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June 18, 2024
EDITOR: Today, I speak to you with a 2burning heart and a bitter mouth. We, the people of the West Indies - descendants of genocidated Amerindian peop...
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June 18, 2024
Editor: From Belize, the Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, St. Lucia, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, to G...
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June 18, 2024
EDITOR: I am writing to express my profound dissatisfaction and growing frustration with the abysmal service provided by our local telecommunications ...
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June 11, 2024
EDITOR: Everybody deserve to be loved and appreciated. At some point in our life, we start dating, with the intention of getting married and starting ...
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June 11, 2024
EDITOR: I was fortunate as an Emergency Communications First Responder, to be among decision makers [on] Thursday, May 30, 2024, as we looked at the “...
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June 7, 2024
EDITOR: We have heard it said that “money makes the mail run,” but is that so? Whether it is care giving, agriculture, steel band or teaching, the peo...
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June 7, 2024
EDITOR: The ICC World Cup 2024 is in full swing. West Indies we know won its first game, although there were some scary moments. However, they were ab...
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June 7, 2024
Further to the reports in local media concerning the billboard erected by the NDP. Despite all the pontifications by the NDP leader justifying the mat...
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June 4, 2024
EDITOR: Media plays a very important role in any country. Editor, I must commend you for allowing me and other persons to contribute to your paper. Th...
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June 4, 2024
EDITOR: In an article in the Searchlight December 2020, Superintendent Hazelwood stated that 66% of inmates in HMP Kingstown & HMP Belle Isle, were re...
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June 4, 2024
Editor: The Caribbean Music Awards Committee has proudly announced that Brunch and Soca, an organization created by Vincentian Jonell Goodluck, has be...
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June 4, 2024
EDITOR: Tourism in the Caribbean is very imperative to the economy. According to a Jamaica Observer article, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has decl...
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May 31, 2024
Editor: We celebrated African Liberation Day or Africa Day on 25th May 2024. In commemoration of that occasion, I spent time reflecting on the meaning...
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May 31, 2024
EDITOR: A drought is a period of time when an area or region experiences below- normal precipitation. Droughts are increasing across the globe as a re...
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May 24, 2024
At a public lecture not so long ago, a local activist by the name of Edgar Kwame Lewis who is well known to me highlighted the need for a programme of...
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May 24, 2024
Editor: On Wednesday 1 May 2024, a few of my friends and I decided to spend the public holiday at one of our favourite beaches in the country - Buccam...
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May 17, 2024
Water is essential for life. It is very unfortunate that there is no reliable public water supply in the Grenadines. In its absence perhaps there shou...
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May 17, 2024
Editor: A vagrant is a person who is poor, does not have a home or job, and moves from place to place. The issues of vagrants in St Vincent and the Gr...
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May 17, 2024
Editor: I read your piece regarding the incoming sargassum and wanted to introduce you to the start-up company, Seafields – a blue carbon project whic...
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May 17, 2024
EDITOR: I am writing with great concern having received an image, via email, of a recently deceased person in St Vincent and the Grenadines. This seem...
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May 17, 2024
EDITOR: As I sat in the examination room to begin my Introduction to Psychology exam in 2012, I took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. This was one of...
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May 10, 2024
EDITOR: The services of minivans are imperative to the economy. On a daily basis, they transport school children, persons who are employed, elderly, t...
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May 10, 2024
EDITOR: The Extension Officer is critical to our success as farmers because he represents a repository of knowledge that may make the difference betwe...
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May 10, 2024
Editor: I on several occasions wrote about bush fires. Today, I once again write on this very important subject. It is a dangerous practice to be wilf...
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May 10, 2024
Editor: On Sunday, May 4, 2014, the Girls’ High School Alumnae Association of New York (GHSAA-NY) celebrated 30 years of existence. This year, 2024, r...
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May 7, 2024
Editor: As Mother’s Day approaches, we can’t help but appreciate her unconditional love for her children with expressions of thankfulness. We are amaz...
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May 7, 2024
EDITOR: Poverty is a state or condition of an individual who lacks the basic needs. These basic needs are: food, clothing and shelter. So I just wonde...
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May 3, 2024
Editor: When the bible says that my house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers, we often think that it is not refe...
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April 26, 2024
EDITOR: If we were to get a barrel and fill that barrel with crabs, if one of those crab was to try and escape and reach to the top, they would be pul...
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April 26, 2024
EDITOR: I believe that Gender Equality is one of the most important causes of our times and everyone should have an understanding of it. As a nation, ...
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April 23, 2024
EDITOR: A job position is conventionally viewed as better if it brings a higher salary as compared to another. However, this is slowly beginning to pr...
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April 19, 2024
Editor: Technology has changed our lives over the last few decades. The word “smart” is being linked to almost every aspect of technology. We now have...
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April 19, 2024
EDITOR: I was involved in a recent WhatsApp group chat discussion on corporal punishment and it motivated me to write an article on this subject. I kn...
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April 12, 2024
EDITOR: The family is the most vital institution there is. It is the backbone of society, churches and the nation. Strong families are an asset and ai...
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April 12, 2024
EDITOR: I am very happy about the fact that the government of this country made a successful bid to host T/20 Cricket World Cup games in St. Vincent a...
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April 12, 2024
EDITOR: At the ULP rally on Sunday night, one could not help but notice the glaring omission of critical discussions, especially those pertaining to w...
Our Readers' Opinions
April 12, 2024
EDITOR: While searching about my SVG family, I stumbled on a reader’s letter published on December 11, 2015: “The Madeira Portuguese in St.Vincent, by...
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April 12, 2024
EDITOR: We all want our children to grow up to be respectful and responsible and each adult must play his role to accomplish this. Child guidance is a...
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April 12, 2024
EDITOR: Andy: Natalie, today is a beautiful day for going to the beach, the weather man said the temperature would be 27ª and humidity is 80%. I think...
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April 12, 2024
EDITOR: I am LeRoy Providence of the village of Troumaca in the parish of St. David and now resident in Arnos Vale for several decades. I have had res...
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April 5, 2024
EDITOR: Haiti I am sorry were the words from a song. These words best suit Haiti today. A country that is still indebted unfairly to France continues ...
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