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June 14, 2019
EDITOR: The way I know it is that you can, or you used to be able to, I’ve lost track, make changes to entries in Wikipedia. That can never mean you c...
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June 14, 2019
EDITOR: Several Old Testament Books describe the deliverance of the enslaved Israelites from their captivity in Egypt. Instructed by God, saved by His...
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June 7, 2019
Editor: Minister of Health Luke Browne triggered a sensational shake-up in Geneva. His oratorical, mathematical and dramatic skills at the World Healt...
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June 7, 2019
Editor: There will always be a gap between best Health Care practices and those in existence. Bridging this gap is a difficult challenge. The gap mani...
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June 7, 2019
Editor: Arthur Chaskalson, a previous President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and a past Chief Justice of South Africa, stated in the So...
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June 7, 2019
EDITOR: There was a time when one of the gangplanks of the anti-Cuba campaign was the accusation that Cuba was restricting the rights of its citizens ...
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May 31, 2019
Editor: The radio announcement by the Vice-President of the New Democratic Party (NDP), St Clair Leacock, that the reason for the imminent departure o...
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May 31, 2019
Editor: How many times do the organisations representing and championing the causes of disabled persons have to remind us that “Disability is not Inab...
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May 31, 2019
Editor: It was really in poor taste for St Clair Leacock to jump the gun and prematurely announce the retirement of the Honourable Arnhim Eustace from...
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May 31, 2019
Editor: Morning radio and talk radio is where Vincentians find their entertainment and some sort of disguised information laced with bias to a politic...
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May 24, 2019
by Parnel R. Campbell 1. Whereas Friday 18th April 2019 was observed worldwide as Good Friday, we here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines must surely d...
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May 24, 2019
Editor: This year 2019 is 30 years since the musical band TOUCH won its first Road March title. The defeat of “Back Off” in 1988 had taught the band o...
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May 24, 2019
EDITOR: I am a New Democratic Party (NDP) supporter and I’m tired of waiting on the NDP to become government, 19 years in opposition is a very long ti...
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May 21, 2019
by Alicia Medica Being a Political Science Major, I am often prompted to defend the efficacy of my chosen field of study. I am asked (way too often) w...
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(republished with permission from the Nation Newspaper, Barbados)
May 17, 2019
Editor: There was a time one could depend on radio and the daily newspaper for good examples of flawless use of English. Alas, today, in both media, o...
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May 14, 2019
Editor, I thank Christopher Grant for taking the time to pen his thoughts in the letter entitled “Where do I sign....” published in the May 7, 2019 ed...
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May 14, 2019
Editor, I was very much perplexed when a Permanent Secretary approached me and asked what was the Public Service Union doing to address the situation ...
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May 14, 2019
Editor, Recently the courts in Bahamas ruled in favour of same sex marriage. They claim that it was unconstitutional to deny them their right to be ma...
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May 10, 2019
EDITOR: I’m writing this article with my late best friend Mr. Glen Jackson’s memory at heart. He was a sincere and kind-hearted human being, and was o...
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May 7, 2019
EDITOR: I had the opportunity of entertaining a number of Caribbean Youth Leaders who were in St. Vincent for a Safety in Schools Conference (Natural ...
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May 3, 2019
Editor: My Literatures in English students at the DASGS division of SVGCC are approaching this year’s exams with a heightened sense of trepidation pre...
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May 3, 2019
30th April, 2019 Mr N’Keal Harry Draft #32 New England Patriots USA On behalf of the Government and people of St Vincent and the Grenadines and on my ...
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May 3, 2019
Editor: As a resident of North Leeward and as someone who traverses these roads daily, I would like to address a couple important items. First of all,...
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April 30, 2019
by Edwin Snagg IWC Commissioner The legitimate taking of humpback whales this season has sparked off the anti whalers and their lobbyists. As usual, t...
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April 30, 2019
Editor: Another Labour day is with us, May 1st to be precise, and I ask myself what have we done to improve the causes of workers? Who is a worker? In...
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April 30, 2019
Editor: On March 5, 2019, the Caribbean Council published an article reporting that, “LIAT, urgently needed a cash injection of at least US$5m to rema...
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April 30, 2019
Editor: The recent passing of Henry Afflick Haynes on February 17, 2019, at the age of 98 was an occasion to review the early politics of St Vincent a...
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April 26, 2019
by Randy Cato Most of the reactions and responses to the passing of The Honourable John-Clark Alexander Horne have focused, understandably, on the ext...
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April 12, 2019
The St Vincent and the Grenadines/Cuba Friendship Society (SVGCFS) views with alarm the deteriorating climate in international relations which threate...
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April 12, 2019
EDITOR, A statement by Kevin Lyttle where he compares his mega hit to those of other Soca artistes such as Machel and Bunji is very unfortunate as it ...
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April 12, 2019
EDITOR, Accordingly SVG has had one homicide in the first quarter of the year. This is indeed welcome news and relief. Nevertheless, we must not rest ...
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April 9, 2019
Editor: Prime Minister Cato’s head was relatively big and he was disparagingly called “Big Head Mc Guffy”. But then none equated “big head” with “big ...
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April 9, 2019
Editor: The last few years haven’t been kind to Architects in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). The once-booming construction sector was brought to...
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April 5, 2019
EDITOR: Hamlet’s famous soliloquy in William Shakespeare’s play of the same name nicely captures the political dilemma now facing the New Democratic P...
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April 5, 2019
By Dr Garrey Michael Dennie, SMCM In a remarkable passage in his book, The Iceman Cometh, the author Eugene O’Neill proclaims, “to hell with the truth...
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April 2, 2019
Editor: Even as we celebrate 40 years of being an independent state, we must admit that the broad-based exhibition of lack of maturity - “small minded...
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April 2, 2019
Editor: As I crunch the keys to add another sentence to my paper, I cannot help but glance to my left which leads to an open door with a panoramic vie...
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March 29, 2019
by Dr Garrey Dennie St Mary’s College of Maryland “THE PETITIONS ARE HEREBY DISMISSED.” With these five words Justice Stanley John shattered the NDP’s...
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March 29, 2019
“No justice, no peace!” (Dr. Godwin Friday, Leader of the Opposition New Democratic Party [NDP], Searchlight newspaper, March 22, 2019, p. 4). This st...
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March 29, 2019
Editor: Please permit a final rejoinder to Maria Williams’ diatribe of last week which addressed not a single substantive point rendered in my March 7...
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March 29, 2019
Editor: The verdict handed down by the High Court Thursday, March 21 on the 2015 Election Petitions, has left many people puzzled. What did the people...
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March 26, 2019
Editor: In the wake (pun intended) of the Royal Visit, I crave your indulgence in having published excerpts of an address I made at the 2018 UWI Open ...
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March 26, 2019
Editor: The Barbadian online newspaper, BARBADOS TODAY, has in its Editorial of last Friday, March 22, called on Barbadians to “take back” their stree...
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