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Basia talk show to premier on SVGTV Saturday
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September 28, 2010
Basia - the Caribbean’s number one talk show comes to SVGTV.{{more}} It began airing in Trinidad and Tobago just over a year ago and now it’s comi...
Eustace saddened by move to sell NCB
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September 28, 2010
Opposition Leader Arnhim Eustace is saddened by the move to privatize the National Commercial Bank (NCB) - an institution he calls one of St.Vincent a...
Dinky Balcombe takes off his running shoes
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September 28, 2010
Cameron ‘Dinky’ Balcombe, who had been named as the New Democratic Party’s (NDP) candidate for the North Central Windward (NCW) constituency has...
In the bag
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September 24, 2010
Over 40 large bags of trash and debris were collected from the Stubbs Bay on Saturday 18, 2010, just one of the beaches cleaned as a part of the Ocean...
Keeping turtles safe
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September 24, 2010
The Tobago Cays Marine Park has just taken part in an international training workshop convened by the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network ...
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September 24, 2010
The St Vincent and the Grenadines Coast Guard has officially called off the search for the SVG Air aircraft which went missing on August 5.{{more}} Co...
LIAT resumes Canouan flights
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September 24, 2010
Regional airline LIAT announced the resumption of flights to and from Canouan on Wednesday, September 22.{{more}} The Company suspended services to th...
Courts tempting with Sweet Deals
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September 24, 2010
Customers of both Courts St. Vincent Ltd. and Digicel can look forward to sweet deals for the next seven weeks as both companies collaborate in the fi...
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September 24, 2010
Lawyer Kay Bacchus-Browne has clarified that she did not represent Chief Surveyor Adolphus Olliverre, first defendant in a high court case involving t...
Customers win with  Digicel, Aunt Jobes
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September 24, 2010
The rules may have changed a bit and the venue was a different one, yet the game remained the same as Digicel held its third installment of the Digice...
LIME is reducing rates again
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September 24, 2010
Great news for LIME customers in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as the Caribbean’s premier telecoms company prepares to lower the rates for calls f...
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September 24, 2010
Yasmin O’Neal, granddaughter of Ivan O’Neal, Leader of the SVG Green Party, has gained a place at Bristol University, England.{{more}} To this end...
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September 24, 2010
The Saint Vincent and The Grenadines Amateur Radio Club (SVGARC) held an extraordinary general meeting on Wednesday, September 15, at 4:30 p.m, at the...
‘I’m dead already’
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September 24, 2010
A young woman who said her name was Nesha rushed into SEARCHLIGHT’s office last week Wednesday in hysteria claiming that she had just received her H...
SVG exceeded poverty reduction target – PM
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September 24, 2010
By 2015, St.Vincent and the Grenadines will have achieved universal access to primary, secondary and early childhood education, said Prime Minister Dr...
Rastas call for right to use ganja
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September 24, 2010
The local Rastafarian community has again set out to defend what it says is its constitutional right to use marijuana.{{more}} This comes after the re...
Eleven hurt in mini-bus crash
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September 24, 2010
Eleven persons had to be taken to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital and treated for injuries after mini-bus H 1862, crashed while travelling along the...
Ministry monitoring Dengue
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September 21, 2010
There are currently no reported or diagnosed cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, says Epidemiologist, Dr. Jennifer Ge...
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September 21, 2010
Though only a few months into operation, Total Inspiration 100.5 has positioned itself as ‘Life changing Radio’ and as such is urging the Vincenti...
30 benefit from surgery by specialists from US
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September 21, 2010
Thirty persons from communities across the state are now recuperating at their homes, having recently received free surgeries from a team of medical s...
CED making financial management easier
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September 21, 2010
The Centre for Enterprise Development Inc. (CED) Business Gateway Project continues its financial management training programme next week with a semin...
Sion Hill Bay gets clean up
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September 21, 2010
Last Saturday, Sion Hill Bay received a facelift when members of the Lazarus Foundation spearheaded a clean up of the area. The foundation is one of s...
Commission deadlines are ‘farcical’ -Eustace
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September 21, 2010
The new deadlines set for the submission of suggestions to the Constitutional Boundaries Commission have been described as “farcical” and “unacc...