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Searchlight receives tourism media award
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December 2, 2016
SEARCHLIGHT has received the Ministry of Tourism, Sports and Culture’s 2016 Media Promotion Award. The flagship publication of Interactive Media Lim...
Friday to focus on outreach, organization
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November 29, 2016
Having been declared president of the New Democratic Party (NDP), Dr Godwin Friday intends to concentrate on better organizing the party’s constitue...
Tour operator is Tourism Stakeholder of the Year
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November 29, 2016
Popular tour operator Munroe “Daddy” Peters of Daddy’s Tours is the Ministry of Tourism’s Stakeholder of the Year for 2016. Last Saturday, Nov...
Woman wins hefty Brewery cash prize
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November 25, 2016
Thanks to her persistence and the “Hairoun Celebrates 37 years of Independence with 37 Grand” promotion put on by the St Vincent Brewery Ltd, Dune...
Keep leadership race clean – Eustace
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November 25, 2016
Outgoing President of the New Democratic Party (NDP) Arnhim Eustace is encouraging the candidates vying for leadership of the party to engage in a res...
Minister agrees consent age should be 18
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November 25, 2016
A recent survey conducted by SEARCHLIGHT has shown that 76.56 per cent of persons polled believe the age of consent in St Vincent and the Grenadines s...
Questelles house firebombed, fleeing owner shot
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November 22, 2016
A Questelles man, whose wooden house was firebombed and riddled with gunshots in the wee hours of yesterday morning, says he is seeking assistance to ...
Bequia man fed up of alleged police beatings
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November 22, 2016
A Bequia resident, who earlier this year alleged that he was beaten by police, is now currently nursing wounds he says he received from another squad ...
Dr Friday pledges to do his best
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November 22, 2016
Dr Godwin Friday, this country’s new Leader of the Opposition, intends to put all his effort into his new role and serve the people of St Vincent an...
GHS triumphs at Public Speaking Competition
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November 18, 2016
After ten years of being kept off the winner’s spot, the Girls’ High School has once again copped the coveted Michael DeFreitas Challenge Trophy i...
Buccament Bay  businessman shot dead  in robbery
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November 18, 2016
Residents of Buccament were sent into a state of disbelief on Wednesday night when they learned of the death of community stalwart Edgar ‘Papa Reidâ...
NDP looks for new leadership as Eustace quits
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November 18, 2016
Outgoing President of the New Democratic Party (NDP) and Leader of the Opposition Arnhim Eustace did not make the decision to resign on his own, but w...
Retired Kingstown Park nurse bashed to death
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November 15, 2016
Retired nurse Pamela Williams, who was killed yesterday, desperately tried to get help when she was attacked in her Kingstown Park home early Monday m...
Man stabbed, bludgeoned at Campden Park
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November 15, 2016
What started off as a normal night ‘liming on the block’ in Campden Park ended in Nicholas ‘Nicko’ Layne’s death. Layne, an Edinboro residen...
Double homicide at Old Montrose
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November 15, 2016
The double murder of retired nurse Avis Israel and her son Ronald Israel has sent shockwaves through the small community of Old Montrose and according...
Man faces second murder charge
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November 11, 2016
Old Montrose resident Devon “Chiefman” Charles has been slapped with another murder charge. Charles appeared at the Serious Offences Court on Tues...
Adoption Committee officially sworn in
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November 11, 2016
Persons hoping to adopt Vincentian children and families with pending adoptions can look forward to the adoption process moving forward, as last week,...
Paget Farm, Bequia  boy dies
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November 11, 2016
A Paget Farm family is trying to come to terms with the tragic loss of an 11-year-old boy, who was swept away two days ago, following torrential rains...
Police probe Dorsetshire Hill fire
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November 8, 2016
An investigation is being carried out into an early morning fire that completely gutted a concrete dwelling house in Dorsetshire Hill. According to re...
‘Bleaching’ athlete thrown out of club
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November 4, 2016
Promising sprint athlete Tarique John is no longer part of the IT-DAT Academy set-up, because of his refusal to stop the practice of bleaching. The ac...
Five babies die in one week at the MCMH
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November 4, 2016
When Ann’s (not her real name) baby was born in August 2016, weighing less than one pound, this young mother was devastated, but as the days rolled ...
Two charged for Campden Park attacks
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November 4, 2016
Two suspects are now in custody and a security guard hospitalized, after two armed robberies at the Campden Park Industrial Estate early Tuesday morni...
Fire leaves families homeless
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November 4, 2016
A raging inferno destroyed two residences at Long Wall last Tuesday. However, another ‘fire’ seems to be brewing between a resident of one of the ...