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August 15, 2008
Mountain Top Springs Ltd will donate over nine thousand dollars to The National Society of and for the Blind. The funds were raised during a campaign ...
Leo Club makes donation to Pediatric ward
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August 15, 2008
The Pediatric ward at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital is the recipient of a quantity of electronic and kitchen items courtesy the Leo club of St Vin...
Courts rewards good payers
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August 15, 2008
15.AUG.08 On Monday, August 11th, 2008, two lucky customers were given the “thumbs up” for keeping their credit account up to date in the Courts G...
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August 15, 2008
The Image Modelling Agency in conjunction with Bmobile present Mr Macho, a show scheduled for Saturday, the 6th of September. A model call was held on...
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August 15, 2008
Another Steel Orchestra will be launched this Sunday August 17, 2008. The community of Stubbs is the latest beneficiary of the initiative funded by th...
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August 15, 2008
The St Vincent and the Grenadines Nurses Association has spoken out against the recent spate of rapes in the Arnos Vale, Fountain, Fairhall and Villa ...
Female condoms stronger than latex
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August 15, 2008
Naomi Prince, this country’s National Family Planning Coordinator, is reminding Vincentian women that the female condom provides a good opportunity ...
Insurance Brokers launch
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August 15, 2008
CGM Gallagher Insurance Brokers (St.Vincent) Limited was formally launched in St.Vincent and the Grenadines on Wednesday, August 13, 2008.{{more}} Pat...
Five hundred get second chance at education
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August 15, 2008
by Viclene Matthews 15.AUG.08 Close to 500 adults who at one time believed that they would not get a second chance at an education, proudly received t...
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August 15, 2008
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Commerce and Trade Sir Louis Straker on Wednesday handed over a total of EC$31,000 to 73 primary and secondary school stu...
Basil Charles foundation award students
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August 15, 2008
The Basil Charles Educational Foundation announced on Wednesday the 2008 recipients of scholarships and bursaries for secondary school.{{more}} Full s...
Baptiste leads contingent to Carifesta
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August 15, 2008
A contingent of over thirty performers and officials from St. Vincent and the Grenadines will converge in Guyana next week to take part in the tenth e...
September start for new medical college
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August 15, 2008
Students begin enrollment at TUSOM Trinity University School of Medicine (TUSOM) will begin operating here in St Vincent in September, just as they sa...
New licences for motorists
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August 15, 2008
Finally! The era of driver’s licences in the form of booklets, regarded as a residue of this country’s colonial past, is no more.{{more}} Beginnin...
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August 15, 2008
If this year’s Advanced level results are not yet in the hands of the students who wrote the exams, they will be by early next week.{{more}} At pres...
IFSA denies SVG’s involvement in fraud
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August 15, 2008
The International Financial Services Authority has disassociated itself from all fraudulent activities committed by international business company Pre...
HIV infections down, health officials report
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August 15, 2008
New HIV infections in St Vincent and the Grenadines for the first half of this year are the lowest they have been in five years for the same period un...
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August 15, 2008
Workers who hoped to be back on the job at the Buccament Bay Beach Resort project a few weeks after being laid off in May can give up hope. The projec...
Gov’t initiative to help local businesses
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August 8, 2008
As local businesses face an increasingly difficult world market, government will soon launch an initiative to help some of them to become more competi...
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August 8, 2008
08.AUG.08 A Garifuna contingent will be part of the Vincy homecoming 2009 celebrations.{{more}} According to a release from the Regional Integration a...
International exposure for local designers
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August 8, 2008
The National Investment Promotions Inc. (NIPI) in collaboration with the European Union (EU) facilitated two local designers to showcase their designs...
GG hosts 100th anniversary cocktail
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August 8, 2008
Grown men nudged and elbowed each other as they viewed the slideshow of old photographs. Others reflected on bygone school days with huge bursts of la...
KCCU awards 55 with
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August 8, 2008
Following words of encouragement from key speakers, fifty-five new entrants to secondary school were the recipients of bursaries and scholarships, as ...
Myles awarded Scholarship
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August 8, 2008
KISHTOL MYLES, one of this year’s successful common entrance students, is now the proud recipient of the CLICO International General Insurance Schol...
Children of Guardsman employees rewarded
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August 8, 2008
Guardsman is a company concerned with security. Not only the security of property and persons, but also securing the education of its employees’ chi...
Caribbean Cadet camp a success
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August 8, 2008
The curtains came down on the 2008 Caribbean Cadet Camp on Sunday, 27th July, with an impressive closing parade which was attended by regional Command...
Rousing speeches for PMC launch
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August 8, 2008
by Jamila Soso-Vincent 08.AUG.08 Despite the tardy start and notable absence of a key-speaker, the People’s Movement for Change (PMC) showed that it...
Consumers paying more for fuel
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August 8, 2008
Consumers are once again paying more for fuel. The price increase, which came into effect on Monday, 4th August, 2008, saw increases in Diesel, Gasoli...
Court launches pay and win campaign
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August 8, 2008
08.AUG.08 Courts has announced the commencement of its Good Payers campaign. The campaign, dubbed “Pay & Win” offers great rewards to holders of a...