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Reflections by Julie Charles
To reflect on one’s life is an
exercise that often yields some of life’s profound answers.
I often find myself reflecting on life not at the point
of accomplishment but at the point of losing someone who has
inspired me to push myself to the limit. I
lost two such persons very suddenly last year and last month.
Their deaths are still very raw in my heart and I do miss them
terribly. First, I lost Mr Mervin Liburd, a
man I met through my cousin Beulah as both him and his wife were
friends of hers for many years in Canada. He
would come down often to visit his family and friends here in
St. Kitts and would stay with my cousin. We
stroke up an instant friendship as he told me he saw greatness
in me. We would sit for hours just talking
about politics, religion, and the state of our society.
He would talk about his small days and how things had
changed so drastically.
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 MARCH,
MARCH, MARCH !
by G.A.Dwyer Astaphan, Wednesday, 16th
May,2012
Great anguish has overtaken Europe in the past 2-3 years.
Fiscal mismanagement, indiscipline and corruption have led to a
massive debt crisis, which in turn has led to stiff austerity
measures in an effort to survive the crisis, and the measures
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Mr. President-- I disagree With Your Pronouncement
by Carl Nisbett Sun 5/13/2012 - It is one thing to
seek to set the tone for economic policies and to bring to fore
the inequality in wealth and the number of poor and homeless
among us in a land where an individual holds more wealth than 40
million or more combined. It is to the benefit of all although
some do not see it that way.
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 WE NEVER HAD IT SO BAD
By Washington Archibald
In the long history of St Kitts, our people have never been
worse off. If you are a Kittitian, your first response to this
statement might be surprise and your first impulse might be to
call me crazy, stupid or unpatriotic to make such a bold
statement.
My long time friend Earle Clarke would take me on an
island tour to try to prove me wrong. He would point to all the
little pretty houses,
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 Living with Balance and not Fear - by
Dean Kelly - Fri May 11th 2012 -
It took a wise man, who loves the fact that he can look
forward to cutting his grass every Sunday or every day, if
possible, as long as nature permits a slight growth of some
sort, to make me realize that we are more than we give ourselves
credit for. The excitement and comfort, even the relaxation he
receives just by doing this simple chore, makes him LEVELED,
happy, composed and at peace, even if just for that moment as he
rode his mower, no matter what he has going on in
his life. This was an end result I couldn’t understand, derived
from a task I once saw as laboring, however, it was evident in
his
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 What
a fishy story! By
Llewellyn Parris
Eating fish did not start yesterday. However,
if some people will have their way, accessing fish in abundance
on Nevis will grind to a halt. This is sad, coming at a time
when doctors are advocating that eating fish is the healthy way
to go.
Eating fish is as old as time. This subject
is mentioned the Old Testament (Ezekiel 47:10) “Fishermen will
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CRY,
DENZIL, CRY!
by G.A.Dwyer Astaphan, Tuesday, 1st May,2012
Over ten years ago, the Cabinet dismissed a suggestion to
consider wind energy. “Too expensive, can’t work”, was the
response.
I was stunned by the thought that this group, led by a person
who is supposed to be very bright, and all of us presumably
committed to
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 DUPONT’S
BAD EXPERIENCE - Basseterre St.Kitts , April 30th
2012 - This is not about the MIDNIGHT TO
MORNING RADIO SHOW DONE B...Y CARLTON ELROY EMMANUEL
“DREAD WITHOUT LOCKS” DUPONT, but about the experience of a
citizen of this country in the EXERCISE OF HIS
CONSTITUTIONALLY-GUARANTEED RIGHTS TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.
The citizen’s rights to Freedom of Expression were already
established when Dr. Douglas was in opposition and he went the
entire length of the Federation, i.e., from Banana Bay to
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Agri ……Culture Time for
Cut Flower production to “Bloom” by Stephen Duggins
To the average person the term “agriculture” connotes
the production of food whether it be crops or livestock.
Fisheries have been separated from agriculture for some
time now and so the concept seems true. This is definitely not
the case as there are a wide range of agricultural activities
that have nothing to do with food. Two examples that interest us
in the federation of St. Kitts and Nevis are the production |
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