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April 16, 2021
WITH THE Central Water and Sewerage Authority-CWSA- trying desperately to restore potable water to consumers, it is calling on these same consumers to...
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April 16, 2021
SQUEEZE CASH Inc, a multi-currency app operation, said it has launched a relief fund to provide direct assistance to those who have been affected by t...
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April 16, 2021
UP UNTIL April 13, members of the Coast Guard service were still risking their lives to get people out of the danger zone around La Soufrière, bringin...
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April 16, 2021
IN THE past two weeks, La Soufriere volcano has registered important seismic activity, with intensifying explosions in the last days. Continuous ash f...
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April 16, 2021
THE CARIBBEAN Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is providing technical assistance in response to the eruption of the soufriere volcano, a release dated Ap...
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April 16, 2021
La Soufrière has operated remarkably in the way in which it erupted this time around. The head of the Soufriere monitoring team Vincentian geologist/ ...
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April 16, 2021
As the Soufriere volcano continues to erupt explosively, some persons are using the opportunity to commit burglaries and other crimes in the areas tha...
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April 16, 2021
THE LOCAL police said that a number of disturbing videos have been circulating on social media depicting persons stealing bottled water from water tru...
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April 16, 2021
THE Caribbean Union of Teachers (C.U.T.), the umbrella Organization of Teachers’ Unions in the region, recognizes that the Covid -19 pandemic has impa...
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April 16, 2021
Members of the Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF), expect to receive a consignment of water today, Friday April 16. The shipmen...
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April 16, 2021
Tons of supplies, including water, can foods and aerated beverages have arrived in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) compliments the government of ...
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April 16, 2021
THE UWI Seismic Research Centre (UWI-SRC) has received a grant from the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF SPC) to support its monit...
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April 16, 2021
“In 1979 it was giving out ash but not like this. This worse,” Owia resident Frankie “Tiger” Lavia told SEARCHLIGHT on Saturday from his temporary hom...
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April 16, 2021
COMMISSIONER OF police (COP) Colin John said he is proud regarding some of the reports on security coming out of the volcano emergency shelters, altho...
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April 16, 2021
It may seem that some residents in the orange and red zones, affected by the eruption of the Soufriere volcano, could be part of a grey scale zombie a...
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April 16, 2021
HEADS OF Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met in Special Emergency session on Thursday April 15 to discuss the situation in St Vincent ...
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April 16, 2021
PERSONS WHO enter areas that are in the red zone of La Soufriere volcano can be charged under different sections of the Public Order Act. And, commiss...
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April 13, 2021
THOUGHVINCENTIANS may be dreading rainfall after the heavy ashfall that has taken place over the last few days, geologist, Professor Richard Robertson...
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April 13, 2021
INSTEAD of the two rock domes that had previously formed in the crater of La Soufriere, there is now a gaping hole from which explosions/venting is ta...
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April 13, 2021
Deep in the red zone in Windward communities of the Soufriere volcano, is like watching a scary movie in black and white. Trees bowed over from the we...
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April 13, 2021
As La Soufriere continues her explosive eruptions in the north of St Vincent and the Grenadines, farmers who have evacuated their homes in the red zon...
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April 13, 2021
THE UNFOLDING explosive phase of the eruption of the Soufriere volcano has not taken a 68 year old retired public sector worker by surprise. In fact, ...
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April 13, 2021
ON A BRIDGE in New Chapmans, three forlorn figures stood looking at the mountain top, the Soufriere volcano. “My family from the area, couple sisters ...
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April 13, 2021
LA SOUFRIERE’s April 2021 eruption has displaced thousands of people living in communities at the base of the volcano and in neighbouring communities....
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April 13, 2021
THE BOLIVARIAN Republic of Venezuela is the latest country in the region to show solidarity to St Vincent through the donation of 20 tonnes of humanit...
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April 13, 2021
MORE THAN 100 persons were evacuated from northern parts of St Vincent in the last three days due to the efforts of the SVG Coastguard since the begin...
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April 13, 2021
PRIME MINISTER Dr Ralph Gonsalves is asking that if persons know of anyone who is living on the streets who is having a difficult time because of the ...
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April 13, 2021
DALE HOOPER, a young man who started his teenage life on the wrong foot, ended his existence the same way, on the wrong foot, shot dead at 20. On Satu...
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April 13, 2021
MULTIPLE pyroclastic flows, ie flows of destruction, from a particularly large explosion at La Soufriére in the early morning of April 12, sped down s...
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April 13, 2021
THE UK IS providing emergency assistance in response to volcanic eruptions in St Vincent and the Grenadines, which saw more than 15,000 people evacuat...
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April 13, 2021
NINETEEN-YEAR-old national scholar Delaan Nedd was last week accepted to the internationally esteemed Princeton University where he will further his s...
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April 10, 2021
A group of persons fishing at the Chateaubelair wharf yesterday, April 9 left their fishing lines and even fish behind when an explosion from La Soufr...
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April 10, 2021
As La Soufriere continues her explosive eruptions in the north of St Vincent, farmers who have evacuated their homes in the red zone are concerned abo...
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April 10, 2021
Some evacuees have expressed that if taking a Covid-19 vaccination becomes mandatory, they will not be staying at the shelters. “Only problem I will h...
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April 9, 2021
THE EVACUATION of communities in the red hazard zone of La Soufriere began yesterday afternoon as the evacuation order was given by Prime Minister Ral...
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April 9, 2021
A SOUTH Rivers/Villa Point woman says an encounter with the police outside her home during which officers allegedly hit her and pinned her down, left ...
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April 9, 2021
A VOICE NOTE denouncing the COVID19 vaccine and making derogatory remarks about residents in communities on the windward side of the island, lit up so...
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April 9, 2021
THIS COUNTRY’S government may be unable to pay salaries and wages in the coming months, if the harsh economic situation continues locally. This was th...
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April 9, 2021
SMART HOSPITALS and other medical facilities in the red and orange zones will be closed during an explosive eruption in St Vincent and the Grenadines ...
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April 9, 2021
A MAN who fled police custody in November 2016 after no one signed his bail on a gun and ammunition charge, and who was jailed in January 2017 on the ...
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April 9, 2021
WITH THE expiration date of two batches of COVID19 vaccines looming over St Vincent and the Grenadines, and the threat of a possible volcanic eruption...
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April 9, 2021
A RESIDENT of Big River, a commumity in Owia says the earthquakes that are occuring at the Soufriere volcano, were to his knowledge, not a feature of ...
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April 9, 2021
ON MARCH 29TH, the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines through the Venezuelan Institute for Culture an...
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April 2, 2026
THE DEPARTMENT OF Culture, in collaboration with the Peace Memorial Hall, officially unveiled the first ever large-scale sculptural mural in St.Vincen...
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April 2, 2026
PRIME MINISTER, Dr. Godwin Friday, has issued a statement addressing a series of recent incidents of violence, public disorder, and growing concerns a...
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April 2, 2026
UN SECRETARY-GENERAL Antonio Guterres, has strongly condemned an incident that led to the killing of two Indonesian peacekeepers of the United Nations...
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April 2, 2026
THE NATIONAL Society of Persons with Disabilities (NSPD) in St.Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) held its annual Melanie McKenzie Educational and Medic...
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April 2, 2026
SIX SECTIONS, ALL representing some aspects of the way Vincentians live, will be turned into costumes when the Lynx Mas Band makes it presentation for...
