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Cable & Wireless celebrates Christmas
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December 21, 2007
Members of staff, spouses and friends of leading telecommunications company Cable & Wireless celebrated Christmas this year with a dinner party at the...
Customs Carolers are Police Carolling champs
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December 21, 2007
The Customs Carolers are the 2007 winners of the annual Police Carolling contest, which was held last Friday at the Chamber of Commerce Car Park.{{mor...
Bishop Pope now a doctor
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December 21, 2007
Sunday, December 16, 2007, will forever be indelibly stamped in the memories of the persons gathered at the Faith Temple Church in New Montrose. That ...
Digicel praised for clean-up support
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December 21, 2007
07.DEC.07 Environmentalist Andrew Simmons has described telecommunications company Digicel as a “model among corporate companies” that has helped ...
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December 21, 2007
On 12th December, the United Returnees Association held its third annual Christmas luncheon for the elderly of South and Central Leeward. Over 80 pers...
Community lights up Sion Hill
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December 21, 2007
Despite the admission by Chairman of the Community Lighting Up Committee that they were not quite ready, the Sion Hill community came alive with the u...
Roland Bowman aims to top charts
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December 21, 2007
With his song being labeled the 2007 Christmas road march, parang soca singer Roland Bowman seems headed for his third title of the Best New Christmas...
Samuels light up Rillan Hill again
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December 21, 2007
Four years ago, Jimmy Samuel was feeling the Christmas spirit, and decided to start lighting up his house during the Christmas season.{{more}} At a gl...
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December 21, 2007
The Value Added Tax (VAT) Unit will be keeping a very close eye on businesses in the New Year to make sure that VAT regulations are obeyed.{{more}} Co...
Taiwan presents cops with Christmas gift
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December 21, 2007
Traffic police officers have been visited by Santa Claus this christmas, and were given a gift worth EC $180,000 last Tuesday.{{more}} “Christmas is...
Petition launched to end HIV/AIDS stigma
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December 21, 2007
A petition to put an end to stigma and discrimination of persons infected and affected by HIV/AIDS is being circulated around St. Vincent and the Gren...
Petroglyph replicas get backdrop
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December 21, 2007
The replicas of the Argyle Petroglyphs will soon be mounted in a more natural looking setting at the National Trust Headquarters.{{more}} Well-known a...
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December 21, 2007
This country’s Prime Minister says that he feels personally hurt by what took place with LIAT on Wednesday, when a sickout by 24 flight attendants g...
City View Hotel re-opens in Antigua
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December 21, 2007
In Antigua The owner is known as a disciplined, dedicated, driven businessman. The Minister of Tourism says that customer service is the key to the se...
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December 21, 2007
Women who apply to the Army are usually more motivated than their male counterparts; perhaps driven by a desire to show that they belong, and are capa...
EU and CARIFORUM sign full EPA agreement
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December 21, 2007
The first comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement was initialled on 16 December, 2007, between the European Union and CARIFORUM, one of the regio...
Nine Mornings Festival off to great start
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December 21, 2007
The will and passion of the members of the Nine Mornings’ committee has paid off. In addressing a bumper crowd gathered in town for the first mornin...
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December 21, 2007
He made a list, checked it twice; and Dr Ralph Gonsalves has determined that the Opposition’s concerns about the economy are unfounded, and simply n...
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December 21, 2007
07.DEC.07 IT WILL COST Vincentians US$131 to apply for a United States visa from next year. And, as before, whether you got the visa or not, this fee ...
Drugs go up in smoke
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December 21, 2007
As illegal drugs with a street value of more than EC $13 million went up in plumes of tire and gasoline fueled smoke on Tuesday, Commissioner of Polic...
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December 21, 2007
The Prime Minister was in his element as he lashed out at the Opposition when he wrapped up the 2008 budget debate in Parliament on Monday. One catch:...
Officials warn: Beware of what you are buying
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December 21, 2007
Officials of the Ministry of Trade and the Bureau of Standards are urging consumers to be more vigilant and aware of products being stored, sold or di...
Masked men rob yacht in Chateaubelair Harbour
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December 21, 2007
Four Germans aboard a sailing yacht had a sailor’s worst nightmare when masked men boarded their vessel, brandishing cutlasses and demanding money.{...
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December 14, 2007
14.DEC.07 Club Calabash comes alive this Sunday night when the finals of the Annual Inter-house Karaoke competition 2007 will be staged at 8 p.m.{{mor...
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December 14, 2007
Two young men of Walvaroo were at press time still hospitalized nursing chop wounds to their heads and backs, following an incident that took place la...
Ambassador Cheng brings hope to needy
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December 14, 2007
Ambassador of the Republic of China on Taiwan Jack Cheng made visits to two humanitarian organizations recently. He visited the House of Hope Society ...
Cool Riderz Cycle Club working with Police
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December 14, 2007
14.DEC.07 On Saturday, December 8, 2007, Police Officers at the Biabou Police Station benefited from health assessments conducted by members of the Co...
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December 14, 2007
Nineteen of this country’s premier tourism sites are to receive a facelift, thanks to a five million Euro tourism development project, slated to con...