Features

Elizabeth – Five paw dog
Features
searchlight 
April 15, 2005
by Neal Jackman BE GLAD FOR DOG with an extra paw. It might seem strange but once you meet this five paw wonder you would soon after notice her fantas...
DaSilvas: Involved from inception
Features
searchlight 
April 15, 2005
Patrick DaSilva is originally from the North Central Windward Village of Park Hill, but he has adjusted to a new residential zone half away up the Lee...
Building on the write material
Features
searchlight 
April 15, 2005
Rohan Thomas otherwise known as 'Roachie' has broken out of a period of anonymity. He had the Best Story when the National Sports Awards were held las...
Evans and Pitt: Full time distributors
Features
searchlight 
April 15, 2005
Most vendors associated with the Searchlight newspaper would definitely be familiar with Bertram Pitt and Kimron Evans two pillars of the Searchlight ...
Searchlight is best seller for ‘Bernie’
Features
searchlight 
April 15, 2005
There can be no separation between the Searchlight and Bernadette Johnson. Bernie, as she is affectionately called, is from the area of Sion Hill King...
A heart-breaking story of a childhood stolen
Features
searchlight 
April 8, 2005
Under the bright lights of Germany, Grub Cooper remembered his vow to be bigger than any of the teachers who had conspired to get him expelled from th...
A heart-breaking story of a childhood stolen
Features
searchlight 
April 1, 2005
Continued from Last Week The fourth part of a series written by Desmond Allen, first published in The Observer, Jamaica, last Christmas. Grub Cooper: ...
Features
searchlight 
March 24, 2005
Continued from Last Week The part of a series written by Desmond Allen, first published in The Observer, Jamaica, last Christmas. Grub Cooper: Out of ...
Features
searchlight 
March 18, 2005
Grub Cooper Continued from Last Week The first part of a series written by Desmond Allen, first published in The Observer, Jamaica, last Christmas. On...
Victoria Park grounds set for major facelift
Features
searchlight 
March 11, 2005
Victoria Park has been the venue of many an epic sporting and cultural spectacle. However maintenance of the facility has become a bone of contention ...
Sealey – lifeblood  of National Lotteries
Features
searchlight 
March 11, 2005
McGregor Sealey can be considered the lifeblood of the national Lotteries Authority. He was there when the institution opened its doors in 1984. He st...
Lottery gets its home at last
Features
searchlight 
March 11, 2005
After enduring life in three previous locations, the National Lotteries Authority has moved into its own home. That is in Paul’s Avenue in the heart...
Lottery comes of age
Features
searchlight 
March 11, 2005
Traditionally in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the age of 21 is referred to as the coming of maturity. Many a youngster would recall the subtle batt...
Features
searchlight 
March 11, 2005
The first part of a series written by Desmond Allen, first published in The Observer, Jamaica, last Christmas. There are burdens no infant should have...
Miracle baby
Features
searchlight 
March 4, 2005
Valerie and John Armstrong, had been trying for a baby for over two years. They sought medical advice and were told that without fertility treatment i...
Features
searchlight 
March 4, 2005
The Barbados Fertility Centre is run by a specialist team of Doctors, Nurses and Embryologists from the UK, Ireland and Barbados. It is the only full ...
Features
searchlight 
March 4, 2005
Valerie suffered from a hormone imbalance, which caused irregular periods and anovulation. This condition is more commonly known as Poly Cystic Ovaria...
Ercelle Cummings – unforgettable
Features
searchlight 
March 4, 2005
Ercelle Fortuna Cummings née Allen was the second daughter of the late George Newton and Claudine John-Allen of Colonarie, St. Vincent and the Grenad...
Features
searchlight 
February 18, 2005
by Peggy Carr A green island, with numerous rivers and steep mountains covered with forests, tree crops, root crops. Fishing towns and villages dot th...
The Four-Way Test
Features
searchlight 
February 18, 2005
From the earliest days of the organization, Rotarians were concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their professional lives. One of the wor...
Features
searchlight 
February 18, 2005
In 2001-02, Rotary International launched the development of a strategic plan to guide our association as it prepares to enter its second century of s...
Features
searchlight 
February 18, 2005
• 1905: First Rotary club organized in Chicago, Illinois, USA • 1908: Second club formed in San Francisco, California, USA 1910: First Rotary conv...
Features
searchlight 
February 18, 2005
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:{{mor...
Dr. Boyle honoured to be President
Features
searchlight 
February 18, 2005
Greetings from President Collin Boyle of the Rotary Club of St. Vincent. I feel honoured and at the same time humbled to be president of our club in t...
Serving community is Rotary Club’s goal
Features
searchlight 
February 18, 2005
The Rotary Club of St Vincent South was chartered on December 8, 1995, with 30 members. Since then the club has undertaken numerous community service ...
Rotary Club – The beginning
Features
searchlight 
February 18, 2005
The world's first service club, the Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA, was formed February 23, 1905, by Paul P. Harris, an attorney who wished to ...
Scotia has new approach
Features
searchlight 
February 11, 2005
by Jerry George The Sales Manager looked up from the documents on the desk in front of him. As he focused on the couple across the desk from him, a th...
Carl –A man of great surprise
Features
searchlight 
February 11, 2005
To today's hip-hop generation he may be just another artiste existing in oblivion, but to those who hail from the era of soul music and village block-...
CONFESSIONS FROM HER DIARY PART 5
Features
searchlight 
February 4, 2005
Intro: In this week’s episode, Nikki attends an HIV/AIDS Support group and gets a big surprise... The first meeting I went for this Support Group wa...
CONFESSIONS FROM HIS DIARY PART 5
Features
searchlight 
February 4, 2005
My son, my only, my beautiful son, look at what has happened to my sweet boy. Why my child? Why him? I never let him see me cry, I would wait until I ...
The Raffles experience
Features
searchlight 
February 4, 2005
Just two weekends ago, a group of Vincentians descended upon Canouan for what must be considered a friendly invasion. Not that mainlanders do not usua...
CONFESSIONS FROM HER DIARY PART 4
Features
searchlight 
January 28, 2005
I must have written a thousand letters in my lifetime, but that letter I wrote to Brandon was the most difficult. My wounded heart was still filled wi...
CONFESSIONS FROM HIS DIARY PART 4
Features
searchlight 
January 28, 2005
I keep waiting. Hoping that she would write again. Hoping that she would take me back. Too much to hope for I suppose. I keep wishing too, that I neve...
Evy celebrates seventy
Features
searchlight 
January 21, 2005
Evy Durrant was described as a “gem” by Joy Mayers, a sister in Christ during a 70th birthday toast on Saturday, 01 January 2005. For that occasio...
Confessions from her diary – Part 3
Features
searchlight 
January 21, 2005
Dear Brandon, I hope this letter reaches you in good faith; because before closing this painful chapter of my life, and putting you completely behind ...
Confessions from his diary – Part 3
Features
searchlight 
January 21, 2005
Dear Nikki, Thank God! I was so glad to get your letter. I never meant to hurt you baby. You were everything I ever wanted and hoped for. I hate not b...
Andrew Simmons – All about positive change
Features
searchlight 
January 21, 2005
After years of dedicated work tackling environmental and youth issues here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Andrew Simmons has again been given inte...