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This amendment has set a bad precedence
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August 13, 2021
Editor: I cannot say how utterly aghast I am that this Government, in its attempts to get people to take the vaccine, would go to such a questionable ...
Hatred is one hell of a thing
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August 13, 2021
Editor: Hatred of any kind is one hell of a thing. We often overlook hatred as a sin and something dangerous. Even in the religious circle, hatred is ...
On the Rampage
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August 13, 2021
There was a time when they cared for us and we cared for them. Those were the good old days when we had a symbiotic relationship. We were provided wit...
UWI Vice-Chancellor condemns attack on PM
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August 10, 2021
FRIDAY, AUGUST 06, 2021—The University of the West Indies expresses its dismay and disappointment in the development in Kingstown, Saint Vincent that ...
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August 10, 2021
THE COMMISSION of the Organisation of the Eastern Caribbean States, at its recently concluded 3rd Special Meeting held on 6th August 2021, wishes to a...
Stop tormenting us with the use of malathion
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August 6, 2021
EDITOR: We have been using malathion in this country for at least four decades. I write with respect to my first contact with the billowing toxic smok...
Emancipation Day in Union Island
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August 6, 2021
IRONICALLY, Emancipation Day in Union Island was usually celebrated with everyone expecting to be charged with various offences leading to the certain...
Are we truly emancipated?
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August 6, 2021
EDITOR: Are we truly emancipated? We have just celebrated emancipation day but can we honestly say that we are truly emancipated? Yes we have been fre...
Anti-vaccination and the economy
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August 6, 2021
EDITOR: In every rum shop or street corner the issue of vaccination is dominating the public discourse, mainly from the stand point of taking or not t...
Mandatory vaccination is a must!
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August 4, 2021
“When a strong arm resorts to slight-of-hand, you know the will is unbending” – On-Foot Observer This article is based on the press release from the p...
Responding to Drs Garrey and Nneka Dennie
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July 30, 2021
EDITOR: In a spiteful invective designed to soothe the sagging spirits and sinking hearts of all those who took the vaccine on the ground that it is s...
Open schools in September
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July 30, 2021
EDITOR: This school year that is ending has been very disruptive and it is time to return to whatever semblance of normalcy we can muster. Too much ha...
The Covid 19 Vaccine
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July 27, 2021
EDITOR: It is a known fact that the Corona Vaccine has sparked much discussion. Interestingly many health personnel and workers have refused to take t...
Plain rubbish from Jomo Thomas
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July 27, 2021
EDITOR: I write with respect to the Plain Talk column of July 9, 2021 that was written by one Jomo Thomas and entitled “High Society always protects i...
Rocks, coral and misguided outrage
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July 20, 2021
Editor: Life is a balance between holding on and letting go. (Rumi) Mr. Raffique Dunbar, an investor behind the recently renovated Grand View Hotel at...
What Follows Disaster is Up to Us
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July 20, 2021
by MARCIA HAROLD HINDS We hope for days more bright With greater comfort and delight. So, give us, Good Lord, wisdom and might, To solve the problems ...
A Lesson From Nature’s School
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July 16, 2021
LOVELY ST VINCENT and the Grenadines, Sun-kissed gems of the Caribbean Sea, All unspoilt havens of magical dreams, Where a lesson from Nature was give...
That Vow to make the country ungovernable!
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July 16, 2021
EDITOR: WE ARE UNDER the spell of this vow and the leadership and membership of the Labour Party need to unconditionally withdraw, rescind, and break ...
Rest in peace Kenneth
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July 16, 2021
EDITOR: There is an African Proverb that says: “When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.” This could not be better demonstrated than in th...
Truth about the prophets
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July 16, 2021
DEAR PEOPLE OF the world, Otis once more again to the scattered Israelite children. Wisdom is supreme so listen to what the true part of prophet says ...
Is John being used as the scapegoat?
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July 16, 2021
EDITOR: Maybe my intelligen[ce] is not too good or maybe I am just plain dunce. As I see it, the question rings in my head is, “Mr. Cornelius John bei...
The anti-vaccine idiocies of a Vincentian nurse
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Deadly Delusions
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July 9, 2021
by DR. GARREY MICHAEL DENNIE FOUR MILLION dead and rising across the globe.  ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT SIX MILLION infected and rising across the globe.  ...
Help! help! our children are struggling to read!
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July 9, 2021
EDITOR: I wish to bring national attention and outcry to the serious plight of illiteracy in our schools. During this week of National Diagnostic Read...
We will rise again
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July 9, 2021
EDITOR: We will rise again from the ashes and the challenges that face us as a nation. It is said that when it rains it pours. We have been dealing an...
There are weird bedfellows in politics
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July 9, 2021
EDITOR: Politics creates weird bedfellows. Case in point, feral Frank DaSilva and intellectual snob Jomo Thomas are now political allies. Who would’ve...
The time to act is now
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July 2, 2021
After many weeks of speculation, discussion, and protestations, we have seen charges being brought against three individuals in the Cornelius John sag...