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PM secures 52 more Venezuelan scholarships
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February 9, 2007
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has secured 52 more scholarships from the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for Vincentian student...
Building a modern competitive economy
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Building a modern competitive economy
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February 9, 2007
Prime Minister Dr.Ralph Gonsalves, a champion of regional integration, warned students of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona Campus that the...
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Vincy students give Barbour nod for Honorary Consul
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February 9, 2007
Vincentian students at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies have nominated former radio broadcaster and UWI lecturer June Pamela Barbo...
Big plans in works for Great Head Bay
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Big plans in works for Great Head Bay
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February 9, 2007
Cleaning Great Head Bay on the Arnos Vale coast is a waste of time unless the rest of the nation practices cleanliness and avoids dumping their garbag...
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Pipe water for 500 more by year end
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February 9, 2007
Some 500 persons will receive pipe borne water with a price tag of $290,000 by year's end. The Potable Water Project is just one of the projects that ...
Let there be light!
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Let there be light!
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February 9, 2007
Persons who are offered energy saving light bulbs are being asked to co-operate with the Cuban Social Workers that would be installing them. This plea...
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Vinlec gets second shipment of fuel from Venezuela
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February 9, 2007
The St. Vincent Electricity Services received 10,000 barrels (350,000) of fuel on Thursday, January 31. The fuel is currently stored at the Lowmans Ba...
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Aquing: Water could be the next oil
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February 9, 2007
Acting Executive Director of the Caribbean Environmental Health Institute Patricia Aquing is calling for St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the region...
An emotional night for Bernard John
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An emotional night for Bernard John
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February 9, 2007
A broad cross section of the SVG community in Toronto attended an exciting and emotional show of appreciation for outgoing Consul General Bernard John...
Estimated EC$1.2m in restorative work on Methodist Church building
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Estimated EC$1.2m in restorative work on Methodist Church building
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February 9, 2007
Built by newly freed slaves in 1840 and completed a year later in 1841, the Kingstown Methodist Church is not only a place of sacred worship but it gi...
Chief Agricultural Officer bids farewell
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Chief Agricultural Officer bids farewell
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February 9, 2007
Chief Agricultural Officer Philmore Isaacs has been at the helm of the agricultural department in St Vincent and the Grenadines since 1992. He began h...
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PESCO has new focus for 2007
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February 9, 2007
9.FEB.07 The Penniston Educational Sports and Cultural Organisation (PESCO) has completed its calendar of events for the year and has announced that t...
Ottley Hall Inquiry put back again
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Ottley Hall Inquiry put back again
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February 9, 2007
After waiting almost three years for its resumption, Vincentians will have to wait another five weeks for the continuation of the Ottley Hall Inquiry....
Teacher shot, woman raped
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Teacher shot, woman raped
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February 9, 2007
President of the Teacher's Union Otto Sam has described the shooting of 38-year old Park Hill Government School teacher, Colin Haywood as "senseless a...
Funeral Home angry over ‘dead’ battle
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Funeral Home angry over ‘dead’ battle
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February 9, 2007
The Everready Funeral Home has had enough of the public taking advantage of them and they are putting a foot down and doing something about it. Member...
Blue Waters nightclub lounge collapses
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Blue Waters nightclub lounge collapses
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February 9, 2007
Despite the collapse of the lounge section of Blue Waters nightclub, revelers turned out to get their party grooves on at the popular North Leeward ve...
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Burial ground fiasco may take grave turn
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February 9, 2007
The Ministry of Health wants to know if legal action is going to be taken against either Environmental Health Officer Michael Bacchus or the ministry ...
Arnos Vale residents want better CWC arangements
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Arnos Vale residents want better CWC arangements
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February 9, 2007
Emotions threatened to reach to a boiling point during a meeting between the Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 Local Organizing Committee (LOC) and residen...
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Town Board may take defaulters to court
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February 9, 2007
PAY UP! Pay up or face the full weight of the law, is what delinquent shop operators are being told by the Kingstown Town Board (KTB). Letters informi...
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Prayer Vigil for peace and security
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February 2, 2007
2.FEB.07 In response to the outbreak of violence in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, there will be a series of prayer sessions for the nation commencin...
Digicel hands over LG Chocolate Phones
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Digicel hands over LG Chocolate Phones
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February 2, 2007
2.FEB.07 Five lucky persons have won LG Chocolate phones in Digicel’s latest texting promotion. The five winners of the sleek and stylish LG Chocola...
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Baby survives fatal crash
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February 2, 2007
2.FEB.07 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO – A 25-year-old man was killed instantly when the car in which he was travelling in collided with another while returni...
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Quack, quack, quack, I’m alive!
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February 2, 2007
2.FEB.07 TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) – Perky is one tough bird. The ring-neck duck survived being shot and spending two days in a hunter's refrigerato...
Another Jamaican soldier dies in Iraq
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Another Jamaican soldier dies in Iraq
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February 2, 2007
2.FEB.07 JAMAICA – The United States war on terror has claimed another Jamaican. Army sergeant Gregroy Wright, 28, father of a three-year-old girl, ...
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Churches unite over adoption row
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February 2, 2007
2.FEB.07 BRITAIN – The Church of England has backed the Catholic Church in its bid to be exempt from laws on adoption by gay couples. Catholic leade...
