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October 6, 2006
Star and Service by Oscar Allen Just over 50 years ago, a schoolboy from Edinboro received a sport scholarship for his cricket ability. He was good. A...
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September 29, 2006
by Dr. Richard A. B. Cox In 2005 I wrote a piece in the Searchlight calling on Jomo Thomas to participate directly in the political process by joining...
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September 29, 2006
A poem for the late Patrice Bascombe Can someone tell me please is my friend really gone No longer would I see the girl that never frowns Can someone ...
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September 29, 2006
EDITOR: We, as customers are many times taken for a ride by companies with which we do business. Many companies have very little regard for their cust...
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September 29, 2006
EDITOR: I am not pessimist like Woody Allen. Unlike him, I know what the taste of having hope is like. However, everybody often comes up to me and tel...
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September 29, 2006
by Jude Knight There is an adage that "out of evil cometh good" and the recent impasse between government and the National Omni Bus Association (NOBA)...
Heed the advice of Justice Bruce-Lyle
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September 29, 2006
EDITOR: I wish to comment on the issue of police brutality raised by Justice Frederick Bruce-Lyle and Parnel Campbell QC last week. The allegation of ...
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September 22, 2006
Written by Ras Zando You have answered your call Fetched from the recesses of your soul; Expressed with uniformity of passion oh songbird! You have do...
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September 22, 2006
EDITOR: The political climate seems to be very good in St Vincent and the Grenadines. My reason for saying so, the NDP held a political meeting at Sio...
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September 22, 2006
EDITOR: I am writing this letter on behalf of my cousin who works with government keeping the sidewalks within her town clean. Every working day as my...
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September 22, 2006
EDITOR: What determines the order of our investment priority list? Please allow me some "real estate" to say why I ask this question. I've been paying...
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September 22, 2006
EDITOR: Re: "Isn't expression of Opinion their Right" by Patrick G. Ferrari (Searchlight Newspaper, 15/09/06), Isn't expression of opinion also the ri...
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September 22, 2006
EDITOR: Racing is a sport. Car racing is especially a big one. Here in St Vincent and the Grenadines there are lovers of this sport and they find them...
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September 22, 2006
EDITOR: In a Poverty Assessment report carried out for the Caribbean Development Bank about SVG, based on reported expenditures in respect of food and...
Time for government-owned public transport system?
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September 22, 2006
EDITOR: The Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines is shying away from instituting a Government-owned transport system and will continue to be h...
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September 15, 2006
15.SEP.06 Editor: What is the procedure being followed to spray for mosquitoes? There is no warning to the residents. The first sight of the fogging i...
Where will all the wastewater go?
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September 15, 2006
15.SEP.06 EDITOR: Regarding the Buccament on the Bay Project – where will all their wastewater go? As far as I understand, the resort will use a che...
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September 15, 2006
15.SEP.06 EDITOR: Now, for the first time, de Comrade is beginning to worry me. In a press conference the other day, he carried out a tirade against "...
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September 15, 2006
15.SEP.06 EDITOR: The CSME is a major opportunity for greater growth and diversity of Caribbean business. In the case of St Vincent & the Grenadines, ...
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September 15, 2006
by Camillo M. Gonsalves 15.SEP.06 After carefully following the recent debate and fabricated furor in the wake of the Produce and Commodity Act 2006, ...
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September 8, 2006
EDITOR: The People's Action Alliance of Bequia was surprised to hear the Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, in his press conference of September 4, ...
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September 8, 2006
EDITOR: The move by our government to implement measures, guidelines, and regulations in the management of child care centres in SVG today, brings a s...
National football coach must go!
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September 8, 2006
EDITOR: I heard on the streets of Kingstown that the Under-20 youth team wasn't ready while in fact it seems to me it's the organisation who wasn't re...
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September 8, 2006
EDITOR: I was wondering: • How much more concrete would have to be dumped on our roads, making them more dangerous yet, before some bright spark rea...
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September 8, 2006
by Dr. Richard A. B. Cox Arhnim Eustace, Leader of the Opposition has in time past accused the media of bias against his party. This indifference was ...
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September 8, 2006
by The Ginja Reporter It may seem to many like out and out nonsense crafted for humour. The truth is that far removed from the current and urgent issu...
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September 1, 2006
Editor: Something serious recently happened at VINLEC. Power outages for days. It now appears the terrible situation was avoidable. For days, consumer...
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September 1, 2006
EDITOR: Vinlec is inefficient and will continue to be so until other electricity producers are allowed in SVG. When Vinlec was set up, it was given a ...
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September 1, 2006
Editor: Please permit me space in your newspaper to express a particular concern. Today marks the beginning of a new school year in reference to teach...
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September 1, 2006
Editor: With the rate of energy cost in present day, small societies like ours need to start making plans for energy conservation. The price of energy...
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September 1, 2006
Editor: In the past when I made contributions in the print media under a pseudonym, I defended my position because in this society more attention is p...
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September 1, 2006
by Oscar Allen Every time you find a revolutionary movement that aims to change conditions in society, you will find division in that movement. It is ...