Getting the small and large things right

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It should be safe to say that our international airport would be opened some time in the next 12 months or so.Construction crews are at work putting t...

National discussion on CSEC performance long overdue

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A few years ago, after some disappointing national CSEC results in mathematics and English A, the Ministry of Education promised a national discussion...

Our College students, their options and choices

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This is undoubtedly an exciting time for 900 of our nation’s brightest.Over the next few days, with letters of acceptance firmly in hand, 900 of ...

Election Financing again

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On August 16, SEARCHLIGHT carried a story on its front page about the deposit of EC$1.35 million in the bank account of a lawyer with connections to...

Schools of excellence

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"In the abundance of water, the fools are thirsty.” Bob Marley Thirsty men need water. That Bob Marley understood, as in fact does everyone el...

Community policing: the time is now

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For the academic year beginning in September 2016, the University of the West Indies (UWI) will be offering three certificate programs in criminology ...

No surrender in defence of press freedom

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Over the last two months, Searchlight has engaged the Government in making the case that the Cybercrime Bill be amended to protect journalists. We bel...

‘Operation Illegal Guns’ re-visited

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On July 27, residents of Rose Place woke up to an extraordinary moment in the history of Vincentian policing: 100 police men and women from differen...

St Vincent and the Grenadines and the Olympics

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The St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) team to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro is a tiny one, but our delegates carry with them the hopes and spi...

The final Cybercrime Bill should be fair, balanced and reasonable

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It is a pity that our parliamentary system does not allow for the publication of reports of Select Committees before those reports are submitted to Pa...