From the Courts, News
January 3, 2025
A 40 year old chauffeur of Penniston/Georgetown who is facing multiple charges of deception, will appear at the Magistrate’s Court in Biabou on Januar...
From the Courts, News
January 3, 2025
In just a few days, a 20 year old electrician of Glen will re-appear in court charged with multiple firearm and ammunition offenses. The police said i...
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January 2, 2025
Police are investigating the death of a Marriaqua man. Albert Lorenzo Lewis, a 63-year-old farmer and welder of Hopewell was found by a neighbour in t...
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December 24, 2024
A resident who has lived in the Paul’s Avenue area all his life says police can stop the shootings there if they remove persons who go into the commun...
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December 24, 2024
Prime Minister, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, has said that the crime and violence situation affecting St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), should not be blamed...
From the Courts, News
December 24, 2024
A bus conductor will spend the next four years in prison after he abducted, buggered, and attempted to rape a child with special needs. Kevin Durrant,...
News
December 24, 2024
Rubis has donated food and other essential items to residents at the Thompson Home as part of a tradition the company said spans more than a decade. I...
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December 24, 2024
If all goes as planned, Assistant Comptroller of the Inland Revenue Department (IRD), Kaschaka Cupid will come up against the Unity Labour Party’s (UL...
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December 24, 2024
The Livestock component of the UBEC CERC SVG Food Insecurity Project reached another significant milestone on Tuesday, December 17, 2024 when a total ...
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December 24, 2024
A month after the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) swooped down on local pawn shop, CashWiz, the overseas business is said to be working with local aut...
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December 24, 2024
A former member of the academic staff of The University of the West Indies (The UWI), who celebrated his 100th birthday earlier this month, was celebr...
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December 20, 2024
A local fisher who has survived four boat mishaps at sea, can count himself a lucky man today as he lives to see I.T. being incorporated into fishing ...
News
December 20, 2024
Reshonna Thompson has been described as someone who brought joy to the people around her, and a young woman whose death robbed the world of a great hu...
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December 20, 2024
Mechanical difficulties are being blamed for a deadly minibus accident that killed one man, and injured three other people last Friday, December 13, 2...
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December 20, 2024
The multinational Sandals Resorts recently held its second Caribbean-wide town hall meeting for 2024, where Executive Chairman, Adam Stewart addressed...
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December 20, 2024
Recordings that were making the rounds on social media at the weekend showed a man lying dead in a pool of blood on a main road in Glen with gunshot w...
From the Courts, News
December 20, 2024
A woman who posted and shared sexually explicit images of another woman online after accusing her of having an intimate relationship with her ex-boyfr...
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December 20, 2024
A group of men in heated conversation with police officers on December 11, 2024 after officers removed barrels that were blocking the road. People who...
From the Courts, News
December 20, 2024
A 36 year old mason of Diamond will reappear in court on January 14, 2025, to answer to a charge of theft, and assault of a police officer. The police...
From the Courts, News
December 20, 2024
Almost 80 percent of the US$170 million Port Modernization Project is completed. This information was shared by Minister of Urban Development, Benarva...
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December 20, 2024
A 69 year old man who stole 17 bottles of honey and claimed he used it to help with his asthma, was taken to obtain medical attention after complainin...
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December 20, 2024
A project was launched last Monday, December 16, by the St Vincent and the Grenadines Environment Fund (SVGEF), where 30 Pelagic Data Systems(PDS) Dig...
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December 20, 2024
With the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season now officially ended, the Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation( CARILEC), has been reflecting on th...
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December 20, 2024
Minister of Agriculture Saboto Ceasar, has promised a “big shake-up” at the agricultural station at Wallilabou expressing that he was not pleased with...
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December 20, 2024
Two internationally recognized Vincentian music artistes and performers have been ranked in the top 10 of a list of performers of the 101 top soca son...
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December 20, 2024
The Government of Taiwan, through its Embassy in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), earlier this month, concluded the presentation of over 500 bursa...
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December 20, 2024
A local song bird, Judi “Bossgyal Judi” Cordice, who told SEARCHLIGHT back in December, 2020, that she had been raped at the age of seven and beaten b...
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December 20, 2024
A Vincentian Christian missionary who has served on the mission field for several years, is encouraging other persons to become involved in missionary...
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December 20, 2024
Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, Dr Godwin Friday has concluded that St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), is experiencing a “crime crisis,” as ...
News
December 20, 2024
Last Friday, December 6, 2024, we at SEARCHLIGHT learnt of the death of Shelley Clarke, a veteran journalist on the local media landscape. In the mids...
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December 20, 2024
Local law enforcement and their regional counterparts convened over the last three days to discuss strategies to address the critical issue of illegal...
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December 20, 2024
The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) in collaboration with the Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), launched a US$3 mil...
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December 20, 2024
St. Vincent and the Grenadines 2nd Generation (SV2G), based in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, recently received the King’s Award for Voluntary Service...
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December 20, 2024
The Ministry of Health Wellness and the Environment (MOH), on Wednesday December 11, 2024, received the draft Standards for Quality Healthcare Service...
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December 20, 2024
The Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) has hailed its annual Crime Prevention exhibition held on Friday, December 6, 2024 as a...
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December 20, 2024
The United Kingdom (UK)Government is introducing Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) for millions of visitors who pass through the UK border every y...
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December 20, 2024
The M.V. Gem Star 2, one of the main ferries that service the Grenadine islands, will soon be back on the water after it went adrift. Last Sunday, Dec...
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December 20, 2024
Traffic Angels made a clean sweep of all the major categories in the successful defense of their Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RS...
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December 13, 2024
Anthony 'Pipey' Lewis was hospitalised early this morning, Friday, December 13, after being shot in the leg, allegedly by police officers. This incide...
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December 13, 2024
Editor and one of the founders of the News Newspaper Shelley Clarke has passed away. Reports are that Clarke died this morning. This is a developing s...
From the Courts, News
December 13, 2024
A 21-year-old man was sentenced to prison after he was caught walking on the Lodge Village public road with a loaded gun. Adonis Francis of Redemption...
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December 13, 2024
A police officer attached to the narcotics unit is asking people to read up on the Amended Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 284 of the Laws o...
From the Courts, News
December 13, 2024
A Walvaroo man who denied being in possession of one Glock pistol and 24 rounds of ammunition, was granted bail in the sum of $20,000. Jason Richards,...
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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...
