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Type 3 dengue affecting SVG – be vigilant! – Officials
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Type 3 dengue affecting SVG – be vigilant! – Officials
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September 25, 2020
This country is experiencing a dengue fever outbreak and so far, two persons have died from the mosquito born disease, while 374 laboratory confirmed ...
Multiple charges laid against alleged fake BRAGSA employee
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Multiple charges laid against alleged fake BRAGSA employee
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September 25, 2020
Multiple charges have been laid against a 22-year-old man who is alleged to have stolen from workers of government institutions while pretending to be...
Pickpocketing bar owner  ordered to pay compensation
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Pickpocketing bar owner ordered to pay compensation
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September 25, 2020
The court has ordered the owner of a bar in Sandy Bay to pay swift compensation, after she picked the pocket of a St Lucian/Canadian customer and depr...
Giovanni Slack is Grammar  School 2020 valedictorian
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Giovanni Slack is Grammar School 2020 valedictorian
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September 22, 2020
“Success of any sort does not come about without discipline, commitment, and dedication.” Those are the words of Giovanni Slack, the valedictorian of ...
SVGCC graduands overcome Covid challenge
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SVGCC graduands overcome Covid challenge
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September 22, 2020
The usual pomp and circumstance of the yearly amalgamated St Vincent and the Grenadines Community College (SVGCC) graduation was traded in for two sim...
Bandit posing as BRAGSA worker hits institutions
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Bandit posing as BRAGSA worker hits institutions
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September 18, 2020
by Lyf Compton Police are on the hunt for a bandit or bandits who posed as employees of the Roads, Buildings and General Services Authority (BRAGSA), ...
Mandarin classes begin at GHS (+Videos)
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Mandarin classes begin at GHS (+Videos)
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September 18, 2020
Mandarin classes, supported by the Government of Taiwan, have begun at the St Vincent Girls’ High School (GHS), and first form students are responding...
Record high number of Taiwan scholarships
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Record high number of Taiwan scholarships
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September 18, 2020
This year, 22 Vincentians have been enrolled to pursue studies across nine Universities in the Republic of China (Taiwan); a record number for the Tai...
Farmer charged with causing death of teen
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Farmer charged with causing death of teen
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September 18, 2020
A farmer of Dickson Village has been remanded in prison after being charged for the death of an 18-year-old. The teenager died from a stab to the neck...
Youth’s British Navy dream cut short
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Youth’s British Navy dream cut short
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September 15, 2020
by LYF COMPTON KAIF FRASER had plans of joining the British Navy and supporting his mother so that she could stop braving the waters between St Vincen...
Dickson farmer charged with murder of teenager
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Dickson farmer charged with murder of teenager
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September 15, 2020
DICKSON RESIDENT and farmer Veron Bushay, 29, will appear at the Serious Offences Court today in relation to the death of fellow villager Kaif Fraser....
Activity in cemetery was part of artistic expression – Luta
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Activity in cemetery was part of artistic expression – Luta
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September 15, 2020
by BRIA KING THE USE OF COFFINS has been a part of political culture for years. So says local artiste, Rondy “Luta” McIntosh in defence of scenes shot...
Woman beater jailed
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Woman beater jailed
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September 15, 2020
FOR THE NEXT three years, a 43-year-old man will have time to reflect while in prison, on the crime of beating his 23-year-old girlfriend about her bo...
Prime Minister Gonsalves’ wife, son ill
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Prime Minister Gonsalves’ wife, son ill
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September 11, 2020
The wife and a son of Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves are both battling serious illnesses, the Prime Minister has disclosed. On Wednesday, during hi...
Former AG  attends  Parliament  for final time
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Former AG attends Parliament for final time
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September 11, 2020
Emery Robertson Sr played a large part in building democracy in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). “He toiled with us in the wilderness and was with...
Release 2018 Poverty  Assessment  report –  Cummings
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Release 2018 Poverty Assessment report – Cummings
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September 11, 2020
A New Democratic Party candidate is calling on the government to release the 2018 Poverty Assessment report, which he says shows 36 per cent of Vincen...
