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November 9, 2007
If, as the victorious Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago claims, God had spoken to the people of his country as to their choice in last Mondayâs ...
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October 26, 2007
For the third year in succession, Vincentian farmers, as organized under the Fair Trade banner, will be holding activities to celebrate what they have...
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October 19, 2007
The Caribbean is once more awash with election fever, particularly in the southern half, where at least three governments are due to seek renewed mand...
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October 12, 2007
The public disagrace and humiliation of American super-athlete Marion Jones, beamed via modern technology to billions the world over, is a deeply emba...
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October 5, 2007
The organizers of last weekâs activities held in SVG to focus on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) being negotiated by the Caribbean and the ...
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September 28, 2007
Radio talk shows which hosts encourage listeners to call in and give their views on just about anything are today very much a part of Vincentian and C...
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September 21, 2007
Yesterday (Thursday September 20), a panel of arbitrators of the Disputes Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) should have completed ...
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September 14, 2007
Let me first begin by offering my condolences to the families and relatives of Mr. Carlton Williams, a former Commissioner of the Constitutional Revie...
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September 7, 2007
Those who have been following this column, particularly over the past two weeks, would be aware of what I believe to be a fundamental connection betwe...
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August 31, 2007
The Constitutional Review Steering Committee is engaged in a very important exercise with a Committee for the Whole House of Assembly on fleshing out ...
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August 17, 2007
I was honoured to have been part of the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) and to have participated in the exhaustive process that led up to its f...
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August 3, 2007
One of the many things I always try to do when abroad is to scour foreign newspapers for news items that indicate trends and developments in the world...
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July 27, 2007
My disappointment in not being home to hear first-hand and witness the Parliamentary debate on the Report of the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC...
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July 20, 2007
The House of Assembly, at its sitting at the end of June, approved the establishment of a Steering Committee to help to give further impetus to the fi...
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July 13, 2007
For yet another year I have been forced to miss our own Carnival celebrations, duty taking me abroad this time. What a good thing to have started earl...
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July 6, 2007
What a difference a year can make! Just last year, I-Pa was on his way to taking the Calypso Monarch by singing âAh canât tell the Comrade Dat.â...
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June 29, 2007
St. Vincent and the Grenadines this year will observe, with pomp and style hopefully, the 30th anniversary of the historic decision. That decision, to...
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June 22, 2007
How much significance must we attach to the visit of the Caribbean political leadership to Washington for official engagements with their US counterpa...
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June 15, 2007
I missed last weekâs protest march and shutdown staged by the Opposition New Democratic Party in Kingstown. This protest followed earlier ones this ...
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June 8, 2007
All Caribbean cricket fans by now accept that the West Indies cricket team is in dire straits, indeed Caribbean cricket as a whole is in such a hole. ...
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June 1, 2007
Price-gouging, that is blatant ripping off of consumers by unscrupulous business persons, has become a popular term since the introduction of the Valu...
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May 25, 2007
Once again Vincentians will today hold activities to commemorate African Liberation Day (ALD) with the focus being on Africa, the mother continent of ...
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May 18, 2007
The inadequate level of communication between Caribbean governments, their regional trade negotiators and the Caribbean people who will be most affect...
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May 11, 2007
On Thursday of this week, Caribbean Trade and Agriculture Ministers, officials from the Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) and leaders of banana exp...
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May 4, 2007
ANOTHER MAY DAY, another Workers day has come and gone, as if it were a merge public holiday given for well needed rest and recreation for our workers...
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April 27, 2007
The name of the game in todayâs world is modernisation and communication technology. For countries rich and poor alike, developed and underdeveloped...
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April 20, 2007
Last Friday, US District Court Judge Kathleen Cardone of the El Paso Federal Court in the state of Texas (yes, George Bushâs Texas), made a ruling g...
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April 13, 2007
With the demise of Caribbean hopes for lifting the Cricket World Cup in triumph for the first time since the year of the last volcanic eruption of Mt....
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April 5, 2007
Last week we began by looking at the proposed Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) currently being negotiated between the CARIFORUM countries and the ...
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March 30, 2007
Last week I was among participants from every CARIFORUM country, save Grenada, at a regional workshop in Barbados organized by the RNM on âMarket Ac...
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March 23, 2007
The month of March is truly an historic one for the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Commemorated annually as National Heroes Month, it is a ...
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March 8, 2007
If you had arrived in Dublin on Saturday, February 24, you could not but have noticed a certain excitement in the air. The atmosphere was pregnant wit...
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March 2, 2007
I write from the formerly embattled Northern Ireland capital of Belfast where I am on the road as a Fairtrade soldier, campaigning for the Irish peopl...
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February 16, 2007
(Securing and expanding our Fairtrade advances) The last week of February and the first week of March this year are being commemorated as FAIRTRADE FO...
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February 9, 2007
Next week St. Vincent and the Grenadines will host the first Inter-Sessional meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government for the troubling year of 2007. Th...
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February 2, 2007
St. Vincent and the Grenadines like the rest of the Caribbean has its fair share of problems especially on the social front where the twin vices of dr...
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January 26, 2007
This week two important initiatives were launched. On Monday there was the official initial step in a process leading up to the formulation of a Natio...
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January 19, 2007
I was fortunate enough to be among a very appreciative crowd which packed the Peace Memorial Hall last Friday, January 12th, to join with the Ambassad...
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January 12, 2007
Three Caribbean Prime Ministers, including our own Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, were in Antigua this week in a series of intensive discussions aimed at stream...
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January 5, 2007
IT was a damn sad end to the year 2006 for former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, executed by the US-installed Shiite regime, giving both US President...
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December 15, 2006
The Caribbean is still coming to grips with the results of the spectacular victory of the veteran politician John Compton and his United Workers Party...
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December 8, 2006
Even as we move into the Christmas season, successfully opened last weekend with the launching of the revived and spectacularly growing Nine Mornings ...
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December 1, 2006
What can one make of reports that British Prime Minister Tony Blair is to publicly condemn Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade and to expr...
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The last thing that the Bagga Fish Fest Committee wants to do is shut down the event, but with the disturbing number of children who are present at Fi...
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The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has brought attention to what has been described as “an urgent but often overlooked challenge of our time”...
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May 9, 2025
A Lodge Village mother of three, who is well known at several Massy Stores as a thief, may face up to two years in prison after she was caught again, ...
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