Editorial

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...

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...

03.DEC.10 Wednesday December 1 was celebrated around the world as World AIDS Day under the theme: Universal Access and Human Rights. Our celebrations ...

30.NOV.10 The National Monitoring and Consultative Mechanism (NMCM) is meeting this afternoon to decide their role in the period leading up to the Dec...

26.NOV.10 The voters in two disaster-hit Caribbean countries: Haiti, racked by earthquake, floods and a deadly cholera outbreak, and our own St. Vince...

23.NOV.10 This Friday, November 26, the second major step in the process of electing a new government for St.Vincent and the Grenadines will be taken,...

19.NOV.10 Vincentian teachers will today stage their ritual march to commemorate the 35th anniversary of a signal event in the history of their union....

02.NOV.10 Hurricane Tomas really delivered a severe beating to our country over the weekend. We had been bemoaning the state of the economy. Now, in r...

29.OCT.10 The Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force Band stole the show at Wednesday’s 31st Independence Anniversary parade at Victoria ...

26.OCT.10 Vincentians have over the past nine years or so, paid keen attention to the annual independence address of Prime Minister Gonsalves, deliver...

Fri, Oct 22, 2010 Celebrations to mark our 31st anniversary of independence seem a bit muted this year. The usual activities are obviously overshadowe...

Tue, Oct 19, 2010 The Caribbean is at it again, where regional air transportation is concerned. Hopes have once more been raised that cheap flights ar...

Fri, Oct 15, 2010 The Atacama desert in South America is a barren stretch of land, though rich in mineral content. On this basis, a mining industry ha...

Tue, Oct 12, 2010 We are in the middle of what seems to be shaping up one of the most divisive and nasty political campaign seasons ever. The depths t...

Fri, Oct 8, 2010 After all the speculation, the divestment of the state-owned National Commercial Bank is now a fait accompli - a done deal. Prime Min...

Tue, Oct 5, 2010 The United Workers Party (UWP), the official opposition in the Dominica Parliament, is in the news again. The UWP, which won three of...

Fri, Oct 1, 2010 When New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Burton Williams made his now infamous “pastor pickney” statement on Saturday, September...

Tue, Sept 28, 2010 Yesterday, Monday September 27, 2010, the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Community College officially welcomed over 900 new full ti...

Heads of State and Government from all over the world wrapped up their special Summit on the Millenium Development Goals at the United Nations Headqua...

Tue, Sept 21, 2010 Of late, the Ministry of Education has adopted an attitude to the media that is inadvisable. There seems to be the feeling in the t...

Fri, Sept 17, 2010 The first ever Adult and Continuing Education Week was held in St. Vincent and the Grenadines from September 4 to 9. The activities...

Tue, Sept 14, 2010 It is with more than a tinge of sadness that we have heard the news of the imminent departure of Ambassador Olga Chamero Trias, rep...

Fri, Sept 10, 2010 The issue of political party financing is proving to be a very contentious one in St.Vincent and the Grenadines in particular, and ...

Tue, Sept 7, 2010 Last Friday’s fire at a clothing store in Bridgetown Barbados, which took the lives of six young women, including one Vincentian, ...

Fri, Sept 3, 2010 Pity the people of Pakistan! As if having two-thirds of your country devastated by floods, causing billions of damage to land and pr...

Tue, Aug 31, 2010 Last weekend’s SEARCHLIGHT was filled with stories of the successes of our young people in the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC...

Fri, Aug 27, 2010 The country moved one step closer to the much-anticipated general elections, which must be held by March next year, with the disclos...

Tue, Aug 24, 2010 Yesterday, during the morning show on the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) radio, the following was broadcast during the weat...

Fri, Aug 20, 2010 Public concern over the failure by the Police to act on the lawful instructions of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is moun...

Tue, Aug 17, 2010 St Vincent and the Grenadines will always be a poor country. This is a fact we might as well accept. The plural nature of our tiny c...

Fri, Aug 13, 2010 Quite a lot has been written and spoken about the importance of food and food security. The pity is that, in the Caribbean in partic...

Tue, Aug 10, 2010 The Girls’ High School is about one third way through the lecture series it is holding as part of its 100th anniversary celebratio...

Fri, Aug 6, 2010 On Tuesday, Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves confirmed that government has decided not to renew the lease of the premises developed ...

