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The next fifty
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May 19, 2017
The independence constitution of the Methodist Church in SVG and the region came into operation in 1967. The Federal Headquarters of this new Connexio...
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More power to our mothers
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May 9, 2017
The road leading from girl child to becoming a mother is a treacherous one, and actually, being a mother is doubly perilous. We know only half of what...
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Doing Dad’s business
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April 13, 2017
The busy week began with organizing God’s People’s march in the capital. The festival goers who came from the oppressed Galilean countryside and e...
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A fallen struggle
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April 4, 2017
Hal Draper dedicated one of his books on Karl Marx to ‘those who sow but will not reap.’I share Draper’s admiration for those persons who are ti...
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Drinking watery chocolate tea
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March 24, 2017
The world is waking up to our cocoa and chocolate tea, while our agriculture policy makers are still asleep or dozing. According to Professor Umarahan...
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Thank you for your visits
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March 10, 2017
Godwin and Solomon Nothing makes me happier than to share the Round Table with guests. Actually, it is our purpose at RT to make room for visitors to ...
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The launch, its moment missed
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February 21, 2017
After more than a decade of toil and troubles, the light near the end of the struggle called for a shout of triumph, a celebration. In fact, the two-d...
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Investment malpractice in a small Caribbean island
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January 27, 2017
Stone naked, without any visible protective policy garment, we lay chunks and morsels of our tender nation on the altar in broad daylight for the poun...
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Time for man talk, with woman in mind
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January 20, 2017
At the feet of Jesus. If we are uncomfortable bringing Jesus into this round table about man-woman business, it may be because we don’t really know ...
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A NW map of SVG
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January 10, 2017
Over the past generations, starting in the 1960s, in SVG, half a dozen streams of thought have been coming together to form a river, even a flood, tha...
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Dr Fraser’s riot
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December 13, 2016
When the colonial legislative council in Kingstown sparked off a riot in St Vincent in October 1935, Adrian Fraser didn’t smell born yet; he had 10 ...
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Called to be extremist
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December 9, 2016
That is the name of your calling and mine. I know that it does not sound decent, correct, or normal, nevertheless, right now in SVG, we need to become...
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Tabling sex
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December 2, 2016
‘Sex’ has a connotation that seems to be purely masculine, or male. Having sex is the practice of the male organ or penis, and other appendages, p...
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Dangerous times, dialectics and disasters
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November 15, 2016
It is easy to make room in our heads for chilling natural and human disasters, gun-toting children, imported killers, honey-tongued liars and other su...
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Colonial dinosaurs overhauling our Independence
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November 8, 2016
Two generations of Vincentians have been born behind the back of colonialism. They are now aged between days old and 37 years old, and they dwell in a...
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The Independence exam
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November 1, 2016
Round Table is sitting an Independence examination. ‘National Sovereignty’ 101 is what the test paper calls it, and there are three parts in the q...
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Independence class
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October 28, 2016
To enjoy National Independence, we have to carve out our free space between the powers that surround and want to subjugate us. Watch the skill of the ...
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Another look at Independence
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October 18, 2016
What we call “Independence” is really a state of tug-o-war between subjugation and sovereignty. In other words, when we celebrate 37 years of nati...
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The empire between us
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October 14, 2016
The observation that has drawn me to focus on the persistent presence and influence of ‘Empire’ on the Garifuna experience is the simple refusal o...
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At the clinic
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October 4, 2016
Every week, or every month, we are accustomed to hear the head of our government announce something new that he has done, or had done to move St Vince...
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Talking agriculture today – Part 1
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September 20, 2016
It is time to get serious with agriculture. Time to stop the piffle and waffle and chatter about one-off developments, devoid of programme and policy....
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Emancipation and revolutionary change
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September 6, 2016
"Blacks hoped that emancipation would provide the opportunity for them to take full control of their own lives, to lay a completely new base for the s...
Reparations: The invisible damage
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Reparations: The invisible damage
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August 30, 2016
Colonial slavery was a political-economic system that made some sections of humankind turn beast, wreaking havoc with the power in their grasp. Consid...
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Emancipation language
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August 9, 2016
In the accounts offered below I have tried to place struggles over colonial slavery in context and to show that anti-slavery was often imposed on metr...
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Emancipation, fact, fiction and function
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July 29, 2016
One of the primary methods used to dominate a people is to take away from them the memory of their history. The first task in a liberation process wil...
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Musical portrait of SVG at Dimanche Gras 2016
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July 12, 2016
The judges awarded gold, silver and bronze awards to Man Zangie, Patches, and Chiko B Veira at the Calypso finals, but all the calypso-prophets probed...
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The story behind Vincy Mas
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June 28, 2016
CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL was a black political/social/spiritual protest movement 180 years ago and is in fact the mother and father of Vincy Mas today. A co...
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In memory of Ali
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June 7, 2016
" ‘I won’t wear the uniform,’ declared the world heavyweight champion. Of all the rhetoric used to express opposition to the Vietnam war, these ...
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Next men 2 B
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May 31, 2016
Let us take the current tendency of some working class young men to masturbate culturally with guns and violence and egomania in their social and prod...
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A resurrection of Workers’ Day
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May 24, 2016
The Billboard outside the offices of our Trades Unions should say boldly: ONCE, WE WERE ACTIVE AND MILITANT WORKERS’ ORGANIZATIONS; NOW, PASSIVE AND...
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Carnival Inc: a regional industrial complex
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April 5, 2016
The present status: We have perhaps 15 annual Carnival type festivals in the CARICOM region each year. Together with other similar culture/entertainme...
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A holy Thursday dilemma
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March 24, 2016
A man may have to die for his country, but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to...
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Ideals and goals
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March 8, 2016
Today, I want to discuss a condition that is pulling down our community. It is the loss of Ideals. Daily life among us is losing the fire and the pass...
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March is here
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March 1, 2016
March is a time to surge forward, to heed the call of better times, to leave the dead to bury the dead and head for the ideals of a kingdom community ...
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Jesus, tempted to corruption
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February 23, 2016
Carnival in the Caribbean wears the mask of the overthrow of the old order of things: the "no to creativity, no to fun and freedom, no to the mixing o...
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Coming, a ripe ‘Marsa’ Government
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February 19, 2016
I want to discuss five signs of a ‘Marsa’ Government that Clive Thomas presents in his book entitled ‘The Rise of the Authoritarian State’, p1...
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Dirty banana?
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February 12, 2016
Where land is scarce, farmers are cutting down the forest and clearing hillsides to grow bananas. This causes environmental damage….The farmers use ...
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Vincentian discontent and hope
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February 2, 2016
It is easy to see that a degenerate or inadequate democracy will generate uneven pressure and disadvantage at many points in society and community… ...
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January Verses
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January 12, 2016
ROCK GUTTER Remembering that morning that journey that…slip that shattered so many years of loving joy into two bits life together before memories aft...
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Underclass gossip
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January 5, 2016
The upper class in Palestine has a negative position within the stories surrounding the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. Look at how the Roman Governor, Ki...
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CARPHA zeroes in on Mental Health
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The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has brought attention to what has been described as “an urgent but often overlooked challenge of our time”...
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