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Boyea, Flour Mill Dispute Heats Up Again
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October 20, 2006
The Eastern Caribbean Group of Companies (ECGC) wants to increase the price of flour here and in its other markets across the OECS. General Manager of...
Beache: Sunset Legislation will be passed
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October 20, 2006
Friday, Oct 20, 2006 - 5 pm update by Kirby Jackson "There is no reason for panic" was Minister of Sports, Glenn Beache's response to Chris Dehring's ...
Lovelace given another chance
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October 13, 2006
Patrick Lovelace who was convicted last year for what was considered to be one of the most heinous crimes in St Vincent and the Grenadines in recent y...
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October 13, 2006
ONE OUT OF FOUR PHARMACEUTICS COULD BE FAKE by Kirby Jackson The $14 million pharmaceutical industry in St Vincent and the Grenadines looks sets to co...
22-year-old mother on murder charge
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October 6, 2006
A 22-year-old mother of two young children has been charged with murder of her aunt, 42-year-old Merle Charles ( below ) last Saturday, September 30 ...
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October 6, 2006
COMMUTERS BEWARE! On any given morning without notice NOBA minibuses could be off the road. This is because talks have broken down and the National Om...
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October 6, 2006
Some $25,000 in fuel seemed to have just evaporated from the General Equipment and Services Corporation (GESCO). At the same time the corporation has ...
NIS WARNING:  PAY UP OR GET PUBLISHED!
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October 6, 2006
With over $1 million in arrears, the National Insurance Services (NIS) will soon be naming and shaming delinquent businesses. "We are still seeing far...
Doctors marvel at ’Ole George
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September 29, 2006
After walking for seven days without sleep at the Emancipation Park in New Kingston Jamaica, Earl "Ole George" Daniel has been described by Jamaican m...
Guyanese student tops region in CXC
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September 29, 2006
Guyanese student, Shirvanie Persaud, has been named Most Outstanding Student Overall in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) May/June ...
STAR TALKS
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September 29, 2006
In a matter of days the LIAT Board of Directors will decide whether to go ahead with a merger with its rival Caribbean Star. "Any formal decisions whi...
RAT ATTACK
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September 29, 2006
Eleven Calliaqua police officers are off the job ill with a suspected rodent-borne virus - and the divisional police headquarters is to be closed and ...
Green Party General Secretary arrested, charged
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September 22, 2006
The general-secretary of the SVG Green Party Ordan Graham (left) who was arrested and charged with sedition had bond posted Wednesday by party leader ...
LIAT, Caribbean Star look at possible merger
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September 22, 2006
Talks are underway between Caribbean Star and LIAT on a potential merger at a time when the regional airline industry is experiencing another bout of ...
Russell – No more family operated businesses
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September 22, 2006
If Randolph Russell can have his way, the days of family operated companies would quickly come to an end. That’s because the Executive Director of t...
STRANDED
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September 22, 2006
From Fancy to Chateaubelair, the majority of the island's 500 unionised minibus operators turned a deaf ear to pleas from Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalv...
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September 22, 2006
September 25, 2006 - 9:00 am update Bus drivers were back on the job this morning pending a meeting with Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves who is expe...
Wood grabs Prime Minister’s award
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September 15, 2006
Kamal Wood, the young man who in 2004 made national history by being the top performer for the region in the CXC CSEC exams, is again being rewarded f...
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September 15, 2006
WANTED: One local drugs testing facility. That was the call from Acting Chief Magistrate Sharda Sinanan Bollers after she heard that a Jamaican accuse...
Clouden loses battle after car accident
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September 15, 2006
Safia Amin is in Barbados anxiously awaiting the birth of her child but when the baby is born it will be fatherless because its father has taken his l...
Take it down or we will burn it down!
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September 8, 2006
That was the ultimatum that Vice President of the New Democratic Party (NDP) Senator St Claire Leacock gave to Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves at a pol...
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September 8, 2006
Two opponents of the Produce and Commodity Act 2006 remained unconvinced today despite efforts by Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves to their allay fe...
Buccama Gold
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September 8, 2006
Robi Barrasford, Managing Director and marketing agent for the properties.
FOREIGNERS RUSH TO BUY LUXURY VILLAS
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September 8, 2006
Before a single villa is even constructed, foreign buyers have already shelled out close to $100 million snapping up more than half the luxury villas ...
Patrice dies in accident
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September 8, 2006
This car in which Digicel’s Rising Star Patrice Bascombe (above) was a passenger was written off at the Lodge Village, Sharpes Junction. It overtune...
Rising Star fallen
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September 8, 2006
07.Sept.0612:00 noon Patrice Bascombe has succumbed to the injuries she suffered in the horrific accident that she was involved in last Tuesday, Septe...
Health Minister to probe death of Rising Star
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September 8, 2006
Updated 4:50 p.m. A thorough investigation into the death of Digicel Rising Star Patrice Bascombe is to be launched. Word of this comes as Vincentians...
Two awarded Glenn Jackson Memorial Scholarship
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September 1, 2006
Two journalists have been awarded a joint scholarship to pursue studies in Media and Communications at the University of the West Indies, starting thi...
SUPER TWINS
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September 1, 2006
It is often said that twins have the power to communicate telepathically, but 16-year-old twins Cherylon and Cherese Jack admit that this was not the ...
Sixteen-year-old boy drowns at North Union
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September 1, 2006
Dion Burke celebrated his 16th birthday Wednesday, August 23. Six days later, his lifeless body was recovered by his elder brother just offshore the N...
Three-year-old killed by vehicle
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September 1, 2006
Jevonte Javier Fabian James Lewis celebrated his third birthday August 1, 2006. That was his last. Tuesday, August 29, the youngster succumbed to head...
Abijah’s son found shot dead
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September 1, 2006
Police were at press time investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of 18-year-old Ravi Abbey of Upper Montrose. Ravi was found dead in hi...
Eustace: Why release Burgin?
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August 25, 2006
Opposition leader Arnhim Eustace believes that Parliamentary Representative for East St. George, Clayton Burgin, was in fact fired from his Energy pos...
FULL POWER
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August 25, 2006
Up and running: One of the generator engines at Vinlec, which now seems to be operating at normal capacity after experiencing major hiccups last week.
NORMALCY RESTORED AT VINLEC
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August 25, 2006
A state of normalcy has returned to operations at the St. Vincent Electricity Services Ltd., after a week of load-shedding at one of its main power pl...