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Letter: Grenada's democracy is at stake
May 23, 2013
Throughout human civilisation many world leaders have left their mark on history for the good, the bad or the ugly. Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx. Adolph Hitler. Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon Bonaparte, Idi Amin, Nelson Mandela, Saddam Hussein, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and...
Letter: Human rights groups confused about how to prosecute the Tivoli massacre
May 21, 2013
Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding, Police Commissioner Owen Ellington, former Major General Stewart Saunders of the JDF and Minister of National Security Dwight Nelson ordered soldiers and policemen to invade Tivoli Gardens in May 2010, resulting in a massacre.
Letter: In recognition of Matthew 'Dada' Culzac's 100th birthday
May 21, 2013
The bible says it is allotted to a man to live three score and ten years, but by reason of strength eighty years. In today’s fast paced world, in particular because of the behaviour of recent generations, who choose to live dangerously, spending their days on the edge.
Letter: Another fine mess you have got us in, Stanley
May 20, 2013
Is this the prime airline that Gonsalves referred to when he told us that some great airlines would be flying into Argyle? Will this be our ‘flag carrier’ airline? Will this be as good as it gets? This is a new airline established in 2004, but several bad records have held it back from being a success.
Letter: Chavez forum is a propaganda event
May 18, 2013
With reference to your report of May 15, “Forum on the legacy of Hugo Chavez to be held in Canada”: “HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- The legacy of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez will be the focus of a conference to be held on May 23 at the Faculty of Social Sciences...
Letter: The study of a Vincentian narcissist
May 17, 2013
How to recognize a narcissist. Here are some ways: Their motto is me first! Everything's all about them. They have a grandiose sense of self-importance and entitlement, crave admiration and attention. A legend in their own mind, the world is reflected in their image.
Letter: Clueless NDC government was not an option for Grenadians
May 16, 2013
The Grenada ruling New National Party and the NDC politicians rarely agree on anything these days. But in recent months almost everyone in Grenada seemed to have coalesced around the notion that our economy and former government was broken and needed to be fixed.
Letter: Retribution cannot be bribed
May 16, 2013
Most people cannot seem to understand the concept that a leader sets the tone of the country and a corrupt leader will cause that corruption to flow down like a waterfall and infect the people he leads. As I explained with the examples of ancient Israel, Jamaica, Haiti and Uganda...
Letter: Cubans no longer require visas to come to SVG
May 15, 2013
There are already 30 private Cuban persons residing here [300 more to come] who are somehow eking out a living here in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). How does a private Cuban citizen, who previously earned US$30 a month in Cuba, afford to get to SVG and pay a rent when here?
Letter: Grenada's NNP government much to do list
May 14, 2013
We are accomplishing much after only three months of forming the new government. A balanced budget on time, an extensive economic development program, creating employment, and the list goes on, but now is not the time to rest on our accomplishments.
Letter: Blackface at Montreal's Comedy Gala last night...
May 14, 2013
Black people are people. We're humans like the rest. You cut us, we bleed. You publicly humiliate us and we hurt just as deeply as any other group of individuals would hurt. You see our anger only because you can never understand our tears.
Letter: Argyle Airport, who fooling who, who deceiving who?
May 13, 2013
“De Man Age” aka Mr Age has been one of the most conscious social commentary calypsonian in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) and the world as a whole. He once asked the government in SVG a damming question...
Letter: Jamaica must ratify the Rome Statutes of the International Criminal Court
May 13, 2013
The Tivoli Committee is about to spearhead a campaign to pressure the Jamaican government to ratify the Rome Statutes of the International Criminal Court which the government signed in the 1990s (but never ratified) in order to put an end to...
Letter: Forbes Burnham's supporters are off the mark
May 11, 2013
I have noticed that the Burnham sympathizers are coming up with several arguments to support him as a good candidate for the “Oliver Tambo Companion Award.” They have pointed out many things that he did to support South Africa and most...
Letter: St Vincent - it's time to stop the murders
May 11, 2013
There has been an unprecedented rise in murders in St Vincent and the Grenadines over the past few months. In all of the incidents we have seen the nation’s youths mercilessly killing each other in many inhumane ways.
Letter: Saint Vincent's Caribbean puppet show
May 10, 2013
A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object, such as a puppet, in real time to create the illusion of life. The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from the audience. A puppeteer can operate a puppet indirectly by the use of strings...
Letter: The public service
May 10, 2013
The public service of any democratic country should be one that is independent and professional with public employees serving the interest of their country and not a political leader or organisation. Public servants should be employed into the service...
Letter: Solution for Telescope Grenada
May 9, 2013
Telescope Grenada can simply pump the ocean’s rising tide to alternate locations where the extra water is needed. The Polders Netherlands is one low land that reclaimed its water filled land by employing this method. Wind power alone was used.
Letter: Nashwa Youth Development
May 9, 2013
I am pleased to announce the formation and the establishment of the US based nonprofit corporation: Nashwa Youth Development Inc. (NYDI). This corporation is designed and was established to prepare the community's youths to be respectable...
Letter: Proposed terms of reference for the intended commission of enquiry in Jamaica
May 8, 2013
That this Commission of Enquiry shall be comprised in the majority of international jurists, human rights experts and others of known integrity and independence; Whose purpose shall be -- To determine if crimes against humanity were committed in...
