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1,014 cases of child abuse reported in 2010
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April 1, 2011
One thousand and fourteen cases of child abuse were reported to the Family Services Division in 2010.{{more}} The number of reported cases of child ab...
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April 1, 2011
Police investigations are continuing into a robbery at Paul’s Avenue on Tuesday, March 29.{{more}} Investigators say an office attendant of the SVG ...
NBC celebrates 25 years
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April 1, 2011
The National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) celebrates 25 years of being a statutory body on July 1 this year.{{more}} On July 1, 1986, a Bill was pas...
Beache defends marketing decisions
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April 1, 2011
Glen Beache, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the St Vincent and the Grenadines Tourism Authority (SVGTA), has responded to queries as to why this co...
Stephenson: Pay up your child support!
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April 1, 2011
Frederick Stephenson, Minister of Family Affairs, is calling on the Family Court to use all legal means to ensure that delinquent fathers pay their ch...
Deputy Prime Minister: No devil in vaccines
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April 1, 2011
The devil is not in vaccines given to children here. This is the message that is being driven home to parents, says Girlyn Miguel, Deputy Prime Minist...
Vincentian woman dies in Barbados accident
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April 1, 2011
A distraught Alice Jordon, mother of Mavis Ward who died on the spot after being hit by a car along the Kirtons Main Road in Barbados in the early hou...
PSU Executive, members heading for clash
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April 1, 2011
The Executive of the Public Service Union (PSU) and its membership are heading for a showdown.{{more}} In a letter dated March 21, some financial memb...
Beache denies talking to Baptiste about NCB
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April 1, 2011
If it was up to Glen Beache, he would have been doing his own thing right now. At a press conference on Tuesday, March 29th, the Chief Executive Offic...
New local cookbook hits bookstores here
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March 29, 2011
‘Cooking with VincyKlus’ is the newest publication to hit bookstores here.{{more}} VincyKlus launched the cookbook on Thursday, March 24. The book...
St. Clair Dacon Secondary stages water fair
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March 29, 2011
A water fair was staged by the St. Clair Dacon Secondary School Young Leaders last week, to sensitize students and members of the public about the val...
Man stabbed over sunglasses
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March 29, 2011
Leslie Adams, a 47-year-old mechanic, is mystified as to why he was stabbed several times over his body for a damaged pair of sunglasses, by a man he ...
Males urged  to get regular check-ups
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March 29, 2011
Having completed what is considered another successful medical mission to St.Vincent and the Grenadines, officials of the Patsy Douglas Youth Foundati...
BCHS cleans water catchments in Bequia
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March 25, 2011
The Bequia Community High School (BCHS) Young Leaders along with residents spent World Water Day, March 22, cleaning the two major water catchments on...
SVGS hosts water, tree symposium
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March 25, 2011
On Tuesday, March 22, the day when the United Nations observed World Water Day, the Young Leaders of the St. Vincent Grammar School commemorated the o...
Cummings, James ordained
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March 25, 2011
Herman Cummings and Terron James are now ordained pastors of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church. Cummings, who pastors the Green Hill P...
Digicel rewards  lucky customers
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March 25, 2011
Last Tuesday, March 22, 20 persons walked away from Digicel’s Corporate Offices located in the Lewis Building on James Street with a combined total ...
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March 25, 2011
Teachers have been taught how to better instruct students in Information Technology.{{more}} This was done as the Teachers’ Credit Union Bookshop an...
Sir James Mitchell writes to Japan
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March 25, 2011
Sir James Mitchell, former prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, has written to Keiko Atsumi, Executive Director of the InterAction Counci...