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May 29, 2020
EDITOR: I am a Cruise and Vacation Specialist in Toronto, Canada, my job is to recommend different and emerging Caribbean ports to clients and so I wa...
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May 26, 2020
EDITOR: While the world continues to battle with the COVID-19 with some nations experiencing the sad situation of rising death, we have, thankfully, h...
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May 26, 2020
EDITOR: Too many students are being needlessly left behind during this Covid-19 crisis. In times of difficulties, we need to emphasize the basics and ...
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May 26, 2020
Editor: One misconception is that people are starving due to the pandemic in other countries, this is completely untrue. In fact, a negative impact of...
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May 22, 2020
EDITOR: Do you know that you can actually read the entire Bible and receive the very same message from both Old and New Testament? The entire Bible th...
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May 15, 2020
Editor: I read with interest the article on repatriation of students from Jamaica. I do not want to dwell on the “politics” of who should be responsib...
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May 15, 2020
EDITOR: Some time ago I raised the issue of the rampant effeminisation of the men of the society and made the observation that this erosion of manhood...
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May 15, 2020
EDITOR: The fear of the spread and potential impact of the novel Covid-19 disease has led to an unprecedented disruption of life throughout the world....
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May 12, 2020
by Kwame Venner Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has left a trail of destruction in its path, including but not limited to plummeting business and gov...
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May 12, 2020
By Renitta Peters-Morris The emergence of a coronavirus relatively unknown to the Caribbean six (6) months ago, has caused a major shift in normal ope...
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May 8, 2020
EDITOR: Nothing stifles an economy like unpaid debt, goods borrowed and not returned, lack of confidence, injustice, unfairness, lack of meritocracy, ...
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May 8, 2020
EDITOR: The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how the world conducts day to day business. Although change was necessary, it can be overwhelming at times. ...
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May 8, 2020
EDITOR: Once again the Public Service Commission (PSC) has lost another case. Once again the successful lawyer was Jomo Thomas. This once again brings...
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May 8, 2020
Editor:I was heartened to hear veteran trade unionist Bro. Noel Jackson, speaking out on workers’ rights in his address on the occasion of May Day. Br...
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April 30, 2020
EDITOR: Once again the Public Service Commission (PSC) has lost another case. Once again the successful lawyer was Jomo Thomas. This once again brings...
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April 21, 2020
EDITOR: As the World struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Shipping Industry is struggling as well. In the Caribbean, full containers of non-essen...
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April 17, 2020
EDITOR: I am writing as a concerned parent who has sons, nieces and nephews in different secondary schools throughout St. Vincent and the Grenadines. ...
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April 17, 2020
EDITOR: The current global pandemic has affected just about every country in the world save a few, SVG being no exception. As a matter of fact, the si...
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April 17, 2020
EDITOR: Men often love to receive praise when they do well, but these same men shun scrutiny, criticism and correction when their actions are irrespon...
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April 9, 2020
EDITOR: In light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) which has been characterized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a pandemic, there have been many...
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April 9, 2020
EDITOR: It is obvious the St Vincent and the Grenadines politicians and politicians globally have already failed pandemic economics. Firstly, never in...
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April 3, 2020
Editor: Language is the key to a child’s educational development. Today, I urge persons with infants to spend time speaking WORDS not NON-WORDS with y...
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April 3, 2020
Editor: The Cuban contingents of doctors and nurses currently being deployed throughout the Caribbean and Latin America as well as countries like Ital...
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April 3, 2020
Editor: As I write, the world is working through a pandemic with Covid-19, a new or novel strain of the Corona family of viruses. A few important take...
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April 3, 2020
EDITOR: Some educators are of the opinion that if a teacher reads the instructions and items of a test to students who cannot read well, the teacher i...
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March 31, 2020
EDITOR: We have all noticed the large number of online jokes about the suffering married couples who have been forced into quarantine together. Marrie...
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March 27, 2020
ACCORDING TO the World Health Organization, “about 1 in 3 (35%) of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner vio...
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March 27, 2020
EDITOR: This is election year and Patel is going crazy with meetings, while Carlos is busy at work. If the truth be told, Patel as a representative ha...
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March 27, 2020
EDITOR: It’s with a heavy heart I write these lines concerning one of the most unfortunate and tragic events that has touched me personally and dearly...
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March 27, 2020
EDITOR: Sometime ago when there was no one else available to teach English A at the CSEC level I undertook the task. We began the classes from the beg...
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March 20, 2020
EDITOR : There is much talk recently about Food Security. This consciousness therefore begs the question: Food security for whom and at what level? Do...
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March 20, 2020
EDITOR: According to the comment made on SVG TV news concerning Coronavirus and Vincy Mas... Please be reminded that this is a 2x4 country with open s...
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March 10, 2020
EDITOR: It is with great pain that I am compelled to write this letter as I sit in silence contemplating the safety of women in St Vincent and the Gre...
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March 10, 2020
EDITOR: Malcolm Gladwell (author) opened my eyes to a possibility connected to recent events involving the United States of America (USA) and the Isla...
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March 10, 2020
EDITOR: Please, if you will, permit me to discuss with you what I consider to be some of the main root causes of domestic violence and abuse and suppo...
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March 10, 2020
EDITOR: The title of my letter is taken from Peggy Carr’s poem ‘Back Talk’, and in the context of International Women’s Day (IWD), I will use this quo...
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March 6, 2020
Mr Fereira, I WOULD LIKE To kindly address some of your concerns expressed in a letter to the editor by Oswald Fereira entitled “The Soufriere Tree, f...
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March 6, 2020
EDITOR: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) issued a statement a month ago, saying the Caribbean is a low risk area in relation to COVID-19 (C...
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March 6, 2020
EDITOR: I write to announce that I had the most horrifying, the most terrifying time of my life as a retired civil servant, on Saturday, February 29. ...
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February 28, 2020
EDITOR: I remember as a young child visiting the Botanic Gardens and seeing the Soufriere Tree and reading the label that the tree was endemic to St. ...
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February 28, 2020
EDITOR: Whoosh!!!! Through the taxi or minibus window it goes! What? An empty KFC box, a plastic bottle, or some other unwanted material. This has bee...
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February 25, 2020
EDITOR: For the longest time now the books are not balanced. We live in debt. We live “hand to mouth,” from pay cheque to pay cheque. Accountability i...
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February 25, 2020
Editor: Nearly 6 months have passed since the Medical Marijuana Bill was passed, doctors consulted and NOT one prescription issued. The rate at which ...
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