R. Rose

R. Rose
Another case for constitutional reform
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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 Monday’s ...
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A day for farmers
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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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We deserve better than this
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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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Cheating
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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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A big awakening on EPAs
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October 5, 2007
The organizers of last week’s activities held in SVG to focus on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) being negotiated by the Caribbean and the ...
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External influences on our livelihood
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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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EPA count down begins
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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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Interesting political development
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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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Civil society and constitutional reform Pt: 2
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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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Civil society, politics and the Constitution
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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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I mourn for SVG
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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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De world ain’t level
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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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Destructive partnership
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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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Carnival kudos to all
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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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We must tell the Comrade dat!
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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 “Ah can’t tell the Comrade Dat.”...
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Carnival and the cultural industry
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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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Strengthening Caribbean/US relations
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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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Backwardness on the rampage!
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June 15, 2007
I missed last week’s protest march and shutdown staged by the Opposition New Democratic Party in Kingstown. This protest followed earlier ones this ...
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Batting for the agricultural sector
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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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Price-gouging
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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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African liberation- Today’s focus
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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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A crucial fight
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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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Banana in focus again
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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 Day shows our weakness
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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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More warnings about mobile phones
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April 27, 2007
The name of the game in today’s world is modernisation and communication technology. For countries rich and poor alike, developed and underdeveloped...
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Terrorist granted bail
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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 Bush’s Texas), made a ruling g...
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World Cup lesson
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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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Time is running out Part II
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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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Time is running out for us Pt-1
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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 “Market Ac...
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Chinks in our armour
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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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The hour is upon us
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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, march, march
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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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The EPA and bananas Pt:2
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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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The EPA and bananas
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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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Place our nation first
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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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Cuba is a friend of ours
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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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Air transport – Let’s get it right!
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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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2007 – a crucial year
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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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Take warning
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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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It’s Budget time again
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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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2007, even more than Cricket World Cup
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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...