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February 4, 2005
Persons affected by the HIV/AIDS disease need not whimper in a corner and lose their self-esteem. Frantic efforts are being undertaken to offer those ...
Sir Dwight: More active policies needed
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February 4, 2005
Governor of the East Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), Sir Dwight Venner, has called for the sub-region to pursue more active policies to lock in the gai...
Memorial Service held for slain doctor
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February 4, 2005
in Jamaica Three weeks after his brutal slaying relatives and friends of the late Dr. Ken Nanton are still fighting to come to grips with his death. A...
Williams heads new boundaries commission
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February 4, 2005
With General Elections Constitutionally due in St. Vincent and the Grenadines in 2006, the appointment of the Constituency Boundaries Commission is se...
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January 28, 2005
A seven-member team is representing the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Horticultural Society at the Barbados Annual Flower and Garden Show.{{more}} It...
Guyana to build tent city for homeless
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January 28, 2005
GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Following days of torrential rains that caused one of the most severe floods to hit Guyana in over 100 years, officials at the Joi...
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January 28, 2005
BELMOPAN, Belize – Unrest concerning the Belizian government's new taxes, which began on January 20, continued as people burned government offices a...
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January 28, 2005
INDIA: Up to 300 Hindu pilgrims are feared dead and hundreds injured during a stampede at a Hindu festival in India. The stampede happened during a pi...
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January 28, 2005
The Government of St. Lucia will raise EC$52 million through the issue of a 91-day, EC$25 million Treasury bill and a 365-day, EC$27 million Treasury ...
Hold your horses, Owen!
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January 28, 2005
HOLD IT, MR PRIME MINISTER! Let us talk more about making Barbados a republic. Opposition Leader Clyde Mascoll questioned the haste with which Barbado...
‘Republic of Barbados’ by end of the year
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January 28, 2005
by NEVILLE CLARKE Barbados NATION reporter BRIDGETOWN – From March, Government will be putting steps in place to make Barbados a republic by year-en...
Tourism boom begins in Grenada
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January 28, 2005
Recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Ivan, the Grenada Tourism Board is spicing up what will be a fun-filled year of festivities for visitors....
Home for Girls to begin construction
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January 28, 2005
The sod has been turned to get work started soon on a school for girls in the Marriaqua Valley. The $300,000 project, to be called the Our Lady of Gua...
New Grounds on track
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January 28, 2005
The New Grounds Primary School is proud of the progress being made through their literacy programme and driven by their motto “Strive for Perfection...
Vincy cop killed in Turks and Caicos
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January 28, 2005
A Vincentian police officer based in the Turks and Caicos Islands was shot dead last Thursday, January 20, in that country. Reports say that Constable...
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January 28, 2005
FORM OF APOLOGY On Friday, 14th, 2005, The Vincentian published a poem written by one Gary Stewart captioned, “This Is Your Comrade Speaking” whic...
PM sues the poet
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January 28, 2005
A local law firm representing Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is instituting legal action for criminal libel against a former postal worker. The la...
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January 28, 2005
The East Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) has performed well during the past year experiencing growth of 4.1 per cent. Sir Dwight Venner, Governor of t...
‘ECCU open for membership’
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January 28, 2005
"We are open for membership!" With those words Governor of the East Caribbean Central Bank Sir K. Dwight Venner issued a call Tuesday for Caribbean st...
EU lobbies for Caribbean bananas
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January 28, 2005
Fighting for the future of European markets, banana farmers in Latin America and the Caribbean may have some hope for survival. That is the assurance ...
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January 21, 2005
by Omar Anderson, Gleaner Writer IT WAS a rather pensive if not sombre mood inside Gordon House Tuesday where Edward Seaga made his final bow as Oppos...
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January 21, 2005
Two students who participated in the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) Foundation 2004 Children’s Essay Contest have collected a cheque of...
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January 21, 2005
When Taiwanese the world over celebrate their Lunar New Year Eve on February 8, here at home the Embassy of the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan will...
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January 21, 2005
FirstCaribbean International Bank has announced it is making “a quantum step towards cutting edge in technology in the accounts management with the ...
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January 21, 2005
OECS Heads of Government are due to meet with World Bank President James Wolfensohn today in Grenada. The round-table is a follow-up to an initial mee...
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January 21, 2005
The illness of Speaker of the House Hendrick Alexander has caused the first sitting of the House of Assembly for the New Year to be postponed. Prime M...
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January 21, 2005
A national of St. Vincent and the Grenadines who arrived in St. Kitts on Tuesday at the Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport now faces charges for...
NCN Radio forced to go mobile
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January 21, 2005
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA: National Communications Network (NCN) Radio was Tuesday forced to abandon Broadcasting House on High Street, Georgetown and broadc...
Flood disaster in Guyana
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January 21, 2005
GEORGETOWN: Guyana Tuesday declared its flood-hit capital Georgetown and surrounding areas disaster zones after the heaviest rains in more than a cent...
School break cut short
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January 21, 2005
Students who complete common entrance exams will no longer have a long break before going on to secondary school. Instead, they now have to attend fou...
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January 21, 2005
Ivan O’Neal took a swipe at the Unity Labour Party (ULP) administration and the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP), saying he saw no major differ...
‘Green’ members  in the shadows
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January 21, 2005
One week after social activist Ivan O’Neal announced the launch of his SVG Green Party, he is back promising the establishment of the University of ...
Banana meeting starts tomorrow
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January 21, 2005
A major workshop opens here tomorrow at Buccama on the Bay. The Windward Islands Farmers’ Association (WINFA) is hosting the two-day workshop, which...
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January 21, 2005
St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago – A tsunami is an ocean wave or series of waves caused by a large-scale disturbance of the ocean floor or surface...
Scientists rule out tsunami hitting region
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January 21, 2005
Co-ordinator of the National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO) Howie Prince has ruled out the possibility of a tsunami like the one that killed...
Lotto winner pays taxes
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January 21, 2005
A 52-year-old domestic of Cane End is the first lotto winner to be made to pay the 10 per cent tax imposed by government on winnings of $500 and above...
Matthews wins Port raffle
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January 21, 2005
The SVG Port Authority Sports & Cultural Club has announced the names of the lucky winners in their Grand Raffle. {{more}} The winner of the first pri...
Crew forced to ditch chopper in Guyana
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January 21, 2005
GEORGETOWN: The two-man crew of a locally assembled helicopter was forced to ditch it on the Liliendaal beach early Monday afternoon after its motor c...
‘Take back the streets!’
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January 21, 2005
CASTRIES, St. Lucia: As the issue of crime continues to be uppermost in the minds of the people of St. Lucia, the country's Prime Minister, Dr. Kenny ...
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January 21, 2005
The fertilization of the proposed sub-regional union between Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, viewed by some critics a...