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February 4, 2014
Latin American countries Mexico and Ecuador have joined the list of contributors to St Vincent and the Grenadines following last Christmas Eve’s flo...
VINLEC will pay for that fuel – Vinlec CEO
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February 4, 2014
The cost of absorbing the increased fuel surcharge is expected to set back the St Vincent and the Grenadines Electricity Services (VINLEC), between ei...
Cooke quits NDP’s New Times radio programme
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February 4, 2014
Ernesto Cooke, the host of the New Democratic Party’s (NDP) ‘New Times’ radio programme has resigned.{{more}} Cooke in a letter dated January 30...
Jomo Thomas sets eyes on South Leeward seat
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February 4, 2014
Government senator and lawyer, Jomo Thomas has officially declared his intention to become a Unity Labour Party (ULP) candidate for the next general e...
Vincentian fire fighters get equipment boost
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January 31, 2014
Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines -Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Reynold Hadaway, is optimistic that a set of firefighter suits donated ...
FCIB, UWI sign another MOU
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January 31, 2014
CIBC FirstCaribbean contributes over US $1.425 million to University of the West Indies for regional development.{{more}} A partnership forged 11 year...
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January 31, 2014
Gas company Rubis-SVG added to the flood disaster relief effort with the donation of 21 cylinders of cooking gas, along with heads and hoses, to Bucca...
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January 31, 2014
The Director of the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO), Howie Prince wants the members of the public to have more faith in the distribu...
Cocoa plants begin to bear fruit
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January 31, 2014
Fourteen months after the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cocoa Company began its cocoa industry revival here, pods are beginning to show on the new pla...
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January 31, 2014
Love is in the air for customers of LIME, with the telecommunications provider offering wide ranging deals for Valentines Day this year.{{more}} Sales...
SDA teachers commissioned
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January 31, 2014
Five Teachers of the Seventh-day Adventist School System were commissioned to the teaching ministry of the church at a ceremony held at the Arnos Vale...
Local organizations donate to relief fund
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January 31, 2014
NEMO Director Howie Prince this week reassured the public that all contributions to the relief effort will be put to good use, as he collected further...
SDA Church ordains two pastors
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January 31, 2014
Pastors Brent St Jean and Shane Franklyn of the local Seventh-day Adventist Church were ordained to full Gospel Ministry according to the usages of th...
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January 31, 2014
Broken neck, ribs and spine are part of one autopsy report coming out of last Sunday’s deadly Maroon Hill accident which took three lives and left t...
Friends reflect on artiste musical dreams
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January 31, 2014
Although the name was more synonymous with run-ins with authorities and criminal capers, two of this country’s top names in the entertainment indust...
Michael Gregory Wyllie called to the Bar
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January 31, 2014
The legal profession here welcomed its latest member last Friday when Michael Gregory Wyllie of La Croix in the Mesopo­tamia valley was called to the...
Nanton family still coping with losses
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January 31, 2014
Fri Jan 31, 2014 By: Taranjah Yaw One month after the unusual weather system that devastated parts of the country and caused the deaths of five of the...
Shots fired during daylight robbery
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January 31, 2014
A gunman opened fire in Kingstown yesterday, outside the Bank of St Vincent and the Grenadines on Grenville and Bedford Streets, in what appears to be...
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January 28, 2014
Passengers on a LIAT flight yesterday from Antigua via St Lucia to Trinidad had to be transferred to other flights after their aeroplane developed ste...
Clare Valley man pleads for help
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January 28, 2014
Clare Valley resident, Rudolph Ashton is pleading with the public to lend some assistance towards his medical dilemma.{{more}} The 46-year-old man tol...