RSVGPF Traffic department creates safety areas in school zones
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RSVGPF Traffic department creates safety areas in school zones
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September 11, 2020
Police have implemented several changes in the Richmond Hill area, with some areas previously used by motorists for parking, and vendors for selling, ...
Smooth restart to schools amidst Covid-19 concerns
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Smooth restart to schools amidst Covid-19 concerns
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September 8, 2020
THE MAJORITY of schools in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) reopened in full for face-to-face learning on Monday having been closed since March due...
Teachers volunteer to do temperature checks
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Teachers volunteer to do temperature checks
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September 8, 2020
OSWALD ROBINSON, president of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers Union (SVGTU) said on Monday that while it is not the responsibility of teach...
Unique Vincy Grass Mat on display at Embassy in Taiwan
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Unique Vincy Grass Mat on display at Embassy in Taiwan
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September 8, 2020
A SIGNIFICANT LANDMARK of the GROW IN TIME Sustainable Livelihoods program in the prisons of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has taken place with ...
Parents on Canouan upset, told to transfer their children
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Parents on Canouan upset, told to transfer their children
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September 4, 2020
Parents of children attending the privately owned Pelican School are protesting the requirement that they transfer their children to the Canouan Gover...
Six NDP Marriaqua Constituency Division members resign
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Six NDP Marriaqua Constituency Division members resign
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September 4, 2020
Six members of the Marriaqua Constituency Division of the New Democratic Party (NDP) have resigned, saying they have lost all confidence in their part...
Savings Plan or Pyramid Scheme?
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Savings Plan or Pyramid Scheme?
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September 4, 2020
by Bria King What if you could turn US$500 to US$4000 in four weeks? This is the promise being made by at least one “Family and Friends Saving Plan” p...
NDP endorses teacher to contest North Windward seat
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NDP endorses teacher to contest North Windward seat
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September 4, 2020
The Central Committee of the New Democratic Party (NDP) has unanimously endorsed teacher Shevern John to join Dr Godwin Friday’s team to represent Nor...
3 detained in  Arnos Vale robbery probe
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3 detained in Arnos Vale robbery probe
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September 1, 2020
No one was hurt during a robbery which took place at Wilson Enterprises Inc (Sol Gas Station) in Arnos Vale last Friday afternoon. Christa Wilson, the...
Young man pleads guilty to beating mother
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Young man pleads guilty to beating mother
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September 1, 2020
A 31-year-old man who, in a drunken state, beat his mother about her body and said he was going to kill her, has been remanded for sentencing on Thurs...
Twenty-two police officers mark 25 years of service
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Twenty-two police officers mark 25 years of service
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September 1, 2020
Twenty-two Officers celebrate 25 years of service in the RSVGPF. Twenty-two officers of the Royal St Vincent and Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) are ...
Ministry of Education finalising plans for new school year
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Ministry of Education finalising plans for new school year
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August 28, 2020
by Bria King Students will resume face-to-face schooling one week later than originally announced as authorities move to finalise arrangements for the...
46 persons hospitalized with Dengue
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46 persons hospitalized with Dengue
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August 28, 2020
Forty-six people with laboratory confirmed Dengue have been hospitalized so far this year, during an “above normal increase” in cases; says the Minist...
Synthetic track heading closer to the finish line
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Synthetic track heading closer to the finish line
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August 28, 2020
The synthetic track which is currently being laid at the national stadium site at Diamond, is heading to the home stretch. Earlier this week saw the p...
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PM signals 5 with his five new candidates
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August 28, 2020
GOING FOR A FIFTH TERM: Political Leader of the Unity Labour Party Dr Ralph Gonsalves (third from left) poses at the party’s National Council Meeting,...
Attorney Grant Connell livid over PS comment in court
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Attorney Grant Connell livid over PS comment in court
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August 25, 2020
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Mobilisation caused a disruption at the court yesterday, after she apparently called a defense cou...
NDP drops DaSilva; ’89 – ’98 candidate gets nod
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NDP drops DaSilva; ’89 – ’98 candidate gets nod
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August 25, 2020
Former Parliamentarian, Bernard Wyllie is the candidate who will give the New Democratic Party (NDP) its greatest chance of winning elections in the M...
