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...
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December 9, 2016
What a time! When it is not one thing, itâs another. We were just trying to come to grips with the recent spate of murders, when we had to contend w...
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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...
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December 2, 2016
Someone said of Fidel Castro that âhe was as loathed as he was belovedâ. Reaction both in Cuba and Miami is testimony to this. He was one of the i...
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December 2, 2016
How eye-run-ache, âPrince Harry plants a tree in de Botanic Gardens.â When Prince Harry hears dat less dan ah week after his visit, dat floods hav...
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November 25, 2016
Once upon a time I used to write from a place that some fondly called âHome of the Blessedâ, but I write now from the Wild! Wild! West. Monday, an...
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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...
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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, ...
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November 18, 2016
Deyâs ah common element in Hebrew poetry dat indicates completion, and lists at random, 14 "Oppositesâ dat may occur in time and season. We hear i...
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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...
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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 âAh-merry-car is de grea...
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November 4, 2016
the shop and premises of Portugese shopkeeper John DaSouza, which had been subjected to stoning. Word had leaked out that he had lent bullets to one o...
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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...
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October 28, 2016
The Byera-Georgetown area was next affected. First, a few brief remarks about Sion Hill, the scene of activity, even two months after the riots, when ...
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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...
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October 21, 2016
Today is the 81st anniversary of the â1935 Riotsâ, an event that had far-reaching effects on St Vincent, in that it impacted on the colonyâs pol...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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October 7, 2016
The original article in what has turned out to be a series was to have been the only one, but it developed a momentum of its own, which I simply follo...
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October 7, 2016
In February dis year ah wrote de following: âI have been, and will always be opposed to Go-venom-mints giving away our lands not ours really, dey be...
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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...
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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...
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September 23, 2016
In Bassyâs 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...
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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...
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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...
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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 âOld Boyâ as in BGS Old Boy! On de other hand if yuh were ...
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September 9, 2016
There seemed to have been a great deal of interest in last weekâs football encounter between our SVG team and the US. There was a reasonably good tu...
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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 â Mighty Producerâ, now ah born-again Christian and...
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September 2, 2016
The announcement of the intention to shift allegiance from the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the Peopleâs Republic of China (mainland China) did not...
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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...
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August 26, 2016
Over the past two weeks, the Cybercrimes Bill had generated a great deal of interest and reaction. In a piece entitled "Press freedom groups express â...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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August 12, 2016
Let me first of all respond to Gussie Johnâs piece captioned âDr Fraser, Zita and Israel â please!â that appeared in Tuesdayâs Searchlight. ...
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August 12, 2016
It was Carlton âCPâ Hall, de Kaisonian, who got de most mileage from his Kaiso âCalypsonian could sing,â when Sir James boasted in Par-liar-mi...
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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...
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August 5, 2016
About nine weeks ago, in one ah my June articles, ah wrote about de Fear-less, Ordan Grahamâs fame-us Court Case, when he was charged foh Sedition â...
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July 29, 2016
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak outâ Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not s...
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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 âIt takes a whole Village...
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July 22, 2016
I havenât heard the word âcribâ used for a long time. It has resurfaced in connection with Melania Trump, the wife of Donald Trump, copying or l...
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July 22, 2016
Dis is one week dat ah donât have much to write bout, except dat just when de nation is about to vent we disgust over de sudden deport-here-shun of ...
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