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The march to Independence
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October 15, 2004
The politricks of Independence One of the saddest features of our quarter century as an independent nation is the entrenchment of political division i...
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The March to Independence
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October 8, 2004
– The people take the initiative The current process of Constitutional Review is one where emphasis is being placed on the input of the population. ...
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The march to independence
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October 1, 2004
The Struggle for a People’s Constitution Even as our country marches into its 25th Independence Anniversary celebrations, the Constitutional Review ...
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The march to Independence
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September 24, 2004
Please tell me that I am wrong, but I can't help being gravely concerned about the manner in which, as a nation, we are approaching our 25th anniversa...
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Hurricane Ivan
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September 17, 2004
"It's an ill wind which blows nobody good," is an age-old saying. The truth in this is often revealed to us in strange forms, often quite literally. T...
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Terrorism has many forms
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September 10, 2004
Terror on an international scale reached its lowest depths last Friday in the bloodbath that took place in the town of Breslan, part of the Russian di...
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Let’s use every space for development
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September 3, 2004
Last weekend over one million people gathered within the limited confines of the Notting Hill – Ladbroke Grove – Westbourne Park area in west Lond...
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September worries – Prepare or perish!
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August 27, 2004
In my early days, September used to be known as the "hurricane month". It was the month when one expected torrential showers, frequent gusts of wind, ...
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A rich legacy
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August 20, 2004
Last week turned out to be a week of funerals for me and many of my colleagues with hardly a day passing without the burial of someone close to us. Th...
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Missing the significance of Emancipation
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August 13, 2004
We are in the middle of what is now celebrated as Emancipation Month, much as we commemorate the work of our heroes and heroines during March, Nationa...
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Carnival ramblings – Part 2
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August 6, 2004
I left off last week on the issue of carnival and politics, quoting De Man Age in the process but also tracing the historical roots of this. In a perv...
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Carnival Ramblings
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July 30, 2004
No sooner was my article on LIAT (See last week) published than, as if to test my faith in the regional carrier, I had yet another of those nightmare ...
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LIAT– More than just an airline
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July 23, 2004
The future of air transport for St. Vincent and the Grenadines is grabbing the headlines this week. The nation’s Prime Minister in a lengthy press c...
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We got to be in it …
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July 16, 2004
My apologies to my faithful readers for the absence of this column these past three weeks due to pressing duties abroad and then on the home front. Le...
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The Rum Shop and Society
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June 18, 2004
People all over the world have historically used the market place not only as a medium of exchange of goods and services but also as a social market p...
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We cannot afford to fail
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June 4, 2004
From the time of Britain’s entry into the Single European Market in 1993, the Caribbean banana industry has been drawn into a web of instability, do...
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What really is African liberation?
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May 28, 2004
I was not heartened on Tuesday of this week to meet a few young sisters under the SINGER gallery with a stall emblazoned with the words ‘African Lib...
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One passport, one people
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May 21, 2004
Heads of Government of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) conclude their 39th meeting in Kingstown today, hoping to complete an ambit...
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Respecting our mothers
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May 14, 2004
Last Sunday, May 9, was MOTHERS’ DAY in much of the Caribbean. As has become customary a number of activities were organized to pay tribute to that ...
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Value in Farmers’ Organization
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May 7, 2004
On this date (May 7th) 22 years ago, leaders of farmers’ organizations (in the Windward Islands) met in Grenada and decided to set up an umbrella or...
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Take the ‘Brute’ out of force
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April 30, 2004
These are trying times for law and order worldwide. Terrorism in its many forms, state-sponsored/supported and otherwise, is no longer a threat but a ...
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We need to become better informed
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April 20, 2004
Today, Friday, April 16, 2004, Caribbean nations will formally launch the beginning of a new round of trade negotiations with the European Union (EU) ...