Man on United flight bitten by scorpion
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Man on United flight bitten by scorpion
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February 2, 2007
2.FEB.07 MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP) – A scorpion stung David Sullivan on the back of his right leg, just below the knee, then crawled up and down his ...
Special children get computers from Taiwan
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Special children get computers from Taiwan
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February 2, 2007
Though they may be differently-abled, the children at the School for Children with Special Needs will soon be learning how to use the computer. This a...
James is $74,000 lotto jackpot winner
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James is $74,000 lotto jackpot winner
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February 2, 2007
Merleane James, a retired nurse of Cane Garden is now $74,000 richer as she is the second person to win the National Lottery since the start of the ye...
ECGC launches 2007 School Home Economics Competition
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ECGC launches 2007 School Home Economics Competition
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February 2, 2007
2.FEB.07 The East Caribbean Group of Companies in collaboration with the SVG Home Economics Association and the Ministry of Education has launched its...
Oscar Allen launches reading book
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Oscar Allen launches reading book
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February 2, 2007
This week, a reading book authored by Oscar Allen was released. “We Want to Become Wise”, is no ordinary reading book, but a reading book on trans...
Five cops mark 31 years in force
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Five cops mark 31 years in force
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February 2, 2007
Five top-notch police officers have made it through the rough and tough of the Police Force and 31 years later they are still doing what they love bes...
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OECS Bar bewildered at Justice Alleyne’s exclusion
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February 2, 2007
Members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Bar Association, are calling for Dominican Justice Brian Alleyne to be included in the selecti...
Winter coats for nurses in Cuba
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Winter coats for nurses in Cuba
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February 2, 2007
by Nelson A. King in New York 2.FEB.07 Did you know that it gets very cold, around this time of the year, in Cuba? Well, believe it or not, it gets so...
New agricultural office opens in Walliabou
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New agricultural office opens in Walliabou
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February 2, 2007
"We want this place to provide support to the farmers, in that they would gain the confidence to stay in Agriculture and improve," said outgoing Chief...
Petit Bordel family now homeless
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Petit Bordel family now homeless
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February 2, 2007
A Petit Bordel family lost all their worldly possessions in a fire that consumed their home around 9 p.m. last Saturday. Isaac "High Priest" Louie 41,...
Darius: Why did my daddy have to die?
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Darius: Why did my daddy have to die?
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February 2, 2007
She dreamt that she was climbing up a steep rock and fell to the bottom the very morning. She told her husband the dream, so when Lindina got the news...
Missing man returns home
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Missing man returns home
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February 2, 2007
It was like a man returning from the grave on Monday, when Withman “T-Whoop” Hamilton showed up for the first time since he went missing in Novemb...
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Eustace tells Gonsalves to give more information
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February 2, 2007
Leader of the Opposition Arhnim Eustace has challenged Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves to divulge more information about the controversial pardon gi...
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LIAT announces new fares
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February 2, 2007
by CAROL MARTINDALE 2.FEB.07 THE MERGER OF LIAT and Caribbean Star, which took off yesterday, has brought with it new low fares. This comes on the hee...
Tahirah is top apprentice at Cable & Wireless
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Tahirah is top apprentice at Cable & Wireless
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February 2, 2007
In the same way that American business tycoon, Donald Trump sought out his "Apprentice," telecommunications company Cable & Wireless got their "Top Sa...
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PM announces hike in postal rates
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February 2, 2007
The cost of mailing a letter, parcel or newspaper from St. Vincent and the Grenadines has been increased by 50%. The new rates came into effect yester...
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New Immigration, Customs bills passed in Parliament
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February 2, 2007
Two Bills relating to the 2007 Cricket World Cup were among those passed at Tuesday's meeting of Parliament. The Immigration Restriction Amendment Bil...
Cubans arrive to install light bulbs
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Cubans arrive to install light bulbs
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February 2, 2007
From today some 20 Cuban Social Workers or Trabajadores Sociales would be working with locals from the Youth Empowerment Service, YES programme and st...
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‘Shooting him? Why would that be an option?’ Gloster’s sister questions
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‘Shooting him? Why would that be an option?’ Gloster’s sister questions
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July 11, 2025
A man, who was conducting business inside the offices of the Kingstown Cooperative Credit Union (KCCU) was shot and killed, allegedly by an on- duty s...
Windwards Diocese remembers Dean Smith’s passion for winning souls, and his hospitality
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Windwards Diocese remembers Dean Smith’s passion for winning souls, and his hospitality
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July 11, 2025
The Diocese of the Windward Islands has extended condolences on the passing of Dean emeritus, Ulric Smith, who died on Saturday, July 5, 2025 at the M...
RSVGPF commends Public, Stakeholders for ‘exemplary conduct’ at VincyMas 2025
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RSVGPF commends Public, Stakeholders for ‘exemplary conduct’ at VincyMas 2025
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July 11, 2025
The Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) has commended the public for allowing VincyMas 2025 to transpire “without any major inc...
CDC already planning for VincyMas 2026, says CEO Rodney Small
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CDC already planning for VincyMas 2026, says CEO Rodney Small
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July 11, 2025
VincyMas is no longer a seasonal event says Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Carnival Development Corporation (CDC), Rodney Small. “…we at the CDC...
Starlift wins 26th Senior Panorama competition
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Starlift wins 26th Senior Panorama competition
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July 11, 2025
EL DORADO Starlift Steel Orchestra has now won the Senior Panorama compe- tition 26 times, and while some people may say that’s a lot, band captain Ro...

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