R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
February 4, 2022
Dear Readers, I crave your indulgence and understanding as I mark with reverence what is a very special landmark for me, the 50th anniversary of my en...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
January 28, 2022
January 22nd passed uneventfully in St Vincent and the Grenadines as many others before it, with many Vincentians praying for the “end ah month” to co...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
January 21, 2022
A lifelong friend of mine who shares my love for calypso resorted to that art form in describing the happenings in last week’s parliamentary debate on...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
January 14, 2022
The drama which has unfurled in Parliament around the spread of covid contamination, leading to the suspension of the 2022 Budget debate is a poignant...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
January 7, 2022
I find it hard, in fact almost hypocritical to wish a Happy New Year, not just to friends and family but to people in general, knowing that 2022, like...
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
December 3, 2021
When first the impact of the COVID pandemic hit us over two years ago, there were few among us that thought we would still be grappling with it today,...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
November 26, 2021
Next Tuesday, November 30, the people of our eastern neighbouring country, Barbados, will not only celebrate the 55th anniversary of their reclamation...
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
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 30, 2021
There is an old saying which warns us to “Be careful what you wish for....” In real life it has a lot of significance for us because often, wishes do ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
July 23, 2021
SVG was placed in a state of shock last weekend with the sad news of the passing of one of our outstanding cultural exponents, Winston Soso. In this w...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
July 16, 2021
Having been involved in protests and demonstrations too numerous to mention over the bulk of my adult life, I continue to be a Having been involved in...
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
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 30, 2021
With less than a month into the period of the violent eruption of the volcano, it would appear that the process of settling in those persons evacuated...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
April 23, 2021
I am not a historian, but life’s experiences have taught me the necessity to be at least familiar with one’s own historical experiences so as to be ab...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
April 16, 2021
A few weeks ago I had begun a series centred on one of the great battles of our people to preserve democracy in SVG, the struggle against what became ...
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...
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Nearly 138 million children were engaged in child labour in 2024, including around 54 million in hazardous work likely to jeopardize their health, saf...
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Collin Butler, a Vincentian storyteller and comedian, who resides in the Virgin Island, has launched a Children’s book, ‘Island Adventure: Caribbean T...
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The Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) has issued a stern warning about non-tolerance of certain behaviours usually heightened ...
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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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