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SVG Christian Council’s reality check
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October 31, 2014
I have been a frequent critic of the Christian Council and the Churches generally, so when I see them pointing in a direction I think they should be m...
De snake and de blacksmith
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October 31, 2014
Something definitely missing from de PM In-deep-and-dense speech dis year. Was he crouching on de podium supporting de injured leg, or was he just tyr...
Independence lament
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October 24, 2014
Every now and then we get peeved about West Indies cricket. The recent big talking point for cricket fans is the aborted tour of India at a time when ...
Ah Ju-c story
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October 24, 2014
Ah want to welcome back Ju-c to SVG. And ah want to big-up ECGC manager, Ozzie Davy foh pushing to mek de return ah Ju-c ah reality. Ah believe Ozzie ...
Forgotten, but historically important (Cont’d)
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October 17, 2014
While Georgetown and Kingstown showed relative calm by Tuesday morning, disturbances continued in the Campden Park – Chauncey area. This actually st...
Crime minus time should be zero
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October 17, 2014
When de scandal wid de former Red-is-straw broke earlier dis year, de story was dat over $300,000. 00 was missing in act-shun at de Red-is-tree, and d...
Forgotten, but historically important
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October 10, 2014
(Continued from last week) The other area where disturbances occurred on the first day of the riots was Cane Garden, where attention was focused on th...
Ah lie-sins to berry
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October 10, 2014
Three and ah half years ago de Go-venom-mint thru de Planning Department, revoked de Lie-sins of Bigger Trucking and Blocks Construction Company. Ah L...
Forgotten, but historically important
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October 3, 2014
My reference here is to the St Vincent riots of October 21 and 22, 1935, 79 years ago. It is sad that this event, if one can call it that, is so littl...
De ah-so-she-hate’s degree
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October 3, 2014
Two years ago when our daughter was about to enter de Community College, de Ah-so-she-hate’s Degree Program was being introduced foh de first time, ...
How our lives are being transformed!
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September 26, 2014
Revolution is a word that we commonly use today as we speak glibly about the Education Revolution and the Wellness Revolution. I have long been expose...
Living in ah see-me-tree
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September 26, 2014
When ah hear de poor doctor lady’s plight at Clare Valley, way de lickle house de Lord provided foh she and she daughter, just crumble like when yuh...
SVG is politically sick
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September 19, 2014
Our country is sick where politics is concerned. In fact, it perhaps started with politics, but has infiltrated every aspect of our lives. I am not su...
Dey crazy foh dem smart phones
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September 19, 2014
Amazing! In less dan 20 years how de Sell-Phone has lept from just being de alternative to landlines, to becoming ah Computer, GPS, Radio, Camera, ah ...
The Catholic Church leads the way
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September 12, 2014
I must compliment the clergy of the Catholic Church for the statement that they read in their churches last Sunday. What is important to me is the dir...
Adam in de garden hiding
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September 12, 2014
From de time dis Giant of ah man, R.C. Bishop, Jason Gordon took up office here in SVG, and ah heard him live Pon Nice Radio, doing ah series ah meeti...
Education and society
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September 5, 2014
SVG is one hell of a place. Every day you learn something amazingly new. It is a country where we create and do our own thing without questions being ...
De foe-obeah of math-ah-mad-aches
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September 5, 2014
Andrew Cummings does not often take to de pages of de Newspaper, but whenever he is inspired to so do, regardless to de topic, he does his thing well....
Continuing reflections on the Palestine-Israel issue
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August 29, 2014
Last week I placed on Facebook an article written by Archbishop Desmond Tutu for Haaretz, an English language newspaper in Israel. His article was ent...
Nah-shun-all dis-truck-shun
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August 29, 2014
My Nah-shun-all Insurance Service (NIS) Pen-shun is ah Lickle drop ah money eh, but it does stop ah big hole. As de line in de song goes: “Lickle is...
Stop apologising for Israel’s atrocities!
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August 22, 2014
The brutal and heart-rending images that have been emerging from Israel’s inhumane offensive in Gaza are hopefully awakening public consciousness an...
Dey blow me mind again
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August 22, 2014
Ah wrote last year around dis time, how dem young people in de STEM summer program at St Martin’s Secondary School (SMSS) Blow Me Mind. Yuh know las...
When will we begin to take responsibility?
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August 15, 2014
We have to rid ourselves of this tendency to blame our shortcomings on slavery. There is, of course, no denying that we have been confronted with both...
Dis country got ah jinx
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August 15, 2014
Wid all dem things happening or failing to happen in Vincy Land, ah went searching to see if ah could put me finger directly pon de problem. Finally a...
Making sense of the anniversary of Emancipation
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August 8, 2014
We have had our usual August 1st holiday, but it is as if the event that has created it has no relevance to us. One would have thought that, at least ...
