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VAT free day later this month, says new PM
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December 2, 2025
VINCENTIANS will have one day this month when they will not pay Value Added Tax (VAT) on their purchases. This was announced on Monday, December 1, 20...
Labour tasting victory in St Lucia elections
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December 2, 2025
THE St Lucia Labour Party (SLP) of Phillip J. Pierre, looks set to secure a second consecutive victory in general elections held yesterday, Monday, De...
NDP will descend, says former PM Gonsalves
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December 2, 2025
FORMER PRIME MINISTER of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, has concluded that the victorious New Democratic Party(NDP) will de...
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December 2, 2025
WITH THE NDP elected to lead after twenty-five years of ULP governance, St.Vincent & the Grenadines stands at the beginning of a significant new chapt...
SVG’s Elections and the Creative Road Ahead
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December 2, 2025
By AKLEY OLTON AS SOMEONE deeply involved in local media production, with a genuine affection for this island and its resilient inhabitants, every fiv...
Table Tennis finalists decided
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December 2, 2025
THE FINALISTS OF the Primary Schools category in the Inter-Schools table tennis competition have been set. The Owia Government School will face the Fa...
New Cabinet to ‘get their marching orders’ today
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December 2, 2025
THE NEW CABINET of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is expected to be sworn in today at 5:00 p.m. during a ceremony at the Arnos Vale Sports Complex. Speaking yesterday, December 1,2025 on the ground floor of the administrative complex on Bay Stre...
NDP romps home 14-1
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November 28, 2025
THE PEOPLE SPOKE emphatically in Thursday’s general elections in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG)propelling the New Democratic Party (NDP) into the position of governance after almost 25 years in opposition. With their sweeping 14-1 win, voters in...
ULP’s ‘Come Home Rally’ attracts thousands
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November 28, 2025
A MAMMOTH CROWD thronged the Arnos Vale 2 Playing Field for the ‘Come Home Labour Family’ rally of the Unity Labour Party (ULP) as it closed out the 2025 general elections campaign. In a near hour-long message, party leader, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves cappe...
Political Parties close out elections campaign with big entertainers
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November 28, 2025
“THE WIND OF change is blowing throughout this land,” declared Dr Godwin Friday, leader of the New Democratic Party. He was speaking at the party’s close out rally at the Campden Park Playing Field on Tuesday evening, November 25, 2025, a mere two da...
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VAT free day later this month, says new PM
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December 2, 2025
VINCENTIANS will have one day this month when they will not pay Value Added Tax (VAT) on their purchases. This was announced on Monday, December 1, 20...
NDP will descend, says former PM Gonsalves
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December 2, 2025
FORMER PRIME MINISTER of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, has concluded that the victorious New Democratic Party(NDP) will de...
Party leaders travelled north on Thursday
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November 28, 2025
LEADER OFTHE Unity Labour Party (ULP), Dr Ralph Gonsavles, and leader of the New democratic Party (NDP), Dr Godwin Friday both went to constituencies ...
Sir Calvert Jones recognized by the OAS
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November 28, 2025
A PRESENTATION BY Vincentian artist, Sir Calvert Jones at the 10th Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Culture and Highest Appropriate Authorities ...
From the Courts, News
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November 28, 2025
A TEENAGER, who used another person’s vehicle without permission and was bonded in the sum of $900, is now imprisoned for four months for stealing fro...
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Table Tennis finalists decided
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December 2, 2025
THE FINALISTS OF the Primary Schools category in the Inter-Schools table tennis competition have been set. The Owia Government School will face the Fa...
NLSCO hosts Cricket Super Series
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December 2, 2025
THE NORTH LEEWARD Sports and Cultural Organisation (NLSCO), will host a Super Series of matches involving five T/20s and three 50 overs, spanning the ...
Lady Heat takes on Mexico this Saturday
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November 28, 2025
FROM 7:00 P.M ON Saturday, November 29, 2025, St Vincent and the Grenadines’ Senior Women’s Football team, Lady Heat, will play Mexico at the Arnos Va...
From the Courts
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November 28, 2025
THE Chateaubelair Magistrate’s Court will, on January 14, 2026, hear from a minor who is charged with possession of an offensive weapon, and two count...
From the Courts, News
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November 28, 2025
A RICHMOND/SION HILL MAN was fined over $8,000 for illegally possessing and trafficking cannabis. Kafele Andrews, along with two other men, appeared a...
Teen on wounding charge
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November 21, 2025
A 19-year-old labourer, charged with wounding, pleaded not guilty when he appeared at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on November 18, 2025. Donte Env...