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Welcome Bishop Jah-Rod
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February 19, 2016
Well de Cat-licks have ah "New Kid on de Block,” Bishop County. Lie-Za say he is ah Youth-man so ah went looking foh ah youngster, only to find out ...
Do we really care?
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February 12, 2016
I was happy to see a statement by the Christian Council on the ‘political tension’ in SVG. While I appreciate this and of course, welcome it, I wo...
Be my Valentine Sheron
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February 12, 2016
Maybe, just maybe de PM is not conscious of de fact dat his Press Conferences are not only long, but all about he, himself and Ralph alone. It is like...
Vincies and their democracy
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February 5, 2016
We Vincentians are a strange people, perhaps I might even say funny. We are like the guy who was looking for his keys under a lamp post. When asked wh...
Lef arwe beach alone
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February 5, 2016
Ah remember as ah youth playing Ring Games, singing Folk Songs in de Moonlight by Pappy Joyette’s gate, “haff-ah-foot Duncan” (he had one leg) u...
Ah forest wid Miss Marie Warner and bananas
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January 29, 2016
De good news foh de children of Miss Marie Warner is dat our PM will be calling foh a regional conversation on de de-criminal-eyes-say-shun of Miss Ma...
Here I stand
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January 22, 2016
It is good occasionally to sit back and try to understand yourself, perhaps to determine what is shaping your life or has shaped it. I sometimes look ...
Time wasting wid gun charges
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January 22, 2016
Much is being said about Gun Play or playing wid Guns. De first story as ah got it, is dat during de Elect-shuns calm-pain, Carlos James, de ULP Candi...
Moving de dark cloud
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January 15, 2016
For morning devotions ah find some very inspiring short stories in the lickle book of Daily Readings, “De Good Seed.”  De reading for last Saturday wa...
De Lou-sit King road block
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January 8, 2016
It’s called Peaceful Resistance or Nonviolent Protest. It was in December 1955, ah remember well de Rosa Parks “sit” in de bus, she refused to obey th...
Marie ‘N’ Arthur choir
Marie ‘N’ Arthur choir
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December 29, 2015
One ah de things ah miss most about Christmas is "Carolling” or "Serenading”, as kids we uses to say: "We going house to house” or: "we going si...
Politics makes us stupid
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December 18, 2015
I have taken this caption from an article entitled ‘How Politics Make US Stupid’ that dealt with some aspects of politics in the US and thought th...
De grinches teef de Christmas
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December 18, 2015
It’s Christ-mas so ah off de Stealect-shuns till next year. Ley de Pee-to-shun in Courts tek care ah things. Dey’s merit in Doctor Gunsalves’s s...
The people have spoken
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December 11, 2015
Surely it is too early to do any proper analysis of the election results, especially when there are some seats in contention. But there is something s...
We back to square one
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December 11, 2015
Chico Ellis, my friend and surveying colleague, reminds me dat Joseph Stalin, known as de ‘brutal party bully’ of de Soviet Union once wrote: “D...
The last lap
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December 4, 2015
Well, we are on to the last lap, so to speak. I must repeat that I have never seen an election like this before with the people being as heavily invol...
Ah pre-dick-ah-change ah government
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December 4, 2015
Five more chopping days before de Pull-it-to-kill X-mas, note ah didn’t say Christmas, which will come 16 days after. Oh what ah set ah vicious peop...
Is the ‘silly season’ not getting sillier?
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November 27, 2015
Well, things are getting down to the wire with 10 days left before the ‘big day’, December 9. The silly season is surely living up to its name, as...
Labour love! Labour hug! Labour pig!
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November 27, 2015
Give Jack-he-Jah-kit, de Come-red score big time last week Thursday when four private planes landed at Argyle. Wid all fear-ness, ah remember hearing ...
Vincy Heat’s appeal
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November 20, 2015
Vincentians who followed Vincy Heat’s last two games would have realized one fundamental thing. It is simply that once we get into that kind of leag...
H…Foh Harry H…Foh humility
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November 20, 2015
He was very humble about his status, and when, if ah might use de word "humble” correctly, ah mean "not proud or arrogant, does not brag or boast,â€...
Mother of All Elections
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November 13, 2015
I sat for a while contemplating what I should write about this week; then I came across an interesting and thought-provoking article by Oscar Allen in...
Sheep know he massah vice
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November 13, 2015
Every way ah go, people including Lie-Za of course, asking me what ah think bout de “Vice on de tape!” Actually ah not into listening Vices, ah pr...
The ringing of the bell
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November 6, 2015
For some time now, in this heated election season, the ringing of the bell has been the talk about town. The country has long been on election watch, ...
My hell’t woes are many
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November 6, 2015
When yuh come-plain bout de inadequacies and inefficiencies in our Hell’t Services in SVG, party fan-at-ticks want to eat off yuh head, while others...
It’s all about winning de electshuns
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October 30, 2015
Choose-dey’s In-de-pen-dance message by de PM was like ah clearance sale, ah give-away, win or lose! Sign of desperate-shun foh ah ruling party, dat...
An 80-year anniversary has slipped by
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October 23, 2015
Every year, October 21st slips past us, as we focus on Independence without recognizing any connection to that date. Last Wednesday will have marked 8...
Bad move Mr Commissioner
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October 23, 2015
De writers of our much beaten-upon Constitution, in dey sound knowledge and wisdom, saw de need foh ah few public servants to operate under extreme in...
As we approach our 36th year
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October 16, 2015
It is perhaps my training and the perspective I hold as an historian that forces me every year at this time to reflect on what Independence means to u...
De three bulls and de lion
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October 16, 2015
According to one of “Aesop’s Fables, dey were three vicious and angry Bulls (Teachers, Public Servants and Van Drivers). Dey were United and bonde...
Where I stand – (Part 2)
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October 9, 2015
I seem to have developed the knack for getting on the wrong side of governments. Although this two-part article has taken on a different shape from wh...
Santa Claws north pole stops
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October 9, 2015
Lie-Za is trying to find out Santa Claws exact location, she has her usual Shopping List and de first Item is brown sugar. She come-plain dat dis is d...
Where I stand
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October 2, 2015
I recently came across the original copy of an article that I had written in response to an attack by Dr Kenneth John in one of his columns, perhaps s...
Trucks pon top ah trucks
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October 2, 2015
When ah see de line ah "Trucks pon top ah Trucks” laden wid Free Cement, Free Lumber and Free Plywood IMPORTED from Jah-mek-her "heading from de Wha...
Dr Gone–soft can… Not pay
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September 25, 2015
Salary increase foh Teachers and Public Servants was de straw dat broke de camel’s back and finally brought down de NDP Go-venom-mint in 2001. Wuker...
As I see things – Reflections on politics
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September 18, 2015
Politics, more pointedly, the up-coming election, has totally taken over our lives, consuming a large part of our time. Everywhere there is political ...
Prayerful consideration
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September 18, 2015
Once ah month ah uses to visit dis second hand Book-store at de corner of the block way ah lived in Calgary. Books were cheap, ah picked up ah copy of...
It is that time of year
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September 11, 2015
As the month of September dashed in on us, two things would have occupied our minds, as they do at this time every year. I refer to the reopening of s...