Back to school thoughts
For many of us, a new school year is about to begin. How you feel about this directly depends how well rested you were over the summer break, if you a...
28 August 2018
Back to school thoughts
For many of us, a new school year is about to begin. How you feel about this directly depends how well rested you were over the summer break, if you a...
21 August 2018
Remembering Daddy 10 Years on
My father was a builder. If you walk down the cobbled sidewalks on Back Street you would be stepping on his work. If you enter the Police Headquarters...
31 July 2018
Becoming a mother
As a fairly new mother, I am realizing that parenting forces you to into a completely different headspace. One of the first things that changes is ...
24 July 2018
The weight issue
Vincy people are weight obsessed. They have a habit of greeting you with a comment about your weight if they have not seen you in a while. You either ...
17 July 2018
Ribbons
Some recent events have caused me to reflect on particular “ritual” type practices from my childhood, back-to-school type preparations in particul...
12 June 2018
It’s hard out here for a dude
It is a curious thing to observe the reaction of some members of the population to the #Metoo movement. For the last year and a half, scores of women,...
05 June 2018
The thing about vigilante justice…
I have been reflecting on the most recent spate of violence that has been plaguing our country. Specifically, I have been thinking about the ways in w...
22 May 2018
Time for a Mr SVG
It is that time of year again - Beauty Pageant Season. Every week I see a headline about a pageant being staged in some part of the island as part of ...
01 May 2018
Lessons from Wakanda: Black Nationalism and Black Womanhood
By Dr. Debra Providence IF YOU WEREN’T living under a rock the last two to three months you would have witnessed, in some form or the other, the ph...
24 April 2018
Positive parenting in a ‘Spare the Rod’ society (Part 3)
IN THE LAST COLUMN, I outlined the main principles of positive parenting, including effective communication, mutual respect, choosing solution...
