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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...
Dr Ray Carr refuses to be defeated by failure
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May 25, 2018
From plodding through near constant academic failure, to finding himself at the peak of academic achievement, Reverend Doctor Ray Carr has always lack...
CDC Chair Promises Exciting Vincy Mas 2018
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April 16, 2018
For Vincy Mas 2018, ‘the Hottest Carnival in the Caribbean’, organizers are promising an experience that everyone can enjoy, with all-inclusive, energ...
Local Rugby Book Launched
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April 16, 2018
‘St Vincent Rugby’, a book about the sport’s history in this country and how a rugby player’s mindset can benefit everyday life, has been launched to ...
Marriaqua Government hosts Career Week
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March 20, 2018
The Marriaqua Government School hosted a Career Week which culminated last Friday, March 16, with students dressed as their desired profession and mar...
St Vincent Recruit Sails through training
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March 19, 2018
A 21-year-old from St Vincent has joined the ranks of the Royal Navy in the UK after completing his basic training. Trainee Steward Alyon Adams joined...
Using art to create awareness
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March 16, 2018
The One Drop In the Ocean, ‘From Marine Debris to Art’ exhibit, opened to the public on Wednesday March 7. The exhibition was a collaboration of v...
Fired Canouan workers to be reinstated in May
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March 9, 2018
Activist Terry Bynoe says he has been given the assurance that the construction workers who were fired on Canouan last week will be reinstated in May....
Former DPP is now Belize Supreme Court judge
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March 9, 2018
Former Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Colin Williams has been sworn in as a justice of the Belize Supreme Court, bringing the number of Vincenti...
Man gets six months in jail for shoplifting
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March 6, 2018
Unemployed, one 21-year old took to stealing strong rum from CK Greaves supermarket for money, and when he landed before the magistrate, he asked him ...
Otto Sam receives more from judgement award
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February 20, 2018
Otto Sam, who had won a wrongful dismissal case against the Public Service Board of Appeal (PSBA) in 2016, has received some more of the money awarded...
Football comes to Dauphine Playing Field
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February 16, 2018
After establishing what is now known as the oldest softball cricket competition in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), the Top Belair Progressive Org...
NCTI, Physical Planning  Department burglarized
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February 13, 2018
The SVG National Centre for Technological Innovation Inc (NCTI) and the Physical Planning Department were burglarized last week by person(s) who gaine...
Woman charged with death of her baby
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February 6, 2018
The woman who allegedly left her children locked in a house, after which it caught fire, was charged with manslaughter last Friday. Tamara Lavia, whos...
Man wins lotto, gives money to daughter
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February 2, 2018
It pays to honour your parents, literally. Augustus Timothy of Simon, who won EC$254,000 in the January 19, 2017 lotto draw, on Wednesday revealed tha...
Nanny bears five healthy kids
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January 30, 2018
A Lowmans Hill woman may hold the local record for the largest litter of goats ever born in one birthing. On Thursday, January 18, around 8 p.m., a do...
Author publishes book on Vincentian heritage
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January 19, 2018
“A highly original and unconventional study of St Vincent and the Grenadines’ past and present” is how one person described Philip Nanton’s la...