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Kasaini misses out on computer
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June 15, 2007
Kasaini Culzac comes off as one confident 11-year-old who knows what he wants and exactly how he is going to get it.{{more}} Had he attained the first...
De-Yonte a natural
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June 15, 2007
She never studied at home for exams, but still, she managed to place eight overall and sixth for girls in this year’s common entrance exams. It is q...
Cherrianne wants to be a veterinarian
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June 15, 2007
Cherrianne Davis a student of the Kingstown Prep School placed 6th overall in the recent Common Entrance Examinations. Speaking with the SEARCHLIGHT a...
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June 15, 2007
The St. Mary’s Roman Catholic School has once again proved that they are not to be taken likely when it comes to academics. This year, 12-year-old J...
Anson wants to become a mechanical engineer
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June 15, 2007
As he posed for pictures with the air of a young man who is confident, full of life and bountiful energy, there was no doubt that Anson Latchman was o...
Soleil makes PM, wife proud
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June 15, 2007
Soleil Gonsalves comes across as a confident and together young lady. She is well spoken and also very smart, after all she did place 4th overall with...
Lafeisha thanks brother for help
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June 15, 2007
“I was overwhelmed.” That was how 12-year-old Lafeisha Hadley of the Georgetown Government School described how she felt when she found out that s...
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 Concerns over the growing social decay of the Vincentian society have grabbed the attention of the executive of the St. Vincent and the Gre...
Samuel’s Police Public speaking champion
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 Constable Corlene Samuel is the new Police Public Speaking champion for 2007. Speaking on the Police week 2007 theme “Building and streng...
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 Chairman of the Carnival Bands Association (CBA) Hugh Ragguette, and Chief Executive Officer of the Carnival Development Corporation (CDC) ...
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 For Vincy Mas 2007, bMobile, official sponsor of Vincy Mas, has embarked on a campaign to promote local artistes under its brand. Early thi...
DaVille deals with matters of the heart
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June 8, 2007
With Carnival in the air, conventional wisdom would say it was a bad idea for a reggae artiste to venture to these shores to stage an event. But regga...
More Vincentian Nurses honoured in NY
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 Registered Nurses Clari Gilbert and Judith Lewis were honoured recently, joining the ranks of what appears to be a growing list of nurses t...
Their minds just went blank
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 Being a contestant in a pageant is not the easiest of feats, one has to overcome the fear of speaking in front of thousands, modeling in sw...
Magna customer receives reward from Digicel
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 DIGICEL, the fastest growing mobile telecommunications provider in the Caribbean, in partnership with the Magna Rewards Programme made Anan...
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 The New Artist Movement (NAM) will stage their theatrical production entitled “The Woodworker” at the Peace Memorial Hall tonight at ei...
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 YOULOU ARTS FOUNDATION will sponsor the “Growing Young SVG Artists” programme this year for the seventh consecutive year, from July 16 ...
Coast Guard record 100 per cent passes
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June 8, 2007
To be the Central Liaison Officer (CLO) for the Region’s security in these times of terrorist threats, drug trafficking, piracy and other cross bord...
Tucker to get kidney
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June 8, 2007
08.June.07 The greatest gift that Alison Tucker could give her brother Rawlson is the opportunity to live a normal life, even if it costs her a kidney...
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...