06 August 2004
Disaster preparedness

Disaster preparedness


Earlier this week the ‘Land of the Blessed’ was visited by Tropical Depression Two and luckily for us there were no major hiccups. The main...
30 July 2004
Emancipation style

Emancipation style


Activities to mark Emancipation Month kick off this Sunday. A series of events are planned under the theme, ‘Understanding our past, shaping our ...
23 July 2004
Politics and Sports

Politics and Sports


Former calypso King, Errol ‘Age’ Rose, in one of his 2004 compositions made a plea “to keep politics out of carnival.” As farfetch...
16 July 2004
Ensuring financial stability

Ensuring financial stability


Moving into one’s own home is always an occasion of pride and joy for the occupant. It exudes a sense of satisfaction and feeling of accomplishme...
09 July 2004
Beyond raw talent

Beyond raw talent


Our Editorial of last edition paid homage to the prowess of our Carnival masmen and the high quality of their productions. This Carnival Day, they pr...
02 July 2004
Vincy Mas amidst mixed signals

Vincy Mas amidst mixed signals


We are well into the reign of the Merry Monarch King Carnival, and we must make one observation. There seems to have been, thus far, a very lukewarm ...
25 June 2004
Coping with the challenge

Coping with the challenge


The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is mandated by our constitution to prosecute the Criminal Law. Essentially, the D.P.P is entrusted ...
18 June 2004
Kaiso – that yearly ritual

Kaiso – that yearly ritual


The Calypso season is fully with the judging of the preliminaries all this week long. That process had started in Brooklyn, that adopted North Americ...
11 June 2004
Let’s get all hands on deck

Let’s get all hands on deck


This week, this country played host to perhaps the first International Conference on Bananas ever convened in the region. But the importance of this f...
04 June 2004
Fish and Banana need local ingredients

Fish and Banana need local ingredients


Fish and banana is a favourite dish of many Vincentians, though regretfully if not enough of us. Coincidentally in the space of 10 days two major even...