BVI lifts suspension on One Caribbean Airlines
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BVI lifts suspension on One Caribbean Airlines
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August 25, 2020
The suspension preventing One Caribbean Airlines’ flights to the Virgin Islands has been lifted following the conclusion that there was no intent on t...
Veteran broadcaster E.B. John passes
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Veteran broadcaster E.B. John passes
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August 25, 2020
Veteran broadcaster Evans Bernard John has died. John, who was born on March 13, 1951, passed away at his home in Evesham on August 19. His wife, Shel...
Elderly woman falls to her death over embankment
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Elderly woman falls to her death over embankment
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August 21, 2020
by Bria King When Winifred Ghent prepared to go to bed on Tuesday night, the last thing she expected to hear was that her mother had fallen over an em...
Vincentian casts New  York’s  votes  for Joe Biden
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Vincentian casts New York’s votes for Joe Biden
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August 21, 2020
by Katherine Renton A Vincentian who works as a Registered Nurse in the United States lifted her voice for the healthcare workers and immigrants, as s...
Nine-year-old girl still fighting for her life after road accident
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Nine-year-old girl still fighting for her life after road accident
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August 21, 2020
by Katherine Renton A nine-year-old pupil of the Kingstown Government School who suffered a brain injury after being struck by a vehicle on the Campde...
Police present scholarship, bursaries to 67 students
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Police present scholarship, bursaries to 67 students
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August 21, 2020
Sixty-seven students are the new beneficiaries of scholarships and bursaries awarded in a joint effort by the Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Poli...
Beware of the follies of the NDP – Gonsalves
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Beware of the follies of the NDP – Gonsalves
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August 21, 2020
The breaking of diplomatic ties with Taiwan, the selling of Vincentian citizenship and plans to set up a constituency development fund are among the ‘...
Vincy Heat in tough Group C of World Cup qualifiers
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Vincy Heat in tough Group C of World Cup qualifiers
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August 21, 2020
St Vincent and the Grenadines’ Vincy Heat have been placed in Group C of the CONCACAF Zone of the World Cup qualifiers for Qatar 2022. This was known ...
Sandals  to shell  out over  US$14m
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Sandals to shell out over US$14m
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August 18, 2020
Sandals Resorts International will pay approximately US$14.75 million for the property that housed the former Buccament Bay Resort and other lands sur...
Murray’s Village man  killed in  two-car smash-up
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Murray’s Village man killed in two-car smash-up
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August 18, 2020
A businessman of Murray Village was killed early Saturday morning in a motor vehicular collision at Arnos Vale. Lamont ‘Whiter’ Dickson, also known as...
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Soca Monarch win for Fireman & Skinny; Road March next
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Soca Monarch win for Fireman & Skinny; Road March next
Christina 
July 7, 2025
With the Soca Monarch finals out of the way, all eyes and ears are turned towards Kingstown in anticipation for who will capture the 2025 Road March t...
Vincentian UWI Professor gives SVG an “A” for educational advancement
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Vincentian UWI Professor gives SVG an “A” for educational advancement
Forrest 
July 4, 2025
The government of St Vincent and the Grenadines has been given a high grade for the strides made in education during its term in office, but is concer...
Four for Miss SVG grace Junior Calypso and Soca Monarch competition
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Four for Miss SVG grace Junior Calypso and Soca Monarch competition
Forrest 
July 4, 2025
Four contestants who will be competing in the Miss SVG show later this year, made an appearance at the Junior Calypso and Soca Monarch Competition on ...
SVG appoints Mikhail Charles as  Legal Advisor at UK High Commission
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SVG appoints Mikhail Charles as Legal Advisor at UK High Commission
Forrest 
July 4, 2025
Vincentian lawyer, Mikhail Charles, has been appointed Honorary Legal Advisor for St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) at its High Commission in the Un...
Five entrepreneurs to make business pitch in Men’s Empowerment Project
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Five entrepreneurs to make business pitch in Men’s Empowerment Project
Forrest 
July 4, 2025
The Centre for Enterprise Development Inc, (CED) has announced its upcoming Business Pitch Competition, where five dynamic entrepreneurs will compete ...

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