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April 9, 2013
Dissent does sound like a bad word doesn't it? Certainly, in many nations, those people who dissent, who hold an opinion different from those establis...
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March 28, 2013
In December 1993, Audrey took hold of my pen and did not let me go until March 1994. She anointed my head too, to bring her words from the cross. She ...
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March 19, 2013
When we involve ourselves in "Hero Talkâ and picking out a man or woman to be exalted as our national hero, we are doing more than weighing up what ...
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February 19, 2013
When I heard recently that a small gang of youth had beaten and raped a schoolgirl, I enquired: How old is the girl? One man explained simply: "She ha...
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February 8, 2013
The location of the new city is the Argyle zone. It will be a Caribbean garden city with a name like Yurumein Gardens and it will help to redeem our l...
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January 29, 2013
Tue, Jan 29, 2013 Like you, I cannot help but pay attention to the news about economic growth. In SVG, our economy â our national output, did not gr...
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January 22, 2013
Something is nothing in the state of SVG, and it is not caused by such things as the executive rip-off in Clico/Baico or the economic slowdown and lun...
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January 15, 2013
Let us look into this question that is disturbing me; this is it: to whom does the "budget debateâ belong? Every year, we have this show. The Minist...
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January 8, 2013
Chocolate confectionery (or sweets) is that smooth dark ready to melt in your mouth delicacy that most of us love. Chocolate tea is the warm morning d...
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December 4, 2012
We have a picture of Christmas as a "Fun Festivalâ, but it is a serious business affair. In fact, it is a moment of internal struggle when retail st...
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November 13, 2012
In London, six motorcycles roared into a large shopping mall, three of the masked riders rushed into a jewelry store and with axes and baseball bats, ...
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November 6, 2012
A great leader always and inevitably leads a cause which is bigger than himself or herself. More than that, the greatness s/he achieves does not come ...
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November 2, 2012
Round table is putting forward for serious thought the ideas that after 33 years of independence,{{more}} the political/power apparatus and the citize...
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October 26, 2012
From time to time a concerned citizen will speak to us about the one-sided way that we celebrate our Independence anniversaries. As if a âmilitaryâ...
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October 9, 2012
In Errol "De Man Ageâ Roseâs calypso "We have a country to buildâ, he admonishes us that "if we donât do it who will?â A more nuanced but si...
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September 25, 2012
Cocoa in the Caribbean is making a slow comeback from a period of low production on old estates, and some problems with quality. Although we are facin...
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September 4, 2012
Vincentians, like most other English speaking Caribbean people, went out to vote in March 1958, to elect members of the West Indies Parliament of 45 r...
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August 31, 2012
Prime Minister Dr Gonsalves has delivered a statement to our Parliament on the topic âThe end of slavery in SVGâ¦â and has also published the mon...
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August 21, 2012
When a person says ââI come from SVGââ or ââ I come from the USââ she speaks with a certain pride and warmth, as if to say ââthat ...
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August 7, 2012
Dear Dr Gonsalves, Greetings and Guidance. I do pray that at this season, amidst the bustle and stress of your own and our nationâs business, you en...
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July 20, 2012
This week began well, Rain. The soil, the crops and other plants, the animals and rivers are glad. And farmers too, give thanks; chanting vigorously w...
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July 3, 2012
Letter Without Envelope To Farmers Dear Farmers, I greet you in the name of Jesus, the seed that died so that more seed and more fruit, a greater crop...
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June 26, 2012
Open letter to the Armajaro Trading Ltd, 65 Curzon St., London, W1J8PE Dear Armajaro, Greetings from St Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean. I...
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June 19, 2012
In the article âCarnival Oneâ, I give support to the thesis that first time carnival in the Caribbean was a regional feast - a CARIFESTA with a di...
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June 12, 2012
Carnival today is not the same as it used to be. Of course not, we will say. Vincy Mas today is much âBigger and Betterâ than first time Carnival....
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June 5, 2012
Earlene Horne (1949-1998), a thoroughly loving and revolutionary woman from Diamond Village, used to scribble poems and verse. Some of it was done alm...
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May 25, 2012
Africa Claims Us A recent statement that â(our) words bury truth under garbageâ spoke directly to me, so this week I will try to write plainly wit...
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May 15, 2012
In SVG, we are just over 100,000 people and the ex-British Caribbean has about 6,000,000 (6 million people). We are 1/60 of this region. In Caricom, w...
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May 8, 2012
âPut my name down for an acre and a halfâ, the farmer said eagerly, âI will put the cocoa just below the breadfruit hollowâ. Another farmer co...
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April 24, 2012
There is a Programme to Support the Cocoa Industry in the Caribbean, which embraces about 80,000 farmers in our region. In Grenada, Dominica and Trini...
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April 17, 2012
During a discussion on the block, one of the men turned to me and said âAll yo making joke with this cocoa industry, like you want to mash it up or ...
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March 27, 2012
A modern Vincentian cocoa industry is ready and waiting for some agency to get it going. Well, I am not waiting. Even though the sun is hot, the land ...
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March 16, 2012
âIs Not Me, mommy, is Buddy who do it mommyâ that is how young Jeanie pleads her case when her mother discovers that somebody emptied the pan with...
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February 28, 2012
One way to look at Black History is to see it as an opening chapter of our story. Already, we have his story - the record which tells of events led by...
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February 21, 2012
Black History is not in any way opposed to White History. When the late Dr Eric Williams of Trinidad and Tobago wrote his book âCapitalism and Slave...
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February 14, 2012
National Reconciliation in SVG is more than we think. We assume that personal leadership initiatives and gestures that speak peace might kick off this...
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February 7, 2012
In SVG right now, we are programmed politically in such a way that we believe ânegativesâ - without thinking - towards a person in the other party...
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January 31, 2012
National reconciliation â Part 2 The home owner herself, or the builder or the architect whom she hires, has a plan of what is to be done, before sh...
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January 24, 2012
Reconciliation is a kind of Make-Over; a make-over that takes place on the deep inside, as well as on the outside surfaces. In the make-over from host...
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January 17, 2012
Whether it was during the 200 plus years since the Republic of Haiti broke the back of French, British and Spanish lust for sugar and slaves, or durin...
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January 10, 2012
When the American singer and movie star Harry Belafonte popularized the song: âCome Mr. Tallyman, tally me bananaâ, he was speaking for our banana...
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December 20, 2011
At Christmas we mark the anniversary of a revolution. Strange, isnât it? The thing was so hush-hush that we are not even sure about the date it was ...
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December 16, 2011
Everybody knows what a banana is, but how about what it takes to put a smooth golden hand of fruit on a tray in the market? It is like that with cocoa...
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