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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 ...
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Digitalization now a must for SVG!
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August 4, 2006
Editor: I followed the news regarding the fire at the Magistrate's Court which took place on Friday, July 21, and wondered what would have happened if...
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Public Interest in Parliament
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August 4, 2006
EDITOR: The ULP as a political party has encouraged us the citizens of this country to pay special attention to Parliament, because that is where the ...
This is who I am
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This is who I am
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August 4, 2006
by Dennis Ambrose I have heard repeatedly over the past few weeks a call, by the ‘Boisterous Few, and the Pretentious Elite’, for me to “pack-up...
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What if the sexual abuser is a teacher?
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August 4, 2006
by Iris Mounsey In 1997, Mary Kay Le Tourneau, an American teacher, made world news when she was turned in to authorities to be tried for statutory ra...
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10 years after Poverty Report
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July 28, 2006
by Maxwell Haywood It is now ten years since a major poverty report on St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) was published. The report titled "Poverty ...
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Emancipation as an aspect of Global Trends
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July 28, 2006
Last week’s article was predicated on the point of view that, “There is no real evidence that physical emancipation in 1834 materially assisted in...
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These few tips could improve our Carnival
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July 28, 2006
Editor: Another carnival has come and gone, and again public opinion was not particularly favourable. Perhaps a few excerpts from a 2002 radio intervi...
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We need lifeguards at Salt Pond Beach
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July 28, 2006
Editor: My heart goes out to the bereaved family of the late David Glynn who drown while swimming at the popular Salt Pond Beach. Nothing we say or do...
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The glaring truth
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July 28, 2006
EDITOR: In the Searchlight of Thursday, April 13, 2006, the following was printed: "Deborah Rodney pointed out that preliminary results in a recent su...
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Bequia land protest no political agenda
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July 28, 2006
EDITOR: The Peoples Action Alliance (PAAB) of Bequia wants to put to rest, once and for all, the incorrect assertion of Government that the swell of p...
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International airport long overdue
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July 28, 2006
EDITOR: I am aware that this subject has stirred and is stirring up a lot of passion. But why is this small nation so divided over such a very importa...
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An ounce of prevention
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July 21, 2006
by Iris Mounsey 21.JUL.06 Now it was happening before my eyes. A first-form student, dressed in full school uniform sat next to the conductor. She loo...
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Machel’s behaviour unacceptable
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July 21, 2006
21.JUL.06 EDITOR: I am expecting to read a condemnation of the behaviour by Machel Montano towards a Vincy woman, - a woman, period, at the Scandalous...
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A Library, Hall of Peace a Cenotaph, Euphemism?
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July 21, 2006
21.JUL.06 EDITOR: Nothing, absolutely nothing, would have been achieved until the people of this country acquire the necessary human capacity to estab...
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Carnival Committee and its way forward
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July 21, 2006
21.JUL.06 EDITOR: Carnival 2006 was relatively good, some of the components that stood out were Miss SVG, the Miss Carival show, Calypso, Mas and the ...
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Unleash the Police!
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July 21, 2006
21.JUL.06 EDITOR: The unprovoked attack on a group of tourists during a trip to La Soufriere recently, gave me a feeling of outrage. Before I migrated...
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The price of pornography
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July 14, 2006
14.JUL.06 Editor: Pornography gets people to begin thinking that they can have sex whenever they want with whom ever they desire without there being a...
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The calypsonians have spoken
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July 14, 2006
14.JUL.06 EDITOR: I want to congratulate Grantley "Ipa" Constance for winning the Calypso Monarch title for Vincy Carnival 2006. Ipa's song in the sec...
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Simply Irresponsible
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July 7, 2006
07.JUL.06 Editor: I am concerned about the irresponsible suggestions being made by health authorities in SVG. In the Searchlight newspaper of Friday M...
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Don’t Christianize me please!
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July 7, 2006
07.JUL.06 Editor: I read with interest an article on page 3 of your June 30th 2006 edition entitled "Anita Charles meets PM" and asked myself the ques...
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Kaiso injustice
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July 7, 2006
07.JUL.06 EDITOR: After being a Kaiso supporter for over 20-years, in which I've seen all the good and bad in the art form, I must comment on what I t...