Letter: Recognition, justice, development
May 8, 2013
On Friday, May 3, 2013, civil society organisations met at Regency Cove Hotel in Christ Church and formed the Civil Society Reparations Commission (CSRC) Barbados under the chairmanship of hotelier Mr Hal Martin, who represents the...
Letter: Facebook and the rights of Bahamians
May 7, 2013
Facebook is free for all, but it doesn’t mean that we are liberated to slander others with impunity -- or to make vile threats against brothers and sisters without consequences. Facebook was not designed to override the justice system.
Letter: It's time to stop all this Marxist rubbish about national heroes in St Vincent
May 7, 2013
We need to understand what heroism really is, and what it really isn't. What it isn't is a politician doing a job that he was elected to do. Politicians should not even be considered as heroes. They are elected by their electorate to do whatever is good for their...
Letter: Tambo Award lays bare Burnham-WPA opportunism
May 7, 2013
The WPA has a real problem now that it has merged itself with the PNC/APNU. The problem is that whatever recognition that party may still have is due to the man Walter Rodney. Now that they have decided to go in bed with the PNC...
Letter: Earl Witter's disingenuous arguments against an international enquiry (Part 2)
May 6, 2013
Public Defender Earl Witter claims that he got nowhere with the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) because he does not have the power under the Public Defender (Interim) Act to force that institution to answer his questions.
Letter: Emotional airport game play
May 6, 2013
I know some Vincentians get upset when anyone raises issues with the building of the Argyle International Airport Project in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). Some seem to think that because the neighbouring islands around SVG have...
Letter: Clear evidence of tyrannical and despotic behaviour
May 4, 2013
The great Indian proponent of peace in a time of heavy and widespread colonial exploitation Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Mahatma Gandhi, said, “All through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible."
Letter: Earl Witter's disingenuous arguments against an international enquiry
May 3, 2013
Earl Witter, the Public Defender, has predictably sought to give the government and the state a way out of holding those accountable for the Tivoli Gardens massacre, by trying to rubbish the idea of an international enquiry.
Letter: Beach and dune sand mining in St Vincent will result in loss of land and flooding
May 3, 2013
Sand mining in Saint Vincent at Diamond beach by the government will sooner than later result in the flooding of adjacent land, some of which is below sea level. Taking of sand from this area is little more than a criminal act.
Letter: Human rights and justice prevail
May 2, 2013
Is Barbados a champion of human rights and justice by design or by manipulation? The international law that governs the principle of human rights and justice has placed Barbados into the world’s spotlight. The government and people have...
Letter: Reminder: Barbados NGO Reparations Commission
May 2, 2013
A “Barbados NGO Reparations Commission” will be established on Friday, May 3, 2013 at 6.00.pm at the Regency Cove Hotel on Hastings Main Road in Christ Church. The fact that the government of Barbados has established a Reparations...
Open Letter to OAS Secretary General
May 2, 2013
We write on behalf of a cross-section of Belizeans and true friends of Belize, worldwide, who acknowledge and hold in the highest regard, the sovereignty and territorial integrity achieved by the nation of Belize on 21st September 1981.
Letter: Election 2018: Franca vs Glynis vs Emmalin or Burke vs David
May 1, 2013
In May 2013, Grenada will once again make political history when the island will get its first female governor general in the person of Mrs Cecile De La Grenade. Mrs La Grenade will take over the governorship from Sir Carlyle Glean.
Letter: Survey on Caribbean attitudes towards the LBGT community
May 1, 2013
CADVA (The Caribbean American Domestic Violence Awareness Group) is conducting a survey on the attitudes in the Caribbean towards the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LBGT) community. This survey is a buildup towards...
Letter: Grenadians dont expect Mitchell to perform miracles
April 30, 2013
The people of Grenada say that they don’t expect the newly elected prime minister and his New National Party government to perform miracles, but they know that with this recent election, all the people in Grenada are aware of the policies...
Letter: The Unity Liars Party
April 30, 2013
All ULP politicians should be assumed guilty until proven innocent. When the leader is a self confessed liar ["I sometimes tell lies," said in parliament], there must be an assumption by his followers and colleagues that telling lies is okay.
Letter: Nassau Guardian boycotts Bahamian commentator?
April 29, 2013
I have been reading your newspaper for a long time. As a Bahamian I was proud when you started carrying weekly commentaries by fellow Bahamian Anthony L. Hall. I have also been reading the Nassau Guardian for a long time.
Letter: Lies about Venezuela
April 29, 2013
I was totally disgusted with Larry Birns’ commentary entitled “Post Election Conflict in Venezuela and the Hemispheric Response”. He states that the election was witnessed by 170 international observers. One of these observers...
Letter: Analysing the prime minister
April 27, 2013
A man whose life is governed and controlled by fear is a man who will forever reside in a prison of his own insecurities. In the same manner, a man who is afraid to die will never truly live, but he will be forever restrained from experiencing...
Letter: Ian Francis - Vincentian or Grenadian
April 26, 2013
I read with interest the letter written by Hudson George titled: Ian Francis will be missed as a Grenadian writer. I was shocked by this title because I was of the sincere opinion that Ian Francis was a fellow Vincentian. But Ian’s nationality is neither here nor there.
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