Our Readers' Opinions
March 6, 2020
Mr Fereira, I WOULD LIKE To kindly address some of your concerns expressed in a letter to the editor by Oswald Fereira entitled “The Soufriere Tree, f...
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March 6, 2020
EDITOR: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) issued a statement a month ago, saying the Caribbean is a low risk area in relation to COVID-19 (C...
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March 6, 2020
EDITOR: I write to announce that I had the most horrifying, the most terrifying time of my life as a retired civil servant, on Saturday, February 29. ...
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February 28, 2020
EDITOR: I remember as a young child visiting the Botanic Gardens and seeing the Soufriere Tree and reading the label that the tree was endemic to St. ...
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February 28, 2020
EDITOR: Whoosh!!!! Through the taxi or minibus window it goes! What? An empty KFC box, a plastic bottle, or some other unwanted material. This has bee...
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February 25, 2020
EDITOR: For the longest time now the books are not balanced. We live in debt. We live “hand to mouth,” from pay cheque to pay cheque. Accountability i...
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February 25, 2020
Editor: Nearly 6 months have passed since the Medical Marijuana Bill was passed, doctors consulted and NOT one prescription issued. The rate at which ...
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February 25, 2020
Editor: Pension is very important when one retires. The non contributory pension comes in very handy for many retired persons. However, while it is co...
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February 21, 2020
HI MR. JACKSON, I have shipped some items from Toronto to SVG. Among those items are 2 battery powered scooters. No engines, no fuel capacity and not ...
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February 18, 2020
EDITOR: I wish to congratulate Ms Clare Keizer, CEO of Interactive Media Ltd, publishers of the Searchlight newspaper and also the Directors of the Bo...
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February 14, 2020
EDITOR: The recent killing of nurse Taylor-Israel has bring to the fore the abuse that many women endure on a regular basis. It is rather unfortunate ...
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February 14, 2020
EDITOR: I read with interest the article about St Vincent’s historic documents held in the High Court Registry (Searchlight, January 31, 2020, p. 4). ...
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February 14, 2020
EDITOR: The negotiating team of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers’ Union (SVGTU) is scheduled to convene with a negotiating team of the Gove...
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February 14, 2020
EDITOR: School closure because of rat infestation and the general untidiness across some areas of our country indicate that we are not teaching and mo...
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February 14, 2020
EDITOR: Many groups in churchianity are teaching that when an individual receives the Holy Spirit, he must speak in other tongues as a sign that he ha...
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February 7, 2020
EDITOR: The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Public Service Union (PSU) is greatly concerned with the violence committed against woman and girls in our ...
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February 7, 2020
EDITOR: Violence against women has become an issue of major concern across the Caribbean. One can hardly imagine that in a relatively small island of ...
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January 31, 2020
EDITOR: One month of the new year is gone. So far for me and my homeless friends it goes much the same here. My previous letter on discrimination at m...
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January 31, 2020
EDITOR: The death of KOBE BRYANT has sent shock waves across the world. This reminds us of the saying: “in the midst of life we are in death” and as A...
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January 31, 2020
EDITOR: It has been so long since my best friend left me; the last time I saw him was the 6th of June 2006. Today I’m still wondering and waiting to h...
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January 24, 2020
EDITOR: Agriculture recorded a pass rate of 89%. What should this mean to the schools where students till the soil and care for animals? The students ...
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January 24, 2020
EDITOR: Before I begin let me say thanks to BRAGSA for doing some work on the Murrays Village road where the terrible holes were filled. It does make ...
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January 24, 2020
EDITOR: If Jehovah the Creator destroyed the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because they practiced homosexuality (Ref Genesis Ch. 9 vs. 24, 25) ...
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January 24, 2020
EDITOR: Violent, aggressive behaviour within the home, typically involving the violent abuse of a spouse or partner, is common in some societies. Both...
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January 17, 2020
EDITOR: Before one begins a discussion on corporal punishment or flogging in schools, it is vital that definitions be given and that a distinction be ...
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Answering Searchlight’s Editorial et al
January 17, 2020
EDITOR: There is a continual deterioration of personality traits in both young and old, which evidently leads to an increase in criminality. Any call ...
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January 17, 2020
EDITOR: On January 4, 2020 the residents of Gibson Corner were notified of this plan, by a consultant for BRAGSA, who was carrying out a survey regard...
Our Readers' Opinions
January 10, 2020
by : Clement Fergus Women, no matter what men may think or say about you, A rose is still a rose, you are someone of value; My heart is grieved when I...
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January 10, 2020
Editor: The challenges of 2019 are now history. Indeed many of us can testify that the Lord carried us through and as the national anthem states, “Wha...
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January 3, 2020
Editor: Readers may remember an article in the Bulletin 12 years ago (July 2005), entitled “The Dr Cecil Cyrus Museum: public attitudes to tissue dona...
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January 3, 2020
Editor: On Saturday night (28th December 2019), Rodney SteelPan Boss Small mentioned something that I haven’t yet seen highlighted in the many worthwh...
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January 3, 2020
Editor: At this special time of caring and giving, it is good to see that there are individuals who have been quietly and consistently assisting other...
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December 23, 2019
Editor: The sale of Bank of Nova Scotia to the Republic Bank, one would have thought that would have meant an improvement in its customer service to i...
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December 23, 2019
Editor: Truth is dangerous to the people in darkness but joy and freedom to the people of the light. The truth about the birth and teaching of Jesus i...
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December 23, 2019
Op-Ed by Ambassador Linda Taglialatela, U.S. Ambassador to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean and the OECS I would like to highlight the many benefits an...
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December 23, 2019
BY BISHOP HOLLIS CHARLES BETHEL GOSPEL ASSEMBLY Continued from the Weekend Searchlight of December 20, 2019 LET US EXAMINE THE WISE MEN. 1. They went ...
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December 20, 2019
EDITOR: Two news stories published just two months apart. The first by the Trinidad Daily Express and the second by the BBC, tell us a cautionary tale...
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December 20, 2019
EDITOR: It is the Christmas season, and traditionally in the Christian modus, it is an ideal time to bury the hatchet with our enemies, and take care ...
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December 20, 2019
EDITOR: St. Vincent, Home of the Blessed. We are no longer blessed. Our prayers are not answered, for everyday it gets worse. Look at what is happenin...
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December 17, 2019
EDITOR: Election season in St Vincent and the Grenadines has started. Although my philosophy is antagonistic to most politicians, I engage in dialogue...
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December 17, 2019
Written by C. Fergus A lot of people suffer from stress, Because they frown more and smile less; Many of them go around wearing a screw face, As if ev...
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December 17, 2019
EDITOR: 88 percent of the students who wrote Food Nutrition and Health passed the subject. This is good, but our knowledge should translate into our h...
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December 17, 2019
EDITOR: Is Chr-stmas a Scriptural Commandment? Have you ever paused to consider how many beliefs and practices in nominal Christianity have no basis i...
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...
News
November 4, 2025
Persons who want access to a top-class venue for the staging of their events now have access, at a price, to Invest SVG’s newly developed facility on ...
News
November 4, 2025
Madungo, derived from the residue of the arrowroot starch, is more than just food. “It is something steeped in our history, in our society, to which w...
