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Sir Vincent will be laid to rest on Monday, August 19
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Sir Vincent will be laid to rest on Monday, August 19
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August 9, 2019
Sir Vincent Ian Beache will be laid to rest on Monday August 19. One of this country’s longest serving politicians, Sir Vincent died at 3:10 last Mond...
Man killed in vehicular accident
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Man killed in vehicular accident
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August 9, 2019
A 40-year-old bottle collector, most known by the name ‘Greggry’, died on the spot after a vehicle hit him in Keartons last Wednesday night. Adah ‘Tam...
SVG opens Embassy  in Taiwan
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SVG opens Embassy in Taiwan
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August 9, 2019
This country’s Embassy in the Republic of China (Taiwan) is now open, with Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves unveiling the plaque during an official c...
Garret Cyrus is cutting it big in Canada
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Garret Cyrus is cutting it big in Canada
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August 9, 2019
Vincentian-born Garret Cyrus is making some waves in Canada, as his physique is taking him places. Last weekend, at the Natural Pro Qualifier held at ...
SVGS honours retired teachers
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SVGS honours retired teachers
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August 9, 2019
For their contribution to education, seven retired educators who once taught at the St Vincent Grammar School (SVGS) were recognized last weekend. The...
Bathroom at High Court not safe, fit for use  – Grant Connell
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Bathroom at High Court not safe, fit for use – Grant Connell
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August 9, 2019
A defence lawyer has commented on the conditions plaguing the High Court, including its bathroom, declaring that if the Prime Minister can’t “go in th...
He has served the country very well – Deputy PM
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He has served the country very well – Deputy PM
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August 6, 2019
Sir Vincent Ian Beache has been described as a true patriot and a man who brought a level-headed approach to many issues while serving St Vincent and ...
Mother pleads for help after fire destroys home
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Mother pleads for help after fire destroys home
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August 6, 2019
A mother of four is calling for justice and the public’s help after her Green Hill home burnt to the ground on Emancipation Day in what she suspects t...
Keep the youths along the straight and narrow – McKie
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Keep the youths along the straight and narrow – McKie
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August 6, 2019
The Ministry of Tourism, Sports and Culture has joined the fight against crime in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) through an initiative aimed at t...
Opposition Leader wants full disclosure of tender evaluation report
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Opposition Leader wants full disclosure of tender evaluation report
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August 2, 2019
Opposition leader, Dr Godwin Friday is calling on the Tenders Board to disclose the full tender evaluation reports for the Yarabaqua river project, on...
Parliamentarians take ‘hands off’  approach to buggery and gross indecency
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Parliamentarians take ‘hands off’ approach to buggery and gross indecency
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August 2, 2019
Parliamentarians here are seemingly prepared to let the court decide on whether buggery and gross indecency laws in St Vincent and the Grenadines are ...
Sharpes  teen drowns  at Villa beach
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Sharpes teen drowns at Villa beach
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August 2, 2019
by Katherine Renton A 19-year-old who recently graduated from a technical institute, drowned at Villa beach last Friday after hitting his head jumping...
No arrest for two ounces or less of cannabis
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No arrest for two ounces or less of cannabis
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August 2, 2019
Although possession of cannabis is still illegal, having two ounces or less is now just a ticketable offence and individuals so caught, though not be ...
Runaway truck smashes through tuckshop at American University
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Runaway truck smashes through tuckshop at American University
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August 2, 2019
Many are lucky to be alive after a truck, said to have lost its brakes, plowed through the gate of American University at New Montrose before smashing...
Woman opens Pandora’s box, finds her biological father (+ Video)
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Woman opens Pandora’s box, finds her biological father (+ Video)
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July 26, 2019
Determined to learn about her presumed Garifuna ancestry, a former diplomat stumbled on evidence that led to her father’s identity, opening a proverbi...
