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Thursday, January 19, 2006
I have to say I find the former Attorney General of Grenada most intriguing. I first came across one of his articles in a local weekly newspaper when holidaying in Grenada during November/
December of last year; and found the article (which I wholeheartedly agreed
with) so interesting that I brought the paper back with me...
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Tourism comparisons: How are ‘we’ doing?
Thursday, January 19, 2006
According to a news report carried by Caribbean Net News (source: Shervon Alfred), the Minister of Tourism for St. Lucia, Phillip J. Pierre and the island’s tourism director, Hillary Modeste are predicting a more than doubling of long-stay
visitors for 2006 when compared with last year...
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Continental Airlines ceasing operations to Barbados is a tragedy
Friday, January 13, 2006
When so many other carriers are increasing their flights to the Caribbean it
seems like a tragedy that Continental Airlines are totally ceasing operations to
Barbados...
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Barbados is close to over-pricing itself as a
destination
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
It’s interesting to hear representatives from Standard and Poor’s, the financial
rating agency reiterate what many of us in the tourism industry have been saying
for years...
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Eat fast in Jamaica
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
It is ironic that you are running stories entitled "Jamaican jerk on list of
'food to eat before you die'" and "Jamaica is murder capital of the world"...
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Does money buy justice?
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Jamaicans like to talk a lot and skirt around the real truth of an issue
especially when that truth exposes the negatives and hypocrisy of an action or
lifestyle that they love. The truth is the justice system of Jamaica is similar
to that of the so-called democratic world...
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Mr Hall’s hubris
Thursday, January 5, 2006
Mr. Hall’s reaction to my response to his article concerning the CSME aims to
lead readers down a path which has become all too popular amongst American
journalist and commentators, of which Mr. Hall is now one...
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Rejoinder to Dr Morris
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
I am flattered that a man "...well known - the world over" would take time (and
a great deal it would seem, considering that my article on CSME was published
here 2 months ago) to respond so comprehensively (in parts no less) to my
commentary...
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I love Net News
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Ha! Ha! I am really enjoying the battle between Dr. Gilbert NMO Morris and Mr.
Anthony Hall. It seems as though Mr. Hall touched a sensitive nerve of Dr.
Morris...
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With reference to the Barbados Workers Union demand
Monday, January 2, 2006
No one can blame any trade union for actively pursuing above inflation wage
increases for their members, but I really feel strongly that it is long overdue
for tourism policymakers to sit down with them and carefully explain exactly how
the industry works...
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Missing Lloyd Noel's column
Monday, January 2, 2006
Season's greetings to all at Caribbean Net News. Thank you for the
wonderful job you are doing with your internet site which is usually loaded with
lots of current and pertinent Caribbean news...
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Will CARICOM be moving to the metric system?
Monday, January 2, 2006
Now that the Caribbean Islands have entered into a freedom of movement of skilled individuals,
will the member countries be moving towards the metric system?...
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Regional cruise ships?
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Cruise giant, the Carnival group, has just announced that it is going to build
four more new ships at a cost in excess of US$2 billion. It seems
inevitable that the new ships, which will add 11,756 berths to the operator’s
fleet, will spend at least some of the year in the Caribbean...
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The people have spoken, the NDP should listen
Monday, December 19, 2005
One has to be appalled and disgusted that opposition leader, Mr. Arnhim Eustace and his New Democratic Party (NDP)
still publicly claim to reject the results of the December 7 general elections
in St Vincent and the Grenadines...
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Seeking anyone in Barbados with knowledge of Maurice Small
Thursday, December 15, 2005
I'm writing in the hope that you might be of assistance in my quest to reach
anyone in Barbados who may have knowledge of my partner's father, Maurice W
Small, born around 1920 in Barbados...
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Consider this marketing approach
Monday, December 12, 2005
I share the Minister of Tourism’s enthusiastic comments regarding the recent
launch of Delta Airlines service from Atlanta to Barbados. Six million potential travellers live within one hour’s drive of Hartsfield Airport
and Atlanta must offer one of the best connecting city hubs in North America...
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What profit is there in an empty table?
Thursday, December 1, 2005
I have read the almost endless rhetoric concerning the importance of linking
tourism with agriculture over the years, the latest coming from the Director of
the Organisation of American States...
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Is this a model of transparency and accountability?
