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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...
Children’s Hospital for SVG
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January 21, 2005
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves showed deep emotions Tuesday as he relived the sad moment when he had to watch his young child’s life expire. The...
Constituency boundary increase uncertain
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January 21, 2005
As St. Vincent and the Grenadines moves closer to general elections, constitutionally due by mid-2006, there’s still uncertainty as to whether there...
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January 14, 2005
Over the holiday season, children at the Sunny Vale Primary School (located behind the Victoria Park) got special treatment compliments Digicel. The t...
Sir Vincent to call it a day
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January 14, 2005
Sir Vincent Beache has been feted at a cocktail marking his 30 years of involvement in local politics.{{more}} The function, held at the official resi...
Activists honoured
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January 14, 2005
Seven local community activists were last Thursday 6th honoured for their contribution to the development of this country. The honouring ceremony saw ...
Ambassador Chu gets award
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January 14, 2005
Elizabeth Chu, the Republic of China on Taiwan ambassador to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, has received her country’s highest award as one of Taiw...
Bomb scare at China Town
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January 14, 2005
The Kingstown Magistrates Court, the Family Court and the Serious Offences Court had to evacuate offices Tuesday, January 11, because of a bomb scare....
VINLEC to go ahead with Lowman’s Plant
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January 14, 2005
VINLEC has move another step closer toward the construction of the Lowman's Bay Power Plant. Last Friday, January 7, during a media briefing at VINLEC...
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January 14, 2005
Cash strapped LIAT, still plagued by financial woes this week received some good news. This after the Prime Ministers of St. Vincent and the Grenadine...
Elderly woman perishes in fire
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January 14, 2005
Last Friday night Carmen Homer of Bahamia, Richland Park perished in a fire that destroyed her three-bedroom home.{{more}} Homer’s husband and two g...
Jobs not threatened says NCB chairman
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January 14, 2005
National Commercial Bank (NCB) employees’ jobs are not up for take and should not feel threatened by the bank’s assistance from Trinidad and Tobag...
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January 14, 2005
It is too early to talk about a take over of the country’s state-owned National Commercial Bank (NCB). This is the latest information coming from NC...
Dr. Gonsalves: Nation has thrived
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January 14, 2005
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is proclaiming progress made by his administration on several fronts. In a New Year’s address last Tuesday 4th, w...
Heritage Club stays alive
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January 7, 2005
Mandella Campbell, a first-year student at the St. Vincent Community College, is set to head the institution's Heritage Club as its eighth president. ...
Vincy woman earns PhD
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January 7, 2005
Another young Vincentian has been awarded a doctorate. Paula Prescod, the daughter of Ruth "Evelyn" Prescod and the late Paul Popwell of Villa, was aw...
Literacy drive in full gear
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January 7, 2005
Dr. Didacus Jules, the designer of the framework for the National Literacy Crusade, said that he is hoping persons work together as the programme is a...
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January 7, 2005
The GESCO Employee of the Year award has gone to Alice Jessamy. She was among 13 employees who received awards in categories ranging from Retirees for...
Family left roofless
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January 7, 2005
While most Vincentians spent the Christmas holidays with a roof above their heads a family at Junction, an area between Enhams and Diamond, was not so...
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January 7, 2005
The cost of calling from fixed line phones has been cut. This news comes at a time when Vincentian consumers are bracing themselves for price increase...
Wood grabs ‘Naughty or Nice’ Digicel prize
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January 7, 2005
Ann Wood is the winner of Digicel's EC$10,000 “Naughty or Nice” grand Christmas prize. Wood received her cheque on December 29, 2004, at Digicel's...
Man shot on minibus
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January 7, 2005
With a report of a shooting, the year 2005 has regretfully begun in much the same view as it ended here in St.Vincent and the Grenadines. Wednesday ni...
No more boat rides for Corke
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January 7, 2005
Brenda Corke, the Sion Hill woman who was reported missing onboard the distressed MV Study Us and then found, says the crew was never rescued as repor...
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January 7, 2005
Today, Friday 7th, a number of acts are expected to gather at Heritage Square on South River Road as pre-show activities leading up to Blues Fest 2005...
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January 7, 2005
Six persons from varying fields of endeavour have received New Year's honours from Her Majesty the Queen. These awards were announced December 28th in...
Tsunami touches local residents
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January 7, 2005
A SriLankan teacher at the St.Martin’s Secondary school told SEARCHLIGHT that some of her distant cousins were swept away by the tsunami, which kill...
Fly Guy, Hot 97.1 part
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January 7, 2005
Dwight “Bing” Joseph, popularly known, as “The Fly Guy” is no longer associated with Hot 97.1 FM. The radio host who ran the “The Fly Guy Ge...
Shirley Chisholm dies at age 80
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January 7, 2005
MIAMI, Florida (AP) – Shirley Chisholm, 80, an advocate for minority rights who became the first black woman elected to Congress and later the first...
Burgin: Literacy programme
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January 7, 2005
Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports Clayton Burgin thinks that persons can learn a lot from crayons. Burgin made the comm...
Barrouallie man killed by police
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January 7, 2005
Police are carrying out investigations into the shooting death of Nicholas “Perpel” Grant of Barrouallie who was being sought by the police. {{mor...
YEAR 2004 IN REVIEW
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January 7, 2005
NOVEMBER •Police began an intensified campaign against crime, following the upsurge in criminal activities.{{more}} Detachments from the Royal St. V...
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December 23, 2004
The controversial visit by Grenadian Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell to the People's Republic of China (PRC) to negotiate assistance for his hurrica...
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December 23, 2004
After being housed in unsuitable conditions at the Central Police Station for over three months, two Guyanese children were last Sunday sent back to t...