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Cable & Wireless launches MAX
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December 3, 2004
Cable & Wireless on Tuesday launched a bundled Internet solution known as "MAX". The latest package offers World Wide Web (www) services to Internet u...
De Anjay, a local quality product
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December 3, 2004
Daniel Cummings has been regarded as one of the nation’s most efficient chief executive officers until he parted company with the Central Water and ...
Hoyte knocks travel hassles
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December 3, 2004
The hassle of regional travel and its implications for the future of Caricom surfaced again last Friday. Renowned Caribbean media personality and pres...
Hoyte: Adopt ECPC Code of Practice
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December 3, 2004
Chairman of the Eastern Caribbean Press Council (ECPC) Management Committee, and president of the Nation Publishing Company in Barbados, Harold Hoyte,...
Singh blasts radio talk shows
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December 3, 2004
Renowned regional columnist and member of the Eastern Caribbean Press Council (ECPC) Management Committee, Ricky Singh, has lashed out at talk show pr...
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November 26, 2004
Persons found with illegal weapons will have to pay more dearly for their transgressions. If caught with any such weapon, one should prepare to face s...
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November 26, 2004
Transport Works and Housing Minister Julian Francis has been losing patience with the contracting firm Dipcon Engineering and their lack of progress o...
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November 26, 2004
The members of the Salvation Army are once again appealing to the general public and the business community to assist in helping them reach a $65,000 ...
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November 26, 2004
The Raffles Resort Canouan Island in the Grenadines officially opened its doors last week Thursday, November 18, with a series of events that included...
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November 26, 2004
Visitors and locals who want to keep updated about monthly happenings here now have a calendar that aids them in doing so. Last Tuesday at the Cruise ...
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November 26, 2004
Tourism Minister Rene Baptiste has said that SVG was able to receive a significant amount of media coverage by international media houses from this co...
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November 26, 2004
There is an air of electioneering taking over if one were to take cue from the number of openings that are occurring weekly. But Prime Minister Dr. Ra...
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November 26, 2004
Dr. Jerrol Thompson, Minister of Telecommunications, Science, Technology, and Industry, is confident about the future of the North Leeward constituenc...
Teacher’s Credit Union gives out scholarship
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November 26, 2004
Two former Girls’ High School students, who currently attend the St. Vincent Community College, are the recipients of this year’s Teachers’ Cred...
Policeman given military burial
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November 26, 2004
Elson Richardson, the police constable found in the area of Belle Vue Sunday November 14, was laid to rest last Saturday. It was a solemn occasion, in...
Robinson wins shopping spree
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November 26, 2004
Vitamalt Shopping Spree winner Nicholas Robinson grabbed EC$841.48 in assorted groceries from the shelves of Randy’s Supermarket last week Friday. S...
Earthquake hits Dominica
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November 26, 2004
Dominicans were sent into a state of panic last Sunday, November 21 when an earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale occurred about 10km north of...
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November 26, 2004
Four Years Residence in the West Indies, F.W.N. Bayley, 1830 "...there is no careenage at St.Vincent; therefore, instead of rowing greatly alongside a...
Vincentian Judge for Caribbean Court
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November 26, 2004
Vincentian Justice Adrian Saunders is one of six legal luminaries selected by the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission for appointment as j...
Prince: Residents of Byera refused to move
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November 26, 2004
Residents of Byera Flat, the area damaged November 17 by mudslides, had been urged by government authorities since 1979 to relocate. They did not, and...
Vincy passport racket foiled
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November 26, 2004
Police have arrested a Guyanese national, Leon Griffith, 21, for passport fraud. And at least one more person is expected to be arrested soon as inves...
Rice replaces Powell
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November 19, 2004
US President George W. Bush has announced that national security adviser Condoleezza Rice is his choice as the new secretary of state. Rice, 50, a clo...
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November 19, 2004
BBC - A Palestinian delegation is to travel to France to seek details on the precise cause of Yasser Arafat's death, officials in Ramallah said. Prime...
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November 19, 2004
The opposition People's Action Movement (PAM) in St. Kitts and Nevis has filed petitions challenging the results in three constituencies in last month...
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November 19, 2004
A ten per cent tax on the exchange of US dollars has come into force in Cuba. The measure was originally planned for last Monday, but was deferred for...
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November 19, 2004
President of the St.Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers Union, Otto Sam, has described the week of activities held by the organization as very success...
Mounsey given training award
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November 19, 2004
Dennis O. Mounsey, a former employee of the Central Water and Sewerage Authority, who attained the position of chief supervisor (now called superinten...
Robinson on shopping spree
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November 19, 2004
Today, Friday November 19, at 10 p.m., Nicholas Robinson of Campden Park will run through Randy’s Supermarket seeing what he can pick up in 60 secon...
Six schools in KCCU final
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November 19, 2004
Some 12 of this country’s top primary school students will pit their skills in different spheres when the Kingstown Co-operative Credit Union Quiz F...
Youth Saving
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November 19, 2004
Efforts to strengthen the credit union sector at the school level here are deepening. One way of ensuring this measure is to encourage children to sav...
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November 19, 2004
US Mobile telecoms giant, Cingular Wireless has turned its attention to the Caribbean. After announcing its merger with AT&T Wireless in mid-October o...
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November 19, 2004
Self-regulation is the theme of a workshop for print journalists that will take place next Friday, November 26, at the old public library building, Ca...
Media having negative impact on youths
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November 19, 2004
Crown Counselor in the Attorney General's office, Candace Wyllie, is of the opinion that television and other forms of media are having a negative imp...
Government appoints  communications consultant
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November 19, 2004
The Government has appointed a communications consultant. Elson Crick, a former news and current affairs director with the St. Vincent and the Gren-ad...
Police on hunt  for ‘Thick Skin’
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November 19, 2004
Up to press time, a man being sought in relation to a number of matters including robbery and more recently shooting at the police has yet to be appre...
NDP boycotts Parliament again
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November 19, 2004
Members of the Opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) boycotted Parliament and joined placard-bearing supporters outside the House of Assembly Tuesday,...
Alliance stages photo exhibition
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November 19, 2004
Alliance Francaise is presenting what they term "a sensitive photographic journey" in a photography exhibition centred around traditional fishing enti...
Vincentians given healthy tips
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November 19, 2004
Watch what you eat, and how you take care of your body. There are some basic things that prolong and affect your live. And one way to ensure healthy l...
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November 19, 2004
The National Omnibus Association (NOBA) has given the Unity Labour Party administration an ultimatum to fix the Windward highway or face strike action...
YWCA gets home
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November 19, 2004
After a wait that seemed too long for its members, the Young Women’s Christian Association’s (YWCA) new headquarters has been completed and opened...
PM: Williams was a great humble man
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November 19, 2004
Former acting Governor-General Henry Harvey Williams, OBE, was laid to rest at the Kingstown Cemetery last Wednesday afternoon after a solemn service ...
Two men shot on Fountain/Villa road
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November 19, 2004
Two victims of a shooting by masked gunmen say they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Vernon "Pouper" Goodluck and Chreston Cuffy were shot e...