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
‘The project manager said WCB (World Cup Cricket Inc.) had put as many systems
in place to ensure transparency. Included among these, he said, was an advisory
team that advised on best practices across the board’...
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The relationship of Barbadians with Guyanese
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
I live in London and recently discovered, thankfully, Caribbean Net News
whilst surfing the internet. I was particularly moved by concerns
expressed by officials and others of Guyanese extraction about the treatment of
their citizens at ports in Barbados...
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Letters from readers on the Aruba boycott
Monday, November 14, 2005
As an American, it makes me sad to say many in our country have become so
arrogant and ignorant toward the rest of the world. One missing girl, or shall I say one careless missing girl, and people call for a boycott of Aruba. Embarrassing!...
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To call for a boycott of Aruba is ignorance
Friday, November 11, 2005
I really do not understand why these American should continuously wear their
ignorance and hypocrisy as a medal of honor. To call for a complete boycott of
Aruba, is only telling of their level of ignorance when it comes to the daily
happening in their own America, the so-called land of the free...
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Please boycott Aruba till they solve this
Friday, November 11, 2005
I am American and proud of it. I have kept up with the Natalee Holloway case
since the beginning. I really have been so mad since they started airing what
happen in Aruba. We as Americans, I think should be outraged...
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The boycott is very unfair
Friday, November 11, 2005
Having been a visitor to Aruba for the last 18 years and maintaining friendships
with Arubans over the years, I feel that the boycott is very unfair to those who
depend on tourism for their livelihood...
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I have decided not to visit Aruba as planned
Friday, November 11, 2005
In the support for Natalee Holloway's family my husband and I have decided not
to visit Aruba as planned. We will honor the boycott. The investigation is just unacceptable...
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I have cancelled my trip to Aruba
Thursday, November 10, 2005
With great sadness, I cancelled my flight and hotel reservations to Aruba in
Decemb0er. I, along with 14 members of my family, was planning a reunion on your
beautiful island...
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Aruba boycott
Thursday, November 10, 2005
I am an American and a frequent cruiser. I try to take at least two cruises per year and have been to Aruba in the past but guess what? I'll not be going in the future because of their cavalier attitude about Natalee
Holloway...
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Factual inaccuracies about kidnappings in Trinidad
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
While doing some research on kidnappings in Trinidad and Tobago, I came across an article
in your archives, which contains some factual inaccuracies about this phenomenon...
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Keep up the good work
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
I access your web-site on a daily basis,
for news and sports, and other community events in the Caribbean regions. I
am originally from Antigua, and have been living here in New York for the past
34 years...
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Support for deportees necessary
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Deportees identification by the US is a
welcomed policy that should not be overlooked by the Caribbean community. For
many years, Caribbean government officials have been requesting that the US
provide detailed information on deportees...
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Hall commentaries
Friday, November 4, 2005
I am a avid reader of your paper amongst many others I read daily. And I pay
particular attention to editorials and opinion columns. However, after reading
yesterday's commentary by Mr Anthony Hall, I felt compelled to offer my profound
appreciation for his brilliant commentaries...
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Extra cruise capacity will place greater pressure on
land-based tourism
Friday, October 21, 2005
To hear some of the tourism policymakers lament the alarming fall in cruise ship
passengers into Barbados this year, especially after the massive additional
investment in the Bridgetown port and its facilities should be a concern for all
involved in the industry...
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Trinidad and Tobago’s luck has just run
out
Monday, October 17, 2005
I write with fear in my heart for the possibility that one day, my family,
friends or even myself may become a victim of crime. If you’ve ever been a
victim of a crime, you’ll know both how upsetting and traumatizing the
experience can be. Not only are victims left emotionally, sometimes physically,
scarred, but they are also left greatly inconvenienced...
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A figment of our collective imagination
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Jamaica. No problem! A figment of our collective imagination. Under the watchful eyes of the current regime our country has denigrated into a Hobbesian
state of nature where life is now “nasty brutish and short”...
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The man has paid his debt to society
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
I am an avid reader of Caribbean Net News. I found your article "Deportee
discovered teaching in Antigua" most interesting and had to respond...
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Congratulations on 'The Jamaican in Cayman'
Monday, October 3, 2005
I would like to congratulate you for the publication, "The Jamaican in the Cayman". Convey my congratulations to Mr. Desmond Seales
and his staff for their very professional work...
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Oh, how the mighty has fallen!
