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‘Medical ganja’ could help SVG
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March 23, 2007
23.MAR.07 Editor: The world is on the edge of a religious war which is spreading its wings over us all. Religion can be seen as having a negative aspe...
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Now is the time for Dyslexia Centre
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March 23, 2007
23.MAR.07 Editor: I must congratulate the Adult Education Unit and the Ministry of Education in taking the initiative by holding a teachers workshop t...
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Don’t be led astray by talk show hosts
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March 23, 2007
23.MAR.07 Editor: Before I get into what I have to say, let me express my sincerest thanks to the Government and the company which freely repaired the...
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Caesar taking too much?
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March 23, 2007
23.MAR.07 EDITOR: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's..." (Matt 22:21) Having received my personalized IT1 and TD5 forms on Ma...
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Beware of wolves in sheep clothing!
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March 23, 2007
23.MAR.07 Editor: The introduction of a Bill in Parliament, at its last sitting, to eliminate the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) is quite sim...
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What a political turnaround!
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March 16, 2007
16.MAR.07 EDITOR: There has been quite a political turn around in the nation, since the failed march and rally by the opposition NDP. The Opposition i...
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Congratulations! LOC did great job
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March 16, 2007
16.MAR.07 Editor: For over twenty years I have visited this country for rest and relaxation and I was thrilled to hear that Arnos Vale was to host fou...
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Dissapointed with Eustace
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March 16, 2007
16.MAR.07 Editor: I first voted in 1984 and did so for the New Democratic Party (NDP). In every election thereafter I voted for the NDP except in Dece...
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Beef up laws to curb money laundering
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March 16, 2007
16.MAR.07 Editor: I couldn't imagine that in my lifetime that good people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines would all at once rebel against the ravage...
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Stop fooling around with international affairs
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March 16, 2007
16.MAR.07 Editor: Can someone explain what we pay all that tax money for our foreign missions for? What exactly do they do for our citizens abroad? Th...
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Mrs. O’Neal going through trials
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March 8, 2007
08.MAR.07 Editor: Mrs O'Neal is correct but should have mentioned the other trials she is going through with her husband. I fail to understand how an ...
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I fully support Sylvester’s Bill
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March 8, 2007
08.MAR.07 Editor: I fully support the proposal of a Legal Profession Bill. I can see no practical reason/s why this should not be implemented. Most ci...
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Time for blacks to move forward
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March 8, 2007
08.MAR.07 Editor: As people, blacks are perhaps in the most unfortunate position. Statistics prove that we produce the fewest High School and College ...
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ULP will deliver the international airport
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March 8, 2007
08.MAR.07 Editor: The NDP is making heavy weather of St. Vincent and the Grenadines getting an international airport. At one time they doubted that th...
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Dealing with crime from the root
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March 8, 2007
08.MAR.07 EDITOR: The increase of crime in society- locally, regionally and internationally continues to be a troubling and sad reality. While the cri...
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Speak the truth, it will set you free
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March 8, 2007
08.MAR.07 Editor: It has become necessary to formally respond to recent statements aired and published in the local media that are being propagated by...
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Grabbing at straw
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March 2, 2007
02.MAR.07 EDITOR: The NDP guys are a bunch of desperate people. One wonders why is this. Firstly, time is running out for Mr. Eustace, he is older tha...
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Our Government is not compromised
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March 2, 2007
02.MAR.07 Editor: For a while there we were led to believe that our Government was compromised. The opponents of the Government would have us believe ...
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Tourism channel great
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March 2, 2007
02.MAR.07 Editor: I must congratulate the Ministry of Tourism for introducing a cable channel for tourism and for putting a monitor in the Airport. Th...
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We have this country to build
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March 2, 2007
02.MAR.07 EDITOR: Someone asked me why I always write about Dr. Gonsalves. My answer to that was I always admire him as someone who struggles for peop...
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NDP employing psycho politics
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March 2, 2007
02.MAR.07 EDITOR: In our local politics, we are witnessing a raging war for the capture and control of Vincentian minds by the New Democratic Party (N...
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More support for Pam Barbour
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February 23, 2007
23.FEB.07 Editor: We would like to join Paul Lowman in his support for Pam Barbour as SVG Honorary Consul in Jamaica. During my six years of living an...
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Young people need positive role models
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February 23, 2007
23.FEB.07 Editor, There is a serious lack of role models for our young people to admire and look up to. Of course there are many role models in our so...
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Fighting against money laundering
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February 23, 2007
23.FEB.07 Editor,Before the ULP government came to office on March 29, 2001, St. Vincent and the Grenadines was seen internationally as a haven for mo...
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Shape Reparation plan, redeem
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February 23, 2007
23.FEB.07 To raise the demand for 'Reparations' and not to map out an international Recovery and Renewal plan for black people is to play idiot games....
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Big Boyz Toyz – Auto crazed evening
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February 23, 2007
23.FEB.07 Editor: For many men, the desire to design and create never ends. Female psychologists say it's because men can't make children, that's why ...
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Political picong all part of the game
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February 23, 2007
23.FEB.07 Editor: I have waited a very long time to say my piece on a matter that is making me feel as though I am no longer in the Caribbean, where p...
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Strategic focus on African heritage education
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February 23, 2007
by Maxwell Haywood 23.FEB.07 I was stimulated to write this article because of three things: (1) the workshops for primary and secondary school teache...
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SVG not what it used to be
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February 16, 2007
16.FEB.07 Editor: I just came back from St Vincent. The week I spent was the worst I have ever spent there. I love St Vincent but not what is going on...
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The things we say when someone dies…
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February 16, 2007
16.FEB.07 EDITOR: Life is the best blessing man receives from God; that's why we should live it to the best way we possibly can. Sometimes I sit and w...
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Pam Barbour deserves elevation
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February 16, 2007
16.FEB.07 Editor: I read in the February 9 edition of the Searchlight that Vincentian students of the UWI Mona Campus made a call to Prime Minister Dr...
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Green Party calls on ULP to protect, preserve SVG
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February 16, 2007
16.FEB.07 Editor: SVG Green Party is very concerned as the negative impact from mass tourism for SVG will significantly outweigh any benefit. The ULP ...
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OECS Bar Association needs to show more teeth
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February 9, 2007
9.FEB.07 Editor: How commendable the OECS Bar Association through its President Nicole Sylvester will not "allow in this day and age, the politicians ...
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Woman at Layou an embarrassment
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February 9, 2007
9.FEB.07 EDITOR: It is with great embarrassment and hurt that I am writing this letter about an incident which occurred at the Layou Playing Field on ...
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Much ado about nothing
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February 9, 2007
9.FEB.07 Editor: The release of a prisoner by the Mercy Committee who had completed his sentence barring two months has created much talk mainly among...
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Young people and their African heritage
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February 2, 2007
by Maxwell Haywood As the nation prepares for the Commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, t...
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Spokespersons hurting Eustace
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February 2, 2007
2.FEB.07 Editor: So it seems Mr. Eustace and the NDP have decided the Gonsalves ULP government should be terminated by the middle of this year, at lat...
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World becoming more and more intolerant
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February 2, 2007
2.FEB.07 EDITOR: There is a re-surfacing and growing trend, particularly in the religious and political world today, where many religionists and polit...
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Power of forgiveness
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February 2, 2007
2.FEB.07 Editor: Murder is something that we would have to live with, for the heart of man is desperately wicked. There is a small element in society ...