Editorial

St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is being battered by a storm of gun related crimes and there seems no end in sight. Over the past seven days, the ...

If ever we had any doubt about the people of the Caribbean considering ourselves one people, the wholehearted response to the hurricane devastation in...

Our vocabulary has become strained in trying to describe the scale of destruction in the Caribbean in the wake of successive Category Five hurricanes....

There is an old saying which goes like this: “It is an ill wind which blows nobody good,” meaning, even the worst events can have some benefit in ...

A few weeks ago, as he was sentencing a 17-year-old at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, magistrate Rickie Burnett made an interesting observation....

Until earlier this week, meteorological experts described category 5 hurricanes as capable of catastrophic destruction. Today, however, with the exper...

The vexing issue of physical violence in our society, in particular domestic violence, is again under the spotlight. Usually, our outrage is stirred w...

When are one’s academic qualifications not enough and can one overdo it in the pursuit of certification? Over the last few days, Vincentians have be...

When St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) passed its Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act in September 2011, quickly followed in 2012 by the establ...

A powerful letter penned with skill, patriotism, and a profound love of humanity by Oscar Allen, who died at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH) ...

We are almost midway through what used to be called the ‘August holidays’, now known as the ‘summer vacation’, in keeping, perhaps, with the t...

SEARCHLIGHT cofounder Sebastian ‘Bassy’ Alexander this week tells the story in his column ‘The Love Vine’ that the idea to establish Interacti...

August 1, 1834 was a truly momentous day. In a single instant 350,000 persons in the British Caribbean jettisoned the legally sanctioned burdens of an...

Michael Jordan, considered by many to be the greatest basketball player who has ever lived, was once accused of bragging. And Jordan issued his now fa...

In our Midweek edition of Tuesday, July 18, 2017, SEARCHLIGHT carried on our front page a story that carried two elements.  First, in a leaked voice n...

On July 6, 2017, Dr AC Cyrus launched his latest publication entitled, “A Harvest Richer than Gold: Odyssey of A Caribbean Surgeon.” In a professi...

Carnival 2017 has come to an end – a glorious end for winners of the various competitions across pan, mas, and song; and a wonderful end for tens of...

As CARICOM Heads of State and Government engage in their three-day deliberations at the 38th Summit in Grenada, one item, not on the draft agenda, but...

Judgement day has arrived. Today, Justice Esco Henry will say if the election petitions filed by the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) will go for...

The Ragga soca and Soca monarch semi-finals, dubbed ‘Boarding Pass,’ were successfully staged last Saturday night at the decommissioned ET Joshua ...

This time of the year tends to be a joyful one for many of our young people who are transitioning from one phase of their academic life to another. El...

Among the matters raised and discussed at the sitting of the House of Assembly on Tuesday was the ban imposed by the Government on the importation of ...

Politics is surely a strange creature indeed. Two months ago, a confident British Prime Minister Ms Theresa May announced that she would seek parliame...

The 2017 hurricane season is now officially with us, having been ushered in, as we do annually, on June 1. For the next five months at least, all citi...

The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, meeting in St Vincent and the Grenadines earlier this week, continued to seek for answers to t...

Project work on the 2017 edition of the RBTT Young Leaders Programme is winding down. Students from the 14 schools which participated this year are ma...

When the increase in Value Added Tax (VAT) from 15 to 16 per cent was announced during the presentation of the Budget, it provoked much comment in pol...

We congratulate the Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines on the move to impose a ban on styrofoam products so widely used in the food industry ...

Drivers and owners of mini-buses are preparing to engage in a workshop later this month that is expected to address such matters as road safety, fares...

We here in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) talk up a good storm and can easily identify the things that need to be rectified in our society, but w...

One of the more ridiculous facts of life in this country is that at the age of 15, a female may give consent to sexual intercourse, but she cannot leg...

The main role of the Opposition is to question the Government and to hold them accountable to the public. This is why the call last Wednesday by Leade...

With the coming on stream of the Argyle International Airport, our focus is now heavily on developing the tourism industry. But what kind of tourism d...

If St Vincent and the Grenadines did not realize before just how tiny the world has become, we found out over the last week or so. And our whalers may...

We are into April, World Autism Month and last Sunday, April 2 was World Autism Awareness Day, a day when autism organizations around the world celebr...

The nation earlier this week was introduced to seven young Vincentian women who will, in June this year, compete for the title of Miss SVG 2017. Altho...

Modern medicine owes its most deeply cherished ethic to a Greek doctor, Hippocrates, who lived more than 2,000 years ago. Known as the Hippocratic oat...

When incidents occur in which our children mess up and their mistakes are published for the world to see, what should be the response of the community...

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Most times, when a reference is made to ‘Fake News’, chuc...

Another National Heroes’ Day has passed with the now traditional wreath laying ceremony at Dorsetshire Hill in memory of our lone National Hero, Par...

The annual international conference hosted by The Garifuna Heritage Foundation (TGHF) has developed, over the last five years, into one of the most hi...

The recent Recognition of Graduates Ceremony of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus has stimulated much public commentary about the la...

