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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...
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December 13, 2019
EDITOR: There are two notable incidents that come to my mind during Christmas. The first one was reported locally, whereas the latter occurred oversea...
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December 13, 2019
EDITOR: I love Christmas. I truly do. From my earliest recollections to today, Christmas creates this feeling of warmth and of all things good and pos...
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December 13, 2019
EDITOR: Today, there are hundreds of different religious organizations in existence in our country and around the world. Each one believes that they a...
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December 6, 2019
EDITOR: Election talk is in the air and since Unity Labour Party (ULP) and West St George’s current representative Cecil Mckie will not be running aga...
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December 6, 2019
EDITOR: Quid Pro Quo – Who is he? Where was he born? Where does he live? Why does he have first, middle and last name? Where could I find him? Every n...
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December 6, 2019
EDITOR: Amidst the many efforts and promises the prices for vegetables are rising steeply for the final quarter of the year (October, November and Dec...
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November 29, 2019
Editor: I have always been a strong proponent of appropriate, climate friendly attire. I have often written on social media about the need for an appr...
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November 29, 2019
Editor: The subject of homosexuality has become the most popular point of ongoing discussion in St Vincent and the Grenadines, especially with referen...
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November 26, 2019
submitted by SVG Public Service Union Women’s Committee November 25, 2019 marks another year in the undying struggle for women across the globe to put...
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November 26, 2019
Editor: Warm, appreciative congratulations to the junior and senior GHS Netball Teams for the following reasons: 1. You took the GHS to the finals...a...
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November 26, 2019
Editor: The kind of society in which we and our children must live is determined, among other things, by behaviours and relationships formed privately...
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November 22, 2019
Editor: I heard you are the best for connecting people, even from foreign countries with their family members in St Vincent. Last year, my mom had a h...
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November 22, 2019
Editor: “We have an agenda to create a society in which homosexuality is regarded as healthy, natural and normal”. These words from a leading gay righ...
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November 22, 2019
Editor: I was delighted with your news item following your interview with one of our stellar footballers of yesteryear, Mr Jeff Bailey (SEARCHLIGHT 08...
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November 19, 2019
Editor: One of the necessary attributes of being a good politician is the ability to think ahead and plan accordingly. I recall during the campaign fo...
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November 19, 2019
Editor: I think a lot of people are irate at the audacity of two gay Vincentians filing a case, because decriminalizing homosexuality in St Vincent an...
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November 19, 2019
Editor: Let’s look at a brief summary of America’s history. Africans were brought here to work as slaves on Plantations for free. They received no mon...
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November 19, 2019
Editor: We are at the end of our 50th year of the survival of ‘The St Vincent and the Grenadines Association of Toronto (SVGAT)’, and have acknowledge...
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November 15, 2019
Editor: The 40th anniversary of Independence was indeed interesting. Amongst the many announcements it was indeed a refreshing to hear that soon there...
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November 15, 2019
Editor: I write in response to your front page story of November 8, 2019, headlined ‘Church coalition joins state in defending anti-buggery laws’. Not...
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November 15, 2019
How can a man look at another man and call him “my husband” Or how can a man in his life, call another man ‘’ my wife’ ’and give him a wedding band? T...
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November 8, 2019
Editor: The Caribbean CAUSE notes that constitutional challenges to buggery laws have now been filed in Dominica and in St. Vincent and the Grenadines...
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November 8, 2019
by Shafia London Lovely day to get up on a soap box! ...let’s talk about that opinion article by the Speaker dated November 1st 2019. Mr Speaker, it i...
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November 1, 2019
Editor: “Our Constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority, but of the whole people. When it is a question of set...
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November 1, 2019
Editor: It is with much delight and pleasure that on the 40th anniversary of the Independence of St Vincent and the Grenadines we can reflect on, than...
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November 1, 2019
Editor: It is now approaching 10 pm of Monday 28th October, the day after we celebrated the 40th Anniversary of Independence, and we the residents of ...
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November 1, 2019
Editor: My name is Hilary Jean Baptiste. I’m a Certified Real Estate Home Building Inspector. I was forced to write this article, so that I can share ...
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November 1, 2019
EDITOR: Workers are very important to production. Their performance can determine success or failure. If we take a careful look at the performance of ...
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November 1, 2019
Editor: St Vincent and the Grenadines is an independent country whose head of state is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II who acts through her local repre...
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October 25, 2019
EDITOR: As we approach our 40th anniversary of Independence, can it be said that many of us are patriots and proud to be vincy? There is no doubt that...
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October 25, 2019
EDITOR: We are about to celebrate our 40th anniversary of Independence, and I would like to ask these questions: 1. What have we achieved since we gai...
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October 25, 2019
EDITOR: The Bishop of the Christian Pilgrim Faith, that was outlawed in 1912 and regained freedom to worship as a religious denomination on the 22nd M...
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October 22, 2019
EDITOR: The Education Revolution is an important change in the process of facilitating the acquisition of knowledge, skills, beliefs, moral and ethica...
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October 22, 2019
EDITOR: “Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority, but of the whole people. When it is a question of set...
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October 18, 2019
by Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland Trade wars, protectionism, and nationalist rhetoric are combining to weave the possibility of a ni...
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