R. Rose

R. Rose
Sam, Notre Dame, good
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April 7, 2017
I had committed myself last week to continuing the comments on Britain’s break from the European Union, but I beg the indulgence of my readers to ta...
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BREXIT trigger has implications for Caribbean
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March 31, 2017
The big international news this week, save for the continuing carnage in Iraq and Syria, which perpetuates the unbelievable suffering of innocent peop...
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AIA: No tolerance for destroyers!
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March 24, 2017
I was at last able to use the Argyle International Airport (AIA) this week for the first time since its opening and, I must say, was as impressed with...
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March 13, another view
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March 17, 2017
The month of March has historical significance for the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines, revolving around March 14, celebrated here as National...
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Back to square one: Political maturity needed
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March 10, 2017
The much anticipated hearing of the appeal to the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal by two candidates of the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP), in...
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Honouring women in business, trade unionism
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March 3, 2017
One of the effects of the technological and communication revolution has been to spread cultural influences rapidly. Today’s world, its young people...
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How seriously must we take CARICOM?
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February 24, 2017
I couldn’t believe either ears or eyes on hearing and reading the latest CommuniquО on the outcome of the recently held 28th Inter-sessional Meeting...
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Airport success demands transformation
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February 21, 2017
(Unfortunately, I missed last Friday’s issue for personal reasons, so I have submitted that column for publication today. Apologies.) OURS – that ...
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Times – exciting, but enormously challenging
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February 3, 2017
The next two weeks will be very big ones for the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines. Next Monday, February 6, the Prime Minister and Minister of ...
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Social climate change too
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January 27, 2017
If we were all very concerned about the rate of violent crimes in this country, then recent events give cause for alarm. Last week’s seizure by the ...
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Obama/Trump: the transition and challenge
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January 20, 2017
At 1 p.m. (Eastern Caribbean time) today, Donald J Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America, succeeding that count...
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SVG faces crucial 2017
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January 6, 2017
We have entered the year 2017 with the international environment not much improved from that of recent years. Opportunities which may exist or appear ...
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2016 to 2017: the external context
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December 30, 2016
The Eastern Caribbean states especially, and the Caribbean in general, must move into the uncertainties of the year 2017 without the intellectual cont...
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Christmas – reclaiming the message
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December 23, 2016
This weekend, most Vincentians will engage in activities of one type or another, as we celebrate the climax of the Christmas festival. We make a big s...
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Politics having negative effects on us all
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December 16, 2016
By the time this issue of SEARCHLIGHT reaches readers, another chapter in our long saga of unsavoury politics would have unfurled. The House of Assemb...
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Viva Fidel
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December 2, 2016
The never-ending tributes to Cuba’s revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro Ruz, continue right up to, and after, the interment of his remains on Sunday....
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A new political challenge, for NDP and SVG
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November 25, 2016
What a situation for our country to find itself so enveloped! A prolonged spate of murders, the continued anxiety over the date of the operationalizin...
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Do voters have consumer rights too?
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November 18, 2016
All of us, irrespective of economic status, are consumers of goods and services. As such, therefore, we should wholeheartedly welcome the introduction...
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Trump’s victory has lessons for us
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November 11, 2016
While we were still recovering from the shock of the shattering victory of Donald J Trump in the US presidential elections, against all the odds and i...
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McIntosh for National Hero
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November 4, 2016
Three very important dates in our national history have passed these last two weeks. October 21 marks the anniversary of the people’s rebellion of 1...
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A very significant movement in our history
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October 21, 2016
Today is October 21, 2016. We are a mere week before the celebration of our National Independence on October 27, 1979 and, even as we speak of buildin...
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Grenada referendum 3: We can learn from it
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October 14, 2016
For the past two weeks, this column has been devoting attention to the constitutional reform process taking place in neighbouring Grenada, which will ...
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LIAT again!
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September 9, 2016
Time and time again, broad sections of the Caribbean population, particularly here in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) and its neighbouring islands...
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Deepen and broaden the foreign policy debate
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September 2, 2016
Now that we have started a national discourse on foreign policy, triggered by the ‘out of the blue’ announcement by the Opposition New Democratic ...
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An about-turn on China
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August 26, 2016
If the developments in the Antigua Senate on which I commented last week could be considered surprising, (Government Senators voting with the Oppositi...
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Antigua senators stick for principle
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August 19, 2016
On Monday of this week, in Antigua and Barbuda, one of our sister states in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), there was a rare occu...
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Emancipation: What next?
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August 5, 2016
For personal reasons I was unable to attend Monday’s march and rally, planned to commemorate and celebrate this important milestone in our history. ...
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Our friends ‘up north’ – Part 2
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July 22, 2016
I ended the first part of this two-part series last week on the speculation that there may well be a trans-Atlantic female duo in political leadership...
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Our friends ‘up north’
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July 15, 2016
For us in the Caribbean, June ushers in the hurricane season, a six-month period when we can expect to be battered by storms of the tropical variety. ...
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Fruits of the Education Revolution
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June 24, 2016
I went to the Victoria Park on Tuesday afternoon this week to witness the graduation of some 700 plus students from the amalgamated Community College,...
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Lucian elections: Don’t overstay welcome
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June 10, 2016
The dust has yet to settle on the outcome of this week’s general elections in St Lucia, so perhaps it is too early to draw definitive conclusions. H...
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One small step can lead to one giant leap
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June 3, 2016
It is difficult for me to express how pleased I am with the action by the House of Assembly to amend the colonial Oaths of Office for parliamen­taria...
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Cure or prevention? Electoral system in SVG
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May 27, 2016
For the last five months or so, politics in St Vincent and the Grenadines has not been able to move out of the shadow of the issues surrounding the De...