Editorial

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...

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...

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...

One is tempted to ask, what is happening in West Indies cricket, given the continuing series of incidents, but perhaps it is more accurate to say that...

Violent crime and its devastating and deadly effects continue to be a major area of concern in St Vincent and the Grenadines. This is especially so, g...

The Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has been perhaps the most consistently vocal supporter of the regional airline LIAT, in which it...

It should be safe to say that our international airport would be opened some time in the next 12 months or so. Construction crews are at work putting ...

A few years ago, after some disappointing national CSEC results in mathematics and English A, the Ministry of Education promised a national discussion...

This is undoubtedly an exciting time for 900 of our nation’s brightest. Over the next few days, with letters of acceptance firmly in hand, 900 of ou...

On August 16, SEARCHLIGHT carried a story on its front page about the deposit of EC$1.35 million in the bank account of a lawyer with connections to t...

"In the abundance of water, the fools are thirsty.” Bob Marley Thirsty men need water. That Bob Marley understood, as in fact does everyone else. Bu...

For the academic year beginning in September 2016, the University of the West Indies (UWI) will be offering three certificate programs in criminology ...

Over the last two months, Searchlight has engaged the Government in making the case that the Cybercrime Bill be amended to protect journalists. We bel...

On July 27, residents of Rose Place woke up to an extraordinary moment in the history of Vincentian policing: 100 police men and women from different ...

The St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) team to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro is a tiny one, but our delegates carry with them the hopes and spi...

It is a pity that our parliamentary system does not allow for the publication of reports of Select Committees before those reports are submitted to Pa...

Whatever one thinks of the politics of US presidential contender Hillary Clinton, the significance of her selection as the first female presidential c...

An interesting debate is taking place in the press, on radio, social media and where ever Carnival lovers gather about the role of the Carnival Develo...

The Ministry of Health’s plan to train 500 young Public Health Volunteers to work as foot soldiers in the war against Zika is a commendable initiati...

The Bahamas, in a interesting twist in international diplomacy, issued, a little less than two weeks ago, a rare travel advisory for any of its citize...

Will the perennial problem of LIAT and the poor service travellers into and out of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) have to endure every July and D...

How all things flash, how all things flare! Time is the school in which we learn Time is the fire in which we burn The June-July months occupy a speci...

“Carnival is mas and music, Carnival is calypso, Carnival is mas and steelband, Carnival is peace.” In 1975, Becket sang his way to the Calypso Mo...

"In the heat ah de jamming, she want to go home She say: ‘all me family gone, we go be alone’ Just as we reach, she take off she costume and put o...

In an age when most people associate global instability with wars, civil wars, and international terrorism originating in the Middle East, few remembe...

In 1977, Black Messenger sang: "Carnival is here again; I know man go jump whether sun or rain Carnival is here again; dis time in July is a new thing...

This is the time of the year when all across St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) parents and their children, teachers and educational officials, and a...

On Monday, June 13, 2016 in Orlando, Florida, hundreds of revelers attending a club that catered to Orlando’s gay and lesbian community met the inco...

Some Vincentians may be familiar with the name Edward Snowden. Right now he is in Russia, effectively beyond the reach of American law. Not too many p...

Today St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is experiencing a surge in fatal shootings that has the potential to destabilize the society. Of course, the...

In his greatest poem entitled, "For the Fallen”, Robert Laurence Binyon writes: "They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old Age shall not ...

Crimes of a particularly violent nature are increasingly causing serious problems for law enforcement throughout the Caribbean and Latin America and i...

The 2016 hurricane season does not officially begin until tomorrow, June 1, but already, over the past few days, we have been experiencing heavy, inte...

Throughout the Caribbean, Latin America and the Americas as a whole, there is great and growing concern about the situation in Venezuela. There, polit...

In what appears to be a knee jerk reaction, the Ministry of Education yesterday banned all school outings to picnic sites close to rivers and beaches;...

There are far too many guns on the streets of St Vincent and the Grenadines in the hands of lawless, misguided individuals who have no respect for hum...

SEARCHLIGHT joins with the global outpouring of grief at the news of the death of legendary Caribbean cricket journalist Tony Cozier and in expressing...

Police officers have special responsibilities in society, responsibilities with which they are solemnly invested, to protect and serve the people of t...

This upcoming Sunday, we pay tribute to and honour the mothers of our nation. Traditionally, the focus on this occasion is on the mothers of the older...

There seems to be no end to the woes facing the regional airline, LIAT, and no end to the tribulations heaped upon hapless travellers in the region as...

As modernity catches up with even small, underdeveloped states, a number of fundamental changes take place in the economy. Historically, the small sta...

It is difficult in the absence of concrete evidence to point fingers in any particular direction, but it is also reasonable to question whether the wo...

Seven years ago, the voters of this country handed Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves his biggest political defeat when they rejected his "root and bra...

The recent sad occurrences of beach drownings, especially as young people were victims, give us all reason to sit up and reflect on such incidents, th...

One of the national treasures of St Vincent and the Grenadines is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. For many Vincentians, the New Kingstown ...

We sense that there is a distance between the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Police Service and that the distance may be ...

There is certain social legislation, which when enacted and enforced, leads to a transformation in the quality of life of the people of a country. The...

Traditional stereotypes which cast women as the weaker, gentler sex have led to double standards that often cause acts of violence perpetrated by wome...

This weekend is the most important in the Christian calendar. It is the Easter weekend, beginning with Good Friday when Christians commemorate the cru...

This society prides itself on being staunchly “Christian” to the extent that our Constitution affirms that the Nation is founded on the belief in ...

THE CHARACTER OF our economy has drastically changed over the past three to four decades. Whereas before, we were overwhelmingly dependent on agricult...

Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), a day set aside by the United Nations to celebrate the social, cultural and political achievement of women...