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Sharpes man creates new hybrid fruit
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April 3, 2009
by Samantha Campbell 03.APR.09 A Redemption Sharpes man may have inadvertently created a new species of fruit when he planted a Buttercup flowering tr...
Coast Guard intercepts boat on high seas
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April 3, 2009
Officers of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Coast Guard earlier this week, in the space of two days, intercepted two Trinidadian fishing boats, who...
Looted
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April 3, 2009
Special Services Unit officers assist in returning pieces of expensive furniture and other looted items that they and Premium Security Firm successful...
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March 27, 2009
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has obtained an emergency court order against Millennium Bank, alleging that the bank decei...
Market Vendor
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March 27, 2009
Kingstown Central Market vendors turn out to hear plans for the Market from Minister Julian Francis and other Ministry officials.
Gruesome murder
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March 27, 2009
Residents of Dubois came out in their numbers as word of the beheading spread. They wanted it to be known that the alleged killer was not from their c...
Vendors
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March 20, 2009
Kingstown Central Market Manager Johnny Jones making a point to a vendor.
Vendors ordered from front of market
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March 20, 2009
A confrontation was avoided last Wednesday, March 18th, outside the Kingstown Central Market. Vendors plying their trade at the Grenville Street entra...
Opposition to fight  new constitution
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March 20, 2009
The process leading up to the historic referendum on a new constitution in November this year will not be all smooth sailing.{{more}} Prime Minister D...
Man told don’t pull down pants  in public
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March 13, 2009
Michael DeRiggs’ act of exposing his private parts in public has cost him two months of freedom. {{more}} Chief Magistrate Sonya Young sentenced the...
Youth charged for killing of student
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March 13, 2009
Police have arrested and charged 21-year-old Ashburton resident, Romano Hunte (left) in connection with the murder of 14-year-old student, David Glenn...
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March 13, 2009
Charges of assault and damage to property will be slapped on a woman who had a run-in with her child’s teacher last week.{{more}} According to infor...
Larry Bascombe to be laid to rest Sunday
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March 13, 2009
The Marriaqua Valley is expected to play host to thousands this weekend, as Vincentians journey to Mesopotamia to bid farewell to a Nation Builder.{{m...
LIAT makes inaugural trip to Canouan
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March 13, 2009
by Jamila Soso-Vincent 13.MAR.09 Canouan had much to celebrate on Tuesday, March 10th, as it officially welcomed the inaugural LIAT flight to that Gre...
Lucky break for police attacker
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March 6, 2009
There will be no jail time for the 21-year-old man who threatened two police officers with a cutlass and had a laundry list of traffic offences.{{more...
Two die on boat run to Barbados
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March 6, 2009
by Omesha Spence 06.MAR.09 Selma Layne should have been celebrating her son’s birthday on Wednesday, March 4. Instead, she is preparing to get his b...
Schoolboy stabbed to death in Belair
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March 6, 2009
Curious onlookers crowd the Belair Health Centre to get a glimpse of schoolboy David Glenn’s body as it is removed following his fatal stabbing.
Marcus DeFreitas on fraud charge
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February 27, 2009
Local Businessman Marcus DeFreitas was last Thursday, February 19, 2009, released on $10,000 bail, after being brought before the Serious Offences Cou...
Belair man doused with gasoline, set afire
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February 27, 2009
Irvin James didn’t get a chance to finish cooking his rice and chicken at around 2:30 pm on Monday, February 23.{{more}} Instead, the 28-year-old Be...
ECAIC now runs Bank of Antigua
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February 27, 2009
Jamila Soso-Vincent27.FEB.09 Following mass panic withdrawals by depositors of the Bank of Antigua (BOA), induced by civil fraud charges brought again...
Sharpes Tragedy
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February 27, 2009
A Firefighter douses the house of Leroy “Jerry” Williams (inset, right) in an effort to retrieve the bodies of three-year-old Kayla Sutherland and...
Mother charged in fiery deaths of toddlers
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February 27, 2009
“She is a wicked woman... They didn’t deserve such a death and we want justice.”{{more}} These were just some of the sentiments expressed by fum...
Third youth charged in vendor killing
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February 20, 2009
Another young man was arrested and charged for the murder of Ashley “Semore” Warren.{{more}} Raphael “Butter Bread” John, 19, of Layou and Gle...
Schoolgirl caught jolly-riding in passenger van
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February 20, 2009
The bus terminal at Little Tokyo in Kingstown was the scene of much commotion last Monday when a child was caught playing truant by her mother.{{more}...
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February 13, 2009
by J. Soso-Vincent 13.FEB.09 A concerned citizen is warning Vincentian women against the wiles of a middle-aged man who, under the guise of being a Go...
Green Hill  man dies in mom’s arms  at hospital
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February 13, 2009
The family of a Green Hill man is wondering if the right procedures were followed, from the first time he went to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital co...
SVG men owe thousands in child support
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February 13, 2009
Delinquent fathers are causing the Family Services Division (FSD) and the Family Court no end of headaches.{{more}} “It is a matter of worthlessness...
Youth acquitted of manslaughter
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February 13, 2009
The verdict is out! One man walked free, but the case in Hazel-Ann Roberts’ mind, is far from closed.{{more}} As she wailed in grief outside the pre...
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February 6, 2009
by Viclene Matthews 06.FEB.09 Senior Magistrate Donald Browne has described the nation’s schools in much the same way as war ridden country Iraq.{{m...
Colonarie man struck by passenger van
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February 6, 2009
Viclene Matthews 06.FEB.09 Just last Friday he sang “Happy Birthday” to his mother. Now, a few days later, Lennox Lawrence is dead.{{more}} Lawren...
21-year-old shot, dies at hospital
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February 6, 2009
Veronica Haynes will remember her son Ashawn Haynes most for his last words to her as he lay in the male surgical ward of the Milton Cato Memorial Hos...
Assured
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February 6, 2009
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January 30, 2009
Police were forced to knock off the lock on a gate at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH) to get medical attention for a dying man.{{more}} As th...