Editorial

Tue, Nov 15. 2011 While we all agree that the technological advancements of the last few years have, in many ways, made communication far easier, and ...

Fri, Nov 11. 2011 The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers Union will next week commemorate Teachers Solidarity Week marking the 36th anniversary o...

Tue, Nov 8. 2011 Congratulations are in order to the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers’ Cooperative Credit Union and its parent body, the St. ...

Fri, Nov 4. 2011 The conviction and jailing, this week in London, of three leading Pakistani cricketers on charges of spot-fixing and bribe-taking, ha...

Tue, Nov 1. 2011 A member of the judiciary has said he is sick of what is happening in this country in relation to violence against women. The daughte...

Fri, Oct 28. 2011 Leaders of some 54 countries which make up the global grouping of nations called the Commonwealth begin their deliberations in the W...

Fri, Oct 14. 2011 The National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (NTRC), in an advertisement in today’s paper has announced that free Interne...

Tue, Oct 11. 2011 The challenges of development in a small, multi-island developing country are enormous with implications for all facets of life. The...

Fri, Oct 7. 2011 On the first day of this month, October, St. Vincent and the Grenadines became the first country in the Organisation of eastern Carib...

Tue, Oct 4. 2011 In the face of strong public criticism of the racially divisive statements he made at a Unity Labour Party (ULP) public meeting last ...

Fri, Sept 30. 2011 The death toll of the wanton murders, especially of our women, young and old alike, continues to climb. The latest murder, of a wom...

Tue, Sept 27. 2011 Recently, the Central Water and Sewage Authority (CWSA) took a bold and very welcome step towards resolving one aspect of environme...

Fri, Sept 23. 2011 Save and except for natural disasters, there has not been a time in the more than half a century of banana exports to the United Ki...

Tomorrow, September 21, is “Peace Day”, or the International Day of Peace; a day which provides an opportunity for individuals all over the world,...

Fri, Sept 16. 2011 Our commendations go out to the Central Water and Sewerage Authority (CWSA) for its latest initiative in ridding our country of unw...

Tue, Sept 13. 2011 The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation is now in full gear, on a twin-track course consisting of the qualifying sta...

Fri, Sept 09. 2011 Many Caribbean citizens, Vincentians prominent among them, harbour a blind belief in the United States of America which leads to co...

Tue, Sept 6. 2011 The Caribbean cannot really complain about the events of the past two weeks. The storms which built up in the Atlantic bypassed our ...

Fri, Sept. 02, 2011 Normally, when complaints are made in our society about wrong-doings on the part of the Police, it has to do with the use of exces...

Tue, Aug 30, 2010 We make no apologies for once more raising this subject, even though we have written on it several times in the past few months.{{mo...

Fri, Aug 26. 2011 The latest episode in the ongoing saga of matters pertaining to minibus operators has the National Omnibus Association (NOBA) announ...

Tue, Aug 23. 2011 As we go to press, the final stages in the six-month battle for the control of Libya are being enacted, with the 42-year old regime ...

During the past week, virtual storms have erupted, locally and internationally, over possible abuses in the world of cyberspace. In St. Vincent and th...

Tue, Aug 16. 2011 It is easy to be critical, but at least the President of the local National Omnibus Association (NOBA), Mr. Anthony Bacchus, has had...

Fri, Jul 22, 2011 The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation owes the people of this country, in the name of whom it acts, a public explan...

Fri, Jul 22, 2011 SEARCHLIGHT welcomes the announcement by the Leader of the Opposition Arnhim Eustace, that he is, at long last, going to exercise hi...

Fri, Jul 19, 2011 Caribbean countries continue to suffer a battering as the prolonged global economic crisis impacts more and more negatively on our s...

Fri, Jul 15, 2011 The Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines has reacted strongly to a report from the US State Department on human trafficking....

12.JUL.11 We are indeed in the midst of “teachable moments” to coin a phrase from our Prime Minister. The recent incident where the cellular phone...

08.JUL.11 The annual debate which inevitably follows Vincy Mas is again well and truly on the way. Whether in the media, on the blocks, in bars and re...

01.JUL.11 This weekend will see our annual summer festival kick into even higher gear with the staging of the Miss Carival, Soca Monarch and Dimanche ...

28.JUN.11 The Confederation of Football Associations of North and Central America (CONCACAF) and the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) in particular, con...

24.JUN.11 A heated discussion is raging in our society about the content of some soca songs for this year’s Carnival and their potential impact on o...

21.JUN.11 We are at that time of the year when air travel in the Caribbean is usually at its busiest. For one, it is the season of Carnivals - in St. ...

17.JUN.11 The process of conducting a comprehensive census of the national population began on Tuesday of this week. It was preceded by a publicity ca...

14.JUN.11 Congratulations are in order for the 1065 students who survived the pressure cooker of the Common Entrance examination and were able to achi...

10.JUNE.11 Next Monday, June 13, will mark the climax of the 2011 activities to highlight the importance of fishing and to celebrate the invaluable co...

07.JUNE.11 There is no denying the fact that the changeover, in 1977, to the June/July period for Carnival festivities has brought enormous benefits t...

03.JUNE.11 If ever one were in doubt about the pernicious role that money and moneybags can play in subverting the democratic will of the people,{{mor...

31.MAY.11 The continuing impasse in the House of Assembly between the Opposition and the Speaker seems to be never-ending. In the process, not only is...

27.MAY.11 School must be an exciting place these days for children in grades two to five of our primary schools. Over the last month, the Ministry of ...

