Gaza continues to be on my mind. It is totally disgusting that Israel’s daily bombardment on northern and southern Gaza and searches and arrests on the West Bank continue with little regard for civilians especially Gaza continues to be on my mind. It is totally disgusting that Israel’s daily bombardment on northern and southern Gaza and searches and arrests on the West Bank continue with little regard for civilians especially.
I have often said about our country that there is never a dull moment. When it is not one thing it is another and so it goes. This week I make some preliminary comments on our 2024 Budget. This was not my intention. I was expecting to write about it next week when I had a chance to read the Minister of Finance’s Budget address and to follow some aspects of.
Like most Vincentians, I believe, I welcome the emergence of the New Year 2024. 2023 had been one of our worst years for a long time. The 55 murders recorded for the year, the last just shortly before midnight, tell its own story. We have for two consecutive years broken records for murder rates. In passing I note that Jamaica has had a reduction in murders and rapes. In fact, …
Every year around this time I am reminded of a classic message to his Australian parliamentary colleagues in 2019 by the Honourable David Templeman, the minister for Culture and Arts. He decided to do it in song with a reworking of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Sound of Silence.” “And in this Parliamentary hall are a dozen members, maybe more; members talking without speaking; members hearing without listening; members giving speeches that no …
In the Christian world Christians and others who are not necessarily Christians celebrate this season as one of peace, love, happiness, and goodwill. All of this is associated with the birth of Christ, but the season has taken on a life of its own. My intention was to reflect on Christmas as I knew it and some of the changes that have taken place over the years, but I have had …