R. Rose

R. Rose
Another December poll
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November 18, 2005
Monday, November 21, is Nomination Day in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the day on which candidates for the Dec. 7 general election will formally be...
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So, we ready to vote
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November 11, 2005
So, at long last, we ready fo' vote. Acting in accordance with his constitutional powers, Prime Minister Gonsalves has finally announced the election ...
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Farmers staying focused
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November 4, 2005
Last Wednesday (October 26th), Fair Trade farmers from the vast majority of the 16 Fair Trade groups in St. Vincent engaged in a very relaxing but als...
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Not even after 70 years
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October 21, 2005
Some 70 years ago, St. Vincent and the Grenadines experienced a social explosion brought about by years of colonial oppression, slavery, plantation se...
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Peter wait, Peter wait!
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October 7, 2005
Remember Black Stalin's classic "BUN DEM", when he recalled the historical legacies of colonialism and slavery and committed the culprits to the judge...
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Doc and the ‘puny lawyer’
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September 30, 2005
I here add my name to the long list of those who have paid tribute to that outstanding son of our soil, "Doc" Kirby, who passed away three weeks ago. ...
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Get up! Stand up!
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September 23, 2005
The legendary Bob Marley's epic composition, GET UP! STAND UP!, has been taken as a rallying cry by Caribbean civil society organizations they converg...
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Elections and our political culture
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September 16, 2005
Those among us who simply love an election campaign must be having a field day as we get closer and closer to the election date. While the Opposition ...
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Vision Now? Vision Then!
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September 9, 2005
The success of the latest phase of selfless Cuban assistance to St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the form of the ‘VISION NOW” programme in which ...
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We are fighting back!
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September 2, 2005
During the last week in September, the principal negotiators of the European Union (EU) and CARIFORUM will meet in St. Lucia to begin the crucial thir...
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Christians awake!
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August 26, 2005
So strong are our religious beliefs in this part of the world that the army of televangelists and radio-evangelists most of them American have a ready...
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I rejoice, yet I worry
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August 19, 2005
I must confess that while I share the many concerns of our people on the matter of air access for St. Vincent and the Grenadines, I have never been "t...
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We must not be ‘strangers in the night’
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August 12, 2005
Perhaps it was not only by chance that the ruling of the Arbitration Panel on the conditions governing the importation of bananas into Europe was deli...
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It ain’t over yet
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August 5, 2005
"It ain't over until the Fat lady sings", is a common expression used to indicate that the game is not yet over even though one side may appear to be ...
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Raise the level of our politics
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July 29, 2005
The campaign for the next general elections, constitutionally due by mid year 2006, went up one notch last weekend when the governing ULP fired its fi...
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Misleading the nation
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July 22, 2005
There is a lot of talk about these days, not all of it intelligent comment, about last month's signing by most Caribbean countries of a Petro-Caribe a...
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Maybe, we too, need a Live 8!
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July 8, 2005
In St Vincent and the Grenadines, the first weekend of July is IT – the climax of the Carnival celebrations, the five-day (Friday-Tuesday) showpiece...
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Focusing on Africa
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July 1, 2005
At a time when, with the leadership of the Tony Blair government in Britain, efforts are being made to focus on efforts to end poverty and suffering i...
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The Post Rodney Caribbean
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June 24, 2005
The two decades spawning the second half of the sixties, the entire seventies and early eighties represented some of the finest moments in the history...
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Surrendering Walter Rodney’s legacy
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June 17, 2005
For very personal and pressing reasons, I was sadly unable to attend last weekend's commemorative activities in Guyana to mark the 25th anniversary of...
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Elections? The will of the people? – Part 2
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May 27, 2005
General elections in St. Vincent and the Grenadines have for half of a century now been dominated by two-party politics. The PPP- Labour divided of th...
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Elections? The will of the people
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May 20, 2005
The election fever seems to have taken firm root in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Though the government of the day has another year or so, at maximu...
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A Solomon-like judgement
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April 15, 2005
I today provide readers with information on the current banana marketing row in Europe. The battle between Latin American banana producers and the Eur...
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Ten years!
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April 8, 2005
SEARCHLIGHT this week celebrates the completion of its first decade of existence. Much has happened since the appearance of the first issue on April 7...
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Not serious about our heritage
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March 24, 2005
National Heroes Month is coming to an end. This year the month tapers off as the Easter Festival arrives. A good time to make connections. What connec...
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Contempt for the people
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March 18, 2005
About three weeks ago I commented in this column on the announcement by former St. Lucian Prime Minister Sir John Compton, that he was to return to ac...
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A quiet revolution
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March 4, 2005
The word "revolution" tends to conjure up in our minds blood, thunder, violence, battles, even death. Historically we have been fed the images - the b...
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James and John – Disciples or Comeback Knights
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February 25, 2005
You could make one of those old- time big western movies with the story. There would be no ends of suggestions for the name- “RETURN OF THE JAYS”,...
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SAD MOMENTS
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February 11, 2005
The Caribbean never ceases to amaze, and its people, to be continuously in motion, rising to heights occasionally, only to sink to depths the very nex...
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Clean up your act!
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February 4, 2005
On Monday of this week, a friend of mine accosted me with the question "Have banana farmers got their money yet?" Before I could reply (indeed I could...
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Let literacy campaign uplift the society
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January 28, 2005
Almost a half of century ago I first came across the word "crusade". In those days youngsters like myself who had the fortune of being introduced to r...
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A testing year for the Caribbean
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January 21, 2005
The year 2005 is in many ways a most critical one for the Caribbean. It is THE year when the region ought to complete most of its preparations to fulf...
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A tribute to sacrifice
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January 14, 2005
My heartfelt thanks go out to the organizers of last week’s simple but from all reports impressive honouring ceremony held at the Peace Memorial Hal...
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Hark, heed and prepare
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January 7, 2005
If hurricane Ivan’s battering of Grenada was a wake-up call for its neighbours, including St. Vincent and the Grenadines, then the unprecedented dev...
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Christmas goodies call for renewed commitment
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December 23, 2004
With the presentation of the National Budget now being a December affair, many Vincentians look to the budgeting exercise, not so much in the context ...
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Civil society’s voice must be heard
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December 10, 2004
Dear Reader, may I crave your indulgence to defer my follow-up article from last week's piece on the UPM and the 1979 elections, to make a few comment...
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Facing up to realities
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November 19, 2004
While we were busy, in one form or another, with celebrations for our 25th anniversary of independence, a stark reminder was served on us as to what t...
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Building our nation
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October 22, 2004
The process of re-constituting the highest law of our nation, the Constitution itself, is already well underway and with the best of intentions, may r...