comments feedBy Sandra Bynoe May 31, 2022 The Cubans spent 50 years finding foolish young international students who showed signs of being attracted to communism and making them assets of the Cuban State. Walter Rodney was a Russian/Cuban asset, and he managed to convert dozens of Caribbean students to become Cuban assets. Moreover, he was a […]
OPINION: Should we ban the Russians or ban the Comrade?
February 26, 2022 by Leave a Comment
By Nathan Green, St Vincent and the Grenadines With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we have to instruct our Government that we want nothing more to do with Russia. But unfortunately, for many years, the state of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has been voting with Russia and for Russia at the UN. That has […]
OPINION: More Money than Sand
February 20, 2022 by Leave a Comment
By Nathan Green. February 2022. Dubai is one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and has become a regional business hub in the Middle East. Behind the facade of respectability that Dubai has carefully cultivated over the years, the flow of illicit funds “has helped to fuel the emirate’s […]
OPINION: St. Vincent in Crisis
October 21, 2021 by Leave a Comment
By Nathan Jolly. October 19, 2021. The years 2019 to 2021 will be remembered as the most significant global pandemic since Spanish influenza. As COVID 19 and its mutated variants encompass the globe, it leaves a trail of human destruction in its wake. Worldwide there are hundreds of thousands of lives lost, millions of persons […]
OPINION: Letter to the Editor
April 25, 2021 by Leave a Comment
 Signs of our times  It is said that the more things change the likelihood is that they will always remain the same. We have to take notice that “Cuba turned the page on the Castro era on Monday with the ruling Communist Party electing President Miguel Diaz-Canel to replace Raul Castro as party chief […]
OPINION: Surveyor
April 5, 2021 by Leave a Comment
By H. James At this Easter time: At this time of the year and month that we in the western world have become to call Easter, some individuals are thus enjoying the holiday period, others may well take the time to go to Church. However, what have been popular among some like the Prime Minister […]
OPINION: Saint Vincent Judas Style
January 18, 2021 by 3 Comments
By Nathan ‘Jolly’ Green Let us discuss Judas Law, Judas Politics, and Judas Business. The Vincentian Judas syndrome. Pontious Pilate and Herod were murderous statesmen, but unlike today’s political leaders they were then and are now historically called statesmen. Today in Saint Vincent, few political leaders can be classed as statesmen or even stateswomen. Today’s […]
OPINION: Show us the Reports or Resign
October 12, 2020 by Leave a Comment
By Nathan ‘Jolly’ Green. October 07, 2020. Is this a matter of PM Gonsalves failing to do what he said he would, or is it something darker than that? I hate even to ask that question, but someone must, due to the five-year time laps in providing us with an answer. This is a five-year-old […]
OPINION: Understanding the Second and perhaps the Third Wave
May 4, 2020 by 1 Comment
By Nathan ‘Jolly’ Green, May 4, 2020 We have all heard of the saying “history always repeats itself.” Well the COVID 19 virus is a pandemic, just like the Spanish Flu of 1918 was a pandemic. Like today, in Britain, temporary hospitals were equipped; every bed in the picture has someone in it. Many in […]
OPINION: Too big for his shoes with a lot to lose
December 16, 2019 by 2 Comments
From Jolly Green What is wrong with Saint Vincent’s PM Ralph E Gonsalves. Some will say he has always been an obnoxious big-headed man with a devotion to left-wing politics and Cuban communism in particular. Some will say they love him and his ability to speak at the rostrum like no other. Some even find […]