Friday, September 30, 2005
The headline in Barbados screamed "Owen Slips". Of course this came as a shock
to Prime Minister Owen Arthur and his Barbados Labour Party Government but to
the rest of us Barbadians we knew that all along...
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Fast, safe and cheap inter-island transportation
Wednesday, September 7, 2005
I have read with interest your recent articles by Dawne Bennett concerning a ferry system operating from Barbados; and Adrian Loveridge
commenting on the necessity of having a South African Airways connection in
Barbados...
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Prime Minister's speech leaves Barbadians perplexed
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Every time the Prime Minister of Barbados speaks, he leaves Barbadians more and more perplexed, confused
and angry. His latest "speech" with regards to the situation of the army of
Guyanese nationals here in Barbados did nothing to further endear him to the
Barbadian public...
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Readers' responses to Natalee Holloway commentary
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Mr. Rodriguez, thank you, thank you, thank you. I, as an American, share much, if not all, of your feelings regarding the Natalee
Holloway media-driven madness...
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Martinique is a very sad place this day
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Please don't omit in your excellent online edition the tragedy that struck the French
department of Martinique today. All 160 passengers aboard the Colombian
charter airline that crashed in Venezuela were from Martinique...
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
My name is Evelyn Vasquez, and I would like to let the department of tourism both here and in the Dominican Republic
about my horrible experience while I visited Dominican Republic two weeks ago...
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The Barbados government action was not only legal but
right
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
You stated in a recent issue that a New York organization wrote to the Barbados Prime Minister concerning
the treatment of Guyanese immigrants...
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Guyanese government should help its own country to prosper
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Guyanese are either the most remarkable or
the most stupid people on planet Earth. I do not think that we can describe
our South American neighbors any other way...
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Latest readers' letters about Aruba and the Holloway
investigation
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
If Aruba is true to its word that they will
do/are doing whatever possible to solve the Holloway case, why are the defense
team and locals grumbling about another entity (FBI) assisting in the
investigation?...
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Grenada cannot rebuild the Stadium without the help of China
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
While the victims of hurricane Ivan are still trying to rebuild their homes and
re-organise their living standard, Grenada gets hit again. This time by
hurricane Emily...
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The immigration authorities in Barbados were right
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
The immigration authorities in Barbados were right in sending back home the
large number of Guyanese which they did recently...
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Readers’ letters about the Holloway investigation in Aruba
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
From what I have read and heard on TV, it is pretty clear to me that there is a cover up going on with respect to the van der Sloot
family’s involvement in the disappearance and probable murder of a US citizen in
Aruba...
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Is freedom of movement all talk?
Friday, July 22, 2005
With the Guyanese embarrassment I now believe hassle-free travel is all talk.
Why would Barbados make such a gigantic mistake? The deportation of forty-nine
Guyanese travelers is appalling and insulting to not only the Guyanese
travelers, but also all other Caribbean citizens...
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Achieving the restoration of the glory days
Friday, July 15, 2005
The West Indies cricket organisation has been downright disgraceful lately,
dismaying even the most faithful fans...
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Latest readers’ letters about the Holloway disappearance in Aruba
Monday, July 11, 2005
I want to express my sympathies to those citizens of Aruba who have had their
feelings hurt. Apparently, an emotional outburst by the mother of a daughter who
seemingly was kidnapped and ended up dead while visiting Aruba has hurt the
feelings of many of Aruba's more sensitive citizens...
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More readers’ letters on the investigation in Aruba
Thursday, July 7, 2005
I have just returned from Aruba with my two granddaughters 16/18, I used the
same precautions there as I would here in the US. If the boy is guilty he needs
to be punished but if he is not I would hate to see the police railroad him just
to shut up the American news media...
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More correspondence on the Holloway situation in Aruba
Tuesday, July 5, 2005
Those who express outrage and claim that people are blaming Natalie for being a
victim are missing the point. Of course, the one to blame is the one who hurt
Natalie, and not at all Natalie herself, however naive or lacking in common
sense she may have been...
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Readers’ letters about the Holloway investigation in Aruba
Monday, July 4, 2005
With regard to the young woman, Natalie, the young boys said she stumbled and
fell down. It is my opinion, that the boys drugged this young girl, and this is
why she went with them in the first place...
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Readers’ letters on the investigation in Aruba
Friday, July 1, 2005
If anyone wonders where the suspicion of a cover up or special treatment stems
from, all one has to do is add up the few facts of this case that have been let
out to the public...
