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Buju Banton rocks Victoria Park
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November 16, 2007
Imagine this scenario: one artiste, one band and over three thousand back up singers, belting out close to two decades of hits.{{more}} That’s what ...
Teachers Union marches on City
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November 16, 2007
Teargas Day may have been the turning point of the union’s history, but many teachers, especially the younger ones, don’t get the point.{{more}} T...
Gun, ganja found in early raid
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November 9, 2007
What started out as an argument between friends at Kingstown Park, ended with one gun (in picture at right) being recovered and one woman taken into c...
Magistrate takes swipe at papers
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November 9, 2007
Senior Magistrate Donald Browne is of the opinion that the media is targeting him.{{more}} The Magistrate made his feelings clear on Monday at the Kin...
Youth shot in hills
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November 2, 2007
Two days short of his 23rd birthday, Leondro Alexander was rushed to the Chateaubelair Hospital with gun shot wounds to his left leg.{{more}} The shoo...
Public Service Union satisfied with goodies
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November 2, 2007
The Public Service Union (PSU) is happy, very satisfied, with the wage increases served up to them by the Government. “I know persons are happy. Yes...
PM shares fruits of country’s economic growth
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November 2, 2007
Public servants have been assured by this country’s Prime Minister that whether or not their jobs are “red circled,” due to reclassification, th...
Murray’s Village man in death fall
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October 26, 2007
When her left eye “dances”, someone is usually going to die or visit. On Tuesday morning, October 23rd, Ernestine Haywood’s eye began dancing.{{...
Police confiscating camouflage gear
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October 26, 2007
Shelves and countertops of several prominent business houses around Kingstown were wiped clean of all camouflage items during a joint operation betwee...
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October 19, 2007
Declaring that he is a realist, Minister of Tourism, Youth and Sport Glen Beache claims that he has a problem with preaching abstinence, and blasted w...
SVG in Dengue alert after outbreak in Jamaica
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October 19, 2007
Health officials here are wary of a dengue outbreak, and have cautioned citizens to be vigilant, saying that conditions in St Vincent and the Grenadin...
GHS has bountiful harvest
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October 19, 2007
Last Friday, Head of the Agricultural Diversification Unit Ashley Cain was a big hit at the Annual Harvest and Thanksgiving at the St Vincent Girls’...
‘Contrack’ on murder charge
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October 12, 2007
Residents of the northwestern village of Troumaca are still reeling with shock after the partially decomposed body of an elderly villager, Thomas Cyru...
Rockies woman caught with drugs
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October 12, 2007
A 27-year-old Rockies woman was granted bail in the sum of $25,000 after pleading not guilty to a drug possession charge at the Kingstown Magistratesâ...
Sister Audrey Scott is new College Chair
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October 12, 2007
Chief Nursing Officer, Sister Audrey Scott is to head the soon to be commissioned Board of Directors of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Community C...
Children witness vicious knife attack on mother
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October 12, 2007
When death strikes, some people are missed more than others; Ava Grant-Mornix will be sorely missed, because she added value to everything she touched...
Walters in hot water
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October 12, 2007
Government Minister Selmon Walters put his foot in his mouth, and is now trying to take it out, and Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says he should n...
Student threatened with gun
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October 5, 2007
The introduction of security officers at his school couldn’t have come sooner for Mitchroy Lavia, a student of the Petit Bordel Secondary School (PB...
Students searched for weapons and cellphones
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October 5, 2007
In keeping with the Ministry of Education’s policy of combating violence in schools, security officers from the Premium Security Service were deploy...
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September 28, 2007
At Press time, two men were still warded at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, under police guard, following a deadly shoot out between occupants of a...
Clare Valley man shot dead, four injured
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September 28, 2007
Although Ricardo Kelly had changed residence years ago, it was common for him to spend time in the quiet fishing village of Clare Valley where he grew...
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September 28, 2007
The expansion of the Venezuelan national airline, Conviasa Airline’s operation in the region, is being hailed as a critical tool of integration.{{mo...
Back to the land: Eat more local food
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September 28, 2007
A call has been made by President of the Chamber of Commerce Jerry George for Vincentians to eat more local food from farm lands, instead of the impor...
Green Gold
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September 28, 2007
Farmers who are planning to re-plant bananas under the banana replanting programme will soon have an abundant supply of plants. On Wednesday, this cou...
RSS swoops down on marijuana farms
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September 28, 2007
A crushing blow was delivered to the illegal Ganja farming industry in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), after a multi-national squad from the Barb...
Government launching ‘Wellness Revolution’
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September 21, 2007
If he thinks he faced opposition to the education revolution, this country’s Prime Minister may well be in for his stiffest battle yet - launching w...
Woman begs her daughter to ‘come home’
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September 21, 2007
Her cry is the cry of any mother in her situation, but the hurdles Sheron Hepburn is facing seem too difficult to climb.{{more}} Hepburn, a domestic f...