August 1st is not about celebration!

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Releases last weekend indicated that we were celebrating the emancipation of the enslaved. But what is there to celebrate 183 years after?  Official...

It was 183 years ago

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Sunday, August 1 would be 183 years since our enslaved foreparents were finally ‘freed’. The Emancipation Act, of 1 August 1834, had freed 2, 959 ...

The Kenneth John I knew – In Appreciation (Part III)

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Kenneth John or KRV as friends called him (Kenneth Randolph Vincent) was laid to rest on Tuesday at the St Georges Cathedral. Bassy and I did the Eulo...

The Kenneth John I knew – In appreciation  (Part 11)

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I ended last week’s column with reference to cricket games that Kenneth organised in different parts of the island. Those games represented an era t...

The Kenneth John I knew – In Appreciation

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Early last Saturday morning I received news of the passing of Dr Kenneth John. Although I realised that he was quite ill the news certainly rocked me....

The continuing saga of Cornelius John, the phantom and crew

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I must admit not being a close follower of court matters, but I am a voracious reader of suspense novels, detective stories and court dramas from auth...

The troubling story of Cornelius John

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The Cornelius John story continues to amaze me as it does other concerned Vincentians.  The relative silence of the police and the failure to arres...

What does our silence mean?

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At times like these it is useful to reflect on, and remind ourselves of the message which came from Martin Niemoller’s 1946 poem “First they came ...

Evil Stalks this Land!

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The state of SVG is rotting from head to tail and it appears as if evil stalks the land that someone once called ‘home of the blessed’. There is c...

Israel and Palestine- the never ending struggle!

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Seventy two years ago when the state of Israel was established as a homeland for Jews, resulting in the expulsion of over 500,000 Palestinians who co...