Our Readers' Opinions
June 15, 2021
EDITOR: Monies are only expended in the recipient’s area of interest. The preferred mode of disbursement is low or no interest loans or advance paymen...
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June 15, 2021
“Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualising, applying, analysing, synthesising, and/or eva...
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June 11, 2021
The two massive demonstrations organised by the National Committee in Defence of Democracy (NCDD), as well as the historic stay away from work on June...
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June 11, 2021
Editor: The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Public Service Union makes the following public statement regarding the alleged involvement of Senator Morg...
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June 11, 2021
Editor: I was hoping someone else in last week’s papers would have reminded us about what occurred in Tulsa, because if we forget, it would be like wh...
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June 8, 2021
EDITOR: They are mostly senior citizens, persons over 60 years. A few are younger and fewer still are students. They read widely frequenting the Publi...
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June 8, 2021
EDITOR: There have lately many talks about the mark of the beast as it relates to the Corona Virus Vaccine. Amongst the front liners are some church l...
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June 4, 2021
Editor: Dr. Godwin Friday’s expression of vehement disapproval of the Government’s accommodating in Parliament the senator implicated in the incident ...
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Vol.2
June 4, 2021
The Rule of Law is “ the restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating to well defined and established laws” (Oxford). Laws are nece...
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June 4, 2021
In spite of the tremendous turnout at the June 3 mass demonstration and rally at the market square in Kingstown, the Cato government, though severely ...
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June 1, 2021
EDITOR: We might argue and say, ‘why the hell they are in gaol (jail) in the first place’ and justifiably so, but we must remember that we are not liv...
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May 28, 2021
So outrageous were the “Dread Bills”, tabled by the government in Parliament in May 1981, that not only did they evoke massive local protest but cause...
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May 28, 2021
Editor: We are one Vincy family! One Caribbean family! One Global family! When La Soufriere Volcano started erupting explosively, the response to our ...
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May 28, 2021
Editor: This executive keeps outdoing itself. Not only makng a joke of having an investigation into allegations against players, while not really inve...
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May 28, 2021
by Dr Garrey Dennie and Marlon Bute An unprecedented crisis now confronts the justice system in SVG. The Commissioner of Police has acknowledged t...
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May 28, 2021
Relief monies are available and we must be very careful how they are spent. All of it should be channelled to the productive sector. Monies given with...
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Russell sends damning resignation
May 21, 2021
As St Vincent and the Grenadines entered the last two weeks of May 1981, it was a veritable cauldron, seething and bubbling with dissatisfaction and u...
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A national umbrella formed to defend rights
May 14, 2021
We are coming close to the completion of the series to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the epic Peoples struggle of 1981 which forced the governme...
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May 14, 2021
Despite the mixed feelings following the most recent string of disasters that have impacted St. Vincent and the Grenadines, it can be agreed by all th...
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May 11, 2021
By Keresha Chambers Despite all the good you’ve done you did get one thing wrong You left a hole in our hearts now that you’re gone Though Heaven has ...
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May 11, 2021
EDITOR: On April 18, 2020, a video of a mom soaked in blood after delivering her baby on a bench at a public facility in SVG circulated online. In thi...
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“A dagger deep into the throats of workers”
May 7, 2021
As the industrial climate in SVG worsened during the month of April 1981, rumours began to be circulated that the government was planning to introduce...
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May 7, 2021
EDITOR: The time is here again. What time am I speaking about? International Labour Day or Workers Day. Why the emphasis on this? This day is when wor...
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May 7, 2021
Editor: In 1885, Albert Venn Dicey, a professor and leading constitutional scholar in England helped to popularise the phrase “the rule of law”. The t...
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April 30, 2021
By Garth SaunderSs CEO of the Central Water and Sewerage Authority-CWSA At least four eastern Caribbean territories are currently feeling the effects ...
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April 30, 2021
By Mida Mason Here I stand, over four thousand feet in altitude I have tried my best to enjoy my solitude But you keep coming up to provoke me, why? Y...
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April 27, 2021
THE ON going explosive eruption phase of the St. Vincent La Soufriere volcano is expected to impact all aspects of life and livelihoods in St. Vincent...
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Recollections
April 23, 2021
By Renwick Rose In this the second and final part of a look at the eruptions of 1812 (done last week) and 1902, I try to bring the highlights of those...
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April 23, 2021
I am currently of the opinion that CXC prefers to satisfy its major stakeholders if it means possibly sacrificing the futures of this year’s students....
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April 16, 2021
By RENWICK ROSE GIVEN the unfortunate series of events which have overtaken us in relation to the violent eruption of the Soufriere volcano, I have de...
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April 16, 2021
GREETINGS FROM St Vincent and the Grenadines. The events of April 9, 2021 have propelled me to pull out my much treasured history book “The Cradle of ...
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April 16, 2021
I WAS THE one that gave the message of the volcano. I was called all kinds of names. One of these names was ‘devilish seer’. Now they want answers and...
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April 9, 2021
THE GOVERNMENT BRACES FOR A FIGHT WE HAVE Looked at some of the conditions which provided the background to the social and industrial crisis of 1981, ...
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April 9, 2021
EDITOR: My head spins every time I read something new about our country’s reaction to COVID-19. Call it COVID-19 psychosis, which is also causing lots...
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April 9, 2021
EDITOR: What are the origins of the Anti-vax movement and those false claims you have been receiving? Part of the origins lie in the different ways do...
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April 1, 2021
THE HEAVY HAND COMES OUT St Vincent and the Grenadines entered the month of April 1981 in a state of deteriorating social and economic conditions with...
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April 1, 2021
EDITOR: The Government-owned house where he lived still stands at Badeau, Ashton, Union Island. It is now occupied by the Union Island Museum Society....
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April 1, 2021
EDITOR: Even though there are reductions in positive cases for the COVID-19, we know that it is here with us and will be for some time. Plenty praise ...
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April 1, 2021
EDITOR: This letter comes to address a certain disparity. There is a personal example, but first let me generalize. Our police force prioritizes the s...
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March 26, 2021
THE GOVERNMENT REACTS Given the widespread dissatisfaction in St Vincent and the Grenadines in early 1981 about living conditions, the clamour for red...
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March 26, 2021
Anti-Vaxxers have emerged from the extreme end of the Homeopathic-Aryveda medicine doctrine and believe only in plant based product in contrast to mod...
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March 23, 2021
Dear Stakeholders: Teachers, Principals and Deputies, Parents, MOE Officials, Social commentators and the public – this writing is unintentionally len...
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Part 3
March 19, 2021
HARDSHIP CAUSES WORKING PEOPLE FIGHTBACK By the beginning of 1981 life had become more and more difficult for the Vincentian working people. The suppo...
Breaking News, News
November 5, 2025
Shem Walker, a 25 year old Stubbs man was shot and killed in Akers today sometime around 3 p.m. Reports are that Walker was in a white Toyota Vitz, PA...
News
November 4, 2025
Director of the Institute of Governance and Politics of Latin America and the Caribbean Augustine Ferdinand and Chairman of the New Democratic Party D...
From the Courts, News
November 4, 2025
A teenager, who stole a Corea’s shirt from someone’s clothes line, and wore it in Massy Stores where he allegedly stole more than $100 worth of items ...
From the Courts, News
November 4, 2025
A young man who beat his baby’s mother in her face with a stick, and struck her brother while he was defending her, was remanded pending sentencing. J...
News
November 4, 2025
Leader of the Opposition New Democratic Party (NDP), Dr. Godwin Friday wants the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines to have full confidence in th...
