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April 26, 2020
by Lyf Compton A slain police officer’s last WhatsApp status posted at 9:30 pm on Saturday showed a meme -- a coffin surrounded by the words, “Don’t w...
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April 26, 2020
Police officers are on site at a residential area of Campden Park where two men, one of whom is a police officer, were shot dead Sunday morning. The s...
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April 25, 2020
Vincentian cruise ship workers and their relatives have been advised to ignore “falsehoods” being circulated on social media. Prime Minister Dr Ralph ...
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April 23, 2020
St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) on Thursday, recorded its 14th positive COVID-19 case. Today’s case is closely associated with the 13th case, whic...
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April 21, 2020
St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has recorded its 13th positive result for COVID-19, 12 days after the last confirmed case here. The National Emerg...
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April 21, 2020
Schools in St Vincent and the Grenadines will remain closed for an additional two weeks. This is according to an update posted on the official Faceboo...
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April 19, 2020
Over 300 Vincentians working on cruise ships are scheduled to return home in less than two weeks time, as part Royal Caribbean’s Crew Repatriation pro...
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April 12, 2020
While Grenada is seeking to enforce a total shutdown of travel in and out of the country because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gon...
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April 9, 2020
Four of the persons whose quarantine was to have ended yesterday, April 8, have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of positive ca...
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April 8, 2020
Schools in St Vincent and the Grenadines will not reopen on April 14 as previously scheduled. St Clair Jimmy Prince, the minister of Education made th...
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April 5, 2020
The state will likely issue an advisory for the Easter weekend, starting from Good Friday, extending to Easter Monday, urging persons to stay at home,...
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April 3, 2020
In just over 48 hours, St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has moved from one recorded case of COVID-19 to seven persons confirmed to have been infect...
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April 3, 2020
On April 2 at 9:46 pm, St. Vincent and the Grenadines registered its third confirmed case of COVID-19. It is another imported case. The Ministry of He...
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April 2, 2020
Residents of a rural village in St Vincent say they are scared, after a woman who had spent the last few days in that village tested positive for Covi...
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April 1, 2020
St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) on Wednesday recorded its second confirmed case of COVID-19, also an imported case. This additional positive resul...
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March 29, 2020
The public and private sector are being urged to put further measures in place to protect their workers from the potential spread of the coronavirus (...
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March 28, 2020
Over 80 passengers who arrived this afternoon on AA 1427 from Miami were made to surrender their passports to Immigration Officers, as authorities ste...
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March 28, 2020
Testing for COVID-19 in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) should begin on or about April 6, 2020. Minister of Health, Wellness and the Environment L...
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March 27, 2020
The police will patrol Heritage Square and other places of entertainment this weekend to enforce the order given by the Commissioner of Police, cancel...
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March 25, 2020
When the House of Assembly meets this Thursday, there will be a new face among the Government parliamentarians, while a former senator will be elected...
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March 24, 2020
An isolation transport chamber was utilized on Monday afternoon to “safely transfer a patient from a private health care facility to the Kingstown Dis...
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March 22, 2020
Vincentians have been asked to avoid large gatherings such as church services, funerals and parties, in an effort to practice social distancing. Chief...
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March 15, 2020
The government, on Monday, March 16 will issue an order of suspension for certain formal ports of entry into St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). This...
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March 14, 2020
A Covid-19 hotline, with seven lines, has been announced by the Prime Minister, but the service is apparently not yet ready for use by the public. Spe...
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March 14, 2020
More than three million dollars is being spent by the Government in its fight against the coronavirus, including for isolation facilities that are bei...
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March 14, 2020
St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has ordered stocks of Interferon, a drug designed to strengthen the immune system, which is being used in China to...
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March 14, 2020
A team from the Ministry of Health has been dispatched to the Argyle International Airport (AIA) in a response to a Covid-19 situation that has develo...
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March 12, 2020
The first person confirmed as having coronavirus (COVID-19) in St Vincent and the Grenadines is expected to make a full recovery. This is according to...
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March 12, 2020
The first case of Covid-19 has been confirmed in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Minister of Health, Wellness and the Environment Luke Browne at a pre...
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December 29, 2019
A Vincentian serving in the British Army has been appointed to the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire as a Member (MB...
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December 20, 2019
The RBC Royal Bank has expressed disappointment with the industrial action taken today, December 20 by workers of its banking operations in St Vincent...
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November 13, 2019
One of the claimants in the legal challenge to the anti-buggery laws of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has described as “unfortunate” a march and...
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November 6, 2019
The suspect wanted for yesterday’s(November 5) daylight shooting of Lionel ‘Gabler’ George, has turned himself in to the police in the company of his ...
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November 5, 2019
The police have issued a wanted bulletin for a labourer of Glen/Brighton in connection with investigations into a shooting that occurred in Middle Str...
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October 27, 2019
Members of the teaching fraternity are among those mourning the death of a 46-year-old woman who was killed yesterday in what has been described as a ...
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October 26, 2019
Initial reports indicate that 36-year-old Zayir “Sling Ding” Massiah of Chapmans Village, Georgetown drowned off of a lonely beach in South Union tod...
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October 15, 2019
A vendor selling corn near the roadside in Stubbs died this afternoon after being struck by a runaway vehicle. SEARCHLIGHT understands that vendor Jos...
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October 4, 2019
The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment is advising pharmacies that sell the popular heartburn medication Zantac to discontinue sales unt...
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October 4, 2019
A prison officer has been suspended from his job and is now behind bars, until at least October 11, as investigations continue into the prison break o...
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October 1, 2019
Veron Primus, the accused murderer who escaped from Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) is in police custody. Shortly after a press briefing on Tuesday at poli...
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October 1, 2019
The police have issued a wanted bulletin for Veron Primus who escaped from Her Majesty’s Prisons where he was being held after being charged with murd...
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September 22, 2019
A Tropical Storm Warning is now in Effect for St Vincent and the Grenadines. The strong tropical wave and accompanying area of low pressure which were...
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September 21, 2019
Two men were injured, one critically, during a robbery at a shop in Prospect on Friday night. A source told SEARCHLIGHT that around 8:45, two armed me...
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December 5, 2025
AIWAN HAS PLAYED DOWN concerns that St Vincent and the Grenadines might switch diplomatic recognition to Beijing, insisting ties with its Caribbean al...
News, Regional / World
December 5, 2025
ST. LUCIA’s political map turned bright red on Monday as the St. Lucia Labour Party secured a commanding re-election victory, clinching 14 of 17 seats...
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December 5, 2025
THE HIGH COURT sitting in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), ruled in favour of the Public Service Union (PSU) in the matter leading to the appointm...
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December 5, 2025
SEVERAL VINCENTIAN soldiers attached to military units in the United Kingdom (UK), who were part of war games which were recently held on Salisbury Pl...
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December 5, 2025
RECENTLY APPOINTED Minister of National Security, Major St. Clair Leacock, says the crime situation in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), goes way b...
