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Robertson honoured at Plattsburgh
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January 14, 2005
Gail Robertson, daughter of Gershom and Effelyn Robertson of Fountain, has excelled in the US. The lass graduated from the Plattsburgh State Universit...
SECURITY BREACHED
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January 14, 2005
Businessman and proprietor of the local Rent and Drive Parts Depot, Lance Oliver, was last week Tuesday, January 4, arrested in Barbados on gun relate...
HERO KID
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January 14, 2005
Heroes sometimes come in small packages and three-year-old Rozhioni McKie is no exception. In the wee hours of Monday morning, the youngster from Free...
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January 7, 2005
A 30-year-old man has been arrrested after his 15-year-old niece turned up pregnant. Up to press time Wednesday night the Vincentian man was assisting...
FIRST BORN
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January 7, 2005
He's just seven days old and already Omari Leonardo Garraway has etched his name in the history books - cameras flashing, newspaper articles, the work...
Will First Citizen’s Bank take over?
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January 7, 2005
National Commercial Bank (NCB) staff received a shock on Wednesday when news broke that a new manager had been appointed, the third in less than two y...
GUILTY
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December 23, 2004
Patrick Lovelace has been found guilty of the murder of Lokeisha Nanton. A 12-member jury arrived at the unanimous verdict Monday afternoon. They foun...
Cop on sex charge
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December 23, 2004
Just four months after he was acquitted of an assault charge and reinstated, police constable Derville Thomas has again been charged with another crim...
WISHES GRANTED
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December 23, 2004
Overland resident Vectorine DaSouza (left), in a touching moment, embraces NATION News Editor Timothy Slinger on Tuesday.
• WHO SAID THERE ISN’T A SANTA?
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December 23, 2004
By Jude Knight There were mixed emotions of joy and tears as a joint team from SEARCHLIGHT and the Barbados NATION newspapers, bearing gifts, arrived ...
DOUBLE MURDER
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December 17, 2004
After having to deal with the Mafia style execution of their mother and stepfather, the daughters of the late Rose-Claire Dupont-Williams are now face...
MISSING
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December 17, 2004
Seven Vincentians are among 15 persons aboard a Grenada-registered vessel reported missing for two weeks. The MV Study Us, captained by Bernard Haylin...
Only 8 more days before Christmas
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December 17, 2004
The Vincy Christmas season is as much about Nine Mornings, which began yesterday, as it is about the community lighting of homes. This home at Diamond...
George Charles is dead
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December 10, 2004
One of St. Vincent and the Grenadines' political stalwarts has died. George Hamilton Charles, 87, who helped to shape this country's political landsca...
SAILOR IS NO. 26
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December 10, 2004
A single bullet cut short the life of sailor Franklyn "Frankie" Williams last Monday morning just outside the Philo's Discotheque in Questelles. The a...
Christmas tree lights up city
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December 10, 2004
Dance champs La Gracia Dance Company were not deterred by the wet stage and delighted the audience with their energetic moves at the lighting up of th...
WATER WOES
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December 3, 2004
Like the song made popular by Barbadian entertainer "Timmy", Vincentians had to "Grab a Bucket of Water" as torrential rains disrupted water supplies ...
Teenaged Bajan boy nabbed
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December 3, 2004
Vincentian police were expected to hand over a teenaged boy to Barbadian authorities yesterday. Sixteen-year-old Derry Bailey of Yearwood Road, St. Ja...
TAXI MAN SLAIN
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December 3, 2004
Confusion, uncertainty and speculation surround the death of 43-year-old slain taxi driver Peter "Kazaman" Joseph. {{more}} Joseph's bullet-riddled bo...
FLOOD WATERS
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November 26, 2004
Torrential rains continued to wreak havoc in St. Vincent as landslides reached a high point Wednesday blocking roads, disrupting public transport and ...
Vincy youth dies in Toronto car crash
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November 26, 2004
A Vincentian youth died in a car crash last Sunday night in Scarborough, Toronto. Adrian King, a 25-year-old youngster originally from Biabou, who had...
JUSTICE SYSTEM IN BREACH OF BEIJING RULES
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November 26, 2004
The local justice system is in breach of at least two articles of the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the administration of juvenile justice...
BYERA HOUSES DAMAGED
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November 19, 2004
A premonition in one instance and quick feet in another, saved lives last Wednesday morning when a hillside crashed down on four houses in Byera. Two ...
POLICE RAID
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November 19, 2004
Members of the local constabulary swooped down on a number of houses in the Paul's Avenue area last Thursday 11, as part of a police initiative aimed ...
IN  THE BAG
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November 12, 2004
The George McIntosh Community Market was officially opened in Paul’s Avenue Wednesday evening - a pictureque $1.2 million building erected on a site...
DOCTORS AT LARGE
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November 12, 2004
Thirty young professionals who graduated from universities in the region this year are at present still without jobs. Of this number, six are medical ...
Yasser Arafat  is dead
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November 12, 2004
PARIS, France (CNN) – Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, 75, the leader who passionately sought a homeland for his people but was seen b...
NDP MARCHES ON CITY
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November 5, 2004
Wednesday evening was like a mini-carnival as thousands of jubilant New Democratic Party (NDP) supporters flooded the streets of capital, Kingstown in...
OPERATION CRACKDOWN
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November 5, 2004
They have been using vehicles borrowed from governmental departments and statutory bodies in the thrust aimed at crime reduction. Sadly though, the to...
HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY
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October 29, 2004
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has said that there is more work which remains to be done especially to reduce poverty further, to create more qual...
Man shot in head at Walvaroo
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October 22, 2004
Caspar Caine, also known as Dan, a 35-year-old carpenter from Walvaroo was hospitalised last Wednesday evening. Caine became the victim of a burst of ...
Vincy Valedictorian at Cave Hill
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October 22, 2004
Vincentian national netballer Halimah DeShong is one of two Valedictorians of the 2004 graduating class of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hil...
UNSUNG HEROES
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October 22, 2004
The name Lucy is Latin for light and Lucy Miguel -Tanty Lucy – has always been and still is a guiding light to many persons, mostly children, who co...