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July 15, 2014
As she spoke at the conference opening, Carnival bandleader Pastor Quamina stated "Carnival season is every day in heaven, so what are we afraid of as...
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July 1, 2014
The Union Methodist School, or New Grounds School, began its mission, it is believed, in 1891. It was still a modest operation when it provided its mo...
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June 27, 2014
When the heavy torrents of the Christmas 2013 rain drenched the land, drowned the rivers, downed trees, bridges, poles and water lines, uprooted soil,...
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June 17, 2014
Analysis tracks poetry "Our (Caribbean) governments are terrified by the voice of the people, when that voice speaks a message of its own”. That is ...
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June 6, 2014
An innocent looking two-way radio device exploded in the small car that Dr Walter Rodney drove. The explosion injured Dr Rodney’s brother Donald, an...
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May 20, 2014
Dear Round Table, Love is the subject of my final report about Yeshua/Jesus of Galilee. Only love can travel safely from one empire – Rome – to yo...
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May 13, 2014
Our (fictional) reporter is completing her assignment in Palestine. Jesus/Yeshua is getting to her, she says, and she will send only one report after ...
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May 6, 2014
Our "Round Table” series has been using the name "Yeshua” instead of Jesus in most cases. Why? As we know, most of the people who came to live in ...
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May 2, 2014
This week, Round Table has Report No 3 from Palestine, a colony in the Roman Empire. Our (fictional) reporter there covered the execution of the man f...
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April 25, 2014
The rumours circulating about the teacher from Galilee are controversial. Although the government executed him as a criminal last Friday, there is a s...
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April 17, 2014
Over the weekend, the ruling class newspaper and the TPS carried the same story: "Another Galilean Executed.” It said earlier this week, a small gro...
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April 1, 2014
I have a special name for myself which I use on the Internet. It is something like "pqmsdtgz” and it is a personal "password” that I alone use. Al...
Hair
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March 4, 2014
Hair is the crown And halo in heaven and Hollywood Gold blond on Jesus Marilyn and Hilary Black on Satan{{more}} All good in God’s sight/ grading Li...
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February 11, 2014
Competitive Party Politics rises to a peak in the form of ‘tribal’ war. We nearly reach there now. In "larger” countries like the USA, it rises ...
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February 4, 2014
Recovery and Reconstruction after the Christmas trough system is a large and serious business and it will take some years for us to reach a point wher...
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January 24, 2014
Budget time 2014 comes at a special time for us in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Pulling ourselves together after the damage we suffered at Christmas...
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January 14, 2014
Some 5,000 people have suffered loss by death and destruction from the Christmas 2013 weather. That is just a statistic, bold and modest. The territor...
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December 27, 2013
“Sorrel is for sharing.” That is the light-hearted jingle heard on the radio, television and seen on the flyer. It is promoting cousin Joyce’s s...
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December 10, 2013
The gentle giant Here’s what one of the late Nelson Mandela’s biographers wrote about him: ‘Nelson Mandela is perhaps the last pure hero on the ...
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December 3, 2013
Many years ago, the late Kerwyn Morris startled me when he described Christmas as the "commercial climax of the capitalist year” — hardly a Christ...
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November 26, 2013
THE MESSAGE At about 10 a.m. that morning, an excited and aroused Grenadian people heard this on the radio. "Brothers and sisters, this is Maurice Bis...
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November 22, 2013
Grenada began to produce cocoa in 1660. That is 450 years ago. Today, it has around 3,000 growers on 20,000 acres of active cultivation producing some...
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November 19, 2013
We can almost define youth as the age of ferment, or young people as "motions”, moving beings. They are the community where words fly, lyrics multip...
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November 5, 2013
In October 2013, the government launched a 12-year national plan for St Vincent and the Grenadines. This National Economic and Social Development Plan...
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October 22, 2013
This week's Round Table is an extract from a 1975 paper, entitled "Independence and Youth." Mr Henry Williams of the UWI Extra Mural Centre had reques...
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October 8, 2013
Social and political change is coming to come in SVG. It is unstoppable and to many it is invisible. Now that combination should make pause, a change ...
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October 1, 2013
The People's Movement For Change (PMC), as a title, is a combination of two concepts which, when they come together, can explode. A movement for chang...
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September 27, 2013
I have a strange feeling that the reparations consciousness that we are experiencing is going to get broader, rather than deeper in the coming months....
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September 17, 2013
The regional reparations conference which opened on Sunday at the Victoria/ Freedom Park was remarkable for the groundings by Verene Shepherd. A few w...
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September 10, 2013
When boy meet girl and girl sees boy and they admire each other, we have a hand in that programme. True, in the bodies of our children, there are chem...
Poor agriculture
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September 3, 2013
We do not take tourism for granted. We wine and dine our visitors, we dress up our festivals to make them appeal to visitors, we invest in a belly tig...
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August 20, 2013
In the year 2001, Otto Sam, then a very effective primary school teacher, was also a militant political activist in the ranks of the Unity Labour Part...
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August 6, 2013
Dear Africa, I want to call you mama. I cry for you, inside, mama. Another woman has come between you and me. She made me in her image and I called he...
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August 2, 2013
From a hymn arranged by Mrs Cecile Harry, this line makes me think. "Your Right Hand good Lord is the reason for my calypso”. God and calypso are co...
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July 16, 2013
Quietly, without a cry or even a whimper, another Christian symbol is going under. When two decades ago "Wesley Hall”, the Kingstown Methodist Prima...
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July 2, 2013
Imagine this: Jesus in the calypso finals. Can he deliver? Yes, I agree with those who point out that Jesus anointed does go on retreat, away from the...
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June 11, 2013
“For years now, the Big Hardware stores have been ripping off Vincentians. Then came the General with the lowest prices. Nobody beats the general, N...
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May 14, 2013
A person does not become a hero simply because the government chooses him, or her, and places hero status, entitlement and anointing on him or her. No...
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May 7, 2013
The late CaspAr London and Dr Ralph Gonsalves had an intellectual relationship that evolved remarkably over the years. To begin with, they both made a...
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April 23, 2013
Many early tutors in the study of socialism were the members of the Young Socialist Group (YSG) some 40 or more years ago. I attended some of the disc...
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April 16, 2013
At my age, I am a member of two communities. There is the community of those who have passed 70 years of age and are "falling asleep” in death. Rece...