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Please warn residents before fogging starts
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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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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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Isn’t expression of opinion their right?
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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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In defence of Produce and Commodities Bill
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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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Common sense and the Produce and Commodity Act
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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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PAAB uneasy with Park Beach, Estate
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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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Teacher training – A must!
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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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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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Concrete spillage a serious road hazzard
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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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Is it just another case of Eustace babbling?
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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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Raw Unfiltered Organic Apple Cider Vinegar
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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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Is Eustace looking for Burgin to cross the floor?
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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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High electricity prices draining Vincentians
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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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Teachers are people too!
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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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We need to conserve more energy in SVG
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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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Examine alternative energy sources
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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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Rethinking Emancipation
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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 ...
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Why are our youth not interested in agriculture?
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August 25, 2006
Editor: Thank you for being a medium through which I can express my most humble opinion. A few weeks ago, I listened to the Minister of Agriculture, M...
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Is Green Party the official opposition?
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August 25, 2006
EDITOR: I'm no Green Party supporter, but it seems to me that the Green Party is the official opposition to ULP government; it seems to me that only t...
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Public perception of VINLEC
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August 25, 2006
Editor: I listened to the Prime Minister when he delivered his Ministerial Speech on St. Vincent Electricity Services (Vinlec) and strongly agree on m...
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Renwick Rose’s 5 “R’s”
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August 25, 2006
Writing in his column on page 9 of last week's "Searchlight" Renwick Rose told us quite timely that "... life has a way of reminding us that not only ...
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How should we deal with communist Castro?
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August 25, 2006
by Dr. Richard A. B. Cox There is something very "Machu Picchian" (in the contemporary sense of the term) about the death of colonialism in SVG. It ha...
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Will we lose the shirts off our backs next?
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August 18, 2006
18.AUG.06 EDITOR: Almost a year into its second term of government, the ULP regime still fails to layout a clear and coherent economic plan for the SV...
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Condom failure, whose fault is it?
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August 18, 2006
18.AUG.06 EDITOR: Statements like, "condoms are 100% effective when used correctly" or "condom failure is almost always the result of user failure" do...
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Farming project at prison a great idea
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August 18, 2006
18.AUG.06 EDITOR: It's so amazing to journey to the leeward side of this island to the green mountain ridge of Belle Isle and look at this country's P...
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Why not grow hemp for natural fabrics
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August 18, 2006
18.AUG.06 EDITOR: I've noticed a trend developing among foreign visitors. More and more of them are wearing natural and eco-friendly fabrics. Of cours...
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Why some people have no conscience
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August 18, 2006
by Clifford Pitt 18.AUG.06 An old lady in the village, during my youth, missed her only goat a few days before Christmas. She had kept it under her bo...
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Intellectual Property The New Frontier
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August 18, 2006
A look at the Vincentian Music Industry and its Comparative Advantage by Richard McLeish 18.AUG.06 Part I of V INTRODUCTION: Culture as a means of tra...
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Reparation? Introspection
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August 11, 2006
EDITOR: Vincentians continue to ride ‘piggy-back’ on the trials and sufferings of many the world over. We do that with a fair deal of success by a...
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20/20 politicians
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August 11, 2006
EDITOR: When I was much younger I dreamt of becoming a politician, but I knew when the time came I would have to be qualified, so I studied and became...
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None but ourselves
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August 11, 2006
by Vonnie Roudette The importance of Emancipation Month is well recognized, but how effective are the celebrations in developing our consciousness as ...
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When bananas fell-Part 1
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August 4, 2006
by Oscar Allen Banana is a slippery product and it falls easily, but it can rise quickly too. Look at three examples of up and down production. In 197...
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Fire Chief: More fire hydrants needed
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August 4, 2006
EDITOR: It is refreshing to have a Fire Chief who seems to know and understand his job. Government should look at furnishing the Fire Department with ...