Our Readers' Opinions

Our Readers' Opinions
Homes are yearning for faithful fathers
searchlight 
June 13, 2014
Fri, Jun 13, 2014 by Yvette Gittens The need for faithful fathers! This cry rings out around the world The cry from the voice of mothers A little boy ...
Our Readers' Opinions
Does the WI team look any better?
searchlight 
June 13, 2014
Fri, Jun 13, 2014 Editor: A pleasant good day to all West Indians throughout the world looking at this test match that was hyped by Chris Gayle’s 10...
Our Readers' Opinions
Historical Notes
searchlight 
June 13, 2014
How They Saw the Steelband The Vincentian, Editorial, February 23, 1946: "Many young people have been so strongly influenced that for a single day or ...
Our Readers' Opinions
Reparations must be discussed objectively
searchlight 
June 13, 2014
Fri, Jun 13, 2014 Editor: I listened with rapt attention last Sunday evening to a repeat, on IKTV, of Professor Hillary Beckles being interviewed by T...
Our Readers' Opinions
Vincy Mas – from dance to fete
searchlight 
June 13, 2014
Fri, Jun 13, 2014 Editor: It is Vincy Mas again and we are looking forward to the usual mas and music; but in all this celebration, I cannot help but ...
Our Readers' Opinions
You need to read your Bible!
searchlight 
June 6, 2014
Fri, Jun 06, 2014 Editor: I refer to a letter entitled “Re-examine God’s True Identity” by “A Matter of Serious Concern,” published in your ...
Our Readers' Opinions
Thank you, Minister Daniel!
searchlight 
June 6, 2014
Fri, Jun 06, 2014 Editor: I would like to put on record publicly my sincerest thanks to the Hon Minister of Housing, Montgomery Daniel. The Minister, ...
Our Readers' Opinions
Historical Notes
searchlight 
June 6, 2014
UNION ISLAND "Union Island... An Historical and Geographic Sketch” by John Adams (Caribbean Studies volume 18) "...In 1791 Great Britain partitioned...
Our Readers' Opinions
Carnival – a culture of looseness
searchlight 
June 6, 2014
Fri, Jun 06, 2014 Editor: Scantily dressed young ladies parading the stages, half naked men, women and children masquerading the streets, revealing co...
Our Readers' Opinions
Do Christianity and science conflict?
searchlight 
June 6, 2014
Fri, Jun 06, 2014 Editor: Archaeologists in Argentina have recently discovered what they described as fossils of the largest dinosaur to be discovered...
Our Readers' Opinions
Pentecost or Whit Sunday?
searchlight 
June 6, 2014
Fri, Jun 06, 2014 Editor: Almost all of the sacred appointments proclaimed in the Holy Scriptures have lost their true significance to mundane activit...
Our Readers' Opinions
Let us try to go about our daily lives in peace
searchlight 
June 3, 2014
Tue, Jun 03, 2014 Editor: Proverbs 16:18: “Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” Remember Sodom and Gomorrah? Well, ...
Bet you didn’t know!
Our Readers' Opinions
Bet you didn’t know!
searchlight 
June 3, 2014
Shadeisha George (ms SVG 2014) 1. Since I was in secondary school I have been the same weight: 122 pounds 2. I’m a neat freak! I can’t focus in an...
Our Readers' Opinions
Rise of ‘the Right’ in European backlash
searchlight 
May 30, 2014
For years, resentment has been mounting in Europe against what is perceived as the increasing power of the European Commission, simply identified as â...
Our Readers' Opinions
Historical Notes St Vincent and the Grenadines
searchlight 
May 30, 2014
St Vincent (from G.J Chester’s Transatlantic Sketches in the West Indies, South America, Canada and the United States,... 1869) “In four hours aft...
Our Readers' Opinions
Extortion by Commercial Banks
searchlight 
May 30, 2014
Fri May 30, 2014 Editor: I found the revelations about the imposition of withdrawal fees by certain commercial banks in this country to be quite troub...
Our Readers' Opinions
HIV in the Caribbean:
searchlight 
May 30, 2014
Fri, May 30, 2014 By Dr Ernest Massiah, UNAIDS Caribbean Regional Support Team Director Recently, the discussion on HIV has been a mix of the selectiv...
