R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
June 13, 2025
(A Reprint from June 2023) This Sunday there will be somewhat muted activities in some quarters to celebrate what can only be termed “the poor relatio...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
June 6, 2025
My flat nose swelled with enormous pride on Tuesday of this week when I listened to the copious tributes being paid to a son of our soil, Justice Adri...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
May 30, 2025
Just as a new spate of localised killings re-focused our attention on our seeming murder plague, a gruesome development on the Grenadine Island of Can...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
May 23, 2025
PRIDE OF PLACE this week must go to the Spiritual Baptists Day, celebrated this year for the first time with an offi cial public holiday and part of a...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
May 16, 2025
I don’t know how many persons were, like me, overjoyed to appreciate the efforts of the Carnival Development Corporation (CDC), under the inspiration ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
May 9, 2025
My column this week deals with a very important issue that we have been ducking for years now, that of remuneration for Parliamentarians and Ministers...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
May 2, 2025
THERE WERE DIFFERING fortunes for the incumbents in elections held at the northern and southern extremities of the North American continent on Monday ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
April 25, 2025
ON MONDAY of next week, the people of Trinidad and Tobago go to the polls leading off a series of critical elections in a number of CARICOM countries ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
April 17, 2025
THE VOTERS IN Trinidad and Tobago are preparing to go to the polls in two weeks time to elect a “new” government, never mind that the fight is largely...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
April 11, 2025
My heartiest congratulations go out to the Sion Hill Sports and Cultural Organisation on the achievement of its Golden Jubilee on Monday April 7. It i...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
April 3, 2025
The governing Unity Labour Party (ULP) marked the 24th anniversary of its historic election victory of March 28, 2001, with a massive celebration on S...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
March 28, 2025
St Vincent and the Grenadines has experienced its most positive National Heritage Month this March since Paramount Chief, Joseph Chatoyer was official...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
March 21, 2025
The accolade bestowed on Prime Minister Gonsalves last Friday at the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Dorsetshire Hill by the Garifuna Heritage Founda...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
March 13, 2025
With the advent of social media and free online publications, these sources have become the main source of “knowledge” for too many of our people. How...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
March 7, 2025
The history of the Caribbean is replete with outstanding examples of resistance to foreign domination, our own Chief Chatoyer and the Garifuna being a...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
February 28, 2025
BLACK HISTORY AND BLACK POWER As we come to the end of February, celebrated in North America, and parts of the Caribbean as Black History Month, some ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
February 21, 2025
Even as the AIA is trying to woo more visitors to our beautiful country, highlighting the upcoming Carnival bacchanal, one frequent flyer visitor is a...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
February 14, 2025
It is with a profound sense of national pride that today I offer my heartiest congratulations to the government and people of St Vincent and the Grena...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
February 7, 2025
The international and local landscapes are so full of negatives, that this week, my column takes a different, more positive approach by looking at som...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
January 31, 2025
In six weeks, the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines will engage in activities to mark National Heroes Day and commemorate the death of our sole...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
January 24, 2025
In spite of the efforts of some seasoned but misguided politicians, the 2025 Budget was successfully debated and approved by the House of Assembly las...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
January 17, 2025
Last week, I began a column making references to the development of relations between T&T, the people in particular, and similarities or differences t...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
January 10, 2025
There is a lot which binds St Vincent and the Grenadines and the twin- island State of Trinidad and Tobago together, not all of which is positive. For...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
January 3, 2025
As I extend best wishes for the New Year to my readers and the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines in general, following the numerous challenges o...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
December 20, 2024
Having been derailed slightly in our timing of comments on this critical issue by an unfortunate slip-up, even as I apologize, I would have wanted to ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
December 13, 2024
I had a most encouraging and very heartening evening on Tuesday of this week when I participated in the online virtual launch of, (could you believe i...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
December 6, 2024
Having based my column last week on the events of May 1973, surrounding the murder of Attorney General Rawle, I was challenged last weekend by a gentl...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
November 29, 2024
Normally, one would be expected to offer congratulations as a matter of courtesy to Prime Minister Gonsalves on his re-election as Leader of the gover...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
November 22, 2024
Last week, I requested the understanding of readers for not publishing the promised second part of the article entitled “Time for introspection”. I do...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
November 15, 2024
I try very hard not to have the contents of this column revolve around me but rather on what I consider to be matters of public concern. In the case o...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
November 8, 2024
There is absolutely no comparison between elections in our country, or the rest of the Caribbean for that matter, and those in the USA. The context, r...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
November 1, 2024
Given the power of the international media, both the traditional ones and those in social media now under the direct control of some of the worst spec...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
October 24, 2024
We must continue to nourish it “Our Nation is born”. Those unforgettable words penned by the calypso titan, Vibrating Scakes, continue to echo in the ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
October 18, 2024
THE WEEK BETWEEN October 12 and 19 has great historical significance for the Caribbean and its peoples. It was on October 12, 1492, that a Genoese sai...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
October 11, 2024
Let me publicly express my appreciation and thanks to President Diaz-Canel of Cuba, the government and courageous people of that country, the Cuban In...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
October 4, 2024
We are now into our Month of Independence as we celebrate 45 years since formally reclaiming our national independence. The Committee charged with the...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
September 27, 2024
I really relish the feedback that I get in reaction to my weekly column. Not unexpectedly, a good friend of mine, while not hostile, expressed disappo...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
September 20, 2024
Your worship, in light of the continuing negative slurs being made about the community of Paul’s Avenue in Kingstown, more commonly known as Paul’s Lo...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
September 13, 2024
Over the next year or so, the season to which one of my fellow columnists refers as “the silly season”, will take over the political spotlight in thre...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
September 6, 2024
A PROMINENT LOCAL doctor has had the courage to publicly raise some health concerns relating to non-English speaking medical personnel practising here...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
August 30, 2024
Just last week the editorial in this paper commented on the need for countries like ours, victims of European colonization, to engage in the task of “...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
August 23, 2024
First, congrats to all the successful candidates, teachers, parents etc. in the recent C-SEC and CAPE exams, the results of which were published this ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
August 16, 2024
Two weeks ago, when I wrote about my 50th anniversary in the journalistic field, I had promised a follow-up last week. I was not able to fulfil that p...
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June 13, 2025
The Carnival Development Corporation (CDC) invites managers, producers, artistes and members of the public to the 2025 Soca Monarch Preliminaries. The...
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June 13, 2025
Chevonne Stewart was formally introduced last Sunday, June 8, 2025, as the person the Unity Labour Party (ULP) intends to be its candidate for the Sou...
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June 13, 2025
The Carnival Development Corporation (CDC) is taking significant steps to ensure that Victoria Park, the main carnival venue, is accessible to everyon...
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June 13, 2025
Local calypsonians are gearing up to bring their best game as the preliminary judging round has officially begun. This year is a big year for the frat...
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June 13, 2025
St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has emerged as the top-performing Caribbean destination for growth in tourism arrivals from the United States (US)...
