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December 10, 2021
Editor: You may be wondering what you can get your child for Christmas. It has to be something that brings joy to your child, something that stimulate...
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December 10, 2021
“You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I’ll guarantee you’ll win.” Patch Adams [A biographical comedy/drama movie, 1998]. In thi...
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December 10, 2021
EDITOR: Even as we here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are distinctly floundering under a pervasive cloud of blight, weighted down by and entangled...
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December 10, 2021
THE FOLLOWING ARE comments that appeared on an article titled “Unvaccinated teachers who turn up for work will not be paid”, which was published ONLIN...
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December 7, 2021
It was interesting to hear a head teacher outlining the difficulties of Special Needs students and an urgent need for teachers to receive better train...
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December 3, 2021
The Editor: Teachers play an important role in the development of any nation. I am sure you would agree with me that teachers today are not in the sam...
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December 3, 2021
There were anti-government protests and industrial action which were sparked by a proposal to increase pensions for parliamentarians in April 2000. Th...
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November 30, 2021
Editor: To live amicably with other members in our community, we must overlook many things and demonstrate a forgiving spirit. Children have the capac...
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November 26, 2021
11/24/2021 Kingstown St. Vincent and The Grenadines The Prime Minister St. Vincent and The Grenadines W.I. Dear Prime Minister, Re: - Response to Post...
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November 26, 2021
Editor: I begin by making a general statement. Anytime you have a Government who wants to get rid of a governing body of an organization you can ONE H...
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November 26, 2021
EDITOR: I remember fairly well the two gentlemen who served here as British administrators when St. Vincent and the Grenadines was under colonial gove...
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November 26, 2021
by: Renwick Rose Venezuela has been able to successfully hold local government elections with the participation of the major opposition parties for th...
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November 19, 2021
by Renwick Rose As the St Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers Union (SVGTU) rounds up Teachers’ Solidarity Week, in commemoration of the events of Nov...
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November 12, 2021
EDITOR: We all know that education is not cheap, yet we try to obtain it at a bargain. Despite applying to various funding agencies and financiers, I ...
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November 9, 2021
EDITOR: There is an age old adage that says birds of a feather flock together. This adage is echoed in the sociology theory homophily which argues tha...
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November 9, 2021
The mission of the elected representatives ought to be to effect the will of the people who have given them the privilege of authority. The assumption...
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November 9, 2021
As the world anxiously awaits the outcome of the COP26 international conference on climate change which concludes in the Scottish city of Glasgow this...
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November 9, 2021
THE RECENT REVELATION of the impending acquisition of CIBC First Caribbean by the Bank of SVG is bad news for black entrepreneurship and black economi...
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November 5, 2021
EDITOR: Leaders throughout the world are becoming more and more disrespectful to the rights of the people through their forced COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ mand...
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November 5, 2021
EDITOR: I find myself flat on the ground. Nevertheless, I endeavor to do my important cleaning job albeit with a little less dignity. Although I saw t...
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November 5, 2021
EDITOR: The world has changed considerably…but there is still hope. The pandemic has made us into cold, cold human beings: we can no longer greet by w...
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November 2, 2021
EDITOR: I have read articles in several local newspapers written by different individuals on the state of COVID-19 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. ...
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November 2, 2021
EDITOR: In 2000 Dr. Ralph Gonsalves and the ULP took credit for orchestrating a protest that included the Public Service Union, Nurses Association, Te...
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October 29, 2021
By Lilia Burunciuc Education is a strong pillar for the qualitative growth and improvement of human capital. In the Caribbean, which is home to 11 mil...
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October 22, 2021
EDITED: Schools should have been opened this week for partial or full faace-to-face classes but the option of continued online classes was chosen inst...
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October 22, 2021
EDITOR: There are many hardworking, professional and good public servants in this country. However, there are some who make the service look good. Whi...
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October 22, 2021
EDITOR: During the last election season the ULP presented themselves as being the party with the best leadership and endeavoured to impress the people...
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October 19, 2021
EDITOR: We note with interest, the appeal by Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the CXC, Dr Wayne Wesley, re “We need to find an approach that c...
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October 15, 2021
Editor: Covid – 19 continues to [wreak] havoc and fear amongst the populace here in SVG and elsewhere. It has and continues to take away from us perso...
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October 12, 2021
By Dr Rose-Ann Smith March 2020 marked the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic for several Caribbean islands, but what was happening around the world h...
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October 8, 2021
EDITOR: While quite a number of parents are calling for face to face classes, others, while preferring face to face, are wondering still if doing so w...
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October 8, 2021
EDITOR: Opinion is something that is based purely on how one thinks or views it. An opinion can not be proven and so it has no evidence. Facts on the ...
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October 8, 2021
EDITOR: A very influential antivax lobby in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are “persons from far and away” who now reside in SVG. Some have become res...
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October 8, 2021
EDITOR: Since the rebuilding of the health facilities at Clifton Union Island, a new sign was put up: Union Island Health Complex. Many were not pleas...
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October 5, 2021
EDITOR: Cricket and in particular, West Indies cricket continues to be widely discussed. With the just concluded CPL and the selection of the 15 man s...
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October 1, 2021
Hospitals and health services generally in the Eastern Caribbean, St Vincent and the Grenadines included, are being overcrowded as a result of the ste...
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October 1, 2021
EDITOR: Someone said that “manners and respect will take you through out the world.” This was one edict that my mother tried to instill in all her chi...
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October 1, 2021
EDITOR: Doctors who intentionally and or habitually spread mis or dis-information re the COVID19 vaccines are breaking one of the fundamental rules re...
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October 1, 2021
The sentiments expressed by brother Renwick Rose in the opening paragraph of his column “EYE OF THE NEEDLE” in the “Searchlight newspaper” of August 2...
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September 28, 2021
by RENWICK ROSE ICELAND, THE volcanic- ridden island in the North Atlantic ocean, has just missed out on becoming the first country in Europe to have ...
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September 28, 2021
by RENWICK ROSE ICELAND, THE volcanic- ridden island in the North Atlantic ocean, has just missed out on becoming the first country in Europe to have ...
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Director of the Institute of Governance and Politics of Latin America and the Caribbean Augustine Ferdinand and Chairman of the New Democratic Party D...
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