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Cable & Wireless stands up to storm
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August 24, 2007
Cable & Wireless (WI) Ltd is celebrating its network’s capacity to be resilient in times of storm. Digicel, Cable & Wireless’ main competitor rece...
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August 24, 2007
Opposition Senator St Clair Leacock believes that it is contradictory for the Unity Labour Party (ULP) administration to want to change the constituti...
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August 24, 2007
The first phase in the Moko Disease Management and Control programme will come to an end on August 30. The control programme conducted by the Ministry...
Allen: Employees being judged by new yardstick
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August 24, 2007
“No single person can whistle a symphony, it takes an orchestra to do that.” This is the view of Errol Allen, President of the East Caribbean Inst...
Dying man: Lord, have mercy on my soul!
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August 24, 2007
“Lord, have mercy on my soul,” were the last words of Paul “Killa” Hopson, as he gave up the ghost, after he was shot in his right hip last we...
PM says he is ideal person to take lead
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August 24, 2007
This country’s Prime Minister has lashed out at persons who suggest that he should not be so intimately involved in disaster preparedness.{{more}} S...
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August 24, 2007
WINFA has embarked on a number of initiatives to seek assistance for the farmers of the Windward Islands, the Fair Trade farmers of Dominica and St. L...
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August 17, 2007
The Seventh Day Adventist community of St.Vincent and the Grenadines will this Sunday stage an important meeting which will chart a new course for the...
Wyllie receives the OAE award
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August 17, 2007
A Vincentian woman, who migrated to Montreal Canada almost ten years ago, has been recognized with the “Outstanding Achievement in Education” awar...
‘I am being made a scapegoat’
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August 17, 2007
“I am being made a scapegoat, but I know I did my best.” These were the words of the former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Public Service ...
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August 17, 2007
The dispute between St. Vincent Electricity Services Ltd (VINLEC) and the National Workers’ Union (NWM) has been settled, and, according to Cecily S...
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August 17, 2007
The St.Vincent and the Grenadines Coast Guard made a major drug bust on Wednesday when they seized a quantity of marijuana with an estimated street va...
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August 17, 2007
There are now three fewer guns and 36 fewer bullets in the hands of criminals.{{more}} Acting on intelligence, a police team raided an abandoned house...
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August 17, 2007
The premier fashion event in St.Vincent and the Grenadines, Fashion Caribbean 2007, will be held on Sunday, the 2nd of September, 2007 at the Cruise S...
Camillo: SVG needs to speak up
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August 17, 2007
St Vincent and the Grenadines and CARICOM at large have been too silent on major world issues unless the issues directly affect the region and this ma...
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August 17, 2007
So enthused is he with the 2007 May/June Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) preliminary results, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, i...
PM: LIAT operating sloppy service
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August 17, 2007
Admitting that LIAT is offering sloppy service, Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves said that while he defends the airline strategically, behind the sce...
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August 17, 2007
Adamantly refuting allegations from local modeling agencies that her PIC International Modeling Agency is a “bogus” company, President and Chief E...
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August 17, 2007
This country’s leading modeling agencies are sounding a word of caution to youngsters who are eager to make it on the international catwalk.{{more}}...
AN HONOUR
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August 17, 2007
While many nation builders are celebrated by monuments being named in their honour after they have passed, local educator Doris McKie said that she is...
Youth sucked into machine
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August 17, 2007
A young man luckily escaped from the jaws of death after he was sucked into a machine at the East Caribbean Metals/Plastic Industries.{{more}} Though ...
US$5 million boost for airport
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August 17, 2007
The flagship infrastructural project of the government, the international airport at Argyle, is US $5 million closer to becoming a reality.{{more}} Th...
Camillo’s mom responds to critics
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August 17, 2007
The former wife of Dr Ralph Gonsalves believes that her son Camillo will have to work much harder and be much more circumspect in his role as this cou...
Mother: My son was a good boy
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August 17, 2007
The jury is out on the reputation of the three young men who were murdered last Thursday at Lowmans Leeward, but the sentence of pain has been handed ...
Mystery surrounds man’s death
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August 17, 2007
A single gunshot to the head should have been the end of the saga that was Nigel Farrell’s life.{{more}} But almost two weeks after his lifeless bod...
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August 10, 2007
by MARIA BRADSHAW 10.AUG.07 POLICE HAVE CONFIRMED that Wayne Collins of Grape Hall, St Lucy, Barbados was driving the van Z7950 when his girlfriend Ga...
Monkey behind bars
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August 10, 2007
10.AUG.07 A man has been questioned by police at LaGuardia airport in New York after smuggling a monkey onto a flight from Florida by hiding it under ...
Jamaica Nomination Day a success
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August 10, 2007
10.AUG.07 Director of Elections in Jamaica Danville Walker labelled Tuesday’s Nomination Day activities a success, even as he scolded two candidates...
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August 10, 2007
Juhel Browne 10.AUG.07 Planning and Development Minister in Trinidad and Tobago Camille Robinson-Regis is set to receive a new assignment from Prime M...
Couples for Christ meet a success
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August 10, 2007
It was really “Three Conferences in One” last week, when SVG hosted 300 Caribbean members of the Couples For Christ (CFC) who came together to cel...