Our Readers' Opinions
September 13, 2024
Editor: Transportation continues to be a problem in this country. North Leeward is no exception when it comes to having difficulties travelling as a p...
Our Readers' Opinions
September 6, 2024
EDITOR: Greetings and peace to all my Father’s children, I am declaring a message to all from the Lord. My name is Sister Jouvita Williams an ambassad...
Our Readers' Opinions
September 6, 2024
EDITOR: It is good to hear and know of the road repairs programme that is currently going on and plan to take place in the near future. While complime...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 30, 2024
EDITOR: Communication companies play a very important role in that they give the opportunity to give and receive information. Utility companies also p...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 30, 2024
EDITOR: I sat and listened to the Democratic National Convention in the United States of America and I was very touched by many of the speakers, espec...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 30, 2024
EDITOR: At a time when staff and administration should have been meeting to plan for the new school year, it appears that bats have taken over the sch...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 30, 2024
EDITOR: Jamaican artiste Adidja Palmer (Vybz Kartel) got a seat at the ‘king’s table’ while teachers and public servants are still being oppressed by ...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 26, 2024
My house roof was blown off about a month ago when a category 4 hurricane called Beryl hit St.Vincent and the Grenadines. I was in my personal space p...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 21, 2024
My house roof was blown off about a month ago when a category 4 hurricane called Beryl hit St.Vincent and the Grenadines. I was in my personal space p...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 16, 2024
EDITOR: Sports is very import. Many persons were locked into their television watching the Olympics. I take this opportunity to extend congrats to our...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 16, 2024
EDITOR: The homicide rate in St. Vincent and the Grenadines has become a growing concern for residents and visitors alike in what was once considered ...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 9, 2024
by ELIZABETH RILEY, Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), Prof. Celeste Saulo, Secretary-General of the Wo...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 9, 2024
EDITOR: “For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For the mind of ...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 9, 2024
EDITOR: There have been animal cruelty laws in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) since 1987, which sadly have been ineffective for quite some time. ...
Our Readers' Opinions
August 2, 2024
EDITOR: A couple years ago, I read an article in “Our Reader’s Opinion” dated November 15, 2011 by Herbert Young. In the article he was celebrating hi...
Our Readers' Opinions
July 26, 2024
EDITOR: Our condolences go out to those who have lost loved ones. It is something we can never get accustomed to, no matter how hard we try. When deat...
Our Readers' Opinions
June 28, 2024
EDITOR: Now that we have been knocked out of the World Cup, we know that there would plenty discussions, criticism, and even judgement about the perfo...
Our Readers' Opinions
June 28, 2024
EDITOR: Evelyn: Ava, can you turn on the radio for me please? I do not want to miss the 6:00 p.m news. Radio Announcer: In today’s news, St. Vincent a...
Our Readers' Opinions
June 25, 2024
EDITOR: The ocean is rich in abundance with marine life and in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the beautiful coral reefs and crystal clear water are a...
Our Readers' Opinions
June 18, 2024
EDITOR: Today, I speak to you with a 2burning heart and a bitter mouth. We, the people of the West Indies - descendants of genocidated Amerindian peop...
Our Readers' Opinions
June 18, 2024
Editor: From Belize, the Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, St. Lucia, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, to G...
Our Readers' Opinions
June 18, 2024
EDITOR: I am writing to express my profound dissatisfaction and growing frustration with the abysmal service provided by our local telecommunications ...
Our Readers' Opinions
June 16, 2024
EDITOR: The influence of evil is stronger than the influence of good. More and more we are placing children in positions to make choices where they of...
Our Readers' Opinions
June 16, 2024
Dear Prime Minister Gonsalves, Hon. Minister Orando Brewster & Madam Town Planner Ms Hull Re: Objection to the Land Use Next to the Penniston/Cane Gro...
Our Readers' Opinions
June 11, 2024
EDITOR: Everybody deserve to be loved and appreciated. At some point in our life, we start dating, with the intention of getting married and starting ...
Our Readers' Opinions
June 11, 2024
EDITOR: I was fortunate as an Emergency Communications First Responder, to be among decision makers [on] Thursday, May 30, 2024, as we looked at the “...
Our Readers' Opinions
June 7, 2024
EDITOR: We have heard it said that “money makes the mail run,” but is that so? Whether it is care giving, agriculture, steel band or teaching, the peo...
Our Readers' Opinions
June 7, 2024
EDITOR: The ICC World Cup 2024 is in full swing. West Indies we know won its first game, although there were some scary moments. However, they were ab...
Our Readers' Opinions
June 7, 2024
Further to the reports in local media concerning the billboard erected by the NDP. Despite all the pontifications by the NDP leader justifying the mat...
Our Readers' Opinions
June 4, 2024
EDITOR: Media plays a very important role in any country. Editor, I must commend you for allowing me and other persons to contribute to your paper. Th...
Our Readers' Opinions
June 4, 2024
EDITOR: In an article in the Searchlight December 2020, Superintendent Hazelwood stated that 66% of inmates in HMP Kingstown & HMP Belle Isle, were re...
Our Readers' Opinions
June 4, 2024
Editor: The Caribbean Music Awards Committee has proudly announced that Brunch and Soca, an organization created by Vincentian Jonell Goodluck, has be...
Our Readers' Opinions
June 4, 2024
EDITOR: Tourism in the Caribbean is very imperative to the economy. According to a Jamaica Observer article, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has decl...
Our Readers' Opinions
May 31, 2024
Editor: We celebrated African Liberation Day or Africa Day on 25th May 2024. In commemoration of that occasion, I spent time reflecting on the meaning...
Our Readers' Opinions
May 31, 2024
EDITOR: A drought is a period of time when an area or region experiences below- normal precipitation. Droughts are increasing across the globe as a re...
Our Readers' Opinions
May 24, 2024
At a public lecture not so long ago, a local activist by the name of Edgar Kwame Lewis who is well known to me highlighted the need for a programme of...
Our Readers' Opinions
May 24, 2024
Editor: On Wednesday 1 May 2024, a few of my friends and I decided to spend the public holiday at one of our favourite beaches in the country - Buccam...
Our Readers' Opinions
May 17, 2024
Water is essential for life. It is very unfortunate that there is no reliable public water supply in the Grenadines. In its absence perhaps there shou...
Our Readers' Opinions
May 17, 2024
Editor: A vagrant is a person who is poor, does not have a home or job, and moves from place to place. The issues of vagrants in St Vincent and the Gr...
Our Readers' Opinions
May 17, 2024
Editor: I read your piece regarding the incoming sargassum and wanted to introduce you to the start-up company, Seafields – a blue carbon project whic...
Our Readers' Opinions
May 17, 2024
EDITOR: I am writing with great concern having received an image, via email, of a recently deceased person in St Vincent and the Grenadines. This seem...
Our Readers' Opinions
May 17, 2024
EDITOR: As I sat in the examination room to begin my Introduction to Psychology exam in 2012, I took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. This was one of...
Our Readers' Opinions
May 10, 2024
EDITOR: The services of minivans are imperative to the economy. On a daily basis, they transport school children, persons who are employed, elderly, t...
From the Courts, News
September 16, 2025
A VENDOR, who accused another man of vomiting and urinating in front of his family’s business place was bonded for striking the man in his stomach whi...
News
September 16, 2025
PRESIDENT OF THE SVG Hotel Association Isola Giddings, says the country’s tourism sector is on a firm path of growth, but stakeholders must work toget...
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...
