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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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March 26, 2019
Editor: In 1967 a Virginian Court in the USA upheld a racism ruling on the grounds that if God wanted the races to mix He would not have put them on d...
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March 22, 2019
Editor, The question encapsulated in the title of this article might seem a strange one to ask about someone who ostensibly is a lawyer and who we mig...
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March 22, 2019
From: The Ichirouganam Council for the Advancement of Rastafari C/O Ras Iral JabariTodds Plantation, St. Johns Barbados Beloved Brothers and Sisters o...
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March 19, 2019
EDITOR: Like nearly all countries in the world, democratic or not, St Vincent and the Grenadines, has a representative system of government which mean...
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March 15, 2019
EDITOR: Community sports are indeed something that is lacking in many communities, but one that offers benefit to the community. This activity must be...
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March 8, 2019
EDITOR: When we as humans hear the word “ghost”, the first thing that might come to our mind is the disembodied spirit of a dead person who haunts the...
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March 8, 2019
Editor: Our accession to national independence 40 years ago was marked by both good and bad incidents, the latter unfortunately more prevalent than th...
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March 8, 2019
Editor: Please permit me to reply to the letter which appeared in March 1, 2019 issue of the Searchlight with the captioned ‘Judgement in three teach...
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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...
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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 “...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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 ...
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PRIME MINISTER Dr. Godwin Friday, has acknowledged that government can do better when communicating with the public, but also said he is more focused ...
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April 14, 2026
A UNION ISLAND MAN who is facing four gun related charges, including shooting another man in his left leg with a firearm, was remanded into custody. Z...
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April 14, 2026
THE St Vincent and the Grenadines Cadet Force (SVGCF), despite being able to play a significant role in shaping discipline, leadership and national se...
From the Courts, News
April 14, 2026
A MAN who resides in Penniston was sentenced to 39 months in prison after pleading guilty to illegally possessing one glock pistol, and 11 rounds of a...
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April 14, 2026
PRIME MINISTER Dr. Godwin Friday will head a St Vincent and the Grenadines delegation to the April 12-18 Spring meetings of the International Monetary...
