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Hospital blood unit goes mobile
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July 25, 2008
To help save lives and strengthen the capacity of the blood unit at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, the Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV/ AIDS...
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July 25, 2008
St. Vincent and the Grenadines is currently playing host to the 23rd Caribbean Cadet Camp (CCC), and according to camp Commandant Major Bertillon Hami...
Driver: Seat belt saved my life
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July 25, 2008
Messy deaths, multiple funerals and endless grief were on the cards last Saturday morning at Beachmont. Thankfully, however, at around 10 am, when a t...
Government tackles street kids problem
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July 25, 2008
by J. Soso-Vincent 25.JULY.08 The topic of ‘street children’ is always a melancholy one. By world standards the term refers to children who perman...
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July 25, 2008
St. Vincent and the Grenadines intends to establish bilateral relations with the Republic of Ghana. Governor-General Sir Frederick Ballantyne returned...
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July 25, 2008
The local branch of FirstCaribbean International has received a record number of nominations in its search for a 2008 Unsung Hero. According to local ...
High praise for Cummings
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July 25, 2008
The short address that Andrew Cummings QC gave at the special celebratory sitting of the High Court, held in his honour on Friday, July 18, was one of...
Young lawyer shot to death
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July 25, 2008
With less than 15 pounds of pressure on a gun’s trigger, one of Chateaubelair’s brightest lights was snuffed out by an assassin’s bullet, throwi...
Legal fraternity in mourning
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July 25, 2008
The legal fraternity is mourning the death of one of their own whose life was snuffed out by a gunman last Wednesday morning.{{more}} Bertram Stapleto...
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July 18, 2008
The Centre for Enterprise Development Inc. (CED) Business Gateway Training Programme for 2008 will continue next week with another Financial Managemen...
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July 18, 2008
In an effort to strengthen the friendship between Cuba and St Vincent and the Grenadines, a cultural exchange featuring well known Cuban primitive art...
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July 18, 2008
Five years is not a relatively long period of time. However, it has been a sufficient length of time for members of the Contemporary Young Artists’ ...
Local Coast Guard empowering youths
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July 18, 2008
One thousand four hundred and seventy five (1,475) persons have participated in the Coast Guard Youth Development Programme, and to date, none of thei...
Squire donates to Our Lady of Guadalupe Home
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July 18, 2008
The establishment of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Home for girls was a consuming passion for the late educator Sister Patricia Ann Douglas. When she died...
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July 18, 2008
On Wednesday, July 16, 2008, Furniture and Appliance giant in St.Vincent and Grenadines Courts (St.Vincent) Ltd. re-launched its Courts Price initiati...
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July 18, 2008
18.JULY.08 The Board of Directors of the Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority (ECTEL) has announced the appointment of Embert Charles as Man...
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July 18, 2008
Two years have passed since the last Media survey and despite new competitors, according to a recent Media Survey, SVGTV is still No. 1.{{more}} SVGTV...
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July 18, 2008
18.JULY.08 On Monday, July 14, 2008, Berger Paints Barbados Limited, through their representative, Andrea Duguid, assisted the Cool Riderz Motorcycle ...
Williams wins bMobile TV
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July 18, 2008
18.JULY.08 bMobile customer Don Williams will be watching his favourite television programmes in style as he was the lucky winner of the bMobile Sprin...
Lucky lotto customers collect their winnings
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July 18, 2008
Although she hasn’t yet decided what she is going to do with her winnings, Kathleen Ollivierre feels that she is most deserving of the $60,000 she w...
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July 18, 2008
This Sunday, July 20, 2008, the Largo Heights Community will benefit from the donation of steel pans, funded by the Social Investment Fund (SIF). The ...
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July 18, 2008
President of the National Lotteries Authority (NLA) Sion Hill Euphonium has refuted claims that his pan side hired professionals, and paid thousands o...
JP to ‘Flow’ this September
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July 18, 2008
by J. Soso-Vincent 18.JULY.08 Twenty three-year-old Jason ‘JP’ Providence is a Christian - a Christian who wants to share his faith through the me...
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July 18, 2008
Over 100 teachers are currently enhancing their skills and professional development. An in-service workshop, presented by the St Vincent and the Grena...
Over 55 Teachers, Principals honoured
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July 18, 2008
High praises and accolades are rarely bestowed on teachers, but in a welcome change, over 55 retired and retiring teachers and principals were honoure...
Delany completes  University studies
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July 18, 2008
18.JULY.08 Dustin D.P. Delany, a member of Clarke Gittens Farmer Law Firm in Barbados, recently completed his studies at the Hugh Wooding Law School i...
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July 18, 2008
The National Literacy Crusade was completed some 18 months ago, but the Adult and Continuing Education Department (ACED) continues to deliver tangible...
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July 18, 2008
The benefits of an Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) economic union will have to be broken down to individual sectors of society if they...
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July 18, 2008
18.JULY.08 ANTIGUA, Coolidge - This summer, LIAT, THE Caribbean Airline, is offering its passengers additional opportunities to travel between Puerto ...
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July 18, 2008
18.JULY.08 In preparation for the 2008 Hurricane Season, the Canouan Disaster Committee began a clean up campaign in Canouan on Monday, May 19, 2008. ...
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July 18, 2008
A modern foreign service here remains an elusive dream. This, according to Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Patricia Martin.{{m...
Newspaper Editors attend CSME seminar
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July 18, 2008
Newspaper Editors, more than others, have a role to play in furthering the integration movement and crafting strategies to deal with the challenges fa...
Adolescent Health Youth Camp begins
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July 18, 2008
Fifty-two young Vincentians between the ages of 7 and 19 are getting an opportunity to develop skills in critical areas that can contribute to their o...
Building codes to be revised
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July 18, 2008
With the advent of the Caribbean Single Market Economy (CSME), standards and quality controls pertaining to all sectors across the region need to achi...