R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
December 31, 2021
It is with a great sense of relief that we mark the end of a most tortuous year. Fifty-two weeks ago, how many of us could have imagined that at year ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
December 23, 2021
It is heartening to note that despite all that we have gone through these past two years, it has not dampened the enthusiasm for Christmas and our C...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
December 17, 2021
ANOTHER CHAPTER in the political history of St Vincent and the Grenadines will be officially closed tomorrow when former Prime Minister Sir James Mitc...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
November 19, 2021
My commendations go out to the St Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers Union (SVGTU) and to the teachers of this country as they enter the concluding a...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
November 12, 2021
The governing Unity Labour Party (ULP) last weekend celebrated, albeit in subdued circumstances due to COVID restrictions, its historic election victo...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
November 5, 2021
Last week this column revived the memory of the tragedy that was Grenada 1983 when a People’s Revolution that had promised so much, imploded and opene...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
October 29, 2021
Each year at this time my reflections on our reclamation and use of national independence are tempered by the painful memories of the tragedy in neigh...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
October 22, 2021
THE PEOPLE of St Vincent and the Grenadines will this year have a very different experience for our anniversary of national independence next week. In...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
October 15, 2021
Next Thursday, October 21, will mark the 86th anniversary of one of the most important chapters in our history; the rebellion of 1935. Unfortunately, ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
October 8, 2021
It is taken for granted that anytime you hear or read about 9/11, the reference is to the terrorist attack on New York and Washington on Sept.1a1, 200...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
October 1, 2021
“I cannot understand a politician who is lukewarm about vaccination or not prepared to take a stand. Are they not aware that they are going against th...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
September 24, 2021
The 1960s marked the rise in consciousness, anti-colonialist sentiment and nationalism all around the world. It was reflected in the popular music of ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
September 17, 2021
The Caribbean is not immune from the onslaught of the Covid -19 virus which continues to create so much havoc and damage to life and limb over the wor...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
September 10, 2021
It is my fervent hope that all who listened to the First African Union- Caricom Summit on Tuesday of this week would, like me, have been filled with h...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
September 3, 2021
There is a global pandemic affecting not just the health and safety of hundreds of millions of people all over the world, but posing a more lasting an...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
August 27, 2021
When I went to school we were taught about deltas, triangular masses of land at the mouth of large rivers formed by sediments brought down by the rive...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
August 20, 2021
Whatever one thinks of the motives for persons engaged in weekly protests and picketing, primarily around the Parliament building, it is at least a we...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
August 13, 2021
The Caribbean today faces major threats to its quest for development- in the economic, political, social, cultural and environmental fields to name th...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
August 6, 2021
Like hundreds of millions of other human beings on planet earth, black and white, red and brown, rich and poor, male, female or otherwise, I find myse...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
July 9, 2021
Two weeks ago this column chose to focus on the area of sports and sports development. This is the final part of that article, unfortunately delayed b...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
July 2, 2021
There is a most interesting and even amazing development in the effort to vaccinate as many of our people as possible against the deadly COVID -19 pan...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
June 11, 2021
St. Vincent and the Grenadines is today a small Caribbean nation held in high esteem internationally and by our Caribbean neighbours. It is an accord ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
June 25, 2021
I have been a long-time sporting fan for more than six decades, avidly trying to follow everything I could, with a few exceptions, using all means ava...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
June 18, 2021
If we thought that the problems facing the government and people of St Vincent and the Grenadines were huge given the effects of the COVID -19 pandemi...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
June 4, 2021
On May 25, 1963, independent African states established the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). Having done that, the OAU declared that this date sh...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
May 28, 2021
Normally in this week which marks the anniversary of African Liberation Day, my topic for this column would have been pre-chosen. This year, in additi...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
May 21, 2021
The massive outpouring of national grief, respect and tributes after the passing of Bro. Parnel Campbell provides us with an opportunity to reflect on...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
May 14, 2021
“This ugliness in the House” is the term used by Deputy Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, Hon. St. Clair Leacock, to describe the fracas in Parl...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
May 7, 2021
In paying my respects to our dearly departed brother, P.R. Campbell, permit me to begin by saying how touched I was by the presentation last Monday ni...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
April 9, 2021
It is said that the true hallmark of the character of a nation is how it responds to adversity and whether, faced with a crisis, its people can put as...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
April 1, 2021
It is a pity that Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves was not physically present to revel in the praises for the 20th anniversary of the victory of his ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
March 26, 2021
COVID or not, I must confess that I am shocked that the 20th anniversary of the historic victory of the ULP at the polls in 2001 is upcoming this Sund...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
March 19, 2021
Our country St Vincent and the Grenadines seems to be heading for a location that is best characterized as “between a rock and a hard place” where our...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
March 12, 2021
The effects of COVID or not, it is expected that National Heroes Day will be observed this year, albeit in scaled-down circumstances. Pride of place w...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
March 5, 2021
I offer my salute to the women of this nation as they prepare to celebrate yet another International Women’s Day (IWD) next Monday. We in St Vincent a...
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