Let not our children be sacrificial lambs

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THE DOORS of our schools are scheduled to be reopened in three weeks time. Sadly, the stated date seems tentative now, given the current spike in COV...

The Florence Nightingale Spirit Lives

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LAST WEEK, to register its opposition to an amendment to the Public Health Act which would require workers in specific jobs to be vaccinated, the Pub...

Protests will not get rid of COVID19, acting sensibly will

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FROM TIME TO time, governments must take hard decisions in the interest of the public. Making COVID19 vaccination mandatory for certain categories of...

CPEA and connecting the dots

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After waiting five weeks for results; an unusually long period for the Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment (CPEA), our grade six pupils, their teachers ...

A friend in need

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Today, August 31, 2021, we send our congratulations to the government and people of the twin-island republic of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) on the o...

Public Service Union raises the stakes

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The leadership of one of the local unions which represent public servants, the Public Service Union (PSU), has raised the stakes in its long-running d...

Who’s not getting it?

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The Vincentian YouTuber at the centre of the fake abduction of a female last Saturday says people who have criticized what she terms a “social exper...

What about our children?

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In six weeks time, our students and pupils are due to resume face-to-face classes to begin the new school year. Theirs has been a harrowing experience...

Afghanistan – much on which to ponder

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IN 1980, THE international sporting community, and the people of the world in general, were shocked to learn that the United States (US) had launched...

If the ship goes down, everyone drowns

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ST VINCENT AND THE Grenadines is today a deeply distressed and battered nation. In less than two years, we have had a dengue outbreak, a closely foug...