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August 9, 2019
Can YOU afford the cost of repairing or replacing your damaged building or contents from your own pocket? Most of us can’t afford that. Even seriously...
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August 9, 2019
by Javil Parris Structural Engineer and Managing Director Paris Engineering Tropical storms and hurricanes are annual occurrences within the Caribbean...
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July 19, 2019
From the green peaks of La Soufriere to the pristine shores of the Grenadines; it’s all GECCU country. This is the philosophy that has and continues t...
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May 31, 2019
In 1908, businessman Joseph Burns Bonadie saw the urgent need for a bank that could be of assistance to the ordinary man. So, he founded the St Vincen...
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May 31, 2019
Anyone looking for a unique one-on-one banking experience should visit the First St Vincent Bank on James Street. “We are more customer oriented than ...
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May 31, 2019
Providing financial help to small business people is what drives the economy and that is exactly what the First St Vincent Bank does. “I believe that ...
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May 31, 2019
The First St Vincent Bank at the time of its establishment and for many years after, filled an important niche in the community as it was established ...
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May 31, 2019
The First St Vincent Bank is 100 per cent home-grown, and people should support an institution like this. That is the way board member Fidel Taylor se...
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May 31, 2019
A member of the board of directors of First St Vincent Bank is encouraging the public to embrace the 111-year-old financial institution. Trevor Sylves...
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May 3, 2019
by Carleen Heather Marshall “And when great souls die after a period peace blooms slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind a soothing el...
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May 3, 2019
by Paddy Corea CORNU....(cornu is latin for horn)... If I remember correctly I gave him that nick name in Form 2A at SVG-BGS The comradarie and respec...
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May 3, 2019
by Roy Austin “Paddy” Corea and “Mickey” Brisbane, two of John’s friends at the Boys Grammar School, often addressed him as Cornu, the Latin equivalen...
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May 3, 2019
by Nelcia Robinson Chivalry was alive in the 1950’s and as a Colony exchanging hands with Spain, France and Britain, St Vincent & The Grenadines inher...
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May 3, 2019
by the Right Rev. C. Leopold Friday Bishop of the Windward Islands We have learnt of the passing of Mr John Horne of Cane Garden, Kingstown St Vincent...
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May 3, 2019
John Horne, sadly missed by the Green Hill Sports and Cultural Club Inc. and by extension, the community of Green Hill. Mr Horne was one of the parlia...
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May 3, 2019
John Horne loved to sing! He started his singing career with the St Vincent Grammar School choir under Mr Patrick Prescod and participated in several ...
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May 3, 2019
There are not many people who Robert “Patches” Knights / King considers to be his friend. But John Horne, former parliamentarian and minister of gover...
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March 29, 2019
When Fanfare Events SVG started 10 years ago, it offered only event rental services and had in stock only three tents. Now, in 2019, the small company...
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March 15, 2019
Vincentians will tomorrow pay final respects to a nation builder and a stalwart of the credit union movement. Viola John, who died on Sunday, March 10...
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March 15, 2019
Calvin Llewellyn - Engineer Some of the judgements I don’t totally agree with, but I was not legally trained. I think Dexter Prescott - Sion Hill Resi...
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February 15, 2019
Oniefa Nickie, Form 5 Science/Business I feel proud to see that the school reach this far. Although the other schools say we are the worst, I am still...
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February 15, 2019
Next Tuesday, February 19, the Georgetown Secondary School (GSS), under the watchful eyes of principal Ronald Clarke, will celebrate its 20th annivers...
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February 15, 2019
KEITUS WILLIAMS Being a teacher at a school that schooled you is a great feeling for GSS teacher Keitus Williams. Williams has taught history, social ...
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January 25, 2019
Caricia Haynes - Form 5S I am proud to be a part of Bishop’s College Kingstown. At first, I didn’t want to come here because people were saying the sc...
