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Parris thankful, happy to be alive
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April 13, 2007
As the visitors, well wishers and messages from around the country and overseas poured into the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, Zaccheus Parris was usi...
EC$360 million drugs destroyed at Rabacca
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April 13, 2007
From sealed cans labeled orange juice, milk and pet food to suitcase handles and even a wedding dress, drug traffickers found ingenious ways to concea...
Rastafarians embrace first beauty queen
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April 5, 2007
05.APR.07 Jamaica – Rastafarians have enthusiastically embraced the crowning of the first Rastafarian Miss Jamaica Universe 2007, Zahra Redwood, in ...
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April 5, 2007
05.APR.07 JAMAICA – Camesha Blake, the 26-year-old Greater Portmore, Jamaica resident who was found in a police lock-up with a gun hidden in her pan...
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April 5, 2007
05.APR.07 NEW YORK – 27-year-old Trinidadian-born Catholic High School teacher was on Thursday slapped with charges of statutory rape of a student a...
Nelson block holds Carnival @ Large
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April 5, 2007
Come this Easter Monday, the Bishop’s College School grounds will be transformed into carnival heaven as Digicel Nelson Block would be holding their...
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April 5, 2007
A delegation from the Civil Defense Ministry in Cuba visited this country to evaluate the national system for disaster management and make recommendat...
Hannaway is new head at Cable & Wireless
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April 5, 2007
At the start of their new financial year, Cable & Wireless not only had change of business name, but also a new man at their helm. Effective April 1. ...
Community College boys in bloody clash
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April 5, 2007
Blood flowed at the Community College last Monday when an altercation landed two students at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital. Olton Ottley of Belair...
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April 5, 2007
United States President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet with the fifteen Heads of State/Government and Foreign Minist...
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April 5, 2007
Lone female Senator Rochelle Forde of the Unity Labour Party (ULP) Government has slammed the New Democratic Party (NDP) for what she described as fai...
Woman in man’s world at Town Board
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April 5, 2007
While most women employed with the Kingstown Town Board are office attendants, clerks or sweepers, Sandra Lampkin is a full-fledged mason. Formally of...
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April 5, 2007
The U.S. Commercial Service of the United States Embassy to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean in partnership with the Florida Foreign Trade Associati...
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April 5, 2007
The Coast Guard will be given a $21 million injection over the next four years and the Italian State Agency, SACE is expected to partner with the Gove...
Government Administrative Centre evacuated
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April 5, 2007
Last Thursday around 9 a.m. workers at the government Administrative Centre located on the reclamation site on Bay Street had to evacuate the building...
Students urged not to forget their Heritage
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April 5, 2007
Students of the Lodge Village Government School are urged never to forget about their past, to embrace their heritage and to shape their destiny. This...
Three government officers return from Taiwan
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April 5, 2007
Three Officers of Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines returned from a trip to Taiwan last week. They are Clarence Harry of Ministry of Foreig...
Jack’s Bar opens in Bequia
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April 5, 2007
Billed as "the most innovative beach bar in the Grenadines", Jack's Bar opened last Friday March 30, with a gala canapés reception for over 100 guest...
Parents group receives financial donation
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April 5, 2007
A newly formed association of parent advocates has received a financial donation from a family reunion committee to assist with their work programme. ...
Hospital EKG machine missing?
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April 5, 2007
For several months a new "heart machine' valued at over $20,000 had been unaccounted for at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital and Hospital Administrat...
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April 5, 2007
There will be no snubbing of existing treaty obligations with the OECS and CARICOM by this Country while it explores a closer relationship with Venezu...
Ottley Hall debt is finally settled
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April 5, 2007
The Ottley Hall debt is no more - It would be, once Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves secures and pays US$6 million by June 30, according to the settl...
Multi-Purpose Centres – A second chance
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April 5, 2007
There are some things that miles of sea and a change of accent don't change. There are some expectations that are uniform in their expression worldwid...
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March 30, 2007
30.MAR.07 The US Internal Revenue Service has admitted St. Vincent and the Grenadines to its qualified intermediary program, and is now displaying a l...
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March 30, 2007
The St.Vincent and the Grenadines Association of Barbados holds meetings every the first Monday of each month at Clement Payne Center, Crumpton Street...
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March 30, 2007
30.MAR.07 The UK government has suspended bilateral relationships with Iran until a dispute over the seizure of British sailors from Iraqi waters is r...
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March 30, 2007
30.MAR.07 Pakistan's cricket captain and six other players have left Lahore airport without speaking to the media, after returning from a traumatic Wo...