Someday at Christmas

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As we put together our final edition of SEARCHLIGHT before Christmas and pondered the gloomy headlines of the day, the lyrics of the Motown classic â...

To be or not to be, that is the question for ‘Major’ Leacock

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In perhaps the greatest Shakesparean tragedy, Hamlet, the hero of the play carrying his name uttered these words which have reverberated across the ce...

The hope of Christmas

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Christmas could not have come at a better time.The season has arrived only to find many of citizens displaced from their homes in the aftermath of wea...

Nine Mornings: A peculiar privilege of Vincentian patrimony

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On December 15, 2016, the vast majority of Vincentians will go to bed. Some will go early; others late. And a few will not go to sleep at all. However...

I am my brother’s keeper

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Over the past six years or so, St Vincent and the Grenadines has suffered terrible traumas. The cascade of natural disasters and accidents have destro...

Vincentians’ patience with crime is long, but it is not infinite

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Last Friday, Searchlight’s front page featured our Prime Minister, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, and the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr Frankie Josep...

Hairoun, Home of the Blessed and lately, the Flooded

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Once upon a time St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) did not experience natural disasters on such a regular basis. As hurricane after hurricane bypass...

Farewell, Fidel: May you rest in peace

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On Saturday, the world awoke to the news that Fidel Castro, the former President of Cuba, had passed away. And immediately a war broke out between his...

Suffer little children

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Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven. There is perhaps no more sterling endorsement anyw...

The end of the Eustace era: Where goeth the NDP?

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In October 2000, Sir James Mitchell, the NDP’s founder and a four-time Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), vacated political l...