R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
March 3, 2023
On Monday of this week, Feb.27, the descendants of a slave-owning British family which owned a plantation, slaves and all, in Grenada, was due to take...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
February 24, 2023
Before I embark on my subject matter, permit me to pay my respects to former national footballer Gideon “Ragga” Horne who will be buried today, since ...
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February 17, 2023
“Dis man have a gun, dat man have a gun, Man, dey will kill each other fo’ fun” These are just two lines from a popular Caribbean song. But, hold a mi...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
February 10, 2023
Last week I had intended to focus my column on Cricket and Carnival, two essential elements of our cultural existence in the Caribbean. Unfortunately ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
February 3, 2023
Tributes continue to be expressed for the outstanding contribution of Dominican, Windwards and Combined Islands batting star, Irvine Shillingford who ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
January 27, 2023
On hearing the news that our country had been elected unanimously to the Presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), a...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
January 20, 2023
A boost has been given to the long and bitter campaign by the aggrieved peoples of the Caribbean, North America and Africa in particular, to achieve j...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
January 13, 2023
Let me begin by extending best wishes to all for the year 2023, another challenging one before us. I must also offer my apologies to readers of the co...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
December 30, 2022
As I extend the customary New Year’s greetings to all my readers and the wider local, regional and international community, I must confess that it is ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
December 23, 2022
The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, one of the more conservative states in Europe, on Monday of this week made a public landmark apology for the Du...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
December 16, 2022
In spite of the gross disrespect for the Vincentian people, and guests, shown by FLOW, still the premier telecom entity operating here, Vincentians ha...
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December 9, 2022
St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has over the years had its fair share of visits by Heads of State and Government since our independence in 1979. P...
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December 2, 2022
This weekend St Vincent and the Grenadines lays out the diplomatic “red carpet” to welcome Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel for a three-day official ...
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November 25, 2022
Every November, there are official ceremonies on what is called “Remembrance Day” in honour of those who died during the two world wars. The emphasis ...
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November 18, 2022
The situation in Dominica following the decision of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit to advise the President (Dominica is a Republic) to dissolve Parl...
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November 11, 2022
Last week, I began raising the issue of rather alarming developments in the so-called “bastions of democracy” in western states which are upheld as “m...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
November 4, 2022
I hope that I am not alone in closely monitoring developments in the so-called “western world” as they pertain to the perceived underpinning of the sa...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
October 28, 2022
This is the final instalment of the four-part series focusing on our approach to independence, forty years ago. In the previous three instalments, I h...
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October 21, 2022
This is the third in the series looking back at how, forty years ago, we messed up a golden opportunity to unify the nation in our quest for national ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
October 14, 2022
October being Independence Month in SVG, I thought it useful to draw on reprints of previous articles I had done on the topic over the years. They may...
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(Reprinted from SEARCHLIGHT, Oct.24, 2017)
October 7, 2022
Dear readers, In commemoration of our 43rd anniversary of independence, I am taking the liberty of reprinting, with minor amendments, a series of arti...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
September 30, 2022
It is said that “A friend in need, is a friend indeed”. If we accept that saying, we must be constantly on the alert for any friends that we have who ...
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September 23, 2022
Continuing from last week when we looked at issues arising from the death of the late British monarch, Queen Elizabeth, we can broaden the discussion ...
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September 16, 2022
There are many issues arising from the death of Elizabeth of the House of Windsor, Queen of the United Kingdom and 16 Commonwealth countries, includin...
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September 9, 2022
I had left off last week from my discourse on Electoral Reform to try and draw attention to a very important stage in our (the Caribbean) development,...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
September 2, 2022
In my last column, I took up an issue, seemingly buried but very much alive, in what may be another vain attempt in trying to get us collectively not ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
August 26, 2022
We here in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), and the wider Caribbean in fact, have earned ourselves the reputation of being “now for now” people, m...
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August 19, 2022
This past Wednesday, August 17, marked the 135th anniversary of the great Marcus Mosiah Garvey, hailed up to today as one of the foremost advocates of...
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August 12, 2022
During his address to the recent national Convention of the Unity Labour Party (ULP), Party leader and current Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves soli...
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August 5, 2022
A French King, Louis 15th I think, was quoted as making the infamous remark, “Apres moi, le deluge”. Meaning that whatever would go wrong would do so,...
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July 29, 2022
In 1998, a Vincentian calypsonian, the late Roy Lewis, singing as the Mighty Prowler, won the calypso Monarch title in Trinidad and Tobago, no easy fe...
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July 22, 2022
PRIME MINISTER Dr Ralph Gonsalves is enjoying the accolades and honours being conferred on him by governments and peoples of our region, deservedly so...
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July 15, 2022
Every year after Carnival, whether it is the Vincy variety, the Rio “strip mas” on which much of our modern Carnival is patterned, or Trinidad’s pre-L...
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July 8, 2022
Dr Keith Mitchell, who up to his defeat in the recent general elections in Grenada was the Caribbean’s longest-serving Prime Minister being in that of...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
July 1, 2022
Parliamentary elections in the Commonwealth Caribbean are closely followed not just by the voters in the country holding the elections but also by vot...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
June 24, 2022
Last week this column began commenting on some issues pertaining to our two political parties, the governing ULP and the opposition NDP, and I promise...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
June 17, 2022
I was encouraged to read in the Midweek SEARCHLIGHT this week of plans by the governing Unity Labour Party (ULP) to take a definitive step forward in ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
June 10, 2022
That is the pertinent question raised by Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as he spoke to the media explaining his absence from the Summi...
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June 3, 2022
Part 1 of this celebratory article published last week began by tracing the historical development of Cuba/SVG ties in homage to the 30th anniversary ...
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-Give praise and credit where it is due
May 27, 2022
THIS WEEKEND, the Government and people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and their counterparts in Cuba jointly celebrate three decades of the establ...
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May 20, 2022
IN THE YEAR 1963, the then Organization for African Unity (OAU) declared May 25 as African Liberation Day (ALD), a day in solidarity with those Africa...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
May 13, 2022
Whilst the principle of the sovereign right of each independent country to make decisions of its own choosing is considered inviolable, in practice sm...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
May 6, 2022
There are many, many good and sound reasons why small countries like ours in the Caribbean voluntarily join together to establish regional bodies such...
News
September 12, 2025
THE ASHLEY LASHLEY Foundation, with support from the United States Government, is implementing a local-level project entitled “Community-Driven Strate...
News
September 12, 2025
NON- NATIONALS ARE being hired to fill several jobs in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) simply because locals did not have the required skill sets....
News
September 12, 2025
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER Montgomery Daniel has sought to clear around rumours that have been circulating relating to his health. Speaking on NBC radio on...
News
September 12, 2025
The GOVERNMENT of St Vincent and the Grenadines is set to sign agreements for tourism investment of $1.3 billion on mainland St.Vincent. On Monday, Se...
From the Courts, News
September 12, 2025
A BARROUALLIE MAN will be sentenced next week after pleading guilty to being in illegal possession of a firearm and eight rounds of ammunition. Demron...
