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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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February 2, 2007
Ten students would be leaving for Maylasia tomorrow to pursue studies at the Limkokwing College of Creative Technology for three years. The 10 persons...
No DNA in dog fight, case closed!
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February 2, 2007
Following the breakthrough of DNA providing links to two year old murder cases here recently, Searchlight has decided to blow the dust from another co...
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January 26, 2007
26.JAN.07 Cambodia – A Cambodian girl who disappeared aged eight has been found after living wild in the jungle for 19 years, police say. The girl i...