Pain from head to toe
Pain from head to toe
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August 8, 2014
“Pain in me neck! Pain in me Back! Pain in me leg! I have ah pain in me head!” Actually ah had de Chicken-Go-nah ting, and when de pain hit me so,...
At last the church is speaking out! Or is it really?
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July 31, 2014
Does the letter from Bishop Leopold Friday, dated July 23 and addressed to the Clergy and People, signal that the Church is now prepared to speak out?...
We bin dey… done dat
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July 31, 2014
Dear Mr Alma-Jah-owe, I wish to thank you foh reintroducing Cocoa to my country two years ago, yuh appeared at ah time when our pull-it-tek-all fumble...
Saturday’s Blow-Out
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July 25, 2014
We seem to have been pulling out the wrong lessons and ignoring the warnings and signals that came from Saturday's 'Blow-Out' as I care to call it. Th...
Fardah, thanks…for yuh sense ah humah
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July 25, 2014
Quite frankly, ah didn’t want to dwell on EG another week. Ah said ah wasn’t going to de funeral and ah ain’t sorry because it turned out to be ...
Who the cap fits let them draw the string!
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July 18, 2014
A friend of mine abroad after reading about last weekend’s happenings emailed me to ask if we were living in the "Wild Wild West”. {{more}} I had ...
Ley me conscience be my guide
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July 18, 2014
Ah miss Green Party man, Ordan Graham. He dared to play prophet and had predicted dat if de Go-venom-ment didn’t divert from its draconian path, dat...
Please don’t press dat red button
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July 11, 2014
Ah just endorsing support for Dr Fraser’s appeal to our TV providers to restore MSNBC TV channel. I want back my Games Show Network, GSN: "Family Fe...
Unruly
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July 11, 2014
One of the biggest winners of this year’s Vincy Mas was Delroy ‘Fireman’ Hooper, who captured the Ragga Soca and Soca Monarch’s titles and who...
Looking beyond Carnival 2014:
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July 4, 2014
As Carnival begins its final countdown, among those who will take a brief respite from work will be some of the fiercest critics of our supreme nation...
Ah ringing church bells
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July 4, 2014
Is like Kaiso gone to nothing. De Kaiso Semi Finals show is synonymous wid “ah big bus” wid ah paltry crowd, dat left CDC scraping de bottom ah de...
Searching for answers
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June 27, 2014
Sometime ago I was told by an acquaintance that a friend from England, who had spent a few weeks here, had indicated to her when she was leaving that ...
College graduation ah d-minus
College graduation ah d-minus
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June 27, 2014
Fri, Jun 27, 2014 Ah got to big up de Community College foh completing Chose-dey’s Graduation Ceremony of 743 student in just three and ah half hour...
Calypso and politics
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June 20, 2014
I was struck this year by the number of calypsos with political commentaries. There are those who see this as a bastardisation of the art form, but th...
Every CDC show should be free pon TV
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June 20, 2014
Ah went to pay my Cable TV bill on Chose-dey, and to find out why is it dat ah paying dem foh de ESPN Sports channel box, and ah not getting de World ...
Sorry, me eye water dunning!
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June 13, 2014
Well, my friend, your regular columnist, decided to sit out this week. Before he could finish crying for SVG last week, he saw the front page of the V...
Scare-man-go-ring de bell
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June 13, 2014
De word Scare-man-go-ring got tremendous attend-shun during de de-bait on de Past-Sport Act in de house Par-liar-mint on Choose-dey. First was PM Gone...
I continue to cry for my country
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June 6, 2014
After reading last week’s newspapers I had to seriously ask myself if it was really our SVG they were talking about. But really, why should this hav...
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Minors threaten the survival of Bagga Fish Fest – organisers
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Minors threaten the survival of Bagga Fish Fest – organisers
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May 9, 2025
The last thing that the Bagga Fish Fest Committee wants to do is shut down the event, but with the disturbing number of children who are present at Fi...
CARPHA zeroes in on Mental Health
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CARPHA zeroes in on Mental Health
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May 9, 2025
The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has brought attention to what has been described as “an urgent but often overlooked challenge of our time”...
Lodge Village mother faces two-year jail time for theft
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Lodge Village mother faces two-year jail time for theft
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May 9, 2025
A Lodge Village mother of three, who is well known at several Massy Stores as a thief, may face up to two years in prison after she was caught again, ...
Officer Charged in Traffic Violation Case
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Officer Charged in Traffic Violation Case
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May 9, 2025
A police officer, alleged to have aided and abetted a civilian to break traffic regulations, has been charged, and will appear in court on May 12,2025...
Park Hill farmer pleads guilty to handling stolen ginger
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Park Hill farmer pleads guilty to handling stolen ginger
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May 9, 2025
A 45-year-old farmer of Park Hill, who pleaded guilty to a charge of handling stolen goods was fined, bonded, and ordered to make restitution when he ...

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