Dr. Fraser- Point of View
September 12, 2025
THERE WAS SOME excitement around August 11 when there was the ‘symbolic’ launching of the first volume of a History of SVG, sponsored by the governmen...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
September 5, 2025
We are without doubt in the Worst of Times. I am referring to the period of uncertainty that best describes the Silly Season that comes with the appro...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
August 29, 2025
IT IS SO EASY in this Silly Season period to get caught up with the silliness that prevails. In one of the on-line papers, I believe, I saw a caption ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
August 22, 2025
WHEN I FIRST entered the St. Vincent Grammar School at first form Mikey was a few forms ahead of me. He was a member of School House, the house to whi...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
August 14, 2025
Following that series the Vincentian TIMES newspaper of August 23, 1906, had this to say about the West Indian team of 1906; “. . . We offer no apolog...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
August 8, 2025
Let me first of all state that I am somewhat confused about the meaning of the chains attached to the wrists on the trophy that was given to the West ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
July 31, 2025
WHEN I LISTEN to the responses of some persons to the West Indies “shameful” dismissal in the Third Test against Australia I ask the rhetorical questi...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
July 25, 2025
For a long time during the period of colonisation and in the immediate post-independence period, our history written largely by Europeans informed us ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
July 18, 2025
If we thought the Silly Season couldn’t get sillier, we were certainly mistaken and of course, there is more to come. The longer it takes to ring the ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
July 11, 2025
OUR LARGEST Cultural festival, Carnival is now over. There was a lot of energy in keeping with what is referred to as the ‘hottest carnival’ in the Ca...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
July 4, 2025
I had spent the week in Barbados and was able to get a flight back on that Sunday, arriving home at about 4.15 p.m. I had arranged to have my ticket p...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
June 27, 2025
Patches’ calypso this year, FAKE NEWS, is especially timely, not only because it reflects the state of things politically in the ‘Silly Season’ here, ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
June 20, 2025
The World is wallowing! Wallowing in what, I am not sure, but there might be stormy times ahead as US President Donald Trump, decides whether to enter...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
June 13, 2025
On Tuesday, June, 3 the Caribbean Court of Justice held a special ceremonial sitting at Queen’s Hall in Trinidad and Tobago to “honour and celebrate a...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
June 6, 2025
The St Vincent Times in a piece on the 164th anniversary of the East Indians to St Vincent, stated that “2,474 Indians arrived at Indian Bay, St Vince...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
May 30, 2025
In these maddening days of the ‘Silly Season’ everything becomes politicised, even the National Spiritual Baptist Day. Enough silliness around as we h...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
May 23, 2025
ON WEDNESDAY the country celebrated its first National Spiritual Baptists Day, the holiday having been declared last year. This Day commemorates and c...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
May 16, 2025
I have heard recently of two cases, one not a Vincentian, where persons with genuine US Visas were told at the airport that their Visas were cancelled...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
May 9, 2025
I have long been speaking about our people having a serious conversation on our politics and development. I have on occasions identified articles whic...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
May 2, 2025
I WONDER HOW many of us know or remember what the May 1 holiday was all about. I am writing this column on Tuesday, April 29, and only remembered the ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
April 25, 2025
I CAME ACROSS what I consider the best piece of political commentary I have read for a long time. Chester was responding to a piece written about Trav...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
April 17, 2025
OVER THE PAST Weeks my columns were taken up with a response to those who are once again resurrecting the name Milton Cato as one fit to be considered...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
April 11, 2025
The struggle by the NCDD and the people of St.Vincent and the Grenadines was an historic one and the importance of that struggle was noted by Tydel Jo...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
April 3, 2025
1. PUBLIC ORDER AND SAFETY BILL Perhaps the most draconian piece of legislation ever passed in this country was the Public Order and Safety Bill. Actu...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
March 28, 2025
The Union Island Uprising took place on December 7, a few days after the December 5 general election and was all about a small group of men who storme...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
March 21, 2025
Twenty teachers were subsequently dismissed, 60 transferred and the salaries of some were withheld for the month. Among those dismissed were - Sandra ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
March 13, 2025
(Continued from last week) One of the issues that surfaced at the time of the 1975 Teachers’ Strike was this same issue of the Public Service Act. In ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
(Continued from last week)
March 7, 2025
This issue of the treatment of Calypsonians was one taken up by FREEDOM, particularly in 1978. Its issue of July 7, 1978” “Age’s 1978 Calypsoes- Dey G...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
February 28, 2025
iii) Harassment of Renwick Rose The Vincentian newspaper carried an item on the harassment of Rose. In June 1984 under the caption “Police in Fruitles...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
February 21, 2025
Now that the issue of Milton Cato as a National Hero has resurfaced for public discussion, I am taking this opportunity to restate my position. Robert...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
February 14, 2025
I borrow this caption from an article I had written in 1996. It was taken from Thomas Paine’s “The American Crisis” (1776). It was part of his attempt...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
February 7, 2025
Someone described Donald Trump as full of swagger and he certainly is. It is very early in his presidency, and it is difficult to know what he is abou...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
January 31, 2025
I have long felt that as our country strives to achieve meaningful social and economic development it is handicapped by the absence of significant peo...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
January 24, 2025
Among the last set of pardons issued by former President Joe Biden before he demitted office as the 46th president of the United States of America was...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
January 17, 2025
As a constituency, North Leeward has the largest geographic span- from Fitz Hughes to Spring Village and incorporating Chateaubelair, Petit Bordel, Ro...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
January 10, 2025
There were 8 constituencies and the whole of the Leeward side of the Island north of South Leeward was one constituency. Victory by the Workers Union ...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
January 3, 2025
I am writing this column in the early afternoon of December 31, the last day of 2024. 2024 tried its best to top the record of murders set in 2023. Th...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
December 20, 2024
News of the death of Shelley Clarke on Friday, December 13 although shocking, did not surprise me. I spoke to Shelley twice over the past month and he...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
December 13, 2024
Today I continue with the Frankie McIntosh story. This, of course, is a review of the book FRANKIE MCINTOSH and the ART OF THE ARRANGER, co-authored w...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
December 6, 2024
I recently acquired a copy of a recently released publication on Frankie McIntosh, co-authored with Ray Allen, a former Music Professor at Brooklyn Co...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
November 29, 2024
In another couple days we will enter the final month of the year. November was one hell of a month with regard to the weather. It is usually the month...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
November 22, 2024
This is a follow-up to my column of last week where I provided some information covering the number of registered votes, numbers and percentage of vot...
Dr. Fraser- Point of View
November 15, 2024
1951 was the year of Adult Suffrage when all adults over 21 years of age could vote without having any income or property qualification. 1954 the Peop...
News
September 12, 2025
THE ASHLEY LASHLEY Foundation, with support from the United States Government, is implementing a local-level project entitled “Community-Driven Strate...
News
September 12, 2025
NON- NATIONALS ARE being hired to fill several jobs in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) simply because locals did not have the required skill sets....
News
September 12, 2025
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER Montgomery Daniel has sought to clear around rumours that have been circulating relating to his health. Speaking on NBC radio on...
News
September 12, 2025
The GOVERNMENT of St Vincent and the Grenadines is set to sign agreements for tourism investment of $1.3 billion on mainland St.Vincent. On Monday, Se...
From the Courts, News
September 12, 2025
A BARROUALLIE MAN will be sentenced next week after pleading guilty to being in illegal possession of a firearm and eight rounds of ammunition. Demron...
