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August 21, 2009
âParents of this large group, the majority of our school-goers, face enormous challenges in sending children to school. The astronomical cost of tex...
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August 14, 2009
The process of registering of eligible persons for the new national Identity Card (ID) is continuing at the various registering centres. In St. Vincen...
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August 7, 2009
What a pity that Prime Minister Gonsalves didnât make it to the meeting of the CARICOM regional Task Force on the economic crisis, held in Jamaica e...
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July 31, 2009
A most interesting discussion took place during last Saturday nightâs âLetâs Talk Sportsâ call- in programme of NBC Radio. It had to do with t...
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July 24, 2009
As I concluded in my previous column, the Constitutional reform process, particularly the necessity to obtain the approval of two-thirds of those who ...
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July 17, 2009
During the month of July each year, for more than a century now, the worldâs most famous cycle race is contested in France. Called fittingly, the To...
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July 10, 2009
In days gone by, Ash Wednesday, which used to follow the old February/March Carnival, would be welcomed on radio by the playing of non-calypso songs, ...
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July 3, 2009
Two events dominate the onset of the second half of the year annually in the Caribbean. The first of these is our own âJuly in the Sunâ Carnival, ...
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June 26, 2009
When Carnival is in the air, as it is now, many important events of national, regional and international significance often have to play second fiddle...
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June 12, 2009
Our eleven-pluses can now heave a big breath of relief following the release of the 2009 Common Entrance results. Well, at least the successful ones! ...
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May 29, 2009
Even as the Draft of the proposed new Constitution for St. Vincent and the Grenadines reaches the House of Assembly this week, there are some who cont...
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May 22, 2009
The modern integration movement in the Caribbean is almost four decades old. During that time we have moved from the initial Treaty of Chaguaramas to ...
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May 15, 2009
Concern is growing throughout the Caribbean about the failure of the political leadership in the region (the business ones as well, in my opinion) to ...
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May 8, 2009
(A reprint from 1979) History contains some very valuable lessons for us, if only we try to learn from them. Regrettably, that is often not the case, ...
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April 30, 2009
I have promised that during this historic âhomecomingâ year I will attempt, on a monthly basis, to revisit some of the events of 30 years ago, our...
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April 24, 2009
Election talk is in the air again, and the usual speculation is making the rounds. Who will win the next election? By what margin? Who running, who no...
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April 17, 2009
The cosmopolitan city of Port of Spain is abuzz with excitement as this weekendâs big Fifth Summit of the Americas, hosted by the Government of Trin...
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April 9, 2009
Each time Caribbean leaders meet, they reaffirm their commitment to the goal of regional integration, even if between that time and their previous rea...
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April 3, 2009
I ended my column last week with yet another appeal to the Opposition New Democratic Party not to try and undo all the political and constitutional pr...
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March 27, 2009
It is with a very heavy heart that I note my worst fears becoming reality as far as the constitutional reform process is concerned. These fears are ab...
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March 20, 2009
Constitutional reform being dear to my heart, readers of this column would quite naturally expect me to wax warm on that topic this week. After all, t...
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March 13, 2009
March is certainly a most eventful month in Caribbean history. Vincentians have already dubbed it âNational Heroes and Heritage Month,â replete wi...
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March 6, 2009
Fairtrade Fortnight in the United Kingdom reaches its conclusion this weekend with an attempt to establish a world record for the most bananas eaten i...
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February 27, 2009
Millions of people all over the world - in Trinidad and Tobago, Rio, Dominica, Europe - were this week enjoying their annual Carnival celebrations, â...
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February 20, 2009
Thirty years ago, on February 8, 1979, to be exact, the pre-independence House of Assembly formally approved a Resolution paving the way for the attai...
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February 13, 2009
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is embroiled in another controversy of sorts regarding remarks he made concerning certain public servants at a symp...
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February 6, 2009
As someone integrally involved in banana affairs in the Caribbean, it would be expected that banana would be the topic of my column this week. After a...
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January 30, 2009
The year 2009 marks 30 years since our country achieved its political independence in 1979. To mark the occasion, a grand HOMECOMING, encouraging Vinc...
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January 23, 2009
Prominent progressive Black leaders the world over have not had it easy. Discrimination, victimization, repression, arrests and beatings, jailing, eve...
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January 16, 2009
I was in Antigua over the Christmas season. A holiday season it is there, too, though perhaps not as intense as Vincy Christmas. One thing struck me, ...
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January 9, 2009
My apologies once again for breaking off last week from my three-part piece of the fortunes of the banana industry in the Windward Islands in order to...
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January 2, 2009
(Saluting 50 years of the Cuban Revolution) In my two previous weekly columns, I began looking at the critical situation facing our banana industry as...
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December 23, 2008
In my previous column, I began looking at the perilous situation where the European regulations (banana marketing regime) governing the access of our ...
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December 19, 2008
The Christmas season is supposed to be of âGoodwill to all menâ, according to our traditions. There are many in our society, however, who, on the ...
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December 12, 2008
I was present among thousands, in a personal and (my favourite) low-key role at Black Point last Saturday night at the event organized by the Unity La...
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December 5, 2008
Debate on the 2009 Budget is scheduled to conclude today with the approval of governmentâs programme of expenditure and revenue for the New Year. Un...
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November 28, 2008
âViolence against women persists in every country and is a pervasive violator of human rights and a major impediment to the achievement of gender eq...
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November 21, 2008
The banana exporting countries of the Caribbean- the Windwards, Jamaica, Suriname and Belize - have been experiencing problems with the regulations go...
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November 14, 2008
Did I hear right? But other people have âmisheardâ as well, for they too said that they had heard on air that the ULP it was that organized Monday...
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November 7, 2008
Even as I join in the congratulations to US President-elect Barack Obama and in the celebrations of his victory, let me also, on behalf of all of us w...
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October 31, 2008
It is back to the regular grind of hard work and survival after the independence holiday weekend. The nationâs teachers have returned to the classro...
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October 24, 2008
Independence time is here again, and the nation, even as it celebrates, awaits with anxiety the Prime Ministerâs address on Independence Day, Monday...
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October 17, 2008
I am neither an historian nor a politician. In my perception, those in the former category, at least the genuine ones, tend to pursue the recording of...
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