A giant passes

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How does one begin to write about Nelson Mandela who, in my view, was the most outstanding personality of the 20th and 21st centuries? Here was ...

The Hundredth Anniversary that is Not!

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So, it is now official! The year was 1913. This year is therefore the 100th anniversary of 'Nine Mornings'. So says the Ministry of Culture, which ...

Beyond the boundary

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This is not really about cricket but the dreadful and embarrassing state of West Indian cricket parallels and reflects the state of a region that is i...

The transfer of Glebe lands – the background

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The “Glebe Barrouallie” Project, involved much more than the transfer of land. It was an integrated development project aimed at developing ...

The transfer of Glebe lands – the background (An insider’s story)

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Following a request for information about the Glebe lands in Barrouallie, I had been desperately trying to find files and notes that I knew I had. I h...

Kenny Anthony bells the cat

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It had to be done at some time, since the region is in need of an honest reality check. Now Dr Kenny Anthony of St Lucia has at last spoken out. Thi...

What did we celebrate last Sunday?

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I was really moved by the number of people I saw dressed in the national colours, many of them, I must say, beautifully designed. Then, there were tho...

‘Send out you hand,’ by Dorbrene E. O’Marde

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On Saturday, October 19, Antiguan-Vincentian Dorbrene O’Marde, more familiarly known as “Fatz”, launched two books at the UWI Open Camp...

The Silly Season – Pappyshow Time!

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Whenever I read newspapers from other Caribbean countries, I do so with SVG in mind and try to find out what lessons we can learn from them or to wh...

A call to journalists

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"My fellow Journalists, not every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of a politician is news. We are reporters, not scribes. That means we’r...