SVG giving CDB a bad name – Arnhim Eustace
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SVG giving CDB a bad name – Arnhim Eustace
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July 26, 2019
“Our bank [is] given bad name because of St Vincent and the Grenadines; something it never had.” Former opposition leader, Arnhim Eustace had this to ...
Reliable Construction will continue river  defence project – PM
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Reliable Construction will continue river defence project – PM
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July 26, 2019
Despite the declaration of a mis-procurement by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), river defence works on the Yarabaqua River will continue using S...
Woman sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for manslaughter
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Woman sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for manslaughter
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July 26, 2019
A woman who seemingly dangled sexual intercourse as bait to lure her lover to his death, and who had hoped to hook a $3000 pay cheque for her role, ha...
Irate customer  smashes bank door
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Irate customer smashes bank door
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July 26, 2019
Reports are that a man, frustrated by the St Vincent Co-Operative bank’s need for three pieces of identification, accidentally smashed the door this M...
Convicted burglar chopped to death
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Convicted burglar chopped to death
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July 26, 2019
A 50-year-old man who spent much of his life visiting courts, charged with various offences, was chopped to death after trespassing on a property in K...
SVG to have first female Governor General soon
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SVG to have first female Governor General soon
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July 23, 2019
An advocate for equity, Susan Dougan OBE, soon to be the first female Governor General of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), says it will be good to...
Government ‘screwed up’ CDB funding for river  defence project – Dr Friday
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Government ‘screwed up’ CDB funding for river defence project – Dr Friday
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July 23, 2019
This country’s loss of funding from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) for river works at the Yarabaqua river is symptomatic of larger issues with t...
No allegation of  corruption in  allocating project – Chairman of  Tenders Board
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No allegation of corruption in allocating project – Chairman of Tenders Board
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July 23, 2019
The mis-procurement declared by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) of funds allocated to a river defence project in St Vincent and the Grenadines (S...
Caribbean Association of Principals of Secondary Schools holding meet in SVG
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Caribbean Association of Principals of Secondary Schools holding meet in SVG
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July 23, 2019
Principals from 11 English-speaking Caribbean countries are in St Vincent and the Grenadines this week to discuss matters relating to the evolution of...
KCCU withdrawal slip forger checks into prison
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KCCU withdrawal slip forger checks into prison
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July 19, 2019
A former Kingstown Co-operative Credit Union (KCCU) worker who forged 20 withdrawal slips, has been sentenced to spend two years and eight months in j...
Montrose youth to answer  for stabbing death of father
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Montrose youth to answer for stabbing death of father
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July 19, 2019
The 22-year-old son of the recently deceased Clint Boucher of Mala Village in Sion Hill, has been charged with causing his death. Clinton “Weed Eye” C...
16 Vincentians awarded scholarships to study in Taiwan
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16 Vincentians awarded scholarships to study in Taiwan
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July 19, 2019
Many of this year’s recipients of full scholarships from the Republic of China (Taiwan) are excited not only to pursue their chosen career path, but t...
Formosa Circus Art thrills SVG
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Formosa Circus Art thrills SVG
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July 19, 2019
An exchange of culture occurred twice this week when a Taiwanese performance group put on display contemporary circus arts of Taiwan. The Formosa Circ...
Cabinet approves 34 medical marijuana licences
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Cabinet approves 34 medical marijuana licences
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July 16, 2019
Cabinet’s approval last week, of 34 cannabis licences, could generate close to $12 million for this country. “The paperwork, applications and checking...
MV Gem Star 2 begins ferry service today
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MV Gem Star 2 begins ferry service today
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July 16, 2019
The MV Gem Star 2 will today, July 16, begin a twice-a-week ferry service between Kingstown and the Southern Grenadines, taking up where its predecess...
Modern Medical and Diagnostic Centre turns one
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Modern Medical and Diagnostic Centre turns one
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July 16, 2019
In its first year of operation, the Modern Medical and Diagnostic Centre (MMDC) is said to have attended to over 10,000 patients and performed over 50...
