A special sitting of the House of Assembly was held on Thursday to mark the last time Parliament will sit at the over 200-year-old building in Kingstown.
Today, Wednesday, is the day I normally write my column for the newspaper. It happens also to be my birthday, a day I had hoped to spend relaxing. Writing my article became an occasion to reminisce a bit. As I reflect on my journey two matters influenced the path I have taken. First, my mother Dorothy ‘Olga’ Quow and my extended family, the children of Estelle Lampkin and Benjamin Quow. …
The anniversary of Independence is not usually a pleasant time for me. For many Vincentians it is a fashion parade as they create outfits with the colours of the national flag and proudly display them. Others declare themselves Vincy to the core, some reasserting their ‘Vincentian-ness”. Others identify with anything that is positively Vincentian. Unfortunately, to a large extent this is short lived because the country soon resorts to its …
During his address to the recent national Convention of the Unity Labour Party (ULP), Party leader and current Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves solicited the cooperation of the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) in a joint effort to change the constitutional status of our country by removing the British monarch as our Head of State and replacing that monarch by a home-grown Republican President. Our country would then be following …
EDITOR: When Vincentians reflect on the last twenty one and a half years of their lives and soberly examine the issues and factors which have fashioned their present circumstances, they will have difficulty avoiding the conclusion that life in St Vincent today is far away from the quality which at the end of the last century,we seemed to have been working towards. What seemed to have happened is that our …