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PM: God is the captain of my ship
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April 13, 2007
13.APR.07 JAMAICA – Prime Minister of Jamaica Portia Simpson-Miller has vowed that her administration will continue to partner with the church commu...
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April 13, 2007
13.APR.07 Olympic track star Ato Boldon bowed out of the Trinidad Senate on Wednesday as a UNC senator. Boldon, who was sworn into the Senate on Febru...
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April 13, 2007
by Monica Chadha - BBC News, Mumbai 13.APR.07 Women civil servants in India have expressed shock at new appraisal rules which require them to reveal d...
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April 13, 2007
13.APR.07 America's largest financial firm, Citigroup, has announced plans to cut 17,000 jobs, more than half overseas. The cuts, which will reduce it...
Zimbabwe bishops warn of revolt
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April 13, 2007
13.APR.07 Zimbabwe’s Roman Catholic bishops have warned of a mass uprising unless free elections are held, in a letter pinned up in churches across ...
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April 13, 2007
As the Excise Tax Bill 2007 was passed into law two Wednesdays ago, Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves said that the new excise taxes should not raise ...
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April 13, 2007
The SVG Green Party on Tuesday expressed its concern about the injuries suffered by the Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves and his driver in a car acc...
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April 13, 2007
A three-member delegation has left the State on a one-week mission to the Republic of Cuba. The delegation from the Ministry of Culture is led by Cult...
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April 13, 2007
Culture Minister René Baptiste recently attended a Summit of Ministers of Culture in Caracas, Venezuela on Saturday, March 24, 2007. The Summit provi...
Minister – Child abuse cases down
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April 13, 2007
Overall, cases of child abuse were down in St Vincent and the Grenadines in 2006 compared to 2005, but statistics show that instances of physical abus...
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April 13, 2007
Popular locally produced television show "Vibes Caribbean", has broken another barrier, becoming the first local programme to be added in the line up ...
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April 13, 2007
by Carlene Hunte-Daniel 3.APR.07 If you had to do any regional travel of late you would be left shocked at the astronomical cost of airline tickets. S...
Hospital gets new equipment
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April 13, 2007
A new cardiac monitoring machine which has the capability of at least three other machines, was donated to the Accident and Emergency Department of th...
Children’s tables get facelift
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April 13, 2007
Two local artists brightened the tables and chairs in the children's section of the Kingstown Public Library with a splash of colour. The project was ...
OECS receives free Anti-retroviral Drugs
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April 13, 2007
A container with free Anti-retroviral Drugs (ARVs) for 500 HIV/AIDS patients in the OECS has arrived in the Eastern Caribbean. The shipment arrived ab...
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April 13, 2007
More than 400,000 Africans have died in the Darfur region of Sudan since February 2003. Over 2.5 million people have been forced to flee their homes. ...
Mystik Vibrations launches music video
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April 13, 2007
Vincentians and visitors partaking in the annual Bequia Easter Regatta had one other reason to cheer on the weekend. Bequia boys Enos ‘Raluv’ Peni...
National action group hosts 2-day workshop
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April 13, 2007
Following a two-day consultation workshop last week, a national action programme has been developed to address issues related to land degradation in S...
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April 13, 2007
The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) is teaming up with financial and academic partners to host a Savings and Investment Course scheduled to comm...
4H Movement elects new executive
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April 13, 2007
The National 4H Movement held its Annual General Meeting on the 7th March 2007 at the Youth Affairs Conference Room, where a new executive was elected...
Bethel students ready for the world of work
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April 13, 2007
It was a career day indeed for the fifth form students of the Bethel High School as they showed up at school all elegantly dressed and looking as if t...
Group in for Indian dance workshop
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April 13, 2007
It has not yet been a year since they were established, and already, members of the Indian Heritage Foundation can boast of having achieved a great de...
Troumaca School wins Spelling B Competition
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April 13, 2007
After navigating through words like 'embezzle', 'sequins', 'apocalypse' and 'lingerie' and an almost perfect score, the Troumaca Government School too...
MVAA wins History competition
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April 13, 2007
The Mountain View Adventist Academy took first place in the Community College Heritage Club Local History Competition which was held last Wednesday at...
Insurance salesman finds life in British Army
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April 13, 2007
Six years ago an insurance salesman gave up his desk job in search of adventure and new worlds, he found it in the British Army. Today Sergeant Calber...
Students return from Camp in Venezuela
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April 13, 2007
Thirty-two fourth form students of the Girls' High School returned home on Saturday after a week-long camp in Venezuela, where they sharpened their Sp...
Female sailor battles in Bequia Regatta
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April 13, 2007
Being a sailor is a rough and tumble job, so when people observed petite 5ft 5-inch Florida born Jaqui De Meric as part of the crew of the yacht 'Clou...
Ship ahoy!
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April 13, 2007
The waters around the tiny Grenadine Island of Bequia were awash with boats of all sizes over the Easter weekend, as the Bequia Sailing Club’s 26th ...
Fire leaves Vermont woman homeless
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April 13, 2007
From the ashes of mourning a 29-year-old domestic has to pick up the pieces and try again - having watched all that she worked for burnt to the ground...
CTAWU head calls for boycott of Food City
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April 13, 2007
If the leadership of the Commercial Technical and Allied Workers Union (CTAWU) has their way, an all out boycott of Food City Supermarket and National...
Workers strike at Peters Hope
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April 13, 2007
Three weeks after the groundbreaking ceremony to start construction of a new secondary school at Peters Hope, workers at the site went on strike. Citi...
Frenchman dies after Soufriere hike
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April 13, 2007
Olivier D'Ovout a 55-year-old French national died as a result of a heart attack after hiking to La Soufriere on Sunday.{{more}} D'Ovout and his frien...
Wanted men now in custody
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April 13, 2007
The three Trinidadian fugitives who were believed to be hiding out in St Vincent are now in police custody, in Trinidad. A massive manhunt was mounted...
Victoria Village man shot
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April 13, 2007
Reynold “Spragga” Shallow is now a patient at the male surgical ward of the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH) after being shot. The shooting oc...
Walvarou man stabbed to death
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April 13, 2007
The mentally ill father of four who died two Wednesdays ago after receiving a stab wound to his chest, wasn't a violent man but rather very helpful an...
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April 13, 2007
Facing the possibility of a pull out by the Kingstown Medical College because of security concerns, the landlords of the medical students have come to...