Our Readers' Opinions
August 20, 2004
Editor: This year is supposed to be 166 years since emancipation. However we seem to lack the knack for economic advances. And even with the strides t...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 20, 2004
Editor: This topic has been the centre of many debates in homes and staff rooms throughout St. Vincent and the Grenadines, that is the question of tee...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 20, 2004
Editor: I am a teacher in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and would like to express my views regarding the Ministry of Educationâs policy to allow te...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 13, 2004
EDITOR: I would like to correct some misinformation in the Bassy Alexander column of last week. Barack Obama is not running for senator in Ohio, as he...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 13, 2004
EDITOR: I note with amazement the rapidity with which some members of Caricom are moving to recognize the illegally installed Latortue regime in Haiti...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 13, 2004
EDITOR: Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has politically fast tracked two major construction projects, with hundreds of millions in borrowed money: ...
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August 13, 2004
Editor: I am ever disgusted by men and women who profess some form of intelligence being so compromising and crooked in their manner of reasoning. I r...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 13, 2004
Editor: Our nation seems to be fast heading along a path of political suicide, suffering nervously from a serious bout of political party madness. The...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 13, 2004
Editor: The issue of one of this nationâs newspapers on July 30, 2004 headlined âCustoms Close Down, Heads Will Rollâ was most misleading. I was...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 6, 2004
At midnight on July 31, 2004, the crowd gathered at Earlene Horne Square in Diamond Village and observed a moment of silence to commemorate the 166th ...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 6, 2004
EDITOR: Itâs unfair to say that the New Democratic Party (NDP) did nothing in the last 17 years. This has been the talk of the Unity Labour Party (U...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 6, 2004
EDITOR: I offer my most sincere congratulations to Bertie Pompey on his achievement as a lawyer and his appointment to the post of assistant commissio...
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August 6, 2004
Editor: It really vexes me to hear the defiant and wicked claims the sodomite âJoeâ has been making about the true and living God who created mank...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 6, 2004
EDITOR: After reading Joeâs letter which was published in the July 30, 2004 edition of your newspaper, I was convinced that Poor Joe is of the opini...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 6, 2004
Editor: Of course homosexuals choose a gay lifestyle. For the same reason heterosexuals choose to have relations with members of the opposite sex. Tha...
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August 6, 2004
EDITOR: This is Emancipation Month and it is evangelism and missionary time for Rastafarians, Afro-Caribbeans and those who promote the idea that we b...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 6, 2004
Editor: For the past few weeks I have been reading articles by Joe on the issue of homosexuality and last week I read one by Dave that almost brought ...
Our Readers' Opinions
July 30, 2004
EDITOR: I read with interest âConfession - Gay man confesses to Searchlightâ in the July 16, 2004 edition of the said paper. All kinds of emotions...
Our Readers' Opinions
July 30, 2004
Editor: In your paper dated Friday, July 14 2004, it was uplifting to read the article/letter written by âJoeâ. To say I understand what he is fee...
Our Readers' Opinions
July 30, 2004
Editor: I need to clarify a couple things from the last letter I wrote to you (published July 16). A friend called me after reading the letter and poi...
Our Readers' Opinions
July 30, 2004
Please permit me a space in your paper to deal with crime. I remember as a boy growing up that what our parents gave us, we had to be satisfied with. ...
Our Readers' Opinions
July 23, 2004
Editor: It is with much horror that one gets in reading the weekly newspapers or listening to the electronic media about the crime and vulgarity that ...
Our Readers' Opinions
July 23, 2004
by Oscar Allen It was their emancipation that led the Hebrew people to find their faith and their God. That is what we read in the Hebrew scriptures w...
Our Readers' Opinions
July 23, 2004
A LAYMAN'S PERSPECTIVE by R. Andrew Cummings The world has changed significantly in recent times. Yet in SVG we seem unconcerned and even untouched by...
Our Readers' Opinions
July 23, 2004
After listening to the style, brilliant language, knowledgeable content and fluent delivery at graduation ceremonies, I now have an opinion as to who ...
Our Readers' Opinions
July 23, 2004
Dear Hon. Rene Baptist, Min. Of Tourism And Culture Kingstown St. Vincent and the Grenadines It gives me great pleasure in writing this letter to you ...
Our Readers' Opinions
July 23, 2004
EDITOR: Haiti is being referred to today as a failed state by many (rightfully so). This is not of the peopleâs making. The likes of Papa Doc, Baby ...
Our Readers' Opinions
July 16, 2004
EDITOR: In an effort to keep me up to date with events that are happening in my beloved home of the supposedly blessed, a very good friend e-mailed me...
Our Readers' Opinions
July 16, 2004
Gay Man confesses to SEARCHLIGHT Editor: A few weeks ago I wrote to your paper addressing homophobia in this country in general, and remarks made by M...
Our Readers' Opinions
July 9, 2004
Editor: I speak for art students, the principal of the Community College and myself when I say that I was dismayed by the coverage given to the Aâle...
Our Readers' Opinions
July 9, 2004
Editor: Re: Visas â I wish to again emphasise the importance of obtaining the necessary visas for entry to various countries in Europe and other des...
Our Readers' Opinions
July 9, 2004
EDITOR: When I was a member of the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force, which came to a pre-determined end at 10 a.m. on May 20, 2004, I...
Our Readers' Opinions
July 2, 2004
by G E M Saunders I wish to place on record my own personal appreciation for the long and distinguished service given by Mr. Cummings to the instituti...
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