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Minibuses strike for half-day
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February 20, 2015
Commuters in the Gomea and Belair areas were, yesterday morning, left without the services of minibuses that work those routes, as threats to strike b...
Cooking gas price drop causing some confusion
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February 17, 2015
Opposition Leader Arnhim Eustace has said that retailers of Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) have been thrown in a state of confusion over the reduced co...
Mural at NUSS to  honour Rock Gutter victims
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February 10, 2015
A mural has been painted in honour of the four students of the North Union Secondary School (NUSS) who lost their lives in the Rock Gutter tragedy of ...
Diamond take gold in Calliaqua Football
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February 6, 2015
Debutants - Diamond United did not need to dig deep last Sunday afternoon at the Calliaqua Playing Field, making light work of perennial winners of th...
Local Muslims  say Islam is not about violence
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February 6, 2015
The religion of Islam has been receiving a lot of attention from the international media for almost two decades, but with Muslim extremists being resp...
Antrobus and Durrant put wheels in motion
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February 3, 2015
Lucky Antrobus and Peter Durrant have broken away from the pack and have already established a lead in the 2015 racing calendar of the St Vincent and ...
Centenarian recalls her youth in SVG, aboard
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February 3, 2015
Travelling by boat to Scotland, walking to school from Rose Bank to Troumaca, and going to a party in Kingstown and being entertained by a live band, ...
Dad gets tragic news while at funeral
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February 3, 2015
Imagine you’re attending a funeral and you receive a telephone call stating that your child has died. That’s exactly what happened to James Smart ...
Local dancers undergo rigorous one-day training
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January 27, 2015
A number of local dancers got the opportunity last Saturday, January 24, to train with a professional dance instructor, Canadian Dominique Turcotte. T...
Attacks on Coastguard unjustified – Commander
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January 23, 2015
The attacks on the St Vincent and the Grenadines Coastguard Service by persons on social media and on the radio, in relation to their response to the ...
New urban radio station hits airwaves in SVG
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January 16, 2015
From today, Friday, January 16, a new urban radio station ‘Xtreme’ 104.3 FM (formerly Cross Country radio) is providing persons with a new source ...
Diamonds man allegedly chased, beaten to death
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January 16, 2015
To Bethel Brackin-Gonsalves, her husband Anthony “Larbie” Gonsalves was the kind of man who would have travelled the corners of earth to make sure...
Potential and hope taken away
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January 16, 2015
When passenger van HL636 plunged into the raging seas off the coast of Rock Gutter last Monday, it took with it a significant portion of the potential...