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Exhibition features sugar factory days
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September 11, 2009
Vincentians now have an opportunity to experience a bit of our industrial past; an exhibition featuring sketches of the old Argyle sugar factory was o...
Greenhouse gases inventory
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September 11, 2009
Various sectors of this country’s economy will be better able to document and report green house gases emissions here, following a training workshop...
New school for Dr. JP Eustace
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September 11, 2009
September 7, 2009, meant more than just the start of the new school year for students of the Dr JP Eustace Memorial Secondary School. It also meant a ...
Community College reveals strict rules
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September 11, 2009
Students attending the St Vincent and the Grenadines Community College (SVGCC) Division of Arts, Sciences and General Studies who are irregular in att...
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September 11, 2009
When Augustus Belgrave arrived in the United States on May 3rd, 2009, recruited by a human resource company to work on oilrigs, he believed that a luc...
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September 11, 2009
Unemployment in St. Vincent and the Grenadines is likely to increase from its current rate of 20 per cent because the majority of job seekers are inad...
LAP releases new products to market
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September 11, 2009
Over the past two months the Lauders Agro Processors Inc (LAP) has been introducing some of its products to the Vincentian market, with the most recen...
ECCU designs regional economic strategy
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September 11, 2009
The region’s coordinated response to the global and economic crisis and the OECS Economic Union moved closer to implementation when representatives ...
US Embassy workshop
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September 11, 2009
More than two dozen regional journalists now have a much better understanding of the work done by the United States Embassy for the Eastern Caribbean ...
‘Tuff’ on road to recovery after attack
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September 11, 2009
Although disappointed about losing an eye in a cutlass attack almost one month ago, Kingstown Park resident Michael ‘Tuff’ Pierre is grateful that...
‘Send brutal murderers to gallows’
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September 11, 2009
It appears that the controversial issue of the death penalty will be one of the main selling points used by the constitutional reform committee to inf...
New cemetery in South Rivers
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September 11, 2009
Acting Chief Environmental Officer Rupert Doyle is calling on Vincentians to desist from tethering their animals in cemeteries across the state.{{more...
Two young musicians off to Jamaica to study
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September 11, 2009
Two of St Vincent and the Grenadines’ prolific pannists left the state last week Firday to pursue university studies at the Edna Manley College of t...
Rose Place set for development
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September 11, 2009
The Rose Place area can be developed into a major tourist attraction if the community’s thriving fishing industry is boosted and zones for residenti...
Call for Crime Stoppers Programme in SVG
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September 11, 2009
In recent times, some persons here have expressed their dissatisfaction with the manner in which police treat confidential information given to them i...
Missing girl back home with adopted mother
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September 11, 2009
The King family of Belmont froze with fear last weekend as they prayed that little Hadashah McRee would return home unharmed after she disappeared for...
More First Caribbean dollars for NEMO
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September 4, 2009
Just in time for the hurricane season, the local branch of FirstCaribbean International has made yet another donation to the National Emergency Manage...
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September 4, 2009
Some 25 tertiary level students of St. Vincent and the Grenadines will travel to Suriname next month, as part of a project to prepare youths to identi...
LIME juices up Fancy with new cell site
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September 4, 2009
Two years ago when LIME Country Manager Angus Steele started his contract here, one of the first places he visited was Fancy, and the experience was o...
Cash Express gears up 15 for new school term
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September 4, 2009
Fifteen students will be geared with new JanSport backpacks donated by Cash Express when schools reopen across the state on September 7, 2009.{{more}}...
Trial run for first forms
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September 4, 2009
Students entering secondary schools for the first time got a taste of what to expect and what is expected of them when several secondary schools in St...
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September 4, 2009
Members of the Cool Riderz Motorcycle Club continue to be involved in community work.{{more}} The recipient of this month’s food basket was Dr Conra...
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September 4, 2009
The Island Network Inc. Vincy Soca Dans left St. Vincent and the Grenadines yesterday on their North American tour.{{more}} The group’s first stop w...
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September 4, 2009
BRIDGETOWN - There is a wealth of investment opportunities in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), says a visiting contingent from that island.{{more...
Vincentian scoops UWI scholarship
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September 4, 2009
For most young females, Mathematics is not a popular choice of study. However, Melissa De Freitas’ passion for the subject may very well have been a...
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September 4, 2009
The Economic Union of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) should be fully operational by June 2010.{{more}} Prime Minister of St. Vinc...
Clouden speaks out on violence
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September 4, 2009
For some people, wounds heal easily. However, for Kenlyn Clouden, the prospect of healing seems remote. She is perhaps the person who has been most de...
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September 4, 2009
Executive members of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers’ Union (SVGTU) held a press conference on Tuesday, August 25, to update the public ...
Educators ‘Preparing for takeoff’
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September 4, 2009
Persons entrusted with ensuring that training and education offered by various institutions here are of regional and international standards were part...