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Phase 2 of Library Project underway
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March 8, 2007
Phase two of the National Library Project got started this week with the signing of the contract to begin construction of the $12 million building lat...
Lawyers claim they got death threats
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March 8, 2007
If the alleged threats made on her life are serious and are successful, Vynnette Frederick should be dead this weekend. She is one of three female law...
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March 8, 2007
This country recorded a 6.48% economic growth in 2006, second only to Antigua and Barbuda in the OECS, and is expected to do even better for 2007. Thi...
Families react to arrest of accused
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March 8, 2007
As a baby-faced policeman appeared in court charged with her daughter's 2005 murder, Rosetta Gill believes that unless justice is completely served, h...
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March 8, 2007
The Ottley Hall Commission of Inquiry, which was set to resume on Thursday 15, March, has been rescheduled to May 2, 2007. The postponement is because...
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March 2, 2007
02.MAR.07 LONDON (AP) – The husband of special constable Nisha Patel-Nasri has been arrested in connection with her murder. Fadi Nasri, 33, was held...
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March 2, 2007
02.MAR.07 UNITED STATES – The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by a high school teacher from Arizona sentenced to 200 years in jail fo...
CD, DVD vendors held in T&T crackdown
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March 2, 2007
02.MAR.07 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO – Police arrested 15 people around Port-of-Spain Monday, in a raid aimed at curbing illegal vending in the capital. Am...
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March 2, 2007
02.MAR.07 The UK Government on Monday announced a new US $7.5 million contribution to the World Bank's pilot Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility (CRI...
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March 2, 2007
02.MAR.07 Today, Friday, March 2, 2007 is World Day of Prayer. This is a worldwide ecumenical movement of women and men of many faith traditions who c...
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March 2, 2007
History was made last Saturday at the New Testament Church of God at Wilson Hill, when the Institute of Professional Development (IPD) held its first ...
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March 2, 2007
Education is expensive. Despite this, the manager and staff of Courts St. Vincent Ltd is cooperating with the Ministry of Education by assisting schoo...
Franklyn wins Digicel Valentine’s promotion
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March 2, 2007
Mobile service provider, Digicel has made telling time more stylish for Ruth Franklyn of Georgetown. Franklyn won a pair of his and her’s Tissot wat...
Toney loses badly
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March 2, 2007
by Nelson A. King in New York 02.MAR.07 Joel Toney, a former United Nations ambassador, pulled out all the stops in his zealous bid to get elected to ...
Sunny Vale Primary receives $21,000 donation
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March 2, 2007
The students and staff of the Sunny Vale Primary School are now better able to sit in comfort and conduct their regular classes as $21,000 worth of fu...
Students studying in Cuba get coats
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March 2, 2007
students at the Raudilio Flietas Caribbean School of Nursing, in Jaguey Grande, Matanzas Cuba, were the recipients of over 100 coats collected on the ...
Foyle to receive US citizenship
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March 2, 2007
After living in the United States for nearly 16 years, basketball star and Vincentian Adonal Foyle is to become an American citizen. The centre for Oa...
Students turn school supplies into weapons
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March 2, 2007
Tuesday, under the hot afternoon sun, just after students had been dismissed from school for the day, three students from two Kingstown secondary scho...
Car crashes into KFC building
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March 2, 2007
In what can be called a series of unfortunate events, David Legair of Paul Over may be wondering if he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time o...
Police officers take polygraph tests
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March 2, 2007
The law enforcement agencies must be free from criminal pollution – and a system of polygraph (lie detector) testing has been instituted to ensure t...
$1.8m. modern police facility for Questelles
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March 2, 2007
Within the next 16 months a police station costing an estimated EC$1,867,174.60 is expected to be completed in the South Leeward constituency of Quest...
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March 2, 2007
With EC$300,000 allocated for marketing Vincy Mas, the Carnival Development Cooperation, CDC would be ensuring that the festival lives up to this year...
Compensate Saddam’s
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March 2, 2007
Noted lawyer Parnel Campbell Q.C. has called on the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines to reimburse the relatives of the late Carlisle "Sadd...
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March 2, 2007
In what may be called a last ditch effort to lay the Alex Lawrence saga to rest, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves on Thursday read excerpts of the l...
Dr. Gonsalves: No need to fear law
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March 2, 2007
Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says that there is no reason to fear that the new powers afforded to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) in the...
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March 2, 2007
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves said that National Security does not only involve preventing an invasion of foreign forces, but also fighting and p...
New law to make criminals pay
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March 2, 2007
The space within which criminals operate has been narrowed with the passing of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (St Vincent and the Grenadines) (Am...