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March 28, 2008
by Anesia O. Baptiste 28.MAR.08 Many persons are suffering from the results of heavy-handedness and abuse of authority in this country. Their God-give...
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March 20, 2008
Lynden Punnett Dip.SpLD (Dyslexia) 20.MAR.08 Dyslexia is a condition that affects the ability to process language. Dyslexic learners often have diffic...
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March 20, 2008
20.MAR.08 Editor: The frequency of bomb scares and latest robbery are indeed cause for serious thinking as to what is going on in this country.{{more}...
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March 20, 2008
20.MAR.08 EDITOR: The exodus of highly trained professionals: nurses, doctors, teachers, attorneys, electrical engineers from our island has reached i...
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March 20, 2008
20.MAR.08 Editor: Jamaicaâs Prime Minister Bruce Goldingâs comments at the end of the 19th Inter-sessional Meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government ...
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March 13, 2008
by R. Andrew Cummings 13.MAR.08 Arguably, it is the most widespread predatory disease on the rampage throughout the world. In its unrelenting attacks,...
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March 13, 2008
13.MAR.08 Editor: As I write this, I am in St. Vincent and the Grenadines celebrating my birthday (March 10th) for the first time since 1980. Over the...
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March 13, 2008
13.MAR.08 Editor: Many times we neglect the small things which look insignificant, but which can later turn out to be a mistake.{{more}} In 2000 there...
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March 13, 2008
13.MAR.08 Editor: I join with the many Vincentians who described the bomb threat to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital as a âsick actâ. How can som...
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March 7, 2008
07.MAR.08 EDITOR: The opposition NDP has no credible leadership. Neither Mr. Eustace nor his core leadership has any proper sense of political directi...
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March 7, 2008
07.MAR.08 Editor: There is nothing in our world today that takes more human life than legal abortion. Since 1973, more than 50 million babies have bee...
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March 7, 2008
07.MAR.08 Editor: There is a story coming out of the CMC from Trinidad about a Southern Caribbean Union. This story appears in the Business section of...
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March 7, 2008
by Sydney Kerton Morgan 07.MAR.08 Lifeâs journey is not an easy one. The road is long and winding. From time to time youâll be confronted, With ob...
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March 7, 2008
by Nelcia Robinson 07.MAR.08 CARIBBEAN ASSOCIATION FOR FEMINIST RESEARCH & ACTION (CAFRA) MESSAGE ON THE OCCASION OF INTERNATIONAL WOMENâS DAY MARCH...
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March 7, 2008
Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in the price of wheat, maize, oil seeds, rice, poultry, eggs and other commodities. Particularly striking...
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February 29, 2008
29.FEB.08 Editor: SVGâs self-righteous and self-appointed snoop, Frank Da Silva, has been playing taped conversations between the now famous police ...
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February 29, 2008
29.FEB.08 EDITOR: I want to apologize on behalf of the Executive of the Teachersâ Union to create this embarrassment to them for being used as tools...
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February 29, 2008
29.FEB.08 Dear President Castro, I wish to congratulate you on your personal decision to retire from the active leadership of Cuba. Yours has been a r...
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February 29, 2008
29.FEB.08 Editor: The Executive and the membership of the North Central Windward Constituency Council of the Unity Labour Party is very concerned abou...
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February 29, 2008
29.FEB.08 The St Vincent and the Grenadines/Cuba Friendship Society extends our warmest congratulations to the new Cuban Head of State, Commander Raul...
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February 29, 2008
by R. Andrew Cummings 29.FEB.08 A big and important part of our Laws in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has been made by Judges over the centuries. T...
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February 22, 2008
22.FEB.08 EDITOR: I have been in St. Vincent and the Grenadines for the past three weeks on holiday. I am a British-trained lawyer. I have been follow...
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February 22, 2008
22.FEB.08 Editor: Development of a country is usually measured by the economic and social standard of the country. I, however, measure development bas...
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February 22, 2008
22.FEB.08 Editor: Teenage pregnancies are indeed a problem in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. This, we must recognize, has contributed significantly t...
