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Rush hour crash at Arnos Vale
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April 29, 2005
Rush hour traffic was forced to a standstill last Thursday, April 21, around 8:15 a.m. along the Arnos Vale public road stretch, following a two vehic...
Dinky Balcombe steps forward
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April 29, 2005
The opposition New Democratic Party reached into the heartland of Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves’s constituency last Saturday night to launch a ...
Charles in town with Love in Action
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April 29, 2005
Gospel singer Anita Charles is in town again and is on fire delivering the word of the Lord. She has, along with her better half Dennis, been very bus...
Taiwan Naval ships visit St. Vincent
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April 29, 2005
A Taiwanese Naval Squadron visiting St. Vincent and the Grenadines on a two-day visit from today, April 29 to April 30, is offering the public the cha...
Mistake costs Oliver $10,000
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April 29, 2005
Vincentian businessman Garth Lancelot Bernard Oliver who passed through two airports with a .22 calibre revolver and five bullets undetected on Januar...
SVG paradise no free ride says PM
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April 29, 2005
Noting that the Grenadines make up 17 miles of land mass while mainland St. Vincent makes up just 13, Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Dr. Ralph...
Environment in trouble
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April 29, 2005
Several acres of land on hillsides throughout different parts of mainland St. Vincent and in the Grenadines have been scorched in recent weeks through...
Strange sun in skies
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April 22, 2005
by Andano Coombs At exactly 12 noon on Wednesday, April 20, students of schools in the Richmond Hill area were greeted by what seemed to be a celestia...
Regional plea from Saboto
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April 22, 2005
Vincentian scholar Saboto Caesar has called upon the region’s private sector to come to the assistance of Guyana’s flood victims. Saboto, studying...
Moving towards  cleaner water
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April 22, 2005
Water shortages and its quality are two of the challenges that would be addressed when the construction of the Majorca Treatment Plant is complete. Ga...
VINSA elects new executive
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April 22, 2005
Vincentian students in Jamaica have elected a new executive for the academic year 2005-2006. Last Saturday evening, the Vincentian Student Association...
New boss at NCB
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April 22, 2005
There is a new CEO at the National Commercial Bank. Trinidadian national Phillip Hernandez has replaced his fellow national Mario Young who completed ...
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April 22, 2005
The Leo Club St. Vincent says it has moved into a new era with the launch of its website, which went live Friday 8, April 2005. The site is a collabor...
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April 22, 2005
First Caribbean International is claiming a credit rating of “A stable” given to it by rating agency Standard & Poor’s. The bank says the credit...
Tourism boom in SVG
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April 22, 2005
TOURISM recorded increased visitor arrivals of 8.1% for 2004. This was confirmed by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, ECCB. Tourism Minister Rene` B...
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April 22, 2005
Tourism Minister Rene` Baptiste is warning Vincentians to be more careful about what is said about tourism in this country. She warned that rumours th...
SVG documented on DVD
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April 22, 2005
The Ministry of Tourism has packaged the beauty of St.Vincent and the Grenadines and Culture into a 15 minute DVD film entitled “Jewels of the Carib...
Survivor makes new friend
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April 22, 2005
It is amazing how some friendships are formed. Vanrick ‘Larwood’ Allick a 32 year old fisherman of Clare Valley has a new friend. He is referred t...
Petit Bordel – Outstanding at Science
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April 22, 2005
The Petit Bordel Secondary School has proven that schools in the rural community can also shine in the science faculty after winning prizes for Outsta...
Schools shine  at annual Science Fair
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April 22, 2005
“Science Fairs are not a waste of time.” This sentiment was expressed by Science Education Officer Amaala Muhammad as she spoke at the close of th...
Pompey: Terrorist act committed at airport
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April 22, 2005
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Godfred Pompey has described the theft of the solar panels at the E.T.Joshua Airport as a Te...
US$25,000 for House of Hope
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April 22, 2005
The House of Hope Society Inc. has received a donation of US$25,000. The cheque, a personal donation to the Society from St. Vincent and the Grenadine...
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April 22, 2005
Word out of New York is that the Girls High School Alumnae Association will be celebrating its official "coming of age" this year with a dinner and da...
Call for Spiritual Baptists in SVG to unite
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April 22, 2005
The lines of division that have kept Spiritual Baptists throughout SVG locked away into factions are about to be removed to allow for a fully United S...
Pompey marks 20 years as Archbishop
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April 22, 2005
Last Sunday a large gathering of approximately 2,000 Spiritual Baptists from as far as England, Barbados and Grenada joined hands with their local Spi...
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April 22, 2005
The Caribbean Court of Justice CCJ’s would be paying TT$2.5 million (US$398,000) to cover the cost of the lavish inauguration ceremony held last Sat...
VINLEC team faces media
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April 22, 2005
Faced with widespread outcry over the April fuel surcharge, VINLEC Chief Executive Officer Thornley Myers and a team of top line managers faced the me...
Sylvester in hot water
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April 22, 2005
Vincentian barrister and recently appointed Commissioner of the Caribbean Court of Justice CCJ, Othniel Sylvester Q.C, has found himself in some swelt...
Bajan cop held after big drug bust
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April 22, 2005
THE CONSTABLE charged in connection with last week's multi-million-dollar dope haul in St Lucy, Barbados was allowed to go home on $60 000 bail. Howev...
Mothers grieve for jailed sons
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April 22, 2005
Bob Marley, in his “Johnny Was”, highlighted natural maternal instincts when he moaned "Can a woman's tender care cease towards the child she bear...
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April 22, 2005
Ras Izaras, Ilect of Records, from the Nyahbingi Order, commended Magistrate Dougan "for his outspoken conviction of the marijuana plant." "It has bee...
Sick Children receive gifts
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April 15, 2005
Several children were the happy recipients of T-shirts last Monday 11 at the Paediatric Ward of the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital. The gifts came cour...
Out of adversity, cometh good
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April 15, 2005
An organisation, inspired by a young Vincentian is quietly working in the United States to assist needy children in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Th...
‘Ras I’ lynches Calypsonians
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April 15, 2005
Wendell “Rasta Man I” Lewis “lynched out” nine competitors to take the New Democratic Party (NDP) calypso title at the Arnos Vale Sporting Com...
C&W adds BlackBerry to mobile product line
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April 15, 2005
Telecoms provider Cable & Wireless is boost-ing its product line in a big way. On Wednesday the company hosted a grouping of business executives at Ro...
Vincy dialect studied
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April 15, 2005
The Vincentian creole was the subject of study when the Evangelical Association of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, (EAC-SVG) held a language workshop ...
Students shine at science fair
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April 15, 2005
by Sheron Garraway The 2005 Science Fair has once again demonstrated the inventiveness of Vincentian students. Some of the projects included making al...
Public outcry over light bills
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April 15, 2005
VINLEC this week found itself the centre of discussion on the streets of Kingstown and on talk radio as consumers began to cry out against increases t...
Alternative source of energy an option
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April 15, 2005
Transport Minister Julian Francis has stated that this country is still paying lower prices for oil than some of the others in the region, and that th...
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April 15, 2005
Because tyres formed a main component of costs encountered by omnibus operators government had proposed a 25 per cent discount on the duty for tyres t...
Francis: Unfair to overcharge public
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April 15, 2005
The strike action called last Monday by the National Omnibus Association (NOBA) to demonstrate their opposition to Government proposals for rate adjus...