn and his...
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Attacking youth violence
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April 25, 2008
25.APR.08 Editor: A young school boy, 17 years of age, charged with murder? These are indeed troublous times, and the tears that fall on our nation’...
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Why has George been left out?
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April 18, 2008
18.APR.08 Editor: It is without regret or apology that I pen these notes. I am going to say what many us are afraid to say. I honestly believe without...
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We should value our national treasures
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April 18, 2008
18.APR.08 Editor: Last month was National Heroes Month, so consequently there is much discussion about the one and only national hero of St. Vincent a...
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What’s happening in the Ministry of Tourism?
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April 18, 2008
18.APR.08 Editor: Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves said in the last sitting of Parliament that he was giving Minister Beache notice that he was expe...
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Please help Buhlers Yachts stay alive
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April 18, 2008
18.APR.08 Editor: My name is Allen McGillivray and I live in Red Deer Alberta, Canada. My best friend is Mathew Llewellyn, the owner of Buhlers Yachts...
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Heroes all!
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April 18, 2008
by R, Andrew Cummings 18.APR.08 In the beginning The Kingstown Co-operative Credit Union (K.C.C.U), the oldest surviving Credit Union in Saint Vincent...
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Let us get back to basics
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April 11, 2008
11.APR.08 Editor: It is well accepted that we are body, mind and spirit. The body is that physical part we see, the mind is that internal part of us t...
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We’re losing male influence in schools
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April 11, 2008
11.APR.08 Editor: It is unfortunate that the crime rate in this country is at its present level. We have to examine whether it is as a result of exter...
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We are all involved!
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April 11, 2008
by Bertram A John Ph.D. 11.APR.08 The sequence of events pushed it into the open. It has not come into the open by accident! So why don’t we examine...
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His Excellency, Ambassador Renwick Rose
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April 11, 2008
by Dr. Richard A.Byron-Cox 11.APR.08 In early childhood, my mother taught me that a rose by any other name is still a rose. So white, pink, red and Re...
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‘When me was a Boy’
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April 11, 2008
‘When me was a boy’ I lived on Back Street, Sharpe Street and at Biabou. The house on Back Street, my grandfather’s, is now Gaymes’ Pharmacy. ...
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Pay up your taxes!
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April 4, 2008
04. APR.08 EDITOR: As a public servant and hard-working citizen who pays her fair share of taxes every month through the PAYE system, I have long been...
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NDP clearly is in crisis
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April 4, 2008
04.APR.08 Editor: Over the past few months I, and all Vincentians have looked on as “another” so-called crisis in the governance of our country ha...
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Classmate Saboto – a youth leader in SVG
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April 4, 2008
04. APR.08 Editor: Few things are as important to the human mind as individual progress: we possess an unadulterated and unflinching desire for change...
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Appointment of Saboto a good move
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April 4, 2008
04.APR.08 Editor: I sat and listened to the last meeting of Parliament which was held on the 27th March, 2008. I found it quite interesting, but I was...
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Re-uniting Vincentians at home and abroad
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April 4, 2008
By Maxwell Haywood 04.APR.08 Relations between St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) and its citizens living abroad or in the Diaspora should never be ...
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March 13th Editorial on the ball
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March 28, 2008
28.MAR.08 Editor: I salute you for another piece of constructive editorial in your issue of March 13th. The Editorial titled ‘the National Heroes De...
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Easter or Passover?
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March 28, 2008
28.MAR.08 Editor: The word Easter is mentioned only one time in your Bible - Acts 12: 4. A close examination of the Greek text yields the fact that th...
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SVG will be changed forever
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March 28, 2008
28.MAR.08 Editor: It is not often that a people face a great crisis in their history. When they do, a rare opportunity arises, an opportunity to grow,...
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Congrats to ULP for 7 great years in office
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March 28, 2008
28.MAR.08 EDITOR: I congratulate the ULP government and the Prime Minister on seven magnificent years in office. I will be at the Party’s celebratio...
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Abuse of right to prosecute privately
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March 28, 2008
28.MAR.08 EDITOR: I am a British lawyer holidaying with some friends at Prospect. I am surprised that there is not a lot of informed discussion in the...
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Sex, yesterday and today
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March 28, 2008
by Oscar Allen 28.MAR.08 I examined with interest an essay on “Singleness” which a colleague sent to me. Now singleness is a condition in which an...
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Homosexuality in the Caribbean
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March 28, 2008
28.MAR.08 Editor: The issue of homosexuality is by no means insignificant. I have heard informal estimates that put homosexuality within Vincentian po...
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Have mercy upon us in this modern-day persecution
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March 28, 2008
by Anesia O. Baptiste 28.MAR.08 Many persons are suffering from the results of heavy-handedness and abuse of authority in this country. Their God-give...
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Mathematics: Dyslexia and Dyscalculia
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March 20, 2008
Lynden Punnett Dip.SpLD (Dyslexia) 20.MAR.08 Dyslexia is a condition that affects the ability to process language. Dyslexic learners often have diffic...
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Do you love your country?
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March 20, 2008
20.MAR.08 Editor: The frequency of bomb scares and latest robbery are indeed cause for serious thinking as to what is going on in this country.{{more}...
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Are scholarships assisting in the brain drain?
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March 20, 2008
20.MAR.08 EDITOR: The exodus of highly trained professionals: nurses, doctors, teachers, attorneys, electrical engineers from our island has reached i...
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Does Golding have it wrong?
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March 20, 2008
20.MAR.08 Editor: Jamaica’s Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s comments at the end of the 19th Inter-sessional Meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government ...
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Fighting a monster
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March 13, 2008
by R. Andrew Cummings 13.MAR.08 Arguably, it is the most widespread predatory disease on the rampage throughout the world. In its unrelenting attacks,...
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Maximum support for PM Gonsalves
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March 13, 2008
13.MAR.08 Editor: As I write this, I am in St. Vincent and the Grenadines celebrating my birthday (March 10th) for the first time since 1980. Over the...
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Neglecting small things a big mistake
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March 13, 2008
13.MAR.08 Editor: Many times we neglect the small things which look insignificant, but which can later turn out to be a mistake.{{more}} In 2000 there...
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Bomb threat at hospital a very sick act indeed!
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March 13, 2008
13.MAR.08 Editor: I join with the many Vincentians who described the bomb threat to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital as a ‘sick act’. How can som...
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A big miscalculation by Opposition NDP
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March 7, 2008
07.MAR.08 EDITOR: The opposition NDP has no credible leadership. Neither Mr. Eustace nor his core leadership has any proper sense of political directi...
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Abortion in Hairouna
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March 7, 2008
07.MAR.08 Editor: There is nothing in our world today that takes more human life than legal abortion. Since 1973, more than 50 million babies have bee...
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OECS shouldn’t form unitary state with T&T
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March 7, 2008
07.MAR.08 Editor: There is a story coming out of the CMC from Trinidad about a Southern Caribbean Union. This story appears in the Business section of...