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Our Caribbean
Guyanese electorate showed maturity despite intense frustration
Sir Ron SandersMay 16, 2015In what turned-out to be a very close general election the twenty-two and a half years reign of the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) as the government of Guyana has come ...
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Our Caribbean
Youth, unemployment and selling citizenship
Sir Ron SandersMay 13, 2015The economies of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are not doing well. Belize, Guyana and Suriname are the only three economies showing appreciable growth. The major effect of little or no ...
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Spotlight on Sport
Not an impossible dream
Reginald St. H ShillingfordMay 13, 2015Nelson Mandela has been associated with the profound saying that some things seem entirely impossible – until they are achieved. That must have been the feeling in the West Indies ...
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Spotlight
Our musicians have toiled without reward
Ian JacksonMay 13, 2015Over the past 50 years we have seen Dominica's most eminent bands. They are the Gaylords, Swinging Stars, Midnite Groovers, Belles Combo, WCK, First Serenade , RSB, Black Affairs and ...
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Spotlight on Sport
Faltering fortitude
Reginald St. H ShillingfordMay 10, 2015Two rather early portents arrived nearer the beginning of the second Test match against England and may have served to provide a clearer look at the West Indies hope of ...
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SpotlightThe acid truth about Alkaline
Ian JacksonMay 10, 2015Hi fans of this Spotlight column! Before I take you on another artistic journey or comment on the Arts, I pause to make the following correction .In the article which ...
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Our Caribbean
Youth, unemployment and selling citizenship
Sir Ron SandersMay 1, 2015The economies of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are not doing well. Belize, Guyana and Suriname are the only three countries whose economies are showing any appreciable growth. The major effect ...
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In RetrospectPaying homage to the countryside
Dr. Emanuel FinnApril 29, 2015Moon light nights in the countryside were my favorite because it was a time of great fun and bonding with the other kids and siblings. We would play games late ...
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Spotlight
A critical examination of donations and sponsorships
Ian JacksonApril 29, 2015The words donation and sponsorship are often used in the same context to describe funds people receive as gifts. Donation and sponsorship are, however, two completely different concepts in the ...
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Spotlight on Sport
A profession of great faith
Reginald St. H ShillingfordApril 29, 2015Jason Holder's undefeated century in the second innings of the First Test at Antigua comes clothed as the fruit yielded by a profession of great faith. A maiden Test century ...
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Our Caribbean
Lukewarm to the Commonwealth?
Sir Ron SandersApril 23, 2015The political parties contesting the May 7 general election in Britain have now published their manifestoes and my friend and colleague, Professor Philip Murphy, found in them a 'decidedly lukewarm ...
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SpotlightA "Pearl" in Dominica's culture: cultural stalwart Pearle Christian
Ian JacksonApril 21, 2015It is inevitable. All good things end at some point but for Pearle Christian it has been an amazing 33 years of a labour of love at the Cultural Division ...
