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Tribes Mas Band shows appreciation to Digicel
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January 18, 2008
18 JAN.08 Tribes mas band has shown its appreciation to Digicel for their support of culture in this country.{{more}} Band leader of Tribes Fernando S...
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January 18, 2008
18 JAN.08 MAGNA Rewards St. Vincent promotion for new customers took place during the period 23rd November to 9th December, and was drawn on January 8...
Loisha Norton is NIS’ Employee of the Year
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January 18, 2008
Loisha Norton led a list of 35 awardees that were honoured at the National Insurance Services (NIS) annual awards dinner last Saturday, January 12th. ...
US propaganda hurting Cuba – Ambassador
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January 18, 2008
American propaganda is responsible for the suspicion that some have of the Cuban political system, says the Cuban Ambassador to this country. In an ex...
Kidame loses 3-year battle with illness
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January 18, 2008
After years of suffering, Kidame Kingman will feel no more pain. The 13-year-old student died last week Friday, January 11th, at the Milton Cato Memor...
US Agents assist in counterfeit detection
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January 18, 2008
18 JAN.08 Law enforcement personnel and persons from various Financial Institutions in St. Vincent and the Grenadines will be able to detect counterfe...
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January 18, 2008
She is still having flashbacks of the gun that was pointed at her head during her ordeal, but a Bequia businesswoman who was robbed last Tuesday is ju...
Biabou woman hopping mad over bloc-o noise
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January 18, 2008
PARTY ANIMALS Get police permission, set up a bar, hire a popular or even an ok Dee Jay, and a tidy night’s earning is yours. The problem is, howeve...
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January 18, 2008
There was a communication breakdown throughout the reclassification process, government officials have admitted. At a press conference last week to ad...
Cyclist donates to asthma group
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January 11, 2008
Following the death of her cousin due to an asthma attack in the United Kingdom in 2005, England-born Vincentian Gwnneth Hamilton decided to take matt...
U.S. donates books to KPL
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January 11, 2008
A donation of books written by classic American authors from the United States Government to the Kingstown Public Library is expected to boost reading...
New apartment complex opens in Prospect
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January 11, 2008
The “Landing At Prospect”, the newest apartment complex in St.Vincent and the Grenadines, is ready to open its doors to persons longing for the pe...
Ray Luck to perform at Peace Memorial Hall
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January 11, 2008
DISTINGUISHED GUYANESE concert Pianist RAY LUCK will perform a Piano Recital at the Peace Memorial Hall on Sunday, January 27, at 7:00pm.{{more}} This...
Model search: Who will answer the call?
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January 11, 2008
The Image Modelling Agency, along with Hairoun Beer, SVG Broadcasting Co-operation, Island Koncepts Inc, Grenadine House and Chawa’s New Millennium ...
Bonadie’s prize winners collect their bounty
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January 11, 2008
The elation on the faces of Rosalind Ryan and Donna Pierre showed as they came to collect their prizes won in the Bonadie’s Supermarket Christmas Ra...
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January 11, 2008
“BEQUIA ROCKS” starts today and goes on until January 26th at Devil’s Table and Moskito Beach Bar on Bequia. “BEQUIA ROCKS” was born last Ja...
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January 11, 2008
2008 has begun well for Vinsave and for the Early Childhood Education (ECE) Sector in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Forty young women enrolled in a ...
Digicel says – ‘Yes, I can’
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January 11, 2008
11.JAN.08 Digicel has pledged its support to the next Digicel Can Fest. With some 36,000 canned food items collected from patrons who attended the fir...
Teachers awarded for good service
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January 11, 2008
In celebration of the 105th anniversary of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers Union (SVGTU), 27 retired teachers were honoured last Friday at ...
Choppins man cries out for legal help
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January 11, 2008
A 67-year-old amputee of Choppins Village is wondering if there is any justice in St.Vincent and the Grenadines for him. Rudolph Harry lost his left l...
Coast Guard Officers receive certificates
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January 11, 2008
2007 was a special year for the St.Vincent and the Grenadines Coast Guard, with 78 officers being trained in ‘Leadership and Motivation’.{{more}} ...
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January 11, 2008
Nine shots were heard, a man is believed to have been shot on his left foot, but police say that the man in question says he was cut by galvanize and ...
Police to step up security in Chateaubelair
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January 11, 2008
A spate of yacht robberies in Chateaubelair has caused the authorities to increase the number of law enforcement officers in the area.{{more}} Between...
UWI delegates on three-day visit
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January 11, 2008
A strong university presence was felt here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines this week, as representatives of the different faculties from the three c...
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January 11, 2008
It might be a bit too early to call it a day, but Juliet George, President of the Unity Labour Party Women’s Arm, after having a successful run as l...
President of CTAWU suffers mild stroke
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January 11, 2008
President of the Commercial Technical and Allied Workers’ Union (CTAWU) Alice Mandeville has been hospitalized.{{more}} The Union boss was admitted ...
Businesses still assessing Christmas sales
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January 11, 2008
CASH IN Christmas was good for many businesses, but the question being asked by the Chamber of Commerce is whether or not this is true reflection of t...
Eustace: I told you so!
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January 11, 2008
He didn’t say it in so many words, but Opposition Leader Arnhim Eustace’s whole manner said “I told you so”, as he addressed the nation on the...
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January 11, 2008
In the face of charges that the students are the worst affected by the industrial action taken by teachers this week, President of the St. Vincent and...
Acting PM: Move unreasonable
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January 11, 2008
The decision by teachers to take two days off so early in the second term of the school year has been hailed as totally unreasonable by acting Prime M...
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January 4, 2008
04.JAN.08 Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf has said UK investigators are to assist in the inquiry into the assassination of opposition leader B...
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January 4, 2008
04.JAN.08 Both sides in Kenya’s disputed election have accused the other of violence as diplomatic efforts to defuse the country’s political crisi...
Six get New Year’s honours
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January 4, 2008
They must have all been short listed for other awards at some point in their lives, but for six Vincentians, none could have been more special than be...
Biabou Methodist School 4H Club donates again
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January 4, 2008
04.JAN.08 Matilda Jacobs of Biabou was on Friday, 21st December, 2007, the recipient of a Food Basket, a gift from the Biabou Methodist School 4H Club...
Tucker gets new lease on life
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January 4, 2008
How precious is life; and not just life, but a healthy, pain free, life? Just ask Rawlson Tucker. A year and a half ago, the 29-year-old Tucker, an el...
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January 4, 2008
04.JAN.08 Residents of the Arnos Vale/Cane Hall Community are still savouring the taste of a wonderful 2007 Christmas Season. The feeling of satisfact...