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More letters from readers on the situation in Aruba
Monday, June 27, 2005
I am an American, and I have visited Aruba 5 times - 3 times alone - and twice
with friends. I think it would be extremely unfortunate if Aruba's tourism trade
were to suffer from the incident involving the Alabama student...
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Saturday, June 25, 2005
Hey guys, if you feel that we should boycott Aruba, maybe you also feel we
should boycott every major and minor American city. It is not really very
surprising that something happened to a young, beautiful girl who left the
company of her friends and went off with three male strangers in a foreign
country at one in the morning...
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Readers’ letters about the ongoing investigation in
Aruba
Friday, June 24, 2005
The ongoing investigation in Aruba continues to generate a great number of
emails to
Caribbean Net News from readers expressing a wide range of opinions...
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What is Plan B?
Friday, June 23, 2005
So it has now been publicly announced that an official tour partner for the
Cricket World Cup (Cricket Logistics) has been appointed. However, I
notice there was no mention of the actual dates that the new consortium is
contracting hotel rooms for in Barbados...
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Message for the Jamaican Minister of Tourism
Friday, June 23, 2005
This message is for the Jamaican Minister of Tourism, Mrs Aloun Ndombet
Assamba...
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Yet more letters on the Aruba investigation
Thursday, June 23, 2005
We publish yet another sample of the many emails
Caribbean Net News continues to receive on the investigation in Aruba into the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee
Holloway...
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Continuing correspondence from readers on the situation in Aruba
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Caribbean Net News continues to receive a great many emails from readers concerned about the situation in Aruba regarding the investigation into the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee
Holloway...
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Recent correspondence on the situation in Aruba
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
More letters received by Caribbean Net News concerning the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway in Aruba represent a broad spectrum of public opinion, including, at one extreme, one that appears to favour a nuclear option...
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Continuing correspondence on the Aruba investigation
Friday, June 17, 2005
We publish here another sample of the letters we continue to receive from
readers concerning the investigation in Aruba into the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee
Holloway...
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More letters about the investigations in Aruba
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Caribbean Net News continues to receive many emails in relation to the ongoing investigation in Aruba into the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee
Holloway. Here are a further selection...
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Missing teen in Aruba
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Caribbean Net News has received a large number of emails concerning the investigation in Aruba into the disappearance of Alabama teenager, Natalee
Holloway. This is a small selection of the correspondence we have received...
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Moving out of the US shadow
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Partnerships between the Caribbean and the other Latin American nations could
offer the two regions an opportunity to pursue self-sufficient development
strategies...
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The advantage of Caribbean Net News
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
More and more we are seeing the importance of Caribbean Net News.
It is surprising to read about media problem in St. Vincent ...
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All that glistens is not gold
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
I note your recent news paragraph that said:
Similarly, Dr. Morris sees tourism, the region’s leading industry, as an
area for region wide cooperation...
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News from a friend
Thursday, April 28, 2005
My name is Ernesto Iraheta, and I traveled to Grenada for a couple of months in 2001. In that time I worked in Bank Crozier
installing software, and I made a great friendship with Raphael Hamilton, the
IT manager...
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How pleasant to read about the inauguration of the CCJ
Friday, April 22, 2005
How sweet and how pleasant it was to read about the inauguration of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
As victims of imperialism, colonialism and slavery we, in the African
Diaspora, have long been accused of not being properly equipped to take care
of ourselves...
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Who is fooling whom?
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Over recent weeks I have been taking a look at those persons in Grenada who
claim to have been or who we know have been part of the Revolutionary process...
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The Nevis Horse Race
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
It is obvious why Mr. Everson W. Hull taught at Howard University in
Washington but never became a tenured Professor. He seems to be wearing
blinders like a horse at the Belmont Race Track in New York. Blinders prevent
distraction...
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Barbados is wonderful
Friday, April 8, 2005
I was in Barbados last year for Crop Over 2004. I was very pleased with
the entertainment, and also the activities you had going on during your
festival time...
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A coin has two sides
Wednesday, April 6, 2005
A coin has two sides. You simply looked at one side of the coin with your
issue on St. Kitts and Nevis. Many nationals support the St. Kitts Government
on the way they have approached the Nevis issue...
