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PR, Dougan, Cummings and the Death Penalty
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August 15, 2008
15.AUG.08 Editor: I think 99.9 per cent of the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines are in support of the death penalty. I got that impression whe...
Safe sex’s “Big Bad Wolf” responds – Pt. 2
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Safe sex’s “Big Bad Wolf” responds – Pt. 2
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August 15, 2008
Are AIDS prevention promotions working? By Mike Edwards 15.AUG.08 A couple weeks ago Alisa Alvis ridiculed my article “Safe Sex? Yeah Right!”, lab...
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Leeward roads in need of repairs
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August 8, 2008
08.AUG.08 Editor: Much has been written by me concerning the conditions that existed on the roads on the Leeward side, in terms of deep potholes. It i...
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Total confusion in NDP camp
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August 8, 2008
08.AUG.08 Editor: The Opposition NDP is in a state of total confusion, and its collective leadership is completely at sea. First, they embarked on the...
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AFNA Netball opening was totally classless
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August 8, 2008
08.AUG.08 Editor: Classless. Yes, that is the description of the AFNA Netball Opening ceremony on Sunday, July 20th, 2008. For an event that was being...
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Emancipating our conversations
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August 8, 2008
by Maxwell Haywood 08.AUG.08 As a young child growing up in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, I heard many proverbs or wise sayings that spoke to the ne...
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Options for fruits production in SVG
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July 31, 2008
31.JULY.08 Editor: St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is a tropical island which has all that is necessary for self sufficiency in fresh fruit, frui...
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Some concerns with the Education Revolution
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July 31, 2008
31.JULY.08 Editor: There are some issues that are affecting our Education Revolution that I will like to concentrate on, with the hope that the Chief ...
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Jomo’s PMC and the ‘ULP’ Argyle airport
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July 31, 2008
31.JULY.08 Editor: It was with both satisfaction and reservation that I received the news of the recently formed political party, PMC. On one hand, it...
No confidence in SVG team for Beijing Olympics
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No confidence in SVG team for Beijing Olympics
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July 31, 2008
31.JULY.08 Editor: Please allow us a column in your weekly publication to express our views as concerned sportsmen and sportswomen. Sports minded Vinc...
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Time to say adiós, Texaco
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July 25, 2008
25.JULY.08 Editor: The prolonged military activity in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East, in general, remains the origin of the continuing escalati...
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Pit bulls too dangerous for SVG
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July 25, 2008
25.JULY.08 Editor: I had sent a previous letter to your newspaper referring to the history of the Pit Bull. After reading the letter, a few persons to...
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Kenyatta answers John
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July 25, 2008
25.JULY.08 Dear John, Thomas Paine once said: “The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separat...
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Visions of a new beginning
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July 25, 2008
by Maxwell Haywood 25.JULY.08 At last Vincentians have realized the power of their unity in consciousness and action aiming to root out the social, po...
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SVGTV must do more training with reporters
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July 18, 2008
18.JULY.08 EDITOR: I think I speak for many Vincentians in saying that I am grateful for the service that SVGTV is providing us. And, while the introd...
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‘Vision without action is merely a dream’
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July 18, 2008
18.JULY.08 Editor: Wanting to be part of history, I stayed away from the Annual Soca-Reggae Festival for a few hours, to listen to the Official Ground...
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Grow more food, recycle
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July 11, 2008
11.JULY.07 Editor: With the rising price of food and other important needs, we Vincentians must grow what we can in our back yard. We can save money i...
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Open letter to Kenyatta Lewis
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July 11, 2008
11.JULY.07 Kenyatta, Here is hoping that the character and wit discerned in your short letter predisposes you to acknowledging a better argument than ...
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I am proud of my country’s progress
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July 11, 2008
11.JULY.07 Editor: I think that the people who speak about the Prime Minister and what the party has accomplished in a negative way are just jealous a...
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Make use of security firms
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July 11, 2008
11.JULY.07 Editor: Incidents of rape and other crimes are very high for our small nation, and our police force appears to be significantly understaffe...
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Please help me find my biological mom
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July 11, 2008
11.JULY.07 Editor: I have been trying to get some information so I can find my biological mother. I have contacted your government in St.Vincent in ho...
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Don’t mourn, organize
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July 11, 2008
11.JULY.07 by Oscar Allen When the people of South Africa were fighting against apartheid, they had to bury their sons and daughters - young and old e...
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Creating Change – Integrating Perspectives
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July 4, 2008
04.JULY.08 by: Bertram A John Drs Fraser and John commented recently on a piece I’d written some time ago, and which the Editor published under the ...
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Who is this Lavern George?
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July 4, 2008
04.JULY.08 Editor: In the Wednesday, June 25, edition, Caribbean Net News carried a letter signed by one Lavern George titled “St Vincent and Grenad...
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Is Dr. Kenneth John really living in SVG?
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July 4, 2008
04.JULY.08 EDITOR: In his column in The Vincentian of last week (Friday June 27th), Dr. Kenneth John asserted that the ULP government is doing very li...
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Serious threat against PM’s life
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July 4, 2008
04.JULY.08 EDITOR: If the assassins succeed in killing the Prime Minister as planned, SVG would get a wake-up call about the dangers to our society an...
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It’s great to be young!
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July 4, 2008
04.JULY.08 EDITOR: One day of Last Week I attended a meeting at which the Prime Minister of St.Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr.Ralph Gonsalves, address...
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Some calypsos are utter rubbish
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July 4, 2008
04.JULY.08 EDITOR: Once upon a time calypsoes were of three kinds: Party songs, humorous and poetic compositions on life, and social/political comment...
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Safe sex?… Yeah right!
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July 4, 2008
04.JULY.08 by Mike Edwards Would the AIDS Secretariat & SVG Health people please stop wasting our tax dollars on expensive electronic signs that bomba...
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We can all help bring this rapist to justice
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July 4, 2008
04.JULY.08 EDITOR: I have been reading over the past few weeks about the spate of rape in our country. I want to commend you for bringing what is happ...
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We need a launching of the Mind Revolution
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July 4, 2008
04.JULY.08 EDITOR: We had the launching of the Education Revolution, followed by the launching of the Wellness Revolution. What is now needed is the l...
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John Smith, I totally disagree with you
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 Editor: Mr Smith, you are so right in taking the goodly Mr. Cox to task. I am glad you are challenging him, me and others to look for pract...
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Increase in rape cases worrying
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 Editor: We are gravely concerned about the increased incidence of rape perpetrated against women and girls in St. Vincent and the Grenadine...
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Vincy Heat trashed by the Maple Leaf boys!
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 Editor: I had the pleasure of viewing the game between Vincy Heat and Canada twice on the local cable station here in Canada. I watched in ...
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Congrats to St. Vincent Grammar School
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June 20, 2008
20.JUNE.08 Editor: Congratulations to the St. Vincent Grammar School on its victory and on celebrating 100 years of the school’s existence. The scho...
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Are we contributing to rise in sexual crimes?
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June 20, 2008
Editor: There is a rise in rape and sexual crimes in this nation, as mentioned in a local newspaper of June 6th. Ladies and Gentlemen, we as a people ...