I will be  leaving this site so that I can complete audio-book assignments and also my book about the unforgettable events of May 29th 1979.  I am not leaving on ...

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Motive awaits opportunity.  Jesus the Christ had been messing up the program of the high-ups for three years.  His words touched people and made them think which ...

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DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: Serious threats

She was only five years old entering primary school when this Labour Party came to power.  She is now 18 and leaving high school, ready to vote and she says she is ...

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DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: Papa is you

The Vatican now lists 266 popes so far but the Irish Archbishop Malachy of the 12th century who is now called Saint Malachy predicted that from his time  there ...

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DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: A warrior falls

Though most of us figured he had not long to live once a seriously ailing Chavez was returned to Venezuela from Cuba and also I heard renowned journalist Dan Rather ...

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DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: Who is laughing?

It is not like the old days. “Dose days gone.”  Nowadays we do not seem to worry about our image and national self respect.  Our government omits to pay our ...

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DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: A nature island wi...

On a particular day some years ago I sat with Mr. Sheridan Gregoire then Head of the National Development Corporation at his invitation in the office of then PM ...

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DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: Those who failed 2...

For weeks we were overwhelmed with those who profess to know all about these things analyzing every detail of calypso songs and arguing over which calypso is better ...

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DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: Branding

We are surrounded everyday by big brands from corporations and media on all sides.  You are drilled into having the latest pair of  Jeans,  or  perfume.  We ...

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DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: Jump up time again

It is bottomless sorrow when the parents have to bury their children. It is worse when a child is lost in violent confrontation with others who believe that ...

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DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: My problem with Ca...

If Jesus the Christ would have walked into this church he would have been greeted with a yelling voice commanding him and everyone of the faithful attendees to ...

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DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: Of Lennox and Free...

Happy New Year! I am starting this new 12 week series today and will revert to the regular Thursdays after this. I write at a time when calypso is in the air and ...

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DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: What is the State ...

On  a visit to London , I boarded a bus, one of the double floored  red beauties that colour the London traffic and  charms you into stratospheric delusions when ...

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DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: DBS Radio and the ...

Language is the foundation of civilization  and without a systematic form of communication used and understood by all, then nothing could ever be done. Language is ...

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DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: Eddie would say ko...

When you are talked about, you’re often thought about.   Some say the only way you can gauge your success is by the way people act towards you and what they say ...

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DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: Backbenchers on th...

We watch with nearly fanatical interest the political debates on our TV sets backing one debater  or the other and arguing over their performances.  There are ...

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Democracy works only if the people are involved in it to make it work.   The soul of demo- cracy (people rule) is free and fair elections and so the mandate of ...

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DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: The civil servants...

I noticed four civil servants on their way up to work in the government office building: first two ladies and then two males.  The two male civil servants who ...

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DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: The journey of a f...

How the money is made, or where it comes from is of little interest  to us, just place it in  our hand and its ‘home sweet home.”   But the five dollar bill ...

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DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: Look out! They wan...

I think that the entire unnecessary roar now on-going  about the process by which the president should resign is just a deliberate way to amend parts of the ...

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