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November 5, 2013
Tue Nov 05, 2013 EDITOR: While some businesses locally are closing down, foreign businesses are expanding. So, is it really because of the poor state ...
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November 1, 2013
Fri Nov 01, 2013 Editor: âBlack Ignoranceâ was a lament that I heard when Professor Ms Verene Shepherd delivered the 15th UWIOC IndepenÂdence lec...
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November 1, 2013
Fri Nov 01, 2013 Editor: Professor Verene Shepherd delivered the UWI Open Campus Independence Anniversary Lecture last Tuesday night. She gave a fair ...
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November 1, 2013
Fri Nov 01, 2013 Editor: I find the reparations topic a most interesting and important one at this point in our development as a Caribbean civilizatio...
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November 1, 2013
Diary of Sir William Young's Tour Through the Windward Islands (1791-1792) "Wednesday, December 7 at day-break, St.Vincent's in sight. At 3 p.m. the s...
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November 1, 2013
Fri Nov 01, 2013 Sons and Daughters of Liberty, as we continue to reflect on our 34th year of independence from British colonial rule, the Democratic ...
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October 25, 2013
by Matthew Thomas (19/10/2013)Fri Oct 25, 2013 Jomo Thomas by his writings and utterances seems to possess clarity of thought on many issues, but is e...
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October 25, 2013
The 1898 Hurricane (The Sentry newspaper) "...On Sunday morning the 11th instant the most terrible hurricane that has perhaps ever occurred in the Wes...
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October 25, 2013
Fri Oct 25, 2013 Editor: As we celebrate our 34th anniversary of independence from England, let us reflect on the long journey humanity came from â ...
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October 25, 2013
Fri Oct 25, 2013 Editor: I went through the education system of St Vincent and the Grenadines and began my primary education at a public school in Kin...
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October 25, 2013
Fri Oct 25, 2013 Editor: Happy SVG Independence 2013. Congratulations on 34 years !!! I hope that Literary Book Fair was successful and I laud the org...
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October 25, 2013
Fri Oct 25, 2013 Editor: As we reflect on our independence, without political bias, we have to agree that we have developed as a nation. Every leader ...
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October 22, 2013
Tue Oct 22, 2013 Editor: "Entrepreneurs may be made rather than born, but ⦠research has found that entrepreneurs will typically exhibit a combinati...
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October 22, 2013
"We can produce 50,000 tons of export quality bananas per year, here in SVGâ. That was the conviction of the farmers at a meeting held last week at ...
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October 22, 2013
Tue Oct 22, 2013 by Oswald Fereira I read recently in SEARCHLIGHT in Dr Adrian Fraser's column that there is soon to be a recognition of the 100th ann...
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October 22, 2013
Tue Oct 22, 2013 Editor: Last weekend, the front page of your publication carried a story relating to the possible banning of the wearing of hoodies i...
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October 22, 2013
Tue Oct 22, 2013 Editor: It has been seven years since my childâs father was brutally murdered, but what Iâm really trying to say is that I have b...
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October 22, 2013
Tue Oct 22, 2013 Dear Youthful Vincentians, I had the pleasure of representing St Vincent and the Grenadines at the fourth One Young World Youth Summi...
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October 22, 2013
Tue Oct 22, 2013 Among the main values that the St Vincent and the Grenadines Diaspora Committee of New York Inc. (SVGDCNY Inc) has sought to promote ...
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October 18, 2013
Fri Oct 18, 2013 Editor: I recently set up a small business which involves buying and selling, meaning that I am buying from overseas to sell to the l...
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October 18, 2013
Fri Oct 18, 2013 Villa St Vincent & the Grenadines October 15, 2013 Hospital Administrator Milton Cato Memorial Hospital Bentinck Square Kingstown Mis...
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October 18, 2013
First Impressions "I beheld the West Indies for the first time, when, at sun-rise, on the last day of December 1820, we anchored in the lonely bay of ...
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October 18, 2013
Fri Oct 18, 2013 I, Anesia Baptiste, founder and leader of the newest political party in SVG â the Democratic Republican Party (DRP) held a Town Hal...
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October 18, 2013
Fri Oct 18, 2013 Dear Searchlight, Please accept my sincere apologies for errors which crept into my Round Table feature of 15-10-13. The title of my ...
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October 15, 2013
Tue Oct 15, 2013 Editor: Too many of our young men are dying and our people need to know the real reason why.{{more}} How many more of our young men m...
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October 15, 2013
Tue Oct 15, 2013 Editor: Our leaders do not understand themselves. They depend too much on the physical senses and their academic consideration. They ...
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October 15, 2013
Tue Oct 15, 2013 Editor: As we celebrate independence we should remember Robert Milton Cato. Putting aside our political affiliation, we must agree th...
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October 11, 2013
Fri Oct 11, 2013 Editor: A student writes an offensive note and for this she is expelled, I certainly do not condone insolence, but as parents and, by...
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October 11, 2013
Fri Oct 11, 2013 Editor: Recently with the naming of three new senators in the house of Assembly, the Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines ...
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October 8, 2013
Tue Oct 8, 2013 Editor: The legalizing of homosexuality is a deliberate disobedience of Godâs command.{{more}} Leviticus chapter 18, verse 22 says: ...
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October 8, 2013
Tue Oct 8, 2013 Editor: There continues to be much discussion on the use of marijuana for medical purposes. While we can agree that it is the least ha...
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October 8, 2013
Tue Oct 8, 2013 Editor: St Vincent and the Grenadines is a small country with a high density of ethnicities contained in a small area. Additionally, t...
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October 8, 2013
Tue Oct 8, 2013 Editor: Iâm assuring you that Iâm not losing my mind; the way things are going, I have to remain focused. Whenever I write or shar...
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October 8, 2013
Tue Oct 8, 2013 Editor: Most of SVG is aware of the present crisis in St Josephâs Convent, Kingstown. Unfortunately this scenario also affects the M...
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October 4, 2013
Fri Oct 04, 2013 Editor: I am grateful to have this article published in your weekly newspaper. I am indeed obliged to write because of the seemingly ...
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