Editorial

Last year alone, natural disasters caused damage estimated at $97.9 million in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Most of this damage occurred in the thre...

The Unity Labour Party (ULP) administration must now be convinced, if by chance they were not before, that ardent support for the party is not the mos...

Friday is World AIDS Day. First designated by the United Nations in 1988, World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day, and is celebrated on De...

For months, Vincentians have been debating the reasons for the wave of violent crime in our country and suggesting measures we could take to stem and ...

Despite numerous calls throughout the Caribbean for the repeal of laws that permit the use of corporal punishment, the practice continues in many scho...

St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) will be among 144 countries celebrating Women’s Entrepreneurship Day on Sunday, November 19, 2017. Women’s Ent...

The Ministry of Tourism and the St Vincent and the Grenadines Tourism Authority (SVGTA) are suggesting that during the month of November, Vincentians ...

A few weeks after the introduction of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine for girls in Grade Six, the roll-out by the Ministry of Health Wellness ...

Vincentians turned out in their hundreds this past weekend for the ‘Everything Vincy Exposition’ and from all reports, they were pleased with what...

Tomorrow, October 27, 2017, St Vincent and the Grenadines will celebrate its 38th year of Independence. The majority of Vincentians alive today were b...

On Monday, October 16, the nation joined in the global observation of World Food Day, which was first established in 1981 by the Food and Agriculture ...

That inter-generational contract made between society and the youth of today has once again paid dividends. Last Friday and again today, we feature st...

Residents of St Vincent and the Grenadines are blessed to inhabit a space where, for the most part, clean water still flows in the catchment areas of ...

October is the month in which nationals of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) celebrate the anniversary of our political independence from the United...

Whenever we experience situations in our society, as we are now, when the number of killings or incidences of rape, domestic violence or other violent...

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...

Our congratulations go out to the Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) for its astuteness in seeking, and obtaining, the assistance of th...

The veteran Vincentian calypso bard and cultural icon, Sulle, has, among his classics, a composition called “Permanent Carnival,” referring to the...

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

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...

Hopes were high in St Vincent and the Grenadines for a bumper Carnival 2017. After all, air access has been vastly improved with the opening and opera...

SEARCHLIGHT today extends its hearty congratulations to the local Indian community, as it celebrates Indian Arrival Day and offers its staunch support...

The Governments and people of Cuba and St Vincent and the Grenadines today proudly celebrate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of formal diplo...

Over the last two weeks, both conventional and social media came alive with a story which captivated the attention of many and placed one man and his ...

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...