It is graduation time again

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This is the time of the year when all across St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) parents and their children, teachers and educational officials, and a...

The Orlando massacre – Bigotry Squared

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On Monday, June 13, 2016 in Orlando, Florida, hundreds of revelers attending a club that catered to Orlando’s gay and lesbian community met the i...

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance

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Some Vincentians may be familiar with the name Edward Snowden. Right now he is in Russia, effectively beyond the reach of American law. Not too many p...

Time to bring out the iron fist

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Today St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is experiencing a surge in fatal shootings that has the potential to destabilize the society. Of course, the...

Muhammad Ali – The Greatest

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In his greatest poem entitled, "For the Fallen”, Robert Laurence Binyon writes: "They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old Age shal...

Criminal deportees and the crime situation

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Crimes of a particularly violent nature are increasingly causing serious problems for law enforcement throughout the Caribbean and Latin America and i...

An average hurricane season has been predicted – be prepared

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The 2016 hurricane season does not officially begin until tomorrow, June 1, but already, over the past few days, we have been experiencing heavy, inte...

The Venezuela situation – our response

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Throughout the Caribbean, Latin America and the Americas as a whole, there is great and growing concern about the situation in Venezuela. There, polit...

Bans imposed by Ministry impractical

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In what appears to be a knee jerk reaction, the Ministry of Education yesterday banned all school outings to picnic sites close to rivers and beaches;...

How do we tackle this apparent rise in crime?

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There are far too many guns on the streets of St Vincent and the Grenadines in the hands of lawless, misguided individuals who have no respect for hum...