Our Readers' Opinions
Show consideration to other road users
searchlight 
May 30, 2014
Fri, May 30, 2014 Editor: I read with some surprise and not a small degree of incredulity the article in local newspapers last weekend wherein Mr Bacc...
Our Readers' Opinions
Re-examine God’s TRUE identity!
searchlight 
May 30, 2014
Fri, May 30, 2014 Editor: The Scriptures are pretty simple on this matter. They teach that there is ONE true God. For example, at John 17:3 Jesus said...
Our Readers' Opinions
Judgment against the churches!
searchlight 
May 27, 2014
Tue, May 27, 2014 Editor, “Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of I...
Our Readers' Opinions
Sammy’s replacement no surprise
searchlight 
May 27, 2014
Tue, May 27, 2014 Editor: It is not surprising that Darren Sammy was replaced as test captain. It was a long time on the cards. He was constantly bein...
Our Readers' Opinions
ATMs for customers’ benefit – an untruth!
searchlight 
May 27, 2014
Tue, May 27, 2014 Editor: I contact you with regard to the recent announcement that we, the poor paying customers, are to be subjected to yet another ...
Our Readers' Opinions
Exposing sodomite sex agenda
searchlight 
May 27, 2014
Tue, May 27, 2014 Editor, There is an agenda in the world to push Sodomite (gay/homosexual/lesbian/transvestite/ bisexual/intersex) behaviour upon the...
Our Readers' Opinions
Sponsorship: more than a mention in an advert,
searchlight 
May 27, 2014
Tue, May 27, 2014 by Candice Sealey Business Buzz Its the season for sponsorships…. Businesses sponsoring Carnival events or sponsoring radio and te...
Bet you didn’t know
Our Readers' Opinions
Bet you didn’t know
searchlight 
May 27, 2014
Sir Errol Allen • I am a vegetarian for the past 20 years and I have developed recipes to fit my diet. My favourite meal is bakes and saltfish, with...
Our Readers' Opinions
Historical Notes
searchlight 
May 23, 2014
Alexander Anderson’s Geography and History of St Vincent, a manuscript written just before 1800, edited and published by Richard and Elizabeth Howar...
Our Readers' Opinions
Regulate food, just like cigarettes
searchlight 
May 23, 2014
Two global organizations have made strong calls for the food industry to be regulated, as has been done in the case of cigarettes. The two, Consumers ...
Our Readers' Opinions
Enough is enough
searchlight 
May 23, 2014
Fri, May 23, 2014 Editor, Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Let us not forget that we have some wonderful pare...
Our Readers' Opinions
African Liberation Day needs new focus
searchlight 
May 23, 2014
Fri, May 23, 2014 Editor: This weekend a number, of local organizations and concerned individuals will keep up the tradition, established since 1974, ...
Our Readers' Opinions
Who are my national heroes? – Part 2
searchlight 
May 23, 2014
Fri, May 23, 2014 by Oswald Fereira Continued from Midweek Searchlight - May 20, 2014. My next hero is Daniel Dandrade, or “Dada” Dandrade, as he ...
Our Readers' Opinions
What’s NDP’s vision for SVG?
searchlight 
May 23, 2014
Fri May 23, 2014 Editor: Mr Eustace, Leader of the Opposition and the parliamentarian who likes to be called "Major” Leacock, can’t be the hope fo...
Our Readers' Opinions
Congratulations, Stalky!
searchlight 
May 23, 2014
Fri May 23, 2014 Editor: Permit me space in your paper to publicly congratulate barrister-at-law and notary public, Mr Stanley John for taking silk or...
Our Readers' Opinions
Psychology of smoking
searchlight 
May 23, 2014
Fri, May 23, 2014 Dr Jozelle Miller PhD. Health Psychology Milton Cato Memorial Hospital The reasons for smoking are mostly psychological. People are ...
Our Readers' Opinions
Enough is enough
searchlight 
May 20, 2014
Tue, May 20, 2014 Editor: We speak about hard times; we speak about killing one another in the country. Do we remember what the Lord said? Do we even ...