R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
September 12, 2025
AS WE PROCEED after last month’s very “august” month, one gets the sense that as part of its build-up towards general elections, there is somewhat of ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
September 5, 2025
Even as the scourges of the climate crisis make life a daily misery for hundreds of millions of people the world over while condemning millions of oth...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
August 29, 2025
With the failure of US President Trump to achieve the promised peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine, despite his boast of an almost instant ces...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
August 22, 2025
UNFORTUNATELY, OR fortunately, depending on one’s perspectives, the nation is again being plunged into what some social commentators have dubbed “the ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
August 14, 2025
defend democracy and the gains of our working people, and while I can look back on those experiences as rich chapters in the book of life itself, it h...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
August 8, 2025
I preface this week’s column in support of World Steelpan Day, August 11, by offering my sincerest condolences to the wife and family of one of our un...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
July 31, 2025
THIS WEEKEND, people of African descent all over the Caribbean will begin a month of reflection and celebration as we commemorate Emancipation Day of ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
July 25, 2025
This week, take a flashback with me to some of the “glory days” in the gilded history of Caribbean music bands. The inspiration for doing this came af...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
July 18, 2025
Apologies for the absence of my column last week due to personal reasons. It has left me in a quandary for there is too much to cover in one column gi...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
July 4, 2025
We are approaching the climax of VincyMas ’25 with the major activities taking place this weekend right up to“Mardi Gras” next Tuesday. Mentioning the...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
June 27, 2025
It has taken all of 50 years, a full half of a century, but at long last the first-ever official cricket World Champions have been officially honoured...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
June 20, 2025
On behalf of the Rose and Dopwell families, let me say thanks to all those who in one way or another demonstrated their solidarity with us as we engag...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
June 13, 2025
(A Reprint from June 2023) This Sunday there will be somewhat muted activities in some quarters to celebrate what can only be termed “the poor relatio...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
June 6, 2025
My flat nose swelled with enormous pride on Tuesday of this week when I listened to the copious tributes being paid to a son of our soil, Justice Adri...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
May 30, 2025
Just as a new spate of localised killings re-focused our attention on our seeming murder plague, a gruesome development on the Grenadine Island of Can...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
May 23, 2025
PRIDE OF PLACE this week must go to the Spiritual Baptists Day, celebrated this year for the first time with an offi cial public holiday and part of a...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
May 16, 2025
I don’t know how many persons were, like me, overjoyed to appreciate the efforts of the Carnival Development Corporation (CDC), under the inspiration ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
May 9, 2025
My column this week deals with a very important issue that we have been ducking for years now, that of remuneration for Parliamentarians and Ministers...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
May 2, 2025
THERE WERE DIFFERING fortunes for the incumbents in elections held at the northern and southern extremities of the North American continent on Monday ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
April 25, 2025
ON MONDAY of next week, the people of Trinidad and Tobago go to the polls leading off a series of critical elections in a number of CARICOM countries ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
April 17, 2025
THE VOTERS IN Trinidad and Tobago are preparing to go to the polls in two weeks time to elect a “new” government, never mind that the fight is largely...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
April 11, 2025
My heartiest congratulations go out to the Sion Hill Sports and Cultural Organisation on the achievement of its Golden Jubilee on Monday April 7. It i...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
April 3, 2025
The governing Unity Labour Party (ULP) marked the 24th anniversary of its historic election victory of March 28, 2001, with a massive celebration on S...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
March 28, 2025
St Vincent and the Grenadines has experienced its most positive National Heritage Month this March since Paramount Chief, Joseph Chatoyer was official...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
March 21, 2025
The accolade bestowed on Prime Minister Gonsalves last Friday at the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Dorsetshire Hill by the Garifuna Heritage Founda...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
March 13, 2025
With the advent of social media and free online publications, these sources have become the main source of “knowledge” for too many of our people. How...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
March 7, 2025
The history of the Caribbean is replete with outstanding examples of resistance to foreign domination, our own Chief Chatoyer and the Garifuna being a...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
February 28, 2025
BLACK HISTORY AND BLACK POWER As we come to the end of February, celebrated in North America, and parts of the Caribbean as Black History Month, some ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
February 21, 2025
Even as the AIA is trying to woo more visitors to our beautiful country, highlighting the upcoming Carnival bacchanal, one frequent flyer visitor is a...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
February 14, 2025
It is with a profound sense of national pride that today I offer my heartiest congratulations to the government and people of St Vincent and the Grena...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
February 7, 2025
The international and local landscapes are so full of negatives, that this week, my column takes a different, more positive approach by looking at som...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
January 31, 2025
In six weeks, the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines will engage in activities to mark National Heroes Day and commemorate the death of our sole...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
January 24, 2025
In spite of the efforts of some seasoned but misguided politicians, the 2025 Budget was successfully debated and approved by the House of Assembly las...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
January 17, 2025
Last week, I began a column making references to the development of relations between T&T, the people in particular, and similarities or differences t...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
January 10, 2025
There is a lot which binds St Vincent and the Grenadines and the twin- island State of Trinidad and Tobago together, not all of which is positive. For...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
January 3, 2025
As I extend best wishes for the New Year to my readers and the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines in general, following the numerous challenges o...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
December 20, 2024
Having been derailed slightly in our timing of comments on this critical issue by an unfortunate slip-up, even as I apologize, I would have wanted to ...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
December 13, 2024
I had a most encouraging and very heartening evening on Tuesday of this week when I participated in the online virtual launch of, (could you believe i...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
December 6, 2024
Having based my column last week on the events of May 1973, surrounding the murder of Attorney General Rawle, I was challenged last weekend by a gentl...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
November 29, 2024
Normally, one would be expected to offer congratulations as a matter of courtesy to Prime Minister Gonsalves on his re-election as Leader of the gover...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
November 22, 2024
Last week, I requested the understanding of readers for not publishing the promised second part of the article entitled “Time for introspection”. I do...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
November 15, 2024
I try very hard not to have the contents of this column revolve around me but rather on what I consider to be matters of public concern. In the case o...
R. Rose - Eye of the Needle
November 8, 2024
There is absolutely no comparison between elections in our country, or the rest of the Caribbean for that matter, and those in the USA. The context, r...
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...
News
September 12, 2025
The GOVERNMENT of St Vincent and the Grenadines is set to sign agreements for tourism investment of $1.3 billion on mainland St.Vincent. On Monday, Se...
From the Courts, News
September 12, 2025
A BARROUALLIE MAN will be sentenced next week after pleading guilty to being in illegal possession of a firearm and eight rounds of ammunition. Demron...
