R. Rose

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Where there’s a will
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November 24, 2006
For St Vincent and the Grenadines, today is D-Day where the Posting of the International Cricket Conference’s (ICC) month World Cup competition is c...
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Selling us short, betraying our trust
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November 17, 2006
Over the past two weeks I was fortunate enough to be invited to participate in two events, one international, the other local, which have great releva...
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Saddam’s sentence, not the only one
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November 10, 2006
There's an old cliché saying "Life's funny", though I am often amused by an old friend of mine who is fond of repeating, half gesturing, half philoso...
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Reflecting on National Day
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October 26, 2006
Twenty-seven years after the achievement of constitutional Independence, 55 years after Adult Suffrage gave us the right to vote, and a full 71 years ...
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Hope and future
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October 20, 2006
What role can/should/must farmers play in the agricultural/economic and overall development of the Caribbean? What kind of future does agriculture hav...
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A sensible foreign policy
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October 6, 2006
Part 2 In this month marking the anniversary of our achievement of independence, it is appropriate that we focus on how we have been using one of the ...
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A sensible approach to foreign policy
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September 29, 2006
PART 1 Congratulations are the order of the day. Congrats to Earl 'Ole George' Daniel for his historic non-stop seven-day walk in Jamaica which will s...
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Two challenges for government
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September 22, 2006
There are two issues confronting the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines which have become the subject of much public discussion and debate. ...
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Paying for their security
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September 15, 2006
An examination of the historical experience of St. Vincent and the Grenadines would reveal that one of the worst pieces of legislation to be passed in...
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Running out of options
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September 8, 2006
As Guyana grapples with its post-elections constitutional problem related to the convening of the new Parliament, there is one aspect of the new situa...
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Draw the line of reaction
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August 25, 2006
The coming to power of the Ralph Gonsalves-led ULP administration in 2001 has posed many problems to those progressives outside the ULP (not to mentio...
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The world needs more like Fidel Castro
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August 18, 2006
Unfortunately, for health reasons, this column was absent from the pages of SEARCHLIGHT for the last couple of weeks. Life has a way of reminding us t...
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Opening the gates of hell
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July 21, 2006
The international community has placed terrorism among its priority concerns worldwide. That is reflected in Resolutions of the United Nations and its...
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Spare a thought…
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July 7, 2006
07.JUL.06 Even as we welcome the thousands of Caribbean citizens, returning nationals and guests, for our biggest cultural festival, Carnival, my hear...
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In the midst of
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June 30, 2006
We are all familiar with the saying “In the midst of life, there is death.” It can be modified to suit comparable situations. Thus we can say, “...
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I miss my dad
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June 23, 2006
I MISSED Father’s Day in St. Vincent this year. Traveling as part of my onerous duties, on Sunday, June 18, of all days, I was not even in a positio...
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A glorious anniversary
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June 16, 2006
Twenty-five years ago on this date, June 16th, Kingstown was indeed “too small for the Carnival”, to borrow the words of veteran calypsonian, REAL...
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Civil society and constitiutional reform-III
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June 2, 2006
Consistant, cohesive, national approach lacking The involvement of civil society in the tumultuous events of early 2000 in St. Vincent and the Grenadi...
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Civil society and constitutional reform
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May 26, 2006
One of the features of what one generally terms the “modernization of governance” in parliamentary societies, has been the recognition of the role...
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Civil society and constitutional reform (Pt1)
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May 19, 2006
As happens occasionally, pressing duties on a working visit to Europe resulted in me defaulting on my weekly commitment to SEARCHLIGHT for the past tw...
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Being mindful of what we grow and what we eat
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April 13, 2006
It was really heartening to hear officials of the Inter American Institute for Co-operation in Agriculture (IICA) publicly calling for more support fo...
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Making history in Barbados
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March 31, 2006
The word "hysteria" is a much overused one which I am understandably reluctant to use too freely, but I can't but co-opt it to describe what took plac...
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Talk of productivity and competitiveness
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March 24, 2006
The international economic and trading environment of today is a rough one, one where survival is not guaranteed much more progress. In any field of e...
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One is Enough
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March 17, 2006
Each year as we celebrate National Heroes Day, the old debate as to who deserves such accolades is reopened. There is the tossing of hats in the ring ...
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Leadership and the Women’s Movement
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March 10, 2006
Yet another International Women's Day (IWD) celebration passed this week in St. Vincent and the Grenadines as in the rest of the world. But yet again ...
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Fair trade, a saving grace
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March 3, 2006
“Fair Trade reminds us that trade is about people, their livelihoods, their families, sometimes their survival.” EU Trade Commissioner, Peter Mand...
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Roll back of the cultural influences
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February 24, 2006
BLACK HISTORY MONTH In the two previous columns, we explained some positive socio-cultural and political influences of the “Black Power” era. Toda...
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Black cultural influences
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February 17, 2006
BLACK HISTORY MONTH Part II In part I we began looking at the positive political and cultural influences of the Black Power movement here in St. Vince...
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Cultural influence of Black people
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February 3, 2006
BLACK HISTORY MONTH • PART I Like our Afro-Caribbean brothers and sisters in North America, it has become customary now for the more conscious peopl...
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Fighting crime is a serious commitment
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January 27, 2006
With the presentation and Parliamentary debate on the 2006 Budget concluding today, no doubt the talking point over the next week or two will be the f...
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Budget time again!
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January 20, 2006
It's Budget time again. On Tuesday of this week, Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves tabled the 2006 Estimates of Revenue and ...
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Hitting the road early
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January 13, 2006
A most welcome signal to banana farmers in the Windward Islands was given this week when on the first working Monday of the year, stakeholders in the ...
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No room for slackers
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January 6, 2006
THE YEAR 2006 will no doubt prove to be a momentous one for the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. We have renewed the mandate of the Unity Lab...
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Some political ‘poke’ for Christmas
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December 23, 2005
Many Vincentians stick to tradition around this season in insisting that Pork must be a part of Christmas. We are just emerging from a hotly-contested...
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Already, I bleed for SVG
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December 16, 2005
It was 1998. A closely fought elections. FOUL! Was the cry of the defeated. “Election irregularities. The results do not reflect the popular will”...
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Making sure that we ‘win’
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December 9, 2005
General Elections 2005 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are now history. The ballots have been cast and counted and the decision making phase is now ...
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The choice is ours
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December 2, 2005
For the third time in seven years we are witnessing the ultimate political battle between two contending forces in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the...
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The Carnival of the masses
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November 25, 2005
If we thought Carnival is THE festival, the biggest mobiliser of persons then we have a rude awakening. In the last two and a half months we have witn...