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Teacher Samuel remained untouchable
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December 23, 2016
Ah want to recognize the passing of two gentlemen whom I respected. Firstly, dey’s Egbert Samuel, who fell short of his century by two runs. He was ...
My Christmas Cocoa tree
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December 16, 2016
Wid all ah de rains we been having lately, ah kept my distance from de countryside. But finally on Wednesday, ah got de courage to go to Cane Hole Mou...
These are difficult times indeed!
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December 9, 2016
What a time! When it is not one thing, it’s another. We were just trying to come to grips with the recent spate of murders, when we had to contend w...
Throw Jonah overboard
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December 9, 2016
Sammy Nose-gay was one ah dem preachers who always had his stories mixed up, dat nevertheless brought laughter to his audience. He was on de street co...
Will history absolve him?
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December 2, 2016
Someone said of Fidel Castro that ‘he was as loathed as he was beloved’. Reaction both in Cuba and Miami is testimony to this. He was one of the i...
We have ah country to build
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December 2, 2016
How eye-run-ache, “Prince Harry plants a tree in de Botanic Gardens.” When Prince Harry hears dat less dan ah week after his visit, dat floods hav...
Eustace and the changing of the guards
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November 25, 2016
Once upon a time I used to write from a place that some fondly called ‘Home of the Blessed’, but I write now from the Wild! Wild! West. Monday, an...
Is dis another RIP off ?
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November 25, 2016
St Vincent Shipyard Ltd (SSL), de new owners who replaced de Ottley Hall Marina and Shipyard, is having some serious wages problems. Ah remember de bi...
Crime overwhelms us, but who cares!
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November 18, 2016
The shocking news of six murders in 72 hours, four of them in six hours, has driven me to give vent to my feelings through my pen. On Monday morning, ...
De fourteen opposites
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November 18, 2016
Dey’s ah common element in Hebrew poetry dat indicates completion, and lists at random, 14 "Opposites” dat may occur in time and season. We hear i...
President Trump – WOOW! What a shocker!
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November 11, 2016
Never in my wildest imagination would I have thought that today I will be saying President Trump! What a man! He gives us the impression that he is th...
Donald Trump card
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November 11, 2016
In ah way ah could identify wid de way Americans voted on Choose-day. Speaker after speaker foh de De-mock-rats kept saying “Ah-merry-car is de grea...
Ah war go back school
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November 4, 2016
Ah left Grammar School some 57 years ago and ah never once felt dat ah wanted to go back to my All-me-Matter like ah did last Monday morning. Dey were...
We really an odd society
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October 28, 2016
I was spiritually blessed last weekend by two statements. One made in ah TV News interview by Rev Adolph Davis, Supt of the Met-dis Church. He was pro...
The 81st anniversary of the ‘1935 Riots’
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October 21, 2016
Today is the 81st anniversary of the ‘1935 Riots’, an event that had far-reaching effects on St Vincent, in that it impacted on the colony’s pol...
Happy to be Vincy
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October 21, 2016
Next Thursday we celebrate 37 years of In-deep-end-dense, Lie-Za prefer In-de-pen-dance. Same difference, sometimes if not most time, we behave like p...
Those Grammar School Days (Conclusion)
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October 14, 2016
Discipline was strictly enforced. A Grammar School tie carried with it certain responsibilities, and any untoward behaviour was reported. You were con...
Use de bar to raise de bar
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October 14, 2016
Congratulations are in order foh de eight young people who were called to de Bar earlier dis week. Ah Law Degree, or any degree foh dat matter, is not...
Mt Wynn/Peters Hope is no big deal
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October 7, 2016
In February dis year ah wrote de following: “I have been, and will always be opposed to Go-venom-mints giving away our lands not ours really, dey be...
Those Grammar School Days (Part 2)
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September 30, 2016
Let me start by adding a footnote to the story of Gill. Gilly sent to buy two jam buns from the tuck shop. He later returned them, saying that there w...
Swept under de rug
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September 30, 2016
Once again de good Lord has spared us from de potential ravages of Matthew, de storm wid de Unlucky No 13! As of now, de extent of de damages is unkno...
Those Grammar School Days
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September 23, 2016
In Bassy’s column last week, he mentioned Kenneth John and I consuming 10 bread and beef and six Ju-c. Bassy might have said it as a joke, not knowi...
Order is Heaven’s first law
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September 23, 2016
Despite de Lawlessness dat takes centre stage at times, Sin-Vin-Sin is supposed to be governed by ah set ah Laws, Rules and Regulations which in de si...
Education in focus – some issues
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September 16, 2016
At this time of year, the focus is on education, with the results of the different examinations now known and with students returning to school or att...
Ole Boys Dey
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September 16, 2016
If by chance yuh went to de Boys Grammar School, whether yuh like it or not, yuh are an “Old Boy” as in BGS Old Boy! On de other hand if yuh were ...
SVG football: what next?
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September 9, 2016
There seemed to have been a great deal of interest in last week’s football encounter between our SVG team and the US. There was a reasonably good tu...
One SVG, one Cary-Beyond
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September 9, 2016
Ah was telling Lie-Za dat 40 years ago, ah young kaisonian name Fidel Taylor, wid de sobriquet “ Mighty Producer”, now ah born-again Christian and...
Grant Wahl’s much needed shake-up
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September 2, 2016
Respect is ah hell-have-ah-ting. Is long time visitors, including returning Vincies, complaining bout de poor customer services at de Airport. We hear...
Pull-it-tek-all ah-dull-tree
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August 26, 2016
Permit me to mek my choice between mainland China, wid 1.4 billion people and break-away Tie-One, wid ah population of 24 million, about de same as Sh...
Letter to Courtney Browne
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August 19, 2016
There was really a lot to write about this week, with the Cybercrime law and the Olympics at the top of the list but I was so disgusted with the perfo...
Mountain View steal everybody thunder
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August 19, 2016
Wow! Big Up Mountain View Adventist Academy! And ah Bigger Up-full foh de Youth Man, Eric Febuary foh passing Twenty CXC subjects: Seventeen Grade 1â€...
Cobblestone and its historical importance
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August 12, 2016
Let me first of all respond to Gussie John’s piece captioned ‘Dr Fraser, Zita and Israel – please!’ that appeared in Tuesday’s Searchlight. ...
How Ah-May-Sing
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August 12, 2016
It was Carlton ‘CP’ Hall, de Kaisonian, who got de most mileage from his Kaiso ‘Calypsonian could sing,’ when Sir James boasted in Par-liar-mi...
Reflecting on Emancipation
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August 5, 2016
For some time now, our commemoration of Emancipation has been very low-keyed. Most of us see the day as just another holiday. There are even those who...
Nah push dah bill, Ralph
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August 5, 2016
About nine weeks ago, in one ah my June articles, ah wrote about de Fear-less, Ordan Graham’s fame-us Court Case, when he was charged foh Sedition â...
Then they came for Paul and Ann!
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July 29, 2016
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not s...
Tribute to Fred Trimmingham
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July 29, 2016
Some say it is an African Proverb, others claim it came from a Native American Tribe; regardless of its origin, the phrase “It takes a whole Village...
The 2016 American political circus
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July 22, 2016
I haven’t heard the word ‘crib’ used for a long time. It has resurfaced in connection with Melania Trump, the wife of Donald Trump, copying or l...