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Mother shocked by CWSA bill
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March 28, 2023
EDITOR: I feel the need to speak out about a CWSA matter in the public interest. Recently, a young mother of a 15-month old baby visited my office. Sh...
SVG arising from the ashes embracing fresh hope
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March 28, 2023
EDITOR: Please permit me if you will to crave your attention in a little conversation on this timely issue of “Fresh hope”, in a time of respair. Howe...
Judicial Review and the Vaccine Mandate Case
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March 24, 2023
by R. T. Luke V. Browne lukebrowne@yahoo.com Introduction I would like to make some comments on what can be considered to be the legal issue of the da...
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
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March 17, 2023
Editor: Some people had all their savings in Silicon Valley Bank and were in danger of losing everything when that bank went bankrupt. I had one life ...
An appeal for less speed and safer driving
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March 17, 2023
EDITOR: Road accidents are taking place very frequent these days. In many cases when proper investigations are done it is often due to reckless drivin...
Good living in Union Island
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March 17, 2023
EDITOR: Many are wondering, “how we survive in Union Island?” It is no secret. Certain opportunities are available to those who are willing to work. S...
Let us teach our children to be responsible
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March 10, 2023
How did our parents manage to teach us to be responsible when they had much less? We think that we have more available to us, but our children are bei...
Can the dead walk among us?
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March 10, 2023
EDITOR: In her book Great Controversy, 19th Century inspired religious writer, Ellen G. White counselled us to make the Scriptures our safeguard. She ...
Running out of space to bury our dead
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March 3, 2023
EDITOR: The rate at which people are dying in this country has created a major problem. This problem I am afraid is not easy to be solved. It is not p...
Females playing leading Carnival roles
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February 28, 2023
by Renwick Rose There has been much positive comment in the media (both formal and social) in Trinidad and Tobago about the increasingly positive role...
Give praise where it is due
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February 24, 2023
EDITOR: When something deserves praise we must give it. BRAGSA must be complimented for its dedicated and hard work rendered to this nation. Facebook ...
We need foreign investment now more than ever
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February 24, 2023
EDITOR: It’s now obvious that as a nation we will not experience significant economic growth and development through education. The resistance to crea...
Help us to be responsible and accountable
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February 24, 2023
EDITOR: Handouts of every kind are never sufficient and often lead to learned helplessness, and dependency. If we really want to help the poor, our as...
Safe and clean drinking water is a human right
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February 24, 2023
EDTOR: On July 28,2010,the United Nations General Assembly adopted an historical resolution recognizing “the right to safe and clean drinking water an...
ECCB and  regulation of bank fees
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February 24, 2023
EDITOR: During a recent Country Outreach Mission to SVG, the Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), Timothy Antoine said that the ECCB...
NIS and Pension Reform: Specific proposals
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February 17, 2023
by R. T. Luke V. Browne I wrote two previous articles on pension reform that were published in successive editions of the newspapers over the past two...
Migration is nothing new
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February 17, 2023
EDITOR: Migration is common to every nation and country on earth. There is no country where migration does not take place. There are several factors t...
The dangers of edibles and teen marijuana use
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February 14, 2023
When parents think about their teen using marijuana, they picture joints, pipes, and bongs. They do not imagine brownies, chocolate bars, and gummy be...
Breadfruit  and marbles:  rootical folklore
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February 14, 2023
EDITOR: They call me Artocaupus. In fact, my full name is Artocarpus altilis. Apparently, this was given to me by a Swedish man, to help with internat...
Teachers – guilty as charged
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February 14, 2023
EDITOR: Teachers, civil servants, and policemen are due to appear in court to face a number of charges after a long and poverty-stricken wait. Knowing...
Non-alignment of retirement age and pension age
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February 10, 2023
EDITOR: I wanted to follow up my article on this subject which appeared in the newspapers last week by addressing what I think to be one of the most u...
What is the Name of the Heavenly Father?
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February 3, 2023
EDITOR: Are you still searching for that group of true worshippers within whose midst dwells the message of salvation which has descended all the way ...
National Insurance Services  and Pension Reform
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February 3, 2023
EDITOR: Currently, the NIS is conducting a public dialogue on pension reform and has expressed concern about the fact that a public servant can become...
Supporting the local Productive Sector
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January 27, 2023
EDITOR: There is much that can be done in the choices we make to support the local productive sector. This is a specific mindset that we must adopt if...
The Math Ministry
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January 27, 2023
EDITOR: Regionally, student performance in Mathematics at high-stakes exams has been consistently average or below average. Coupled with this, there h...
Coping with Grief
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January 27, 2023
EDITOR: Death is something we can never get accustomed to, no matter how much we prepare for it. In most cases it leaves a void and an emptiness to so...
Reminiscing on life in our earlier years
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January 27, 2023
EDITOR: Growing up in the 90s in SVG would always be special to me. The evolution of technology has change a lot of activities, for example there are ...
Rich getting richer daily
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January 20, 2023
EDITOR: The billionaires and multi-millionaires of this world are getting richer each day while billions on people on planet earth wallow in poverty. ...
Our House of Assembly is not a rum shop!
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January 20, 2023
EDITOR: I look forward to listening to the budget debate every year and would like to be rewarded with a spirited, lively discourse on realistic expec...
Cuba – An omission?
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January 13, 2023
EDITOR: Please permit me a small space to register my complete perplexity and lack of comprehension of the omission of the Republic of Cuba from the g...
Solving the budget deficit
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January 13, 2023
EDITOR: As the finance minister scratches his head trying to plug the budget deficit, we too can scratch our heads trying either to cut spending or ra...