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Canadian family’s harrowing experience with LIAT
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January 13, 2012
Fri, Jan 13. 2012 Editor: I wish to share my family’s recent vacation experience to St. Vincent and the Grenadines. What had the potential to be a l...
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Educational reformation
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January 13, 2012
Fri, Jan 13. 2012 Editor: Politics has to be one of the most humbling professions in the world. Unlike other non-religious vocations, the main objecti...
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Elections in Jamaica – some revelance to SVG
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January 13, 2012
Fri, Jan 13. 2012 Editor: The Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines has congratulated Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller and her Peopleâ€...
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Poetic Cry
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January 13, 2012
by Dillon Ollivierre Fri, Jan 13. 2012 Shanika Small went missing Decomposed body had the nation stressing Junior Lowman thrown in copper of boiling w...
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Time to change traffic regulations for Kingstown
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January 10, 2012
Tue, Jan 10. 2012 Editor: There needs to be some review of the way that traffic operates on our roads, especially in Kingstown. The price of gas is so...
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Time to think at a higher level
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January 10, 2012
Tue, Jan 10. 2012 Editor: We are now into 2012 and I think it is time that we begin thinking at a higher level. This everyday way of thinking just wou...
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Not in the manifesto?
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January 10, 2012
Tue, Jan 10. 2012 Editor: The report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that was published after its officials visited Saint Vincent and the Gre...
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Leeward roads crying out for repair!
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January 10, 2012
Tue, Jan 10. 2012 Editor: Recently I took a long drive on the Windward side of the island. How I kept saying to myself that I wished all the roads in ...
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Thusians extend best wishes of God’s love
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January 10, 2012
Tue, Jan 10. 2012 Editor: We, the members of the Thusian Institute for Religious Liberty Inc., extend wishes of God’s love to you for a happy and sa...
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SPIRITUAL WAR – Against whom?
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January 6, 2012
Fri, Jan 6. 2011 Editor: I am an avid supporter of the Spiritual Baptists in St. Vincent and the Grenadines for several years; but, until recent times...
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Show appreciation to Vincentians in the Diaspora
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January 6, 2012
Fri, Jan 6. 2011 Editor: New Year greetings to all Vincentians, especially to those who live in the Diaspora. I wish for all of us, at the very least,...
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Execute stiff penalty laws for littering!
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January 6, 2012
Fri, Jan 6. 2011 Editor: I do wish that our Honourable Prime Minister and other Honourable Government Ministers read this article. Can the Government ...
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Looking forward
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January 6, 2012
Fri, Jan 6. 2011 Editor: Depending on who you listen to, the top news story for the year (2011) was the killing of Osama Bin Laden - some would say st...
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Road safety
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December 30, 2011
Fri, Dec 30. 2011 Editor: Road safety is something that should be practiced at ALL times. However, some road users are still not applying road safety ...
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Let us plan for the new year
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December 30, 2011
Fri, Dec 30. 2011 Editor: Christmas has passed and we await the arrival of the New Year. Many would make resolutions, most of which would not be kept....
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CHRISTmas or PaganMAS?
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December 30, 2011
Fri, Dec 30. 2011 Editor: Christianity was cradled from a lowly stable in the city of Bethlehem over 2000 years ago. Indeed, Christmas was first obser...
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Love and good neighbourliness, ULP style?
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December 30, 2011
Fri, Dec 30. 2011 Editor: While you read this letter, an elderly woman in a remote village in this country wonders why she is left unnoticed by the of...
An accident waiting to happen
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An accident waiting to happen
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December 30, 2011
Fri, Dec 30. 2011 Editor: Last Tuesday evening, I took a drive with my family to look at the lights in the various communities on the Windward side of...
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Let us as a people seek the Lord’s face
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December 22, 2011
Thu, Dec 22. 2011 Editor: It has been a pleasure contributing to your paper with my articles. It was very encouraging getting responses from many read...
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Girls’ High School in 2011
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December 22, 2011
Thu, Dec 22. 2011 Editor: As the momentous, historic centenary year draws to a close, the Headmistress, Staff and Students of the St. Vincent Girls’...
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A Precious Gift Of Love
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December 22, 2011
by Sydney K Morgan Thu, Dec 22. 2011 We were all given a Christmas gift, A gift that came from above; Jesus Christ, God’s only son A precious gift o...
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Why was Jesus born?
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December 22, 2011
Thu, Dec 22. 2011 Editor: Hundreds of years before Jesus was born in the little town of Bethlehem, the Prophet Isaiah had prophesied of the coming Mes...
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Why are we celebrating Christmas?
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December 20, 2011
Fri, Dec 20. 2011 Editor: As we celebrate Christmas, we often hold the impression that the rest of the world is also celebrating the birth of Christ. ...
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Who is Ernesto Cooke?
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December 20, 2011
Fri, Dec 20. 2011 Editor: About three months before the December 13, 2010 general elections, Ernesto Cooke, news announcer on WE FM Radio, approached ...
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Happy Birthday to our Centenary Headmistress
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December 16, 2011
Fri, Dec 16. 2011 Editor: Mrs. Andrea Clare Bowman née Keizer grew up in the walls of the Girls’ High School initially as a child of a teacher, the...
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Keep on improving, SEARCHLIGHT
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December 16, 2011
Fri, Dec 16. 2011 Editor: I must first of all congratulate SEARCHLIGHT NEWSPAPER in making the effort to be investigative in some of its reporting. Ke...
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Deputy Passes test
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December 16, 2011
Fri, Dec 16. 2011 Editor: The Deputy Police Commissioner Hadaway has passed his first test on the job.{{more}} His training as an SSU officer led to t...
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Something in the mortar besides the pestle?
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December 16, 2011
Fri, Dec 16. 2011 Editor: I write to endorse the sentiments expressed in Oscar Allen’s article on this country’s cocoa agreement with Armajaro whi...
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Open Letter to ‘One Love’ Bassy
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December 13, 2011
Tue, Dec 13. 2011 Dear One Love, “Mout open, ‘tory jump out”. How come yuh never told me that your girl Lieza can’t read nor write, but she kn...
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Let us be more caring this Christmas season
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December 13, 2011
Tue, Dec 13. 2011 Editor: It is the Christmas season, once again, and many are preoccupied with cleaning, painting and shopping. We no longer pay atte...
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Why Eustace’s IMF predictions fell flat
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December 13, 2011
Tue, Dec 13. 2011 Editor: We all know the story of the Boy who cried Wolf and the fatal lesson that boy learnt. There have been many attempts by the N...
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Time To Stand Against Crime and Violence
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December 13, 2011
by Dillon Ollivierre Tue, Dec 13. 2011 Time to stand! Time to counteract the crime and violence which seem to hold our country at ransom Time to unite...
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Is mum the word?
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December 13, 2011
Tue, Dec 13. 2011 Editor: I am beginning to feel that we have a bunch of “mouth champs” leading the countries in CARICOM. They are all - every las...
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Vincy bananas changing colours – What’s next?
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December 9, 2011
Fri, Dec 9. 2011 Editor: Through our fore-fathers, we have become involved in a multi-billion dollar global industry with one of the world’s most po...