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De wire bend and de story end
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April 10, 2015
Ah lickle script penned by Freda Adler, criminologist and educator, and ah fear-most prosecutor, flashed across de TV screen de other night dat read: ...
All fools day
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April 2, 2015
Yesterday was de first of April, All Fools’ Day! Ah read some-way dat ‘de first of April’ uses to be celebrated as ‘New Year’s Day’, but P...
De three words sindrome
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March 27, 2015
Dey’s an ole Shy-Knees proverb dat says: “ah picture is worth ten thousand words.” ­­Ah have no quarrel wid those who suffering from superflui...
De mills of God grind slowly
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March 20, 2015
Ex-commissioner of Police Two-cent’s victory in his drawn out Court Case is yet another blow to de head ah de ULP, as well as ah victory foh Justice...
Upholding principles of morality?
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March 13, 2015
When I heard about the arrest of a teacher for something she had posted on Facebook, I immediately assumed that she had made threats against someone, ...
From KFC to KTC
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March 13, 2015
Friday night has been family night in my home foh years. It all started when de kids were younger; we would “join de line and dine” at KFC. Busine...
Obama and them
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March 6, 2015
Every now and then it is good for one’s own state of mind to take one’s thoughts away from this cesspool that is being rapidly filled with garbage...
Wrong password teacher B-B
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March 6, 2015
My contribution to Facebook is mild and insignificant, occasionally ah would mek ah comment, but ah like to follow de die-see stories. Like dis week d...
Trapped in the political jungle
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February 27, 2015
The St Kitts/Nevis political fiasco has set many in the region talking and writing about their new found wisdom. I am interested in comments made rece...
Time foh LIME… and… Flow to go
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February 27, 2015
Forty-four years ago ah got my first telephone from Kay-blue Why-less de provider den, and now. When ah got my first phone bill, dey was ah $10.00 cha...
Our region has really gone thru
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February 20, 2015
Ireland’s victory over our team at the World Cup marks a new low for us in cricket. This can hardly be denied, even when you take into account the f...
Finally Den’s ill Doug-Loss
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February 20, 2015
Hold on Vin-sin-shuns, Hold on! plane loads came in to rescue de Den’s-ill Doug-Loss Go-venom-men’t in Sin-Kits, but nothing worked. Hell’d bent...
De Pentecostal Assembly on top
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February 13, 2015
Finally de Pentecostal Assembly in SVG is at de top of de list wid 30,108 members, twice as many members as second placed Anglicans wid 15,175. Dis is...
When yuh got bad eye
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February 6, 2015
Sorry folks but ah not able to comment on de 2015 Budget Session, dah’s because ah made ah resolution dat ah will not listen to par-liar-mint as lon...
Trying to make sense of West Indies cricket
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January 30, 2015
I had vowed not to write again about West Indies cricket, because it seemed to have defied understanding and had some inner logic that could not be ea...
Hand rails along Rock Gutter please
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January 30, 2015
Before ah forget ley me first thank Vincent-shun born, Carl Darwin Cupid, ah B Eng, MSAE, R. Eng. (T&T), and an Accident Reconstruction Specialist, fo...
Remembering Rock Gutter tragedy
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January 23, 2015
It is now 11 days since that terrible tragedy at Rock Gutter, yet the mood of the country is still sombre, perhaps to a large extent because of the nu...
Tell me ah again
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January 23, 2015
Ah borrowing de title “Tell Me Again” from ah popular poem, written by fame-most Carry-beyond Folklorist, Paul Keens-Douglas. People does use it l...
A sad day indeed!
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January 16, 2015
Monday was a sad day for our country, but particularly so for the communities of Fancy and Owia. For me, one thing that stands out is the overwhelming...
We missed de boat again
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January 16, 2015
Among de many translations of Verse 14 in Second Chronicles chapter 7, ah love de one dat ah came across in de "Douay-Rheims (Catholic) Bible.” De c...
Bishop Gordon’s challenge to us!
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January 9, 2015
There was no better way for me to have started the New Year than to have listened to the Catholic Bishop’s homily that issued a challenge to the Chu...
From No 8 bak to No1 again
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January 9, 2015
First of all, ah refuse to believe dat anyone in dey sound mind will set fire to de Anglican Church Altar at Sion Hill. Ah refuse to believe it was de...
Obama moves to overturn historical absurdity
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January 2, 2015
The US 54-year-old embargo, with all that accompanies it, was becoming an embarrassment and was also isolating the US in Latin America. Panama, which ...
Tourism officials stare reality
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December 19, 2014
I am taking comments made by Glen Beache, chief executive officer of the SVG Tourism Authority as representative of the thinking and work of the Autho...
O-live Dickson scores 100
O-live Dickson scores 100
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December 19, 2014
Ley me deal wid me Murray Village people first. Ah felt proud ah de children of O-live “Mother” Dickson who on Thursday (yesterday) chalked up her...
These are troubled times
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December 12, 2014
I heard of another murder on Tuesday morning and wondered, is it just another one? I have been trying to keep count but they are confusing me, for it ...
Will-full-he-done by acts-he-didn’t
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December 12, 2014
Ah done promise dat ah not touching no polly-ticks till de Christmas over, and dat can’t happen till all de left overs done: de ham, de garlic pork,...
About being politically correct
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December 5, 2014
My original intention was to write about our importation of "Black Friday” and "Halloween.” I was driven to do so by a huge crowd I saw standing i...
Ah whole month ah Christmas
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December 5, 2014
Christmas is my time ah year and ah doing way Lennox Bowman suggested in his song ah few years ago: “Don’t wait till de 25th to enjoy Christmas.â€...
Life beyond the airport
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November 28, 2014
Over the past years we have had a fixation with the Argyle international airport. It has generated considerable discussion, some constructive, some no...
Half-decent or half de scent
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November 28, 2014
Ah love to play wid Words. People not happy wid de way dey heard de PM using ah word “Half-Decent.” Ah never heard him say dat, ah heard: “Half ...
Silly politics
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November 21, 2014
I had accepted the term "silly season” as an apt description of the period leading up to general elections. But this seems meaningless. Silly remain...
Forgive dem dey trust-passes
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November 21, 2014
Ah suggesting dat de Go-venom-men’t send Canada foh ah former Manager at HLDC, Bill Branch. His mind is still clear and vision sharp like razor! Bil...
Wow! Murder number 34!
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November 14, 2014
Have we really set out to be the murder capital of the Eastern Caribbean? It appears so. When we face problems at home, our immediate response is to s...
Leave Margaret alone
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November 14, 2014
Margaret London ain’t teef nobody white fowl, or tell lie pon nobody, is not she who kill we Banana industry, was not her miss-manage-mint dat cause...
A tale of two societies
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November 7, 2014
St Vincent and the Grenadines is a small country, but with two societies that are drifting further and further apart. Not even a Bailey bridge will be...