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Bollers heads Digicel
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September 10, 2004
A young Vincentian has taken over the helm at Digicel as CEO. Digicel, which prides itself as the leading mobile telecommunications operator in the Ca...
Murray’s Village feels Ivan’s fury
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September 10, 2004
Hurricane Ivan, packing winds of 135 miles per hour, smashed a number of homes in the Murray's Village area Tuesday, leaving several families displace...
Sisters query brother’s death
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September 10, 2004
A Brighton family is mourning the sudden loss of one of their own who died in circumstances that have yet to be explained to them.{{more}} Sisters Ann...
Ivan removes man’s roof
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September 10, 2004
Hurricane Ivan has been described as the most powerful storm to hit the Caribbean in 14 years. And Minister of Tourism and Culture and Parliamentary R...
Elderly couple needs home
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September 10, 2004
An elderly couple of Kingstown is now in dire need of a dwelling house following the passage of Hurricane Ivan. The couple, Elwin Howe and Jermaine Sa...
Contractor rebuilds after Ivan’s fury
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September 10, 2004
Prominent building contractor, Leon Barnwell of New Montrose, has estimated that it will cost him $60,000 to rebuild his roof which was seriously dama...
Horne proposes relocation of houses
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September 10, 2004
Former Government Minister, John Horne has expressed the view that the dwelling houses constructed on the bay at Rose Place would have to be relocated...
Hurricane Ivan on course to Jamaica
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September 10, 2004
BARRING an 11th hour shift in its direction, Hurricane Ivan, having already wreaked havoc in the southern Caribbean, was on course to hit Jamaica with...
Mitchell: Ivan devastated Grenada
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September 10, 2004
Grenada's leader says at least nine people have died after Hurricane Ivan hit the eastern Caribbean island, triggering ferocious winds and rains. {{mo...
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September 3, 2004
When 25th Independence anniversary celebrations are observed here October 27, the festivity will have something of a regional outlook. The celebration...
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September 3, 2004
Last week Tuesday she bought in Quick Pick in the National Lotteries authority game. There was no winner that night, and Nola Debique a mother of six ...
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September 3, 2004
Last April, before the opening of the third school term, members of the National Omnibus Association held a meeting on the Sunday before school reopen...
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September 3, 2004
by Nelson A. King in New York Buoyed by its extraordinary success last year, and despite incessant showers, the lone Vincentian-New York mas band “M...
Bancroft Exeter found dead under bridge
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September 3, 2004
The body of a man in his late fifties, identified as Bancroft Exeter of Kingstown, was found under a bