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Top placed Saskia pleased, delighted
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June 23, 2006
Saskia Renton is the 2006 top Common Entrance student. She secured a 92.78 percent average, with 95 per cent each for Maths and English and 88.33 in G...
BOYS MAKING COMEBACK IN COMMON ENTRANCE
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June 23, 2006
Boys seem to be narrowing the achievement gap. That is, if this year's Common Entrance results are anything to go by. In the exam that was held on Fri...
Chateaubelair students visit Searchlight
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June 16, 2006
Pupils of Grades One to Three of the Chateaubelair Methodist School, posing for a photo outside the office of SEARCHLIGHT newspaper. They visited SEAR...
90% of teenaged moms impregnated by older men
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June 16, 2006
Consultant Pediatrician at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, Dr. Bharati Datta believes that at least 90% of teenage mothers that give birth at the h...
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June 16, 2006
Boys seem to be narrowing the achievement gap. That is, if this year's Common Entrance results are anything to go by. In the exam that was held on Fri...
MEN ARRESTED FOR RAPE OF VISITORS AT SOUFRIERE
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June 9, 2006
Photo left: Leroy Rodney, 25, (right) farmer of New Prospect on his way to court to face rape charges. Photo right: Rape Accused Junior Morgan, 18, of...
SHERIDAN IS QUEEN
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June 9, 2006
From the moment 22-year-old Sheridan Lewis, Miss Roy's Inn stepped onto the stage in her fiery red costume, it was evident that this young woman had c...
Bequians protesting sale of crown lands
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June 9, 2006
Concerned Bequia residents are worried that their beloved island is being irresponsibly sold out by Government, but Minister of Housing, Informal Huma...
RAT-ACHE
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June 2, 2006
Vector Control Unit Workers restock bait stations at this abandoned house, also used as a dumping ground by some residents of Cane Garden.
VECTOR CONTROL DECLARES WAR ON CITY RODENTS
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June 2, 2006
Oh Rats! There seems to be a growing rat infestation problem in the city of Kingstown. And if proper waste disposal methods are not observed, this cou...
Hans King is new PM Press Secretary
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June 2, 2006
As of yesterday Thursday, June 1, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves was set to have "a King" at his side. Vincentian journalist Hans King has been ap...
DEATH THREATS
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June 2, 2006
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has received threats on his life and has made a report to the head of the Special Branch of the Police Force. In a ...
Million-dollar facility to house export goods
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May 26, 2006
A 2.5 million dollar facility would soon be open at the Diamond Industrial Estate to house export produce from farmers here in St. Vincent and the Gre...
PM serious about security in SVG
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May 26, 2006
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is taking the matter of security in St. Vincent and the Grenadines with the utmost seriousness. He emphasised this ...
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May 26, 2006
Persons who have obtained Vincentian citizenship fraudulently may find themselves on the next transport out of the State. Debate on the St. Vincent an...
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May 19, 2006
The Physical Planning and Development Board believes that some persons were misled into adding their names to an objectors list with regard to the blo...
Man Shot
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May 19, 2006
Curious residents swarm the ambulance in Barrouallie last week Thursday when news spread that Paul Spence (above) was shot.
Shot Barrouallie man recovering
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May 19, 2006
Paul Spence, a 40-year-old Barrouallie labourer, was up to last Wednesday recovering from gunshot wounds at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital. How Spe...
MARKETING BOARD GETS NAME CHANGE
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May 19, 2006
National Properties Food City. This will be the new name of the Marketing Corporation Supermarket when restructuring measures by the National Properti...
WATERSPOUT
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May 12, 2006
Last Saturday at about 3:30 p.m. people in the South Windward area witnessed this waterspout at Shipping Bay in the Biabou area. A waterspout is an in...
HANS KING TIPPED FOR PRESS SECRETARY POST
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May 12, 2006
Vincentian journalist, Hans King, is tipped to become Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves new press secretary. Reliable sources told SEARCHLIGHT that K...
UNFAIR!
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May 12, 2006
Trade Union matters: Marketing Corporation workers on the picket line last Wednesday.
Mandeville:  He is a manager of destruction!
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May 12, 2006
Angry workers and their trade union, the Commercial Technical and Allied Workers' Union (CTAWU), gathered outside the St. Vincent Marketing Corporatio...
l VAN O’NEAL INVITED TO MALAYSIA
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May 5, 2006
Malaysian Prime Minister Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has succeeded in bringing about some level of unity among opposing political parties here. Le...
YOUTH TO ANSWER FOR GLENN JACKSON’S MURDER
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May 5, 2006
Francis Williams, 23, of Sion Hill has been charged with the murder of the Prime Minister's press secretary and personal aide, Glenn Ian Jackson. The ...
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April 28, 2006
Monday, May 1 is Labour Day but the most pressing concern for Alice Mandeville, president of the Commercial Technical Allied Workers Union (CTAWU) is ...
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April 28, 2006
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has dispelled claims by Government's critics that its coffers are empty. On Monday, April 24, the Prime Minister, s...
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April 28, 2006
The European Commission has allocated 13.59 million Euros (BDS$32.61M; EC$44.30M) under the 2006 Special Framework of Assistance (SFA) for the four Wi...
Haitians may soon take up local jobs
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April 28, 2006
As if the cement shortage were not enough, the scarcity of workers is causing another challenge to the local construction industry. Carpenters, masons...
YARD SEARCH
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April 28, 2006
28.APR.06 Photo left: The investigating team including Scotland Yard officers leaving the Sion Hill house after three hours. Photo right: A member of ...
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April 21, 2006
Last Saturday, April 15, 32-year-old fisherman, Vikki Alexander and Rudolph Alexander both of Union Island and Celini Vivian and Kasier John of Guadel...
CARIBBEAN STAR CLIPS LIAT AT E.T. JOSHUA
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April 21, 2006
A bad signal by a baggage handler performing the role of an aircraft traffic marshal at the E.T Joshua Airport on Wednesday morning may have resulted ...
FIU cashes in on money launderers
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April 21, 2006
It has often been repeated that 'crime doesn't pay.' No matter how imperceptible the offence may be, those wishing to acquire riches by illegal means ...
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April 13, 2006
The tranquility of the Palm island Resort was interrupted last week Wednesday, April 5, by the death of a visitor, who was at the time bathing in the ...
20% of babies in SVG born to teenage mothers
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April 13, 2006
CONDOMISE! Get sexy with condoms! This is the advice being sounded by the National AIDS Secretariat. At a luncheon held at Roy's Inn on Thursday, Apri...
SPARKS FLY
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April 13, 2006
United Kingdom returnee: ‘The package you put forward is not far enough!’ There was no fete at P'Tani Resort on Monday evening, yet the heat emana...