Hance grooves his way to Ragga Soca title
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Hance grooves his way to Ragga Soca title
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July 12, 2019
Hance John has once again proven that he’s in the Soca top class, singing his way to the Ragga Soca 2019 crown last Saturday with his song about the “...
Shaunelle does the double
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Shaunelle does the double
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July 12, 2019
Two crowns in one year after a 17-year gap was enough to make Shaunelle McKenzie, crowned Calypso Monarch 2019, cry tears of happiness. McKenzie’s you...
Lynx takes Senior and Junior Band of the Year titles
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Lynx takes Senior and Junior Band of the Year titles
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July 12, 2019
“Sometimes it’s not the size of the band,” the Lynx mas band leader noted this week, after Lynx took both the Senior and Junior Band of the Year title...
Starlift Steel Orchestra plays their way in to first place
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Starlift Steel Orchestra plays their way in to first place
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July 12, 2019
For the second time this carnival season at a pan competition, only one point separated steel orchestras from the first and second positions. The Henn...
Singing Kristy releases ‘Global Monster’ for 7th  calypso crown
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Singing Kristy releases ‘Global Monster’ for 7th calypso crown
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July 5, 2019
The junior calypso competitions said goodbye to Kristiana Christopher this week with the teenager taking her seventh crown. Kristiana is the 2019 winn...
Lil Kris leaves ‘Large Footprint’ on Junior Calypso with 5th crown
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Lil Kris leaves ‘Large Footprint’ on Junior Calypso with 5th crown
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July 5, 2019
Kristian Christopher bid farewell to the Layou Government School by giving that institution the 2019 junior calypso crown. Kristian, performing a song...
Shorty T shows she is queen of Junior Soca
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Shorty T shows she is queen of Junior Soca
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July 5, 2019
Teshika “Shorty T” Andrews, doing a song called “Peace,” won the Junior Soca Monarch competition last Tuesday and the first thing she did was thank he...
Lynx flies off with 2019 Band of the Year title
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Lynx flies off with 2019 Band of the Year title
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July 5, 2019
After 13 years of trying, the Xtreme FM 104.3 G&T Enterprise Lynx Mas Band has won their first junior mas band title. Last Saturday, Lynx, with their ...
‘Hero’ brings home Starlift in tight pan competition
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‘Hero’ brings home Starlift in tight pan competition
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July 2, 2019
The competition was so tight in the 2019 St. Vincent Electricity Services (VINLEC) community-based steel bands competition on Sunday, that one point s...
Smart cops several awards at police  passing out ceremony
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Smart cops several awards at police passing out ceremony
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July 2, 2019
by Katherine Renton The 78 recruits who took their oaths of office last Thursday were “unbreakable” during training and will remain so in the future, ...
GHS makes it six-in-a-row (+Videos)
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GHS makes it six-in-a-row (+Videos)
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July 2, 2019
There is a recipe for winning the St Vincent Electricity Services (VINLEC) National Junior Panorama competition. And Johnny ‘JP’ Pompey, the six-time ...
SVGCC Graduating class of 2019 told to ‘create your own legacy’
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SVGCC Graduating class of 2019 told to ‘create your own legacy’
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June 28, 2019
All 767 graduates of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Community College have been called on to be determined, self focused and disciplined if they wa...
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Vincentian UWI Professor gives SVG an “A” for educational advancement
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Vincentian UWI Professor gives SVG an “A” for educational advancement
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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
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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
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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
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July 4, 2025
The Centre for Enterprise Development Inc, (CED) has announced its upcoming Business Pitch Competition, where five dynamic entrepreneurs will compete ...
Island Journeys: Rebuilding home and hope after Hurricane Beryl, Uriel Thomas’ Story
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Island Journeys: Rebuilding home and hope after Hurricane Beryl, Uriel Thomas’ Story
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July 4, 2025
When Hurricane Beryl tore into Union Island in 2024, it didn’t just flatten homes it upended lives, reshaped communities, and served as another harsh ...

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