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February 22, 2008
22.FEB.08 Editor: About two months after the Senior Centre at Buccament (funded by the NIS) opened, my wife and I became members, signing up at the NI...
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February 22, 2008
22.FEB.08 EDITOR: Greetings from the Battering Ram in beautiful BARBADOS. When I listen to the various call in programmes and talk show hosts who say ...
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February 22, 2008
22.FEB.08 Editor: The discussion that has been going on in our society over the last few months about the word âpokyâ really has me disappointed. ...
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February 22, 2008
22.FEB.08 EDITOR: There is so much unfairness, unreasonableness and plain ignorance about Mr. Colin Williams and his role as the Director of Public Pr...
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February 15, 2008
15.FEB.08 Editor: It is evident that our education system has been molded to produce academics. As we produce more and more, we would contribute more ...
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February 15, 2008
15.FEB.08 EDITOR: The utterances of lawyer Bayliss Frederick, the father of Vynette Frederick, who is the Public Relations Officer of the New Democrat...
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February 15, 2008
15.FEB.08 Editor: The Leader of the Opposition sent out a press release last week, which contained a statement that was quoted widely in the local and...
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February 15, 2008
15.FEB.08 EDITOR: The ULP has been in power for seven years, and we continue to hear what NDP âdid or didnât doâ, as though they (the ULP) did n...
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February 15, 2008
by Michelle Marks 15.FEB.08 I love you so much, your kisses, your touch Youâre so tender, youâre so sweet I love you from your head straight down ...
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February 8, 2008
08.FEB.08 Editor: Itâs time for you to get serious about protecting our van drivers and conductors. I am tired of hearing of them being robbed, so t...
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February 8, 2008
08.FEB.08 Editor: Being a Vincentian living abroad, I eagerly await news of my country each week through the Searchlight. Unfortunately, I am sad to r...
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February 8, 2008
08.FEB.08 Editor: Hello, Members of Course B. Let me take this wonderful opportunity in congratulating you on 20 hard, but I hope and believe, rewardi...
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February 8, 2008
08.FEB.08 Editor: Sometimes one wonders how the Ministry of Education functions. In an Education Revolution where the focus should be on the developme...
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February 8, 2008
08.FEB.08 EDITOR: On Friday, February 1, 2008, I was listening to âNICE RADIOâ and heard Edwardo Lynch on the NDPâs âNew Timesâ Programme di...
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February 8, 2008
08.FEB.08 by Alistair Smith, International Coordinator of Banana Link It is traditional that on the eve of multilateral treaties and trade agreements ...
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February 8, 2008
08.FEB.08 Editor: I refer to the column âOur good Catholic boyâ by Mr. Bassy Alexander, on February 1st, 2008. I could start by writing that a jou...
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February 8, 2008
by Marlon Mills 08.FEB.08 St. Vincent and the Grenadines is playing a dangerous game of âCatch Me If You Canâ with the ongoing crime situation in ...
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February 8, 2008
Oscar Allen 08.FEB.08 Last month I spent a week at church; there were nearly 150 of us, and close to equal numbers of men and women. It was the Annual...
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February 1, 2008
01.FEB.08 EDITOR: On December 10th, 2007, Al Gore and the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) received the Nobel Peace Prize for their w...
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December 23, 2025
by JADA CHAMBERS AN 85-YEAR-OLD RILL HILL resident who has competed in the Best Lit House competition for almost two decades, is preparing to compete ...
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December 23, 2025
OPPOSITION LEADER Dr. Ralph Gonsalves’ current security arrangement may be a main issue in the veteran politician not attending the first sitting of t...
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December 23, 2025
THREE LAWYERS WILL make up the opposition in Parliament when the legislative body meets after today, December, 23 2025. Yesterday, Monday, December 22...
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December 23, 2025
ABOUT 1,000 PERSONS from 50 countries who participated in ‘The Assembly of the Peoples for the Sovereignty and Peace of Our America’ have denounced US...
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December 23, 2025
OPPOSITION LEADER, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, delivered a Christmas message to the nation via Facebook on December 22, 2025 extending season’s greetings and...
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