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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 ...
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Who to believe – Ralph or Arnhim?
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February 2, 2007
2.FEB.07 EDITOR: One day I will like to be elected as a parliamentarian because in my own way I'm a politician, that's what am being told. I think eve...
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CWC – Visa solutions
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February 2, 2007
2.FEB.07 Editor: For years now, I have maintained that the two best things to recently happen to the Caribbean are CSME (Caricom Single Market & Econo...
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Christmas season is the time for giving?
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January 26, 2007
26.JAN.07 EDITOR: It has been almost two weeks since Christmas has gone by and people are feeling the side effects of it. Some minds are still in holi...
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Be serious for SVG’s sake
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January 26, 2007
26.JAN.07 EDITOR: St. Vincent and the Grenadines is a curious place in which so many politically partisan persons, and a few others with their heads i...
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Open letter to the Prime Minister
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January 26, 2007
26.JAN.07 Hon. Dr. Ralph E. Gonsalves Prime Minister St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Good morning and warmest greetings to you my dear Comrade Prime M...
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Oh! That dreadful cemetery
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January 26, 2007
26.JAN.07 EDITOR: I came from the U.S.A to visit my husband's grave, when I got to the cemetery I was surprised to see how tall the grass was, all the...
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Is CDC really serious?
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January 26, 2007
26.JAN.07 EDITOR: The stated intention by the CDC to hold public consultations on Vinci Mas is the correct enunciated position. However, have we had t...
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NDP, Green Party should join forces
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January 19, 2007
19.JAN.07 EDITOR: Under Mitchell the NDP was strong, but since his departure it has seriously deteriorated. Eustace has lost two general elections and...
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No Hans King, you mean the Audacity to Hope!
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January 19, 2007
19.JAN.07 EDITOR: After reading your article I felt it necessary to enlighten you on a few points. First of all, I think you should read Senator Obama...
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The Prime Minister needs to listen more
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January 19, 2007
19.JAN.07 EDITOR: Our Prime Minister said that 2006 was a challenging year; if it's one time I agree with Prime Minister Gonsalves it is when he made ...
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NDP misread Vincentian voters
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January 12, 2007
12.JAN.07 EDITOR: Unable to stop the Comrade and the ULP's magnificent performance in government, the NDP sought to win the 2005 elections by waging a...
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The audacity of hope
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January 12, 2007
12.JAN.07 EDITOR: I am currently reading a book by Barack Obama, the young African American who is being billed as a possible candidate for the next U...
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A woman has the right to say NO!
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January 12, 2007
12.JAN.07 EDITOR: My cup was already full after Stacey Wilson's beheading, I felt quite unable to imagine a scene happening in full day light at peak ...
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Repair pot holes at early stage
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January 12, 2007
12.JAN.07 EDITOR: Happy new year to you and staff and all the readers to your informative paper. The Hon. Douglas Slater in his budget presentation me...
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Prime Minister Gonsalves needs to listen more
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January 12, 2007
12.JAN.07 EDITOR: Our Prime Minister said that 2006 was a challenging year; if it's one time I agree with Prime Minister Gonsalves is when he made tha...
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Hanging is indeed the end of the rope
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January 12, 2007
12.JAN.07 EDITOR: I heard the Prime Minister express his desire to see hanging remain on the statute books, thereby throwing in his lot with, as he pu...
The dangers of smoking marijuana
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The dangers of smoking marijuana
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January 12, 2007
12.JAN.07 Editor: There is a rapid increase of marijuana smokers in St Vincent and the Grenadines, young and old are destroying their health and lives...
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Demand your receipt, stamp
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January 5, 2007
EDITOR: I am very disturbed by an incident that occurred while I was shopping in Middle Street recently. I arrived at the cash desk with some curtains...
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ULP regime scraping barrel
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January 5, 2007
EDITOR: On Tuesday 19th December 2006 on SVGTV, Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves compared the poverty of SVG to that of Bangladesh and Haiti. SVG Gre...
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An excellent budget… kudos to Sen. Williams
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January 5, 2007
EDITOR: The 2007 Budget presented in Parliament by Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves was indeed an excellent one. The budget contained something for e...