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VINLEC : Employees are the Key to safety
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 Aware of their responsibility to protect their workers from accidents and injury, the St Vincent and the Grenadines Electricity Services Li...
More room for GECCU customers
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 Members of the General Employees Cooperative Credit Union (GECCU) will get the opportunity to conduct their business with the organization ...
Courts comedy challenge, no laughing matter
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June 8, 2007
There seems to be a shortage of comedic talent here in St Vincent and the Grenadines. At least, this is the impression that was given last Saturday Ju...
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June 8, 2007
Residents and visitors to Chateaubelair wishing to conduct business with the police will have to go to a new location as the police station has been r...
UNICEF hosts session on Avian Influenza
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June 8, 2007
Residents of the Caribbean are urged to be ready for Avian Influenza also known as Bird Flu or H5N1 virus and Human Pandemic Influenza in the event th...
Sinckler: No deal is better than a bad deal
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 There must be no partnership agreement signed that does not support the region’s farmers. This according to the Executive Coordinator of ...
WINFA hosts EPA march, rally
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June 8, 2007
Some may argue that the death of the industry is inevitable, but the Windward Islands Farmers Association (WINFA) is determined to keep the banana ind...
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June 8, 2007
THE ST. VINCENT and the Grenadines Tourist Office in New York is urging nationals to attend a Town Hall Meeting, at Brooklyn’s Medgar Evers College,...
NY Consul warns traveling nationals
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 by Nelson A. King in New York In the wake of the alleged plot by four Caribbean-born men to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport a...
DeFreitas urges youths to be more patriotic
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 by Karen Palmer The revival of social groups and grass root development was the topic of the day for Youth Ambassador Kyle DeFreitas, a dis...
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 Jimmy Edwards, a 33-year-old shop owner of Canouan was found dead in the waters of Friendship Bay in Canouan, early Wednesday morning, with...
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 The hourly charge at the Chamber of Commerce’s car park has been reduced by 20 cents, coming down from the $2.50 it had been raised to af...
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 Advisor to Caribbean prisons Nicholas Brooke said that transforming prisons into correctional facilities is not a difficult task.{{more}} B...
THINGS BROWN
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June 8, 2007
Trimmingham’s ‘Green Gold’ hit by Moko disease As acre by acre of his green gold is ravished by the Moko disease, Owen Trimmingham is wondering ...
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June 1, 2007
When Politicians and investors put development and profits before environmental and social sustainability, there can be no other result than mayhem. T...
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June 1, 2007
Cable & Wireless International (CWI), the world’s pre-eminent telecoms provider for small to medium markets, today announced a 44% increase in mobil...
Courts Comedy challenge showcases tomorrow
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June 1, 2007
Furniture and appliance giant Courts is adding comedy to its already extensive line of products. The Courts Comedy Challenge -”The Road to Stardomâ€...
Findlay-Innocent graduates Summa Cum Laude
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June 1, 2007
On Saturday 19th May, Michele Findlay-Innocent graduated Summa Cum Laude with a 4.0 GPA from Johnson and Wales University (Miami, Florida) with a Bach...
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June 1, 2007
The key speakers at last week Thursday’s consultation on violence in schools painted a disturbing picture of what the education system may become, i...
Ministry hosts session on school violence
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June 1, 2007
A packed Peace Memorial Hall was the venue for the much anticipated consultation on violence in schools, especially following a series of high profile...
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June 1, 2007
Describing the move to collect repatriation as the “New War”, Minister of Culture René Baptiste has said that a more unified strategy is necessar...
PM has vision of ABC connection
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June 1, 2007
Lashing out against imperialism and neo-colonialism, Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves insists that the Caribbean must look out for its interests desp...
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June 1, 2007
Any private airline that seeks to rival LIAT will fail - just like the others that have attempted such a move over the years. This was the bold predic...
Venezuelan vessel seized in Chateaubelair
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June 1, 2007
Residents of the northwestern town of Chateaubelair were rudely awakened from their early morning sleep on Wednesday by gunshots. Residents said that ...
PM: Invest in larger vessels
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June 1, 2007
The fishing industry accounts for $27 million per year or two per-cent of this country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but Prime Minister Dr Ralph G...
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June 1, 2007
Achievers Toastmasters SVG celebrated their First Anniversary on becoming a Chartered Club on May 5th. That date was also significant in that two memb...
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June 1, 2007
The Value Added Tax Unit has issued the Return and Payment Guide. According to Gwenneth Martin, Senior Assistant Comptroller in the VAT Unit, this Gui...