Our Readers' Opinions
March 1, 2019
EDITOR: School days today are far different from my days. Long ago we never use to carry this amount of text and exercise books as we see our children...
Our Readers' Opinions
March 1, 2019
EDITOR, The nation should pause for a minute to consider the judgement handed down by the Court of Appeal in what is now commonly referred to as the “...
Our Readers' Opinions
March 1, 2019
EDITOR: The St Vincent and the Grenadines/Cuba Friendship Society loudly applauds the expression of the democratic will of the people of the Republic ...
Our Readers' Opinions
March 1, 2019
EDITOR: One of the areas of highlight of the Ministry of Tourism’s Communications Unit, on their visit to schools, is to define who is a tourist. They...
Our Readers' Opinions
February 26, 2019
EDITOR: From the outset, let me register my dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs in Venezuela. I have been following the situation for th...
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February 26, 2019
EDITOR: Run with what? Someone else’s possession? Absolutely NO! That is asking for trouble! I am urging parents and guardians to run with the great i...
Our Readers' Opinions
February 22, 2019
Editor: Doctors have deemed diabetes and hypertension as silent killers among humans, if left undetected, but within our streams there is a silent kil...
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February 22, 2019
Editor: The people in a little village somewhere learned how to select persons who said that they will like to do things on their behalf, and for whic...
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February 19, 2019
EDITOR: I read with interest the halting of construction concerning the Kingstown Anglican Church. We know that the building has been in existence for...
Our Readers' Opinions
February 15, 2019
Editor, We have no idea what promoted Mr. Kennard King’s extreme assertion “Abortion under any circumstance is legal murder” (Searchlight, February 8)...
Our Readers' Opinions
February 15, 2019
Editor, There is a topic on Bequia (St. Vincent & Grenadines, West Indies) which must broached. The injustices heaped upon this islands’ local people ...
Our Readers' Opinions
February 8, 2019
EDITOR: In Jeremiah 1: 5, the Lord told Jeremiah that before He formed him in the womb He knew him and ordained him. Thus, even before the fetus in a ...
Our Readers' Opinions
February 5, 2019
A former Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) says he is in support of foreign intervention in Venezuela. “…All this business about C...
Our Readers' Opinions
February 5, 2019
Mr President, Excellencies, Distinguished Members of the Security Council, at the outset, permit me the opportunity to convey appreciation to Mrs Rose...
Our Readers' Opinions
February 1, 2019
Editor: I want to reminisce on my childhood memories of the Sanitary Bakery, that venerable institution on the Back Street next to the old United Trad...
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February 1, 2019
EDITOR: I penned a piece entitled ‘I agree with the Prime Minister’ in the Friday 25th edition of the Searchlight newspaper. The intention of that sho...
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February 1, 2019
Editor: We know that journalists and news reporters play a very important role in any country. They can cause strife, unrest, peace etc., and sometime...
Our Readers' Opinions
January 25, 2019
Editor, IN A joint radio programme aired on We FM, NCB and Star Radio on Sunday, January 20 in which Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves was the guest, he ...
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January 25, 2019
Editor, HAVE WE as a people lost the fear of God in our lives? Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he chose for his inheritance. P...
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The efficacy of a unified regional response to Venezuela’s political, economic and social challenges
January 22, 2019
Editor: On January 10 2019, in Washington, D.C., the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) adopted a resolution “to not recog...
Our Readers' Opinions
January 22, 2019
The Caribbean Public Health Agency has confirmed an outbreak of Dengue Fever in Jamaica. The last outbreak of Dengue Fever in St Vincent and the Grena...
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January 22, 2019
by David Comissiong, Ambassador to Caricom, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Barbados Yesterday, Monday, the 21st of January 2019 was th...
Our Readers' Opinions
January 18, 2019
EDITOR: On Monday, 10th December 2018, I was walking through the Vegetable Market, to I man surprise I saw Rastafarian brothers demonstrating in front...
Our Readers' Opinions
January 18, 2019
Editor, A trip to the beach, and you would enjoy the golden sunshine, the sounds of Sea Birds flying over the ocean, the exquisite sounds of waves cra...
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January 18, 2019
EDITOR: I, along with many Vincentians am disappointed by the non attendance at the meeting at the Prime Minister’s office of the Union Leaders of the...
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January 18, 2019
EDITOR: I was flabbergasted by news of the behaviour of the leaders of two Unions (the St Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers’ Union and the Public Se...
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January 11, 2019
EDITOR: On a recent trip from the Southern Grenadines I was pleasantly surprised with the manner with which a police officer dealt with a group of you...
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January 11, 2019
EDITOR: One P.R. Campbell was once my mentor, whom I followed with upraised fist around Grammar School’s lawn in Black Power protest during the mid 19...
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January 8, 2019
EDITOR: North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica. Humans live, work, and play on the seven continents. Humans sail th...
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January 4, 2019
EDITOR: The issue of legalisation of ganja has become a popular issue in the global discourse on drugs since the pioneering role of countries such as ...
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December 28, 2018
EDITOR, The prisons recently celebrated prison week. It is important that thanks and appreciation be shown to those who over the years try to assist i...
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December 28, 2018
EDITOR: In discussing issues of cannabis, I always like to begin from the premise of the traditional grower, from the premise of that class of people ...
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December 21, 2018
EDITOR: In a few days time we would celebrate the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Yes, we are aware that is some debate as to the date of ...
Our Readers' Opinions
December 21, 2018
EDITOR: Have you ever considered that the Sacred Scriptures do indeed inform us of the date when the Messiah was actually born? Nominal Churchianity d...
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December 14, 2018
EDITOR: Disclaimer. I have never used the products of the marijuana plant, and I have no intention of doing so. Every baptized Seventh-day Adventist t...
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December 14, 2018
EDITOR: Single use plastics can be defined as any plastic that is used once and is discarded - for example, plastic bottles, plastic straws, plastic b...
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December 14, 2018
EDITOR: And God said, “see, I have given you every herb (including marijuana) that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree w...
Our Readers' Opinions
December 11, 2018
by Sir James Mitchell former Prime Minister of SVG ALL THE TRIBUTES around the world proclaim the essential dignity of President Bush senior. He is in...
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December 4, 2018
Editor: On November 27, 2018 Republic Financial Holdings Limited (RFHL) announced that it had entered into an agreement with Scotia Bank to purchase S...
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December 4, 2018
Editor: There seems to be a perception by some persons that they are more learned than anyone else, that they can throw insults at others who do not h...
Our Readers' Opinions
November 30, 2018
Editor: The on-going conversation is lively, as it is varied, but there is ONE underlying commonality… FREE UP THE HERB! … and for good reason too. Al...
Our Readers' Opinions
November 30, 2018
Editor: Earlier in the month of November, children asked about jumbie - spirits of dead people who came out of their graves and roamed the streets. Th...
Our Readers' Opinions
November 13, 2018
Editor: Once again the major shareholders in LIAT have met and produced a communiqué that says nothing. They have just rehashed what they always say. ...
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