Editorial

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...

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...

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...

There are certain things in life which we take for granted, some of which though, are so important that they have significant implications for the qua...

The online Midweek issue of SEARCHLIGHT this past Tuesday carried a front page story entitled “VENDORS REMOVED” covering the actions by police in remo...

More than 100 individual churches in St Vincent and the Grenadines, grouped together under an umbrella, called the Christian Coalition, have declared ...

There is no doubt that LIAT is the airline of the Caribbean, if not by choice then by virtue of circumstance. No other airline serves the number of de...

We are all familiar with that proverb, that “until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” No ma...

The reaction of some Vincentians to any good news about the country is perplexing and sad. It is well documented that some nationals oppose every capi...

At age 40, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has come of age. We are a tiny nation on the world stage whose views are sought and respected. We ha...

Invest SVG’s Everything Vincy Expo 2019 will have its official opening ceremony this Thursday evening, just four days after the end of a very successf...

Just before the conclusion of last week’s Parliamentary debate on the Supplementary Appropriations Bill 2019, snippets of an important debate reared t...

Last Thursday, The House of Assembly established what was possibly a record for a non-Budget parliamentary session, ending well into Friday morning. I...

At a press conference earlier this week, Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves addressed a matter that has become a subject of much discussion in the medi...

It is the topic of an increasing number of articles on the Internet and the concern of large numbers of employers - too many job seekers do not posses...

In delivering the 2019 Budget Address, Finance Minister Camillo Gonsalves announced that his government had committed itself to an ambitious EC$15 mil...

In today’s edition of SEARCHLIGHT, we are pleased to introduce our newest weekly columnist, Joel Richards, a young Vincentian currently living and wor...

The United Kingdom, the country from which we have inherited our major constitutional and political practices and statutes, is itself in the midst of ...

Far too often, when we don’t like the message, we make the mistake of shooting the messenger. The media are routinely the recipients of such shots and...

Just before the close of yet another of his marathon press conferences on Tuesday this week, Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Ralph Gonsalves made some interes...

The 74th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations begins today, Tuesday September 17, 2019, in New York. It comes at a time of heightened...

As details of the agreement between the Government and Marriott International for the construction and management of a luxury hotel at Mt Wynne are gr...

The signing ceremony for the Marriott hotel takes place today at Private Mt Wynne beach. The entry of Marriott onto our tourism landscape is significa...

Our hearts and minds are very much with the battered people of the Bahamas, a member of our Caribbean Community of nations, in their hour of grief aft...

As we went to press last evening, Hurricane Dorian had come to a standstill over Grand Bahama in the Bahamas, continuing its catastrophic onslaught on...

Old people say ‘If fish come out of the sea and tell you shark have teeth, believe it!’ On the matter of the incidence of rape in St Vincent and the G...

Access to education does not stop at making school places available for our children. If our youngsters’ basic physical needs are not being met, they ...

IN TODAY’S EDITION, we include on our back page a report about a political aspirant of Vincentian parentage who has formed a new party with plans to c...

The tributes which were paid in respect of the passing of the late Sir Vincent Beache reflect both the esteem in which he was held as well as the high...

The Government’s $6.5 million school repair and renovation programme is now in full swing, and not a moment too soon. Last academic year, leaks and ot...

An incident in Canada last weekend between a popular local artiste and a promoter there should drive home the point, now more than ever, that our loca...

The passing of Sir Vincent Beache has brought us closer to the end of the physical presence among us of the victors of the historic 1979 general elect...

No matter how much we use the hashtag, #blackgirlmagic or belt out the lyrics to Beyonce’s 2019 summer hit, “Brown Skin Girl”, there continues to be a...

We have just observed yet another Emancipation Day holiday, marked with various activities. Sadly, while it is reassuring that at least we are reminde...

Most Vincentians, including leaders in the private and public sector, seem very clear about the role and responsibilities of the media, and they take ...

What is the policy of the New Democratic Party (NDP) in relation to China? The leadership of the New Democratic Party (NDP) needs to let the people of...

It is the responsibility of the Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines to provide its school age citizens with affordable access to primary and s...

Congratulations are in order for the policy makers, medical, technical and administrative staff of the Modern Medical and Diagnostic Centre (MMDC) at ...