Tue, Aug 3, 2010 Another Emancipation Day has passed in the Caribbean, marking the anniversary of the darkest period in our history. As has become cus...

Fri, Jul 30, 2010 The burden of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD), especially heart disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, cancer and chronic ...

Tue, Jul 27, 2010 St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as a small, developing nation-state, has been pursuing a pragmatic foreign policy to maximize our ou...

Fri, Jul 23, 2010 This week saw both the Government and the Opposition revealing plans, they each say they have, to provide a laptop computer to each ...

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 The battle to determine who will be in charge of the ship of state, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, for the Parliamentary term 2011-...

Fri, Jul 16, 2010 Major disappointment has been expressed throughout the CARICOM region about the outcome of the annual mid-year Heads of Government S...

Tue, Jul 13, 2010 SEARCHLIGHT wishes to add our commendations to all those who were the recipients of honours and awards over the Carnival season. Wit...

Fri, Jul 09, 2010 Our Carnival is evolving, and whether the changes taking place are for the better or the worse, will be a topic which is debated for...

Fri, Jul 02, 2010 Last week Tuesday, 637 graduates from the four divisions of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Community College received their dipl...

Tue, Jun 29, 2010 Last week Tuesday, 637 graduates from the four divisions of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Community College received their dipl...

Fri, Jun 25, 2010 SEARCHLIGHT unreservedly welcomes the signing by leaders of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) of the OECS Economic...

Tue, Jun 22, 2010 The history of midweek newspapers in St. Vincent and the Grenadines is not a very encouraging one. Over the years, these publication...

Fri, Jun 18, 2010 Carnival would not be Carnival without the annual controversies - not in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda or indee...

Fri, Jun 11, 2010 Over the past two months or so there has been a new input into the usual debate in the public domain on political issues. This is in...

Fri, Jun 04, 2010 It is difficult for Caribbean people to work up enthusiasm for any further initiative, new or long-standing, on regional integration...

Fri, May 28, 2010 SEARCHLIGHT offers its heartiest congratulations to Mrs Kamla Persad-Bissessar on her appointment as Prime Minister of Trinidad and ...

Fri, May 21, 2010 Several weeks ago, a former government Minister in Jamaica gave a public warning of the possible influence of the drug trade on poli...

14.MAY.10 The centenary celebrations of the Girls’ High School were launched in fine style last weekend with a torch relay that passed through almos...

07.MAY.10 Over the last weekend and right up to early this week, news reports from around the world gave details of activities held to commemorate Int...

30.APR.10 Educators, parents and indeed the general public are expected to pay keen attention to an experiment which will begin in Trinidad and Tobago...

23.APR.10 LAST month it was announced that regional Heads of Government were to meet in Port of Spain in mid-April in a special Summit on crime in the...

16.APR.10 There has been huge public outcry about a recently held schools’ dance off and cheerleading competition. The outcry followed the broadcast...

09.APR.10 On Wednesday of this week Vincentians joined the rest of the world in observing World Health Day. The Ministry of Health and the Environment...

01.APR.10 Today’s world is filled with such tragedy. Stories abound, even here in little St. Vincent and the Grenadines, of persons who have lost al...

26.MAR.10 The governing Unity Labour Party (ULP) will this Sunday celebrate the 9th anniversary of its accession to office with the holding of a mass ...

19.MAR.10 This weekend, 250 Editors and Publishers who are members of the Inter American Press Association will meet in Aruba for its Mid-Year meeting...

12.MAR.10 IN our last issue, SEARCHLIGHT carried a story based on a recent World Bank study on the availability of nurses in the English-speaking Cari...

05.MAR.10 The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights states “the will of the people shall be the basis of authority of the government”. Half, ...

26.FEB.10 The dry season is well and truly with us, and throughout the Caribbean the complaint is the same - scarcity or lack of water. The spreading ...

19.FEB.10 Last week the people of the world commemorated the 20th anniversary of one of the great moments of history, the release from 27 years of cap...

12.FEB.10 Nine years ago, one of the key issues in the elections of 2001 was that of economic citizenship. The debate around this added to the volatil...

05.FEB.10 IT SEEMS the time has come for Government to effect the provisions made in the Education Act of 2008 for Truancy Officers to be hired. With ...

This must have been the most difficult Budget that Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has ever had to present to Parliament. H...

22.Jan.10 Just as the Old Year closed with the political implications of the November referendum competing for attention with the Christmas celebratio...