Editorial

BY MIDDAY TODAY, we will know who are the candidates who will contest the elections in the country’s 15 constituencies on November 5. There should be ...

The negative impact of the global COVID pandemic continues to batter the economies of countries great and small, rich and poor, throughout the world. ...

The right and obligation to rule ourselves is one of the most fundamental expressions of the patrimony handed to us by our foreparents. November 5 has...

Our election campaign season here in SVG coincides with Presidential and Congressional elections in the United States. Such is the huge influence of t...

SIX PEOPLE have died in St Vincent and the Grenadines from dengue fever and while just over 500 have had their infection confirmed through laboratory ...

The New Democratic party (NDP) seems to be pulling out all its stops in a effort to unseat the governing Unity Labour Party (ULP) in the next general ...

BY THE TIME September rolls around each year, our schools’ graduations are usually long past. This is not the case in 2020, owing to the disruptive na...

The announcement by the government of Barbados that this sister-isle of ours is to end its centuries-long status where the Queen of England is its Hea...

While the COVID-19 pandemic has been having a very negative impact on global life, another development, originating in the United States (US) but not ...

Politics in small countries like ours can have some very negative effects on both politicians and their political supporters alike, not to mention how...

STAYCATIONS HAVE BEEN on the rise in developed countries for many years, but it may just have taken the coronavirus pandemic for this particular mode ...

Fake news and conspiracy theories are very much a part of our modern world. In St Vincent and the Grenadines there is what one would call an “enabling...

In St Vincent and the Grenadines, if you do not know a person, you most likely know someone else who is well acquainted that person. Our country is so...

Those of us who are familiar with the game of cricket would know that sometimes batters are presented with multiple challenges whilst at the crease. T...

With elections now very much in the air in the Caribbean, it is only natural that we begin to pay attention not just to our own campaigning in St Vinc...

“Disappointing” was the word used by Ellsworth Dacon, manager of the geothermal project in the foothills of the La Soufriere volcano to describe the f...

In less than two weeks, all schools in St Vincent and the Grenadines will re-open for face-to-face learning for all grades for the first time since th...

On Monday of this week the political fortunes of two female politicians, in two different countries went in opposite directions. In Trinidad and Tobag...

Nationals of Trinidad and Tobago went to the polls yesterday, the fourth CARICOM nation to do so in the time of COVID-19. Guyana, Suriname and St Kitt...

One of the first things we were taught about cricket was that it was a ‘Gentleman’s game’, with emphasis on supposed “fairness’ and a “level playing f...

The Emancipation Day activities have not had, in terms of time available, such an opportune time for expression as in 2020. The cancellation of Carniv...

Emancipation Day 2020 finds the world, and indeed the St Vincent and the Grenadines branch of the African Diaspora at an interesting juncture of histo...

Given our history of the announcement of grand pre-election projects, it is tempting for sceptics and political opponents to try to dismiss Wednesday’...

Praiseworthy government projects, executed during the political season often get dismissed as gimmicks or even worse, bribes paid with the hope that t...

Under normal circumstances St Vincent and the Grenadines would now be right at the height of Carnival celebrations. Unfortunately, little in the year ...

The year 2020 is one for the history books. If COVID-19 with its attendant health and economic consequences were not enough, over the last few weeks, ...

For many of us, in whom it has been drilled that the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy is the “best”, the practical experience of how it i...

One of the many positive spin offs of the very popular PRYME program is the culture of entrepreneurship that it will engender, even among people who a...

We cannot help but heartily praise the role that sporting icons of today, black ones in particular, have been playing in recent years in the global st...

The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) has forced us to find new ways of doing many of the things we formerly took for granted. Or, in some cases, it has ma...

More than three months have elapsed since the Guyanese electorate exercised its democratic right to vote for a government of the people’s choice. Amaz...

Over the weekend, the public was informed about St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) most recent Covid-19 positive case – the 27th person to test posit...

International media is filled with reports about the uprising taking place in the United States as protestors raise awareness about the existence of s...

Next Monday, June 1, marks the official start of the hurricane season, a time of year filled with unpleasant memories for many of the region’s peoples...

With yesterday’s partial reopening of schools and the increase in the maximum number of passengers permitted on minivans, St Vincent and the Grenadine...

This week, the PRYME programme, an initiative of the government which provides grant funding to entrepreneurs awarded the first $600,000 of the $4.85 ...

“There is no COVID-19 in St Vincent and the Grenadines because if that were so, hundreds of people would be dead. Look, not a soul got sick here!” “Wh...

By fate or coincidence International Nurses Day (May 12) this year came right in the midst of the heroic efforts of our nursing fraternity not only to...

Today the modern world is flailing in the midst of a global catastrophe without precedent in human history.  We have had pandemics before where millio...

The quiet passage of International Workers’ Day (May Day) due to the COVID- 19 pandemic was an opportunity lost by the labour movement, not for any ma...

Message from Ms Audrey Azoulay Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day May 3 2020 AT A TIME when we are mired in worry a...

On the occasion of International Workers Day, May Day as it is popularly known, SEARCHLIGHT extends warmest greetings to Vincentian workers and worker...