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A Rude Awakening: An open letter to Mr
Patrick Manning and Mr Basdeo Panday
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
The winds of change are constantly blowing, it is your obligation to this
country to lift your sails and charter a reformatory course towards stability
and prosperity to this nation. Or to ignore the realities of the present crime
situation, and allow this nation to drift hopelessly in an ocean of despair,
as dissident forces fans the flame of racial hatred perpetrated upon its
defenseless citizens ...
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Appalled at the actions of the Nevisian Port Authority
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
As a gay man, a dual citizen of the US and St. Kitts, a person with long family roots throughout the Caribbean, and an administrator and teacher in Christian Seminary, I am appalled at the actions of the Nevisian
Port Authority and police on March 23rd by turning a cruise ship away for the sole
reason that gay people were on board wished to visit Nevis ...
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A Garifuna sister speaks out from Tampa, Florida
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
First, I would like to congratulate you for a wonderful and informative
website. Now I know where to come whenever I need information about the
Caribbean, specially St. Vincent and the Grenadines. There's that special
space for St. Vincent in my heart because it was my ancestors first home on
this side of this world nearly three centuries ago ...
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I support the United States regarding the upcoming elections in Suriname
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
I hereby support the position of the United States in regards to the upcoming elections in Suriname, as reported on March 8, 2005 by Arny Belfor in the Suriname daily De Ware
Tijd ...
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Friday, March 18, 2005
Those Grenadian lawyers who are raising
the issue of national pride to get rid of Hugh Wildman, are opening a can of
worms for corned beef...
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Friday, March 11, 2005
I have been trying piece together my
family tree and I would appreciate any information on the SPENCER or ADAMS
genealogy for the Turks Island...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Just to let you know that your radio network (Caribbean Net Radio) is being received loud and clear here in Haarlem,
(near Amsterdam), The Netherlands...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2005
It was exciting to read the news about the Honduran Dance Group which will be visiting SVG
for National Hero’s Month Activities...
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Mary Seacole should get more recognition as a nursing hero
Friday, February 25, 2005
I am a Jamaican nurse and I was doing a project on Florence Nightingale and found out that Mary Seacole was just as important and was denied being able to work with Florence Nightingale...
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Appeal for postage stamps
Friday, February 25, 2005
I am writing to you to see if you could
print the following details to help us gain contacts throughout the world for
used and new postage stamps...
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Keeping Bernard Coard in prison will make him a Grenadian hero
Monday, February 21, 2005
Keeping Bernard Coard in jail for a long time can make him a hero. It is over twenty years since Coard and his gang of urban
Marxists took power from Maurice Bishop in a bloody coup...
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Disney and the Caribs
Monday, February 21, 2005
Disney is set to start shooting Parts 2 & 3
of Pirates of the Caribbean in Dominica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
this spring...
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More diatribe from Lloyd and the gang
Saturday, February 12, 2005
I will use the word again and who don’t like it well too bad. Diatribe. Diatribe
and more diatribe. That is the only way to describe the continuing attacks by
Lloyd Noel on the people of Grenada on a weekly basis...
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Reservations about the role of the CCJ
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Sir Ronald Sanders in his article of 8th February has admirably summed up the content and the practical realties arising
from the Privy Council decision regarding the establishment of the Caribbean
Court of Justice in its final Appeal Court jurisdiction...
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Don't blame the Privy Council
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Many people think a Caribbean court will become the pawn of Caribbean
politicians...
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What's all the hugh and haw about?
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Seriously now I think some of those we term locally as ‘professionals’ may
indeed be so in the context of being professional at being unprofessional...
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I agree with Lloyd for once
Monday, January 31, 2005
I must join with my good colleague Mr. Lloyd Noel in his calls for a rising up
of the people of Grenada to correct the blatant wrongs done to us over the last
few months...
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Get cracking on Guyana's plight
Monday, January 31, 2005
I am compelled to put pen to paper to support the Express newspaper editorial of
January 26, headlined "Too slow with Guyana lifeline''...
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Correspondent must leave big words for rum-shop argument
Monday, January 31, 2005
It seems as though George Edward is thinking on the same political wave length
as Lloyd Noel. On the other hand, it appears as though I must have touched a
very sensitive nerve in Edward's socio-political body...
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Vindictiveness, Idiots and Grenadian
Economics
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
I trust that this New Year has meet all our Caribbean people with renewed vigor
to move us forward into the still fresh millennium that seems daily to be
throwing up more and more challenges for Small Island States as we ALL are in
the Caribbean...
