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April 8, 2014
Tue Apr 8, 2013 Ronessa John - To an extent it is. I honestly have no problem to see others show affection to each other, whether by just giving a hug...
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World Health Day 2014
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April 8, 2014
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Historical Notes
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April 4, 2014
Letter to the Editor of the Times newspaper by R.EM Jack (The Times, July 17, 1919) Mr Jack who lived at Richmond Hill, was one of the organisers of t...
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Female Vice-President for Afghanistan
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April 4, 2014
I found it most appropriate that in the month during which International Women’s Day falls, discussion has been taking place in the international me...
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A serious message for parents and guardians!
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April 4, 2014
Fri Apr 4, 2013 EDITOR: A car pulls up at school. A man comes out and goes to your child at about 3 p.m. He says: “Your Mom says I must pick you up,...
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Are we opening the door for demonic possession?
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April 4, 2014
Fri Apr 4, 2013 Editor: In last weekend’s issue of The News newspaper, mention was made of a school that seemingly had some demonic activities prese...
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Choices for change: Choosing Parliamentarians
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April 4, 2014
Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has publicly set in train the process of choosing a successor by announcing, at a rally to celebrate the 13th annive...
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Coping with our problems
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April 4, 2014
Fri Apr 4, 2013 SVG, like many other countries at this time, faces several challenges. These include: Providing gainful employment for its people at a...
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Doing business report 2014: SVG and others
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March 28, 2014
Fri Mar 28, 2013 EDITOR: INTRODUCTION The 2014 Doing Business Report , authored by the World Bank (WB) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC)...
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Acts of animal cruelty
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March 28, 2014
Fri Mar 28, 2013 Editor: This bears repeating again and again until action is taken: acts of cruelty against animals are AGAINST THE LAW, punishable b...
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Media outlets and their influence
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March 28, 2014
Fri Mar 28, 2013 Editor: The media plays a very vital role in any society, including our own SVG. When we look at the many media outlets here, we real...
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Historical Notes
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March 28, 2014
Stories of Trinidad and St.Vincent in the Antilles (from the journal ofBertrand Cothonay O.P) 19th January 1888 "Two days ago I had an exciting and pe...
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An open letter to the Prime Minister
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March 25, 2014
Tue Mar 25, 2013 Dear Mr Gonsalves, It is 2014 and St Vincent and the Grenadines continues to discriminate against its citizens with the criminalizati...
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Has ULP given up on Kingstown seats?
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March 25, 2014
Tue Mar 25, 2013 Editor: Has ULP given up on the Kingstown seat? I hope I am wrong, for in elections nothing should be considered impossible.{{more}} ...
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Next leader after Ralph
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March 25, 2014
Tue Mar 25, 2013 By: Demion (Black Star) McTair The next leader of St Vincent and the Grenadines after Ralph Gonsalves would have exited the scene wou...
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Workers in the workplace
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March 21, 2014
Fri Mar 21, 2014 Editor: We have grown accustomed in this country to lacklustre performance by workers in the workplace. This practice seems to be an ...
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Beware of astrologers and soothsayers!
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March 21, 2014
Fri Mar 21, 2014 Editor: Vincentians, as we approach the end of time, the enemy of our soul is finding more ways to deceive us and to keep us in the b...
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Wealthy football hero jailed for tax evasion
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March 21, 2014
The month of March in St Vincent and the Grenadines is “Tax month” for tax-paying citizens, or more kindly advertised by the Inland Revenue Depart...
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Historical Notes St Vincent and the Grenadines
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March 21, 2014
Adventures in the Wars of the Republic and the Consulate by Alexandre Moreau De Jonnes. StVincent “I saw the last days of the last race of indigenou...
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The Great Wall in Africa
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March 18, 2014
EDITOR: All nations engage in the trading of commodities and services for the growth and development of their economy. We are living in a global villa...
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Carlos James for North Leeward
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March 18, 2014
Tue Mar 18, 2013 Editor: If ULP is serious about recapturing the North Leeward seat in the next general elections, then Carlos James must be the candi...
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Should Vincentians accept homosexuality?
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March 18, 2014
Tue Mar 18, 2013 EDITOR: Well, it seems as though Vincentians will be pressured in the near future to accept homosexuality as a normal way of life, ba...
Land use policy
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Land use policy
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March 18, 2014
Tue Mar 18, 2013 Persons interested in contributing to a proposed National Land Policy have an opportunity through a series of focus-group working ses...
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World Water Day 2014
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March 18, 2014
Tue Mar 18, 2013 Ladies and gentlemen, World Water Day is an annual event which originated at the 1992 conference in Brazil, when an international day...
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Giants uniting, small farmers disintegrating
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March 13, 2014
The banana world has become infinitely a much more difficult place for small farmers to survive since the ‘Banana Wars’ began in the mid-nineties....
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Historical Notes St Vincent and the Grenadines
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March 13, 2014
Man Drunk on Wedding Day Marries the Wrong Woman ( The Vincentian, March 26,1949) “It has points in common with the story in the Book of Genesis abo...
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Write and publish your history
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March 13, 2014
Thur Mar 13, 2013 Editor: Mrs Aldia Gumbs-Dyer, senior education officer in the Ministry of Education, has been encouraging students to write and publ...
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Good customer service needed in SVG
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March 13, 2014
Thur Mar 13, 2013 Editor: We have been reading in recent times about poor customer services. It is indeed a known fact that many business places opera...
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A salute to women during Women’s History Month
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March 13, 2014
Fri Mar 13, 2014 by Clari Gilbert RN, MA President of the SVG Retired Nurses Association Inc Jane Austen (Catherine Morland) in 1817 stated: "History,...
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The old ways are holding us back
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March 7, 2014
Given the formidable economic challenges facing Caribbean countries today, it ought to be clear to all that in order to survive, much more progress, t...
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We don’t like it!
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March 7, 2014
Fri Mar 07, 2013 EDITOR: It’s a statement that always goes through my mind when someone or some entity engages in a course of action that inevitably...
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Some fallacies about LIAT
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March 7, 2014
Fri Mar 07, 2013 EDITOR: Within recent times the anti-LIAT brigade, most of whom have historical agendas and hidden personal angst on matters touching...
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Democracy and Christianity
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March 7, 2014
Fri Mar 07, 2013 Our creator did not create us to live up in His heaven. A look into His mind to see why He made us will give us a better understandin...
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The prison situation
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March 7, 2014
Fri Mar 07, 2013 Editor: The situation where, in a short space of time, two prisoners have escaped the Belle Isle Correctional Facility is beginning t...
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DANCE IT – ‘Heal our land’
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March 7, 2014
Fri Mar 07, 2013 EDITOR: My name is Raquel Creese and I am the vice-president of a group of young people called ARMY. We belong to a church called Fai...