We have never needed each other more than we do now. Just two weeks into the launch of the unemployment benefit program of the National Insurance Serv...

THE CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) pandemic has ushered in a new normal for many employees across the globe. With the requirement that we keep a minimum physi...

Crises, whether of a national or international nature, and irrespective if they are man-made or not, have serious implications for leadership, politic...

As the casualty and death tolls from COVID -19 mount up all around the world, the extent of the damage, both direct and indirect to human life, well-b...

When it rains it pours and when it doesn’t it is even worse. The Central Water and Sewerage Authority (CWSA) announced yesterday that the country has ...

WHEN NEXT THE Prime Minister addresses the nation, we would be grateful if he would share with the public the explicit thresholds which have to be cro...

TEENAGERS FROLICKING on the beach; churches holding picnics; mourners turning out in large numbers at funerals; those ordered to self-quarantine havin...

AFTER MUCH speculation, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves delivered his much-anticipated nationwide address on the COVID-19 crisis on Wednesday night. To...

Yet again, Cuba is stepping up to the plate, showing the rest of the world the meaning of solidarity and brotherly love. Later this week, 16 medical p...

TODAY THE ENTIRE world is facing a crisis of unimaginable proportions. A highly infectious pathogen to which we have no immunity, no cure, and no vacc...

DECISIVE LEADERSHIP is what is needed in times of national emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic. It will determine whether we effectively manage and...

READY OR not, Covid-19 is here and our level of preparedness on the national, business, family and individual levels is left to be seen. Less than 24 ...

THE MURDER of a young mother on the eve of International Women’s Day (IWD), while putting a damper on commemorative activities for the Day, emphasizes...

SEARCHLIGHT EXTENDS warmest greetings to all the women of St Vincent and the Grenadines, the Caribbean and the rest of the world, on the occasion of I...

The House of Assembly of St Vincent and the Grenadines is about to get a new Speaker. The new Speaker will be this country’s 10th since independence i...

This coming Sunday will usher in one of the three most important months in the history of our country. The month of March has been officially designat...

Persons in leadership positions, especially those holding political office and those aspiring to such, must be ever so careful with their public utter...

STUDENTS OF AN earlier era would recall being constantly drilled on the need to be well grounded in the three R’s- reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic. As...

We hear the stories all the time A micro or small business earns a good reputation among a small circle of people for the quality of its products or s...

Today, February 14, being Valentine’s Day, will kick off what is expected to be a weekend where people are inclined and encouraged to “show some love”...

During the Budget debate last week, the Minister of Transport and Works promised that within another three or four months, covered accommodation will ...

THE OUTBREAK OF the new corona virus (2019-nCoV) in China, takes most people back to 2014, when the dreaded Ebola virus caused the deaths of more than...

There are some among us, both at home and in the diaspora who persist in perpetuating the fallacy that little development has taken place in St Vincen...

THE BARRING OF media professionals from entering the House of Assembly to pay their final respects to Sir Frederick Nathaniel Ballantyne through their...

Over the past two weeks St Vincent and the Grenadines has suffered the loss of two prominent national figures who distinguished themselves in very dif...

THE PRODUCTION and use of marijuana, for whatever purposes, have long been illegal in St Vincent and the Grenadines and indeed, around the world. The ...

One week ago, the High Commission of Canada to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean launched a book to pay tribute to “that rich part of [Canadian] dive...

THE YEAR 2020 will be, in many ways, a most momentous one for St. Vincent and the Grenadines. It is a year in which one expects that locally, issues o...

One of the basic tenets of western democracy is the right to choose one’s government, as exercised in elections. It is considered so fundamental that ...

The recent passage of the Child Justice Act is properly heralded by its proponents as a measure of progress in the laws governing the treatment of chi...

As the new decade dawns, many of us have already pledged to do better, if not different. We use the start of a new year to reflect on our shortcomings...

As we welcome the New Year, many Vincentians, like others around the world, are reflecting on the year past and hoping for good things during the eart...

If you are into the Christmas gift giving tradition and still have not decided on this year’s gifts for your loved ones, we don’t need to tell you tha...

As we reflect on the year past, despite the many challenges we all must have faced, we made it through. And if we take a moment, we will admit to have...

St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) must be among the top places in the world to be for Christmas. Many Vincentians certainly think this, and from our...

It is beyond troubling that a schoolchild would report to the education authorities and the police that she was raped by her schoolmates, yet be made ...

(1) Don’t believe everything you hear, see or read, especially in this era of social media with its preponderance of misleading (and sometimes patentl...

Dominican voters will today be casting their votes, which it is hoped will put an end to the highly contentious 2019 electoral campaign. That campaign...

Last Sunday, December 1, St Vincent and the Grenadines joined the international community in activities to mark World AIDS Day. The theme of this year...

The role of the civil servant is to serve the Government of the day and the people of the country. Civil servants are supposed to serve and serve well...

With the campaign season for the next general elections having officially begun, as evidenced by the commencement of village meetings by the New Democ...

Last Sunday the governing Unity Labour Party (ULP) gave Vincentians a clear signal that it is going to be very busy over the next year when it celebra...