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GTM Insurance sets up branch office
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April 27, 2007
After fifty years operating here in St.Vincent and the Grenadines as an agency, the Guyana, Trinidad Mutual Insurance Company has expanded its activit...
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April 27, 2007
Vincentians and visitors alike who were not able to participate in the Easter weekend’s regattas in Bequia and Union Island are in for a treat, with...
Windward Island Bananas prices fall
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April 27, 2007
Last Friday another blow was dealt to banana farmers in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and more so the Windward Islands, so says the Minister of Agric...
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April 27, 2007
Protest action is planned for today in opposition to the $1 user fee that was implemented last week for use of the new terminal building at the Grenad...
Twin sister feeling Williams’ pain
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April 27, 2007
When Juliet Williams got to the hospital and saw nurses dressing her brother’s hands she fell to the floor crying. The nurses were dressing chops wo...
Grave trouble at Kingstown Cemetery
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April 27, 2007
“Why would anyone want to trouble his grave?” those words were echoed by everyone in the vicinity of the Kingstown Cemetery last week Thursday mor...
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April 27, 2007
Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves’ offensive against obesity has been put on hold since his successful orthopedic surgery in Cuba last Saturday, Apr...
Smart guy caught up in web of violence
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April 27, 2007
As the usual speculations and assumptions swirl around the tragic death of 24-year-old Muzart Laidlow, former school mates and friends are trying to f...
Nursing staff saddened by colleague’s death
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April 27, 2007
Kemlon Johnson-Quammie has been hailed as true nursing professional who was very dedicated and committed as a care giver. Kemlon’s partly decomposed...
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April 20, 2007
20.APR.07 Doctors have removed a bullet from the heart of a Vietnamese soldier 39 years after he was shot by US troops. Le Dinh Hung, 60, is said to b...
Shooter sends package to NBC
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April 20, 2007
20.APR.07 The student who shot dead at least 30 people at Virginia Tech sent a package to the US TV network NBC News on the day of the shootings, poli...
Guyana First couple decides to end marriage
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April 20, 2007
20.APR.07 Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo and First Lady Varshnie Jagdeo on Monday announced the end of their marriage. The first couple said they h...
NCB makes donation to Clare Valley School
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April 20, 2007
20.APR.07 The Clare Valley Government School is the latest recipient of the NCB’s Focus on Education”. On Thursday April 12th 2007, Lucian Allen, ...
Arrowroot harvesters  in North Windward
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April 20, 2007
Arrowroot farmers in the North Windward area now have one more reason to invest in the planting of arrowroot as three new pieces of machinery have bee...
Boyea: Platinum card holders still benefitted
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April 20, 2007
Even though Aunt Jobe’s Supermarket did not offer any reward programme for their customers between January and March this year, holders of their Pla...
May 6-12 is Nurses Week
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April 20, 2007
Nurses from all over St. Vincent and the Grenadines would come together to celebrate Nurses’ Week from the 6th - 12th May 2007, under the theme “P...
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April 20, 2007
Because life is an unfolding process of self-discovery, persons of all ages should grab hold of every opportunity they are afforded to learn something...
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April 20, 2007
The public would soon get to know the eight contestants selected to represent this country in the prestigious Miss SVG pageant. Although no date to re...
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April 20, 2007
This country’s 2004 Mutual Evaluation Process report by the CFATF was unfair, as too much emphasis was placed on the production of marijuana and the...
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April 20, 2007
The Carriere Neighbourhood Watch Group will hold its 4th anniversary rally this Sunday April 22nd, as it wraps up activities to mark the occasion. The...
Shernica eyeing Mr. Exotic BVI ’07
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April 20, 2007
Local designer Shernicia Mayers has been chosen as one of the Caribbean designers to show off her creations in the Mr. Exotic BVI 2007 show. The event...
King is Grand Vitara queen
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April 20, 2007
20.APR.07 Gemma King of Belmont is the winner of the Sol draw of a Suzuki Grand Vitara vehicle. A release from Sol states that the draw took place on ...
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April 20, 2007
Three dance groups swept up gold medals in the Kingstown Zonal showcase in the Digicel SVG Gospel Fest last Friday.{{more}} The three groups were Davi...
Pentecostal church opens at ‘Baghdad’
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April 20, 2007
With an insurance policy called faith, an engine called perseverance, a drive to make it and $1,500 to his name; Pastor Terran James is living testimo...
Vendors back in market
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April 20, 2007
An exercise by the Kingstown Central Market and the Kingstown Town Board to pull vegetable and fish market vendors off the streets of Kingstown, took ...
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April 20, 2007
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves and his driver Sergeant Zaccheus Parris are now in the Republic of Cuba recuperating from injuries they sustained i...
Boy shot in Bequia
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April 20, 2007
Marko Brown, a 15-year-old student of Bequia is recovering from a gun shot wound at the Male Surgical Ward of the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH)...
CTAWU calls off Food City boycott
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April 20, 2007
The Commercial Technical and Allied Workers' Union (CTAWU) has withdrawn the call made to its members and industrial relations partners last week to b...
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April 20, 2007
Chief spokesperson on the social contract drafted by the National Economical Social Development Council (NESDEC), Renrick Rose, said that the council ...
New format coming for Medical College
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April 20, 2007
Nails continue to be driven into the coffin of Kingstown Medical College as more information comes to light from St George's University in Grenada. It...
New national driver’s licences coming soon
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April 20, 2007
The long awaited new national driver's licence system is expected to be on stream soon. The project which was scheduled to begin since in January was ...
New parent body formed
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April 20, 2007
The newly formed association of parents of students studying in Cuba has come in for praise from Cuban Ambassador Olga Trias, who assured members that...
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April 20, 2007
Local police are hunting the culprits who have tormented the lives of at least two Vincentian women - by falsely implicating them in embarrassing sexu...
Flat fire tender tyre disrupts flights
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April 20, 2007
A punctured tyre in a Fire Tender disrupted five airline flights and reduced the response capability of the ET Joshua Airport from category six to thr...
DNA settles Smith paternity claim
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April 13, 2007
13.APR.07 DNA tests have revealed that Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend of the late Playboy model, Anna Nicole Smith, fathered her baby daughter, Da...