News

SVG Police Band ready for Christmas
News
searchlight 
December 1, 2006
‘TIS THE season to be jolly and the Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Police Band is tuning up to make it feel a lot like Christmas. Starting at G...
News
searchlight 
December 1, 2006
Three months after closing Roy's Inn in Kingstown Park, LeRoy Lewis is back in business. On December 1, he throws open the doors to St Vincent and the...
News
searchlight 
December 1, 2006
A big thank you have gone out to the officials, neighbouring countries, friends, and the general public who helped in the search for the AVG Air plane...
News
searchlight 
December 1, 2006
Criminals could soon be given the opportunity to turn over new leaves - their past indiscretions thrown into the sea of forgetfulness. This is because...
Prince hoping for drop in teenage pregnancies
News
searchlight 
December 1, 2006
The average church going parent in St Vincent and the Grenadines will 'blow their top' if they were to find out that their beautiful 16-year old daugh...
News
searchlight 
December 1, 2006
For many years there have been lectures on the dangers of unprotected sex but for many it was not a message for them but intended for someone else. La...
House of Hope: not just for HIV
News
searchlight 
December 1, 2006
Governor General, Sir Frederick Ballantyne, while asserting that there is definitely a need for the hospice proposed by the House of Hope Society, has...
News
searchlight 
December 1, 2006
St Vincent and the Grenadines and Japan have signed a US$4.7 million agreement for the construction of a fishing complex in the rural village of Owia....
Vincentian students excel in Mexico
News
searchlight 
December 1, 2006
Vincentian students studying in Mexico are reported to be performing well. This country’s Ambassador to Washington DC Ellsworth I. A. John who recen...
Lucky winner number two
News
searchlight 
December 1, 2006
Sonia Ince of Sharpesdale is the second recipient of $1000 in the “Digicel is the Key to your $150,000 Fortune” competition. On Thursday November ...
News
searchlight 
December 1, 2006
Former West Indian wicket keeper, Michael Findlay believes that the Parents in Literacy (PIL) programme launched by the Calliaqua Anglican Primary sch...
News
searchlight 
December 1, 2006
The International Financial Services Agency (IFSA) needs another $9,000 for its scholarship fund before it can start inviting applications for study i...
C&W launches new promotion
News
searchlight 
December 1, 2006
Cable & Wireless is launching today a massive Christmas campaign it said was designed to bring a “Smile” to its customers. “I do believe we have...
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
ST LUCIA - As Saint Lucians are preparing to go to the polls on December 11, another member of the ruling Saint Lucia Labour (SLP) has appeared on the...
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
TRINIDAD - POLICE on Tobago have been called in to investigate a pornography ring said to be run by a group of students. The students, some of whom ar...
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
by JULIE WILSON and ANTOINETTE CONNELL BARBADOS - HIGH-TECH DNA INVESTIGATIONS used for the first time here condemned a man yesterday in a murder that...
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
Nov.24.06 Vincentians at home and abroad are being invited to participate in the National Sports Council (NSC) Awards Design Competition. Held in asso...
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
St Vincent and the Grenadines has nine more Justices of the Peace. Three women and six men took the oath before Governor-General Sir Frederick Ballant...
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
Nov.24.06 Sylvia Sealey, a Modern Languages Teacher at the St Vincent Grammar School is the new president of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Associa...
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
St Vincent and the Grenadines and Japan have signed a US$4.7 million agreement for the construction of a fishing complex in the rural village of Owia....
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
Lewis Punnett Home, adopted by the Rotary Club of St Vincent South, benefited from donations last weekend when the club held its regular luncheon ther...
Needy Vincentians get wheelchairs
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
It was an emotional day last Saturday evening when the Rotary Club of St Vincent presented the first of 280 wheelchairs to needy Vincentians. Receivin...
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
It was a first for St Vincent and the Grenadines as well as SOL last week. The Barbados-based petroleum company opened a new Shell service station at ...
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
Nov.24.06 The Diocese of the Windward Islands will be introducing a New Church Organisation called the Anglican Church Women Association (ACWA) at a m...
Greggs Primary wins Spelling Bee
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
Jenelle Yearwood and Shaneese John of the Greggs Primary School are the new champions of the 2006 Rotaract Club Spelling Bee competition as the finals...
Showcasing the talents of young Vincentians
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
by Shunice Butcher Nov.24.06 The National Science Fair seems to bring out a number of talents in young Vincentians as was seen in the case with 18-yea...
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
The date for the renewal of vehicle licences has been put back by one week to Monday, November 27, 2006. Comptroller of the Inland Revenue, Kelvin Pom...
Eustace: Bill too crucial to rush through
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
The Opposition is not sure that there are enough persons in St Vincent and the Grenadines who are capable of properly evaluating and accrediting highe...
I’M STILL ME!
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
KYRON MOBBED BY VINCENTIAN CROWD It's not often that one comes across a person who has the total package of great looks, undeniable talent and quiet h...
Caribbean Civil Aviation team to probe crash
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
DAY 4 Wednesday, November 22 Investigators from the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority (ECCAA) arrived in St Vincent and the Grenadines to beg...
No sign of missing two – debris found
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
DAY 3 Tuesday, November 21 Hope that Rasheed Ibrahim and Dominic Gonsalves may still be alive is diminishing as the third day of search for the missin...
RSS, French teams join search, rescue mission
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
DAY 2 Monday, November 20 Vincentians woke up this morning to the news that a SVG Air plane had vanished the evening before and a massive search and r...
Auto Club Caribbean ready to serve motorists
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
The newLY opened Auto Club Caribbean (ACC) is promising to meet the automotive needs of vehicle owners. At the launch of the company on Tuesday Novemb...
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
Nov.24.06 October The Consumer Price Index for the month of October, registered a 0.8 percent decline over the month of September, 2006. The “All It...
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
by Elford John Nov.24.06 As we move into the festive season, we need to pay more attention to the security of our business/companies from both interna...
Economics of Airport Development
News
searchlight 
November 24, 2006
“The value of concessions to affected Argyle property owners” Nov.24.06 For some time now, we have been talking about the concessions granted by t...