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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...
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...