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AUS students give back to less fortunate
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October 4, 2016
At its recently held White Coat Ceremony, medical students at the American University of St Vincent School of Medicine (AUS) were reminded of the need...
Campden Park resident wins Courts Sleepathon
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October 4, 2016
While most persons wake up to go to work so that they can get paid, Monique Lampkin got into bed and got paid for going to sleep. Lampkin was the winn...
Eustace calls for immediate removal of SOE
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October 4, 2016
President of the New Democratic Party (NDP) Arnhim Eustace has once again called for the resignation of supervisor of elections (SOE) Sylvia Findlay. ...
Take me to court – PM’s female accuser
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October 4, 2016
Miranda Wood, the woman who made allegations that Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves behaved inappropriately towards her 32 years ago, says that she wo...
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October 4, 2016
A shootout in Murray’s Village on Thursday evening left a number of residents shaken up, but uninjured. According to a witness, three men armed with...
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September 30, 2016
The dream of one lucky Courts customer may come true today, as the store holds another exciting in-store activity, to promote its new Sleep Centre. Th...
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September 30, 2016
Following the passage of Tropical Storm Matthew the Central Water and Sewerage Authority (CWSA) is so far reporting only minimal damage to its pipelin...
UWI Open Campus holds appreciation ceremony
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September 30, 2016
The St Vincent Chapter of the UWI Open Campus Guild of Students (OCGOS) held an appreciation ceremony on Friday, September 23rd, 2016 at the site’s ...
CG Selmon Walters gets farewell cocktail
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September 30, 2016
Vincentians in the New York area, on September 23, gathered at the Friends of Crown Heights for a farewell cocktail in honour of outgoing consul gener...
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September 30, 2016
The police officer who fled this country in 2013 after investigations began into the alleged sexual assault of his daughter returned to St Vincent and...
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September 30, 2016
This week, the St Vincent and the Grenadines Medical Association thanks the SEARCHLIGHT Newspaper for assisting the organization in highlighting a num...
Matthew destroys new parking lot at GHS
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September 30, 2016
Andrea Bowman, the headmistress of the St Vincent Girls’ High School is saddened by the partial destruction of the school’s new parking lot during...
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September 30, 2016
The three local fishermen who were missing at sea as Tropical Storm Matthew pounded the region have been found alive off the coast of Martinique. This...
Tropical Storm Matthew passes,  clean-up begins
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September 30, 2016
Businesses throughout the country are expected to return to normal operation today after three days of bad weather caused by Tropical Storm Matthew fo...
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September 27, 2016
Local firearm legislation has been beefed up in response to the number of gun related offences taking place in the country. During a presentation at t...
RSS Asset Recovery  Unit ends two-week training
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September 27, 2016
aThe Regional Security System (RSS) Asset Recovery Unit (ARU) concluded a two-week standardized training course for financial investigators, with a cl...