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Coastguard summer programme a success
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September 3, 2004
Saturday August 21 saw 119 youngsters graduate from the annual Coast Guard Youth Summer Programme held at the Base at Calliaqua. {{more}} The programm...
First International helping students
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September 3, 2004
Having performed creditably at Common Entrance, ten students have been rewarded by First Caribbean International Bank and at the same time has eased s...
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September 3, 2004
The St. Joseph’s Convent Kingstown (SJCK) recorded an overall pass rate of about 78% at this year’s Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) Examinatio...
Teachers get credit union help
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September 3, 2004
This is the time that organisations hand out scholarships and bursaries and St. Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers’ Credit Union has made sure that...
Prison officers for training programme
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September 3, 2004
Sixteen Grade 2 prison officers have been selected for a training programme which is scheduled to commence at 8.30 a.m. on Monday, 6 September. The tr...
Oxfam consultant visits St.Vincent
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September 3, 2004
By Ashford Peters Banana farmers in this country may soon get further assistance in meeting EurepGap standards. Oxfam’s Water Resource Management co...
Kevin given two and a half stars
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September 3, 2004
Taken from the August 23rd issue of People Magazine With his Caribbean lilt and ready R&B pop hooks, St. Vincent’s native Kevin Lyttle may be todayâ...
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September 3, 2004
The Community College will operate on a shift system beginning September 2004. This was disclosed by the Minister of Education the Hon. Mike Browne wh...
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September 3, 2004
Persons anxious to move into their own quarters can send in applications to the Housing and Land Development Corporation now that it has been made pub...
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September 3, 2004
Motorists here will be in for a smoother ride as the calendar year winds up, since some $7 million has been allocated for road repairs. {{more}}Transp...
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September 3, 2004
The Central Planning Division and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Commerce and Trade will embark on a series of public awareness programmes on OECS D...
C&W Summer session ends
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September 3, 2004
Hundreds of persons gathered at the Methodist Church Hall in Kingstown last Friday, August 27, where they collected certificates marking their partici...
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September 3, 2004
You spend long hours at the computer tirelessly waiting for that connection to finally load, or your internet bills come faster than the actuall servi...
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September 3, 2004
Persons attempting to visit prisoners at Her Majesty's Prison in Kingstown and Fort Charlotte now have to show some form of Identification.{{more}} Ac...
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September 3, 2004
A new home for teenage girls who have been abused and abandoned by their families will be constructed here soon. On Friday, August 27, Japanese Ambass...
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September 3, 2004
In an effort to enhance the fisheries resources in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the Fisheries Division in the Ministry of Agriculture Lands and Fis...
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September 3, 2004
(September 2, 2004) "The new motor car recently imported by the Hon'ble C.J. Simmons has been successful tried. The car has ascended Sion Hill with co...
Another doctor’s in the house!
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September 2, 2004
Another Vincentian has graduated from the St. George's University School of Medicine. Frances E.I. Jack was awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine d...
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August 27, 2004
The local Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has hosted a workshop for representatives from regional Financial Intelligence Units, local law enforcemen...
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August 27, 2004
by Donald De Riggs, Director, RRL At about the beginning of the hurricane season I wrote to the local press requesting help to enable the Rainbow Radi...
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August 27, 2004
Digicel has announced that it will appoint a new chief executive officer to replace Seamus Lynch who will join the company’s board of directors. The...
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August 27, 2004
The government of Japan is expected to make a donation of some US$90,900 as a Grass-roots Human Security Grant to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, a...
Palletisation Plant to be built
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August 27, 2004
As changes continue within the banana industry, efforts continue to give the once vital export crop a sense of value. If things go according to plans,...
RSS working to improve operation
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August 27, 2004
Plans are in place to restructure the Regional Security System (RSS) here in the OECS. A press conference on Tuesday was used to highlight areas in wh...
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August 27, 2004
Taken from the South Africa Mail & Guardian Online. Matthew Burbidge and agencies | Cape Town 25 August 2004 09:03 Newly accused coup plotter Mark Tha...
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August 27, 2004
by Dr. Richard A. B. Cox Before I get into the subject of this piece, I wish to congratulate Parnell Campbell Q.C. on his elevation to chairman of the...
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August 27, 2004
"Following Their Footprints: Tracing Our History" was the theme of a camp for children in Diamond Village this past week from August 16 to 20, put on ...
Santa checks in early at Overland
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August 27, 2004
by Jude Knight Christmas came four months early for four unfortunate children and the DeSouza family of Overland. The four – Natasha, 12, Natesha, 1...
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August 27, 2004
The final part of a series of training sessions for persons involved in the construction sector comes to an end today Friday, August 27, at the confer...
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August 27, 2004
Opposition Senator St. Clair Leacock has issued a call for this country to be more cautious when enacting pieces of legislation from international law...
Building Sector being looked at
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August 27, 2004
Junior Minister in the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing Glen Beache last Wednesday said that the construction sector contributes 12 per cent t...
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August 27, 2004
(August 27, 2004) – Dr. Adrian Fraser Extract from Letter of June 9, 1806 by Alexander Anderson, Superintendent of the Botanic Garden. "...The Bread...
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August 27, 2004
by R. Andrew Cummings When does a person become an adult in law? For generations now, an 18-year-old person has been treated as an adult by the law. A...
Violence mars special weekend
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August 27, 2004
The shooting death of Livingston Primus at Sion Hill capped a weekend of violent activity. Two youths of Rockies received wounds about their bodies in...
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August 27, 2004
While Kamal Wood feat in topping this year's Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) Examinations with 11 ones is considered extraordinary, a number of ot...
Digicel brings prepaid roaming to the OECS
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August 20, 2004
Digicel, the Irish telecommunications company, has moved another step further in proving they are the real “bigger better GSM network” service pro...
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August 20, 2004
In different ways and to differing degrees by R. Andrew Cummings It takes all sorts of skills and people, locked into one another, to make our communi...
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August 20, 2004
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has been described by the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Maarten M. Van der Gaag, as very charismatic...
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August 20, 2004
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS (AUGUST 13TH, 2004) Three Caribbean nations have signed a joint communique with the Republic of China on Taiwan reiterating thei...
SVG Cadets return from Regional Camp
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August 20, 2004
Members of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Cadet Force contingent returned home after participating in the Caribbean Cadet Camp hosted by the Barba...