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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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September 9, 2005
The success of the latest phase of selfless Cuban assistance to St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the form of the âVISION NOWâ programme in which ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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July 8, 2005
In St Vincent and the Grenadines, the first weekend of July is IT â the climax of the Carnival celebrations, the five-day (Friday-Tuesday) showpiece...
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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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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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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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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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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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May 13, 2005
World Trade Organization Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi has appointed three arbitrators who will decide a critical aspect of a banana fight pi...
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May 6, 2005
The 2nd International Banana Conference, held under the theme "Reversing the race to the bottom", wrapped up in Brussels Saturday with a call for the ...
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April 22, 2005
Bananas in the UK Today, bananas are the UK's most popular fruit with around 863,000 tonnes shipped into the country in 2003. They are also the highes...
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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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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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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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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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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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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- âRETURN OF THE JAYSâ,...
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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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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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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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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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January 14, 2005
My heartfelt thanks go out to the organizers of last weekâs simple but from all reports impressive honouring ceremony held at the Peace Memorial Hal...
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January 7, 2005
If hurricane Ivanâs 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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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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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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December 3, 2004
This Sunday, December 5, marks the 25th anniversary of the holding of the first-ever general elections in an independent St. Vincent and the Grenadine...
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November 26, 2004
Over the past week, teams representing the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC), have been visiting Vincentians abroad (the âdiasporaâ is the fa...
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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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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...
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