Our Readers' Opinions
May 8, 2020
EDITOR: The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how the world conducts day to day business. Although change was necessary, it can be overwhelming at times. ...
Our Readers' Opinions
May 8, 2020
EDITOR: Once again the Public Service Commission (PSC) has lost another case. Once again the successful lawyer was Jomo Thomas. This once again brings...
Our Readers' Opinions
May 8, 2020
Editor:I was heartened to hear veteran trade unionist Bro. Noel Jackson, speaking out on workers’ rights in his address on the occasion of May Day. Br...
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April 30, 2020
EDITOR: Once again the Public Service Commission (PSC) has lost another case. Once again the successful lawyer was Jomo Thomas. This once again brings...
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April 21, 2020
EDITOR: As the World struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Shipping Industry is struggling as well. In the Caribbean, full containers of non-essen...
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April 17, 2020
EDITOR: I am writing as a concerned parent who has sons, nieces and nephews in different secondary schools throughout St. Vincent and the Grenadines. ...
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April 17, 2020
EDITOR: The current global pandemic has affected just about every country in the world save a few, SVG being no exception. As a matter of fact, the si...
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April 17, 2020
EDITOR: Men often love to receive praise when they do well, but these same men shun scrutiny, criticism and correction when their actions are irrespon...
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April 9, 2020
EDITOR: In light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) which has been characterized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a pandemic, there have been many...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Our Readers' Opinions
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
Our Readers' Opinions
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...
From the Courts, News
September 15, 2026
A 20-year-old farmer of Fitz Hughes, who has been charged with the offence of criminal assault, will appear at the Magistrate’s Court in Chateaubelair...
News
September 11, 2026
A POLICE OFFICER investigating a crime in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) cannot, by law, conduct a search of a cellular device, without a warrant...
News
September 11, 2026
by JADA CHAMBERS THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION has released the updated preliminary results for the May–June 2026 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificat...
From the Courts, News
September 11, 2026
THE POLICE, on September 5, 2026, arrested and charged Liane Jaxon-Defreitas, a 33-year-old consultant of Green Hill, with three counts of deception. ...
News
September 11, 2026
THE VINCENTIAN PUBLIC has chosen Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Lyndon Oliver, as the most outstanding police officer in St Vincent and the ...
