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Spotlight
Under 16 Q-talent search.
Ian JacksonSept. 3, 2014Two weekends ago, eleven youths as young as 6 years, presented their talent in singing at the Harlem Plaza to an enthusiastic but rather small audience. The poor turnout could ...
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Spotlight on SportOn Guard!
Reginald St. H ShillingfordSept. 3, 2014Deceptively enough, you would not look twice at the less than medium height figure as he walks near you. But on second glance, there is the unmistakable sense of compactness ...
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You and the Law
I.P.O Law in Practice - 1
Dr. William Para RiviereSept. 3, 2014The I.P.O Act provides a vast range of offences, with comparatively heavy penalties, aimed at curing intolerable mischiefs that may arise in the public service. It establishes an Integrity Commission ...
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Our Caribbean
Fifty-one years later Dr King's dream remains unfulfilled
Sir Ron SandersAug. 28, 2014I write this commentary on August 28, 2014 – fifty-one years after the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr made his famous speech, "I have a dream" at the Lincoln ...
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You and the Law
I.P.O Law – Corruption
Dr. William Para RiviereAug. 27, 2014A mission of the I.P.O legislation is to stamp out corruption within our public service. It sets out to accomplish this by making bribery, especially of high-ranking public officers, and ...
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Living Today
A new focus in education
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.RAug. 27, 2014For some of us, the attendance at the sessions of the Nature Island Literary Festival has been very disappointing. One gets the impression that the organizers are living in a ...
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Spotlight
A review of Alwin Bully's play: Ruler in Hiroona
Ian JacksonAug. 27, 2014Two weekends ago we were treated to another of Alwin Bully's brand of plays; this time the 1976 classic " The Ruler in Hiroona" adapted for stage as "The Ruler" ...
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Spotlight on Sport
Ascendancy rent asunder
Reginald St. H ShillingfordAug. 27, 2014The nagging feeling remains that India proposes to rest little until finally it ascends to the throne of total dominance of world cricket. Clearly this ambition has been partly realized ...
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Our Caribbean
Kamla is right
Sir Ron SandersAug. 21, 2014Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, is right to have called for a special meeting of leaders of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) "to take pre-emptive measures to ensure ...
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Fine Point
Six seconds for exercise
Phillip AlleyneAug. 19, 2014Recently I was going through my collection of the Readers Digest; I have been a subscriber for many years of this very important magazine which was published monthly and was ...
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Living Today
Returning Dominicans
Aug. 19, 2014I have long thought that a tremendous effort should be made to give the event of the immigration of Dominicans to the United Kingdom a prominent place in the history ...
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Spotlight on Sport
Survival- Women's Cricket
Reginald St. H ShillingfordAug. 19, 2014Brief evidence emerging from the 2014 Caribbean Women's Cricket Tournament being played in Dominica points to a marked failure of women's cricket in the region to acquit itself as praiseworthy, ...