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Correspondents should get the facts right
Friday, January 21, 2005
Why do you publish such lightweight contributions as written by Hudson George?
Of course, if is fully understood that, by allowing posting of contrasting
points of view reflect your journalistic commitment to being 'fair and balanced'
in your reporting, but this?...
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Lloyd must stop using the bible and
Christianity for his political craft
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
I am pleading to Lloyd Noel not to use the bible and Christianity to justify
his political craft. Mr Noel is a lawyer by profession who makes his living in
the legal service...
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CARICOM commended for holding steadfast
Friday, January 14, 2005
I commend CARICOM for holding steadfast and its refusal to re-admit Haiti until
democracy has been restored...
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It would be wise to have a tsunami warning
system in place
Friday, January 7, 2005
It may be of some interest to you and possibly your readers to know that on 30
April 1690,at 5 pm, the island of Nevis was rocked by a severe earthquake
which destroyed all masonry buildings, caused large landslides and resulted in
a tsunami which destroyed the town of Jamestown...
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The opposition should stop playing politics with Grenadians' future
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
I beg the opposition politicians to stop playing politics with Grenada and Grenadians'
future for personal and political interest...
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We are in nobody’s backyard
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Well I am in now way sorry for Mr. Lloyd Noel as he continues his dissemination
of weekly diatribe to the world on the state of Grenadian affairs as he see it...
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An open letter to Reverend Christopher Baker Superintendent of the Pentecostal
Assemblies of the West Indies
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
I was indeed amazed at your piece in the Barnacle Newspaper of November 2004. It
was amazing to see a man of the cloth reader of visions and signs who was so
blind to the works of God. It is unquestionably sickening to see what you had to
say about Grenadians and labeling us as sinful and corrupt among other things...
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What’s going on here?
Wednesday, December 8, 2004
Okay, I know it’s beginning to sound sort of busted radio now. But I just
can’t seem to be able to contain myself when I see what I term as nonsense in
what passes for the media in Grenada...
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Grenada’s political problem keeps repeating itself
Wednesday, December 1, 2004
It seems as though Grenada political problem keeps
repeating itself over and over again, with the same old political tactics
coming from opposition journalists and politicians...
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I am a believer in reporting just the relevant facts
Saturday, November 27, 2004
In regard to the
piece which ran on 11/24 by Norman “Gus” Thomas. The article communicated the developments and the actions being taken by the Kittian
Government and the medical school in regard to armed robberies taken place on
St Kitts...
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Political Prisoners... Where? Here?
Friday, November 26, 2004
As a voracious reader of many fields and subjects I sometimes become dismayed at the level of intelligence (or lack thereof) which is put forward as journalism by many of our Grenadian 'journalists'...
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Parliamentary debate and coup talk
Friday, November 19, 2004
Now that the parliament of the country has convened we
have once again as a people been exposed to the brutal reality of who the
people of Grenada have chosen as their opposition. It is a sad fact that the
opposition has underperformed in Parliament to the point of looking
nonsensical in their debates on issues...
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I congratulate Damien Smith for his courage
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
As an open minded Grenadian, I congratulate Damien
Smith for his courage for defending the truth and telling Caribbean readers
what is going on in Grenada....
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Ivana Put things straight, Leroy
Sunday, November 7, 2004
It is a sad fact that on September 7, 2004 Grenada and
its dependencies were in effect unprepared in that way that they should have
been for the onslaught of Hurricane Ivan. It is also a sad fact that many in
Grenada have been taking and continue to take this opportunity to 'play
politics' at a time when that is not what is needed in Grenada...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2004
What I kindly ask from you is information
on how to involve ourselves with this relief effort and if you can supply me
with any information that may help us to help you with this situation. I have
had a difficult time finding companies that will use steel for the rebuilding
process, so any information you can give me will be very helpful.
Let me briefly introduce the company that
I work for so that you may have an understanding of how and why we can help in
the reconstruction efforts in Grenada. Olympic Steel (www.olysteel.com)
is a 50-year-old company that serves the United States and many countries
around the world. We have Galvanized, Galvalume, and prepainted steel that
will help in the replacement of roofing and siding. Also, we have downstream
contacts that can provide Grenada with the formed steel necessary to cover and
protect the damaged homes and commercial facilities in the country. We can
provide steel quickly, efficien | 
