Our Readers' Opinions
April 9, 2020
EDITOR: It is obvious the St Vincent and the Grenadines politicians and politicians globally have already failed pandemic economics. Firstly, never in...
Our Readers' Opinions
April 3, 2020
Editor: Language is the key to a child’s educational development. Today, I urge persons with infants to spend time speaking WORDS not NON-WORDS with y...
Our Readers' Opinions
April 3, 2020
Editor: The Cuban contingents of doctors and nurses currently being deployed throughout the Caribbean and Latin America as well as countries like Ital...
Our Readers' Opinions
April 3, 2020
Editor: As I write, the world is working through a pandemic with Covid-19, a new or novel strain of the Corona family of viruses. A few important take...
Our Readers' Opinions
April 3, 2020
EDITOR: Some educators are of the opinion that if a teacher reads the instructions and items of a test to students who cannot read well, the teacher i...
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March 31, 2020
EDITOR: We have all noticed the large number of online jokes about the suffering married couples who have been forced into quarantine together. Marrie...
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March 27, 2020
ACCORDING TO the World Health Organization, “about 1 in 3 (35%) of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner vio...
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March 27, 2020
EDITOR: This is election year and Patel is going crazy with meetings, while Carlos is busy at work. If the truth be told, Patel as a representative ha...
Our Readers' Opinions
March 27, 2020
EDITOR: It’s with a heavy heart I write these lines concerning one of the most unfortunate and tragic events that has touched me personally and dearly...
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March 27, 2020
EDITOR: Sometime ago when there was no one else available to teach English A at the CSEC level I undertook the task. We began the classes from the beg...
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March 20, 2020
EDITOR : There is much talk recently about Food Security. This consciousness therefore begs the question: Food security for whom and at what level? Do...
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March 20, 2020
EDITOR: According to the comment made on SVG TV news concerning Coronavirus and Vincy Mas... Please be reminded that this is a 2x4 country with open s...
Our Readers' Opinions
March 10, 2020
EDITOR: It is with great pain that I am compelled to write this letter as I sit in silence contemplating the safety of women in St Vincent and the Gre...
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March 10, 2020
EDITOR: Malcolm Gladwell (author) opened my eyes to a possibility connected to recent events involving the United States of America (USA) and the Isla...
Our Readers' Opinions
March 10, 2020
EDITOR: Please, if you will, permit me to discuss with you what I consider to be some of the main root causes of domestic violence and abuse and suppo...
Our Readers' Opinions
March 10, 2020
EDITOR: The title of my letter is taken from Peggy Carr’s poem ‘Back Talk’, and in the context of International Women’s Day (IWD), I will use this quo...
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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...
Our Readers' Opinions
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...
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