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‘Concentrate on crime prevention’
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May 19, 2006
The Opposition New Democratic Party believes that funding must be made available to Sunday schools where necessary, as part of the nation's crime prev...
NDP seeking better relations with media
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May 19, 2006
The New Democratic Party (NDP) is not seeking partisan support from the media but is rather challenging the media to make sure that they do "unbiased,...
Union: Government breaking law
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May 19, 2006
General Secretary of the Commercial Technical and Allied Workers Union (CTAWU), Lloyd Small is making no apologies over union claims that the governme...
Protest action called off at Marketing Corp
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May 19, 2006
Last week Thursday, one day after workers at the St. Vincent Marketing Corporation and their union, the Commercial Technical and Allied Workers Union ...
Police officers update skills
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May 12, 2006
Protocol has been established! Police officials in the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force attended a training seminar on Protocol last ...
SVG host local government forum
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May 12, 2006
Local government ministers from around the region will meet here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines next week in an effort to find solutions to the cha...
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May 12, 2006
A small group of residents of the Chateaubelair area received certificates after completing an eight week course in landscaping last weekend. The cour...
Lady G hits her century
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May 12, 2006
Another of this country's elderly citizens celebrated a birthday on Monday. Mabel Grant of Victoria Village celebrated her 102nd birthday on May 8. To...
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May 12, 2006
Digicel Group last week confirmed it had acquired a GSM licence in Bonaire in its continued expansion of a pan Caribbean GSM network. Digicel acquired...
Teachers unveil school projects
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May 12, 2006
A number of teachers here are ensuring that their students have improved conditions under which to learn. Five of them unveiled projects last Wednesda...
New look for SVGBC
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May 12, 2006
The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Broadcasting Corporation (SVGBC) has announced the winner of its logo competition. On Saturday, May 6, 2006 the com...
Children rewarded for reading
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May 12, 2006
Children at the Calliaqua Anglican School have an extra reason to sharpen their reading skills. Besides improving their academic standard, students ca...
Read-a-thon at Calliaqua
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May 12, 2006
If you have books or other reading material at your disposal, and you are not sure what to do with them, you can donate them to the Calliaqua Anglican...
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May 12, 2006
The 2006 Common Entrance Examination in St. Vincent and the Grenadines will be held on Friday, June 2. Grade 6 students from primary schools throughou...
School raided by ticks
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May 12, 2006
Students at the J.P. Eustace Memorial School were given four unexpected days off recently. The students and teachers were out of the classroom last we...
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May 12, 2006
Activities that will take the National Literacy Crusade to another level will be executed during the month of May. The plans are being termed “Opera...
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May 12, 2006
Digicel last week launched operations in Haiti with a wide range of customer focused services aimed at revolutionising the local telecommunications ma...
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May 12, 2006
The Fisheries Complex, the playing field and main bus stop in Calliaqua were all given facelifts by the youth ministry group of the Hill Top Tabernacl...
C&W is Platinum sponsor for Vincy Mas 2006
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May 12, 2006
At a press conference held in conjunction with the Carnival Development Committee (CDC), Cable & Wireless and the Ministry of Tourism, the announcemen...
NCB donates computers to groups
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May 12, 2006
On Friday, May 5, 2006 the National Commercial Bank (SVG) Ltd. donated four computers to three educational institutions and a youth group in SVG – t...
Ambassador presents credentials
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May 12, 2006
Her Excellency Ambassador Olga Chamero Trias, the first resident ambassador of Cuba to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, presented credentials to His Ex...
Sandy Bay woman hits Lotto jackpot
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May 12, 2006
History was made last Friday, April 28, 2006, when Sellin Henry was the first person north of the dry river to win the National Lotteries Authority Lo...
New task force to tackle urban development
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May 12, 2006
Minister of Urban Development, Culture and Electoral matters, Hon. Rene Baptiste, has made it abundantly clear she will continue to do her best to see...
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May 12, 2006
Edgerton Philip Medford faces extradition to the United States to answer federal charges that he raped a 15-year-old girl while he worked on the cruis...
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May 12, 2006
"There is a firm" interested in exploring St. Vincent and the Grenadines' maritime resources for oil and natural gas. This was confirmed by Prime Mini...
30 Town Board staffers to go home
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May 12, 2006
Some 30 members of staff of the Kingstown Town Board (KTB) will soon be handed their pink slips as measures are put in place to rescue the financially...
11 people found dead in boat off Barbados
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May 5, 2006
POLICE FORENSIC EXPERTS were this week trying to determine how 11 people, believed to come from an African country, perished at sea. The badly decompo...
Sol expands in SVG
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May 5, 2006
Sol Group, the Caribbean's largest independent oil company, will be looking to expand its production in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. In less than t...
Nokia brings cheer to Canouan Schools
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May 5, 2006
5.MAY.06 The students and staff of the Canouan Government School, Love and Care Pre-school, and Canouan Pre-school are more than excited about the rec...
VINSA has new executive
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May 5, 2006
A new executive has been elected to serve the Vincentian Student Association (VINSA) in Jamaica for the upcoming academic year 2006-2007. The election...
Library assistants  attend workshop
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May 5, 2006
Revealing that students and teachers who have good libraries perform better, library consultant Dr. Cherrell Robinson has commended the training of li...
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May 5, 2006
Last Tuesday, May 2, 2006 saw the commencement of a five-day workshop organized by the Inter- American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)...
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May 5, 2006
Women in St. Vincent and the Grenadines now have a new contraceptive option. The female condom will be available to women through the National Family ...
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May 5, 2006
The number of murders here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines for the year 2006 climbed by two over the past week. The newest victims succumbed within ...
C&W opens new bMobile retail store
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May 5, 2006
Cable & Wireless is aiming to dominate the mobile market in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. This intention was highlighted by Daryl Jackson, the compa...
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May 5, 2006
If things work out between Vincentian Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves and Malaysian Prime Minister Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Vincentian moto...
SVG names Malaysian Consul
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May 5, 2006
Efforts to strengthen the relations between St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Malaysia have been taken to a higher level. Datuk Vinod Sekar, a distin...
Clare Valley school gets Water House project
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May 5, 2006
The question of healthy living was a recurring theme in the rural fishing and agricultural village of Clare Valley last Wednesday. Through the vision ...
St. John’s RC church annointed by Bishop
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April 28, 2006
The smoke of sweet smelling incense filled the church, anointing oil was poured on the altar, the choir bellowed songs of praise and people of all wal...
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April 28, 2006
Referring to the Caribbean region as a small link in the chain of environmental management, Health and Environment Minister Dr. Douglas Slater reminde...
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April 28, 2006
Senior Specialist on Industrial Relations and Labour Administration, for the Subregional office for the Caribbean, International Labour Organisation (...