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December 15, 2015
The Electoral campaign continues among the two contending parties and we wait for their dust to settle. In the meantime, it is our task to face the qu...
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December 8, 2015
Using the rearview mirror The Matter of Party and State Leadership I think that for the first time in our political career as a people, we are seeing ...
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December 1, 2015
A Citizens’ manifesto is a mobilizing vision, a vivid portrait of the quality of life that citizens want for their community, a prize we strive to o...
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November 27, 2015
More than once, someone has said to me: ‘the things that you are proposing make sense, but they can never take place in today’s politics; you must...
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November 17, 2015
We Vincentian voters, wherever we position ourselves, whether in the ULP, in the NDP, in the DRP, in the Green Party, or trusting in our own insight, ...
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November 10, 2015
Let us be clear about it, the December general election 2015 is not a Party Politics Election, i.e. with one party competing against another. No, this...
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November 3, 2015
"…Life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each, according to ability or achievement, regardless of social cla...
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October 23, 2015
Big October 1979, has two older 20th century sisters who are kept hidden in the kitchen and in ‘l’oubli,’ so that the 27th October, 1979 can shi...
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October 13, 2015
To train up a child, it takes an entire village. (African saying). That saying was true then, when the village was an enlarged family circle, a social...
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October 6, 2015
In October, 1951, when Adult Suffrage was born here, and all adults were free to vote in that pathbreaking election, the people did vote. There was an...
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October 2, 2015
This year, 2015, as our Prime Minister goes to speak at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGAS), the winds of change are upsetting the politics of...
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September 25, 2015
When someone says to you ‘know your place’, or ‘you are out of your place’, s/he is putting you down. In that person’s opinion, you have ste...
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September 15, 2015
To maintain democracy and to achieve justice, it is often necessary for the civil to ‘invade’ non-civil spheres to demand certain kinds of reforms...
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September 8, 2015
If we take the view that women have become the weaker part of the human population,then it seems to me that among our political leaders in Parliament,...
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September 1, 2015
When we watched the deep muddy torrents rushing through the streets and homes in Dominica, with coastal areas inundated after the storm Erika had pass...
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August 25, 2015
Looking back at the last 100 years of life in SVG, what are the events that we might ‘Power Point’ on the screen? Help me with this. In the first ...
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August 11, 2015
In 1968, Woodville Marshall, noted for his studies of post slavery evolution in the region, gave this summary: To that first generation of adults in f...
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August 4, 2015
A Scriptural Model From the freedom movement led by Moses, to the uprising campaigns under the Maccabees, the Hebrew-Christian Scriptures are full of ...
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July 21, 2015
When he addressed the British Parliament committee one year ago, Sir Hilary Beckles said: Native genocide, African chattel slavery and genocide and As...
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July 17, 2015
"What people want now is not to be tourists and visitors who are peeping at the Airport show and getting pep talks and cues telling us when to clap ou...
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June 30, 2015
When I see ‘Father Blossoms’ on the street, it makes me feel warm and hopeful. Is this the start of a blossoming fragrance and productive movement...
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June 16, 2015
The middle of June 2015 marks a memorial to freedom. Sunday last was 35 years since a promising harvest of freedom and integrity for Guyana was cut do...
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June 9, 2015
It is foolish to concentrate on poverty eradication, i.e. cutting down the numbers of poor people around. What we must concentrate on is wealth creati...
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June 2, 2015
Caring is one of the things that comes naturally to us. It is in us to care – protect and promote – ourselves and our "others.” Yet "care” doe...
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May 19, 2015
The African continent is in pain, hurting from diseased relationships within African societies and bloated parasites in the globalist society. Painkil...
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May 12, 2015
Dear Mother, We had a pleasing day on Sunday as the six of us cooked for you, washed your feet and fixed you up as our Queen who still reigns over us ...
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May 5, 2015
Philip Potter had a devout working class mother, and a father from the property owning class in Dominica. With a Methodist upbringing in a Roman Catho...
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April 21, 2015
This is the first book published by former headteacher Otto Sam, and there are more to come. I promise you that as he sharpens his skills and diversif...
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April 14, 2015
When a person comes at you with a shipload of soldiers and a message, "We are taking control of this land where you live,” you don’t have to ask y...
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March 24, 2015
The Kalina movement of people and the rebellious African captives were to become the mothers and fathers of Joseph Chatoyer and the Kalinago Gasinahu ...
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December 19, 2014
On Friday last, we had gone to collect some potato vine for a potato and peanut project that we were working on, and I noticed that he was breathing h...
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December 9, 2014
The birth stories concerning Jesus of Nazareth hardly make reference to the massive Roman Empire which controlled the whole area from North Africa to ...
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November 21, 2014
A bomb exploded in a car on a street in Georgetown, Guyana and Walter Rodney was practically sliced in two. His head and torso were fairly intact, but...
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November 7, 2014
Fri Nov 7, 2014 The Ebola virus seems to have already travelled to most continents around the world. Ishmael Beh, in the Washington Post, wrote we hav...
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October 14, 2014
In this case, white does not mean: “I surrender.” It is more like “This is my victory banner.” During this season of independence, all of us i...
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October 7, 2014
Tue, Oct 7, 2014 Politics was the business of the prophets in the Hebrew Scriptures, or Old Testament. No, they did not fight to get in power, but rat...
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September 26, 2014
1979 was a year to remember in our part of the Caribbean. In March, the people of Grenada confirmed a revolution led by Maurice Bishop and the New Jew...
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September 19, 2014
If Mr Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel in Palestine were to attend the funeral of a leading Palestine militant in the Java Strip, he would get ‘B...
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August 5, 2014
Gun mouth is slowly becoming a new form of speech in SVG. In a hail of bullets, people are learning to test their messages to the community and while ...