When our law enforcement authorities get it wrong, we are not shy about calling them out about it. So, when they score big victories in the war agains...

Last Friday, DeLisle Worrell, the Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, was fired by that country’s Minister of Finance. Exactly two months befo...

There is a saying which seems to be eternally accurate – Carnival is bacchanal. It, however, is not always of the enjoyable type which causes millio...

That is the 64-million-dollar question that Vincentian and Windwards fans must be asking themselves after local batting star Sunil Ambris was not even...

Tuesday, February 14, 2017 was like no other day in the history of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). Beginning in the early morning and stretching ...

Last Friday, an unusual notice was published in SEARCHLIGHT. The notice, a list of approved accommodations in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) as a...

Yesterday, Interactive Media Limited launched the 2017 Best of SVG campaign, which seeks to recognize all that we think is excellent in our country. I...

Hardly a day goes by that we are not confronted with the challenges of youth and adolescence. Many in our society are quick to pounce on the delinquen...

Step by step, we are almost there. Yesterday, we got news that the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority (ECCAA) had given the green light for th...

The ground breaking ceremony for the US$60 million Black Sands Resort and Villas at Mt Wynne/Peter’s Hope is timely, coming less than one month befo...

Last Sunday, the ride-sharing app ‘Uber’ arrived in Trinidad. And already, anyone the world over, looking to book a room in a private home in St V...

On January 10, 2017 President of the United States Barack Obama gave his farewell address to the nation over which he has presided for the last eight ...

From time to time, we publish stories of Vincentians of all ages, who by choice or necessity have decided to launch out and establish their own busine...

Vincentians face a new year. And as is our wont, some of us will give ourselves a set of New Year’s resolutions: losing weight, gaining wealth, findin...

As the end of the year approaches, many of us will be involved in some measure of self reflection, after which, we may resolve on some level, to do be...

As we put together our final edition of SEARCHLIGHT before Christmas and pondered the gloomy headlines of the day, the lyrics of the Motown classic â€...

In perhaps the greatest Shakesparean tragedy, Hamlet, the hero of the play carrying his name uttered these words which have reverberated across the ce...

Christmas could not have come at a better time. The season has arrived only to find many of citizens displaced from their homes in the aftermath of we...

On December 15, 2016, the vast majority of Vincentians will go to bed. Some will go early; others late. And a few will not go to sleep at all. However...

Over the past six years or so, St Vincent and the Grenadines has suffered terrible traumas. The cascade of natural disasters and accidents have destro...

Last Friday, Searchlight’s front page featured our Prime Minister, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, and the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr Frankie Joseph. ...

Once upon a time St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) did not experience natural disasters on such a regular basis. As hurricane after hurricane bypass...

On Saturday, the world awoke to the news that Fidel Castro, the former President of Cuba, had passed away. And immediately a war broke out between his...

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven. There is perhaps no more sterling endorsement anyw...

In October 2000, Sir James Mitchell, the NDP’s founder and a four-time Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), vacated political life...

Last Monday morning, Vincentians awoke to a tale of mayhem and murder without precedent in this country. For, in the space of a few hours, beginning l...

Diabetes is a silent killer and all adults between 40 and 59 years old are urged to get tested. Because of the nature of the disease, one in two adult...

The world is changing rapidly and many of the assumptions that for decades had been held to be true are now being disproved. Last Tuesday’s presiden...

Educators, coaches and other people who work with teenagers have reported an alarming rise in the number of young people who are getting involved in t...

Citizens of the United States (US) will have their last day of voting in the presidential elections next Tuesday, November 8 and we believe that the d...

Reverend Adolf Davis, the superintendent minister of the Kingstown Chateaubelair circuit of the Methodist Church, hit the nail on the head when he ide...

Rapid advancements in technology have meant that smartphones have become more affordable and, naturally, more popular amongst the general population. ...

When our country marched into independence on October 27, 1979, hopes were high in many quarters that it would usher in a new era of progress and deve...

The importance of strong literacy skills cannot be overstated, as the ability to read is a prerequisite for mastering other core subjects and by exten...

The annual World Food Day activities, spearheaded locally by the Ministry of Agriculture, reach a high point today, Friday, with the staging of an agr...

The very popular and eagerly anticipated finals of the annual KCCU National Dance Festival took place Saturday night and commendations are in order fo...

The two major political parties, and we daresay the minor ones too, agree that jobs for our people and growth of the economy are among the most urgent...

The claims that have been made recently in various quarters that ballots cast in general elections in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) can potentia...

It has been a testing week for St Vincent and the Grenadines. It started last Saturday with the debacle in Brooklyn, New York, where Prime Minister Go...

Four months into the 2016 hurricane season we are facing our first serious imminent threat of bad weather for the season. The National Emergency Counc...

Reverend Adolf Davis, a past student of the St Vincent Grammar School (SVGS) and the Superintendent Minister of the Kingstown Chateaubelair Circuit of...

As we approach the end of the year, we also herald in the political convention season, the time when both major political parties rally their troops f...