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January 25, 2019
Academics l 76.81per cent pass rate in CXC/CSEC in 2018 l The first Secondary School to write the CVQ (Caribbean Vocation Qualification Examination) i...
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January 25, 2019
THE SCHOOL’S PATH has not always been clear, and the school has had its challenges. However, as a denominational institution, the school tries to prac...
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January 25, 2019
THE BISHOP’S COLLEGE KINGSTOWN was founded by the late Right Reverend Harold Grant Pigott, who was Anglican Bishop of the Windward Islands from 1962 t...
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January 25, 2019
Head of the Language Department at the Bishop’s College Kingstown (BCK) Janille Sandy is one of the longest serving teachers on the staff. She has bee...
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Soca collaboration
January 15, 2019
A collaboration between three Soca mega stars, Skinny Fabulous, Machel Montano and Bunji Garlin, moved reggae sensation Bob Marley and the Wailers fro...
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December 21, 2018
by: Andrea Ashers the President and executive board, of NSPD “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God” (Rom...
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December 18, 2018
A 69-minute documentary film, which reveals the shocking truth about hair, politics, and racial identity in Black communities and beyond will be scree...
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December 11, 2018
by Bria King Growers of cannabis in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) stood divided yesterday outside of the Parliament building with one group in s...
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December 11, 2018
An independent record label called “D’Termine Nation” is seeking to open doors for Vincentian artistes who are serious about their work. The label, wh...
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November 30, 2018
Farine making is a tedious time-consuming process, but Maxwell Sayers has mastered the art. So much so, that Sayers, the owner of Role Model Fruits, c...
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November 23, 2018
THE CARIBBEAN Actuarial Association (CAA) has announced that the Hon. Daisy May McFARLANE-COKE, O.J., C.D., B.A., M.A., Cert. in Stat., F.I.A., A.S.A....
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October 5, 2018
When Josette Joseph started baking and decorating cakes, she had no intention for it to become a business. And she definitely did not think that she w...
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September 28, 2018
by Dr Jamal Fitzpatrick Milton Cato Memorial Hospital What is Prostate Cancer? The prostate gland serves the function of providing nutrients and a liq...
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August 24, 2018
St Vincent and the Grenadines is mourning the loss of a man who has been described as the architect of this country’s economic development. Christian ...
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August 24, 2018
Tribute by Sir Vincent Beache The news of the demise of the indomitable CIMS Martin came as a great shock to me and it was so easy for tears to well u...
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August 24, 2018
Christian Ivor ‘Cims’ Martin CMG first became associated with Searchlight in 1996 during a visit to St Vincent and the Grenadines after an extended st...
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August 24, 2018
by G E M Saunders I knew Christian “Cims” Martin for several decades, from the seventies when his lovely wife taught me geography, right up to his rec...
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June 8, 2018
by Dr Adrian Fraser June 9, International Accreditation Day is a day which should be of importance to students, learners, parents, and institutions of...
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May 30, 2018
A veteran calypsonian is staging a one-man protest outside the offices of the National Lotteries Authority (NLA) and says this will continue until the...
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June 27, 2025
In any school setting, a score of five out of ten would be considered below average but for the Sugar Mill Academy, who copped five out of the top ten...
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June 27, 2025
(Korey Micah Lavia, Lowman’s Leeward Anglican School) While Kenroy has been away providing for his family as a seaman, his wife Venola, who works as a...
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June 27, 2025
(Adrina Ledger, Sugar Mill Academy ) Aspiring lawyer with a green thumb, Adrina Ledger, has emerged as the top girl in the country. She told SEARCHLIG...
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June 27, 2025
(Mason Rayshaud Williams, New Grounds Primary School) When Mason Rayshaud Williams, a student of the New Grounds Primary School, learnt about his resu...
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June 27, 2025
(Raffique Latchman, Sion Hill Government School ) Science and Mathematics lover, Raffique Latchman, can brag of being the only student in St Vincent a...