24.MAY.11 All too often, when Caribbean people comment on the issue of regional integration, what comes to the fore is the frustration over the slow p...

20.MAY.11 Yet another of our veteran Carnival mas-makers has departed to the Great Beyond. May his soul rest in peace! Raymond ‘Sevens’ Knights, i...

17.MAY.11 As activities to mark Child Month continue, it is perhaps appropriate that we focus on a much-neglected aspect of the development of our chi...

13.MAY.11 As if our country and government do not have enough on the plate, in terms of recovery of the economy and preservation of livelihoods follow...

10.MAY.11 The past week was a very busy one at the national level, climaxing with an action-packed weekend.{{more}} We had the end of Child Abuse Awar...

06.MAY.11 The year-long programme of activities organised by the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Girls’ High School (GHS), the country’s second old...

29.APR.11 On Tuesday of this week, Kingstown witnessed yet another protest and demonstration; something which seems to be rather fashionable these day...

21.APR.11 Increasingly, we are hearing talk among some religious persons that we are in the End Times. In Christianity, the End Times are described as...

15.APR.11 If ever a popular saying were proven to be true, it is the one which goes “When it rains, it pours”. St. Vincent and the Grenadines had ...

12.APR.11 On our front page last Friday, we carried a story outlining the problems faced by a young Vincentian woman with immigration authorities in B...

08.APR.11 Vincentians breathed a sigh of relief on Tuesday of this week when the House of Assembly met without a repeat of last month’s histrionics ...

05.APR.11 With schools on vacation, last Friday was quieter than usual. In the process, one of our long-standing traditions, inherited from colonialis...

01.APR.11 If ever we were unsure of the steady deterioration of family and community values in our society, the past week has thrown up concrete evide...

29.MAR.11 Over the last few days, the governing Unity Labour Party (ULP) held several activities, including an impressive march and rally yesterday, t...

25.MAR.11 SEARCHLIGHT supports unreservedly the call of the Christian Council to both Government and Opposition to place the interests of our country ...

22.MAR.11 One of the often overlooked benefits of having well-educated and well connected Vincentians in the Diaspora, is the services which they make...

18.MAR.11 It should not have to come to this - the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers’ Union (SVGTU) appealing to the government to re-employ t...

11.MAR.11 From whatever angle you look at it, the events which transpired inside and outside the House of Assembly last Thursday were not only deeply ...

08.MAR.11 Today is International Women’s Day, the 100th anniversary of the event which was first held on March 19, 1911, in Germany, as a socialist ...

04.MAR.11 The month of March, an historic one in Vincentian life, is with us once more. A month-long programme of activities has been organised both f...

01.MAR.11 Over the last weekend, CARICOM Heads of State and Government concluded another Summit in Grenada. As has become customary, Prime Minister Go...

25.FEB.11 If ever the cricketers of New Zealand needed a further incentive to try to win the World Cup, the devastation by the earthquake which hit th...

22.FEB.11 It is interesting to note the different reactions we have had from the society to two sets of news which were made public last week. Tongues...

18.FEB.11 SEARCHLIGHT welcomes the initiative taken by the government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines through the Regional Integration and Diaspora ...

15.FEB.11 Time and again, we have had to make editorial comment on the level of crime in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Caribbean in general. ...

11.FEB.11 If we, the former colonies of Britain in the Caribbean, didn’t realise before that we have overstayed our welcome as dependents of the so-...

08.FEB.11 In his address to the nation following the narrow election victory of the Unity Labour Party (ULP), Prime Minister Gonsalves made a solemn p...

04.FEB.11 St. Vincent and the Grenadines seems to be moving along a dangerous path. The protests by the Opposition outside Parliament last Friday over...

The Caribbean has had more long-lasting relations with Britain than any other country. These relations have not always been beneficial to the region, ...

28.JAN.11 The 2011 Budget debate in the House of Assembly is expected to wind up today. No matter what we as a people think of the management of our a...

25.JAN.11 Last week, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves informed the Parliament and people of this country of a plot to assassinate the head of this c...

21.JAN.11 The opening salvos in what is expected to be a very stormy Budget debate were fired yesterday when Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Dr...

18.JAN.11 Recently, there has been much discussion on call-in radio programmes about the level of service provided by at least one telecommunications ...

14.JAN.11 The year 2011 has begun with expressed hopes from some quarters of renewed confidence in the future of the regional integration process. The...

11.JAN.11 The Boxing Day drowning of a youth at the popular Brighton Salt Pond beach is one in an unpleasantly long list of such casualties over the y...

07.JAN.11 Newly re-elected Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, may well find that the task of compiling and presenting the 2011 Budget may be an even...

04.JAN.11 There has been some discussion recently about the term “statesman” and whether or not statesmanlike behaviour should be expected of our ...

30.DEC.10 The year 2010 will go down as one of the “most eventful” in the history of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, if we are permitted the use o...

23.DEC.10 Despite the economic and other challenges we face as a people, it is reassuring to see the Vincentian public engaged in the usual activities...

21.DEC.10 For most Vincentians, Christmas 2010 will perhaps be like no other. Never has our traditional season of goodwill been so heavily influenced ...

17.DEC.10 The victory by the Unity Labour Party in Monday’s general elections was secured by the slimmest of margins, after a tough and bitterly fou...

10.DEC.10 It’s finally here, and not a moment too soon. Developments over the last two weeks or so have clearly demonstrated that on the national an...

07.DEC.10 Over the weekend, the New Democratic Party held an emergency press conference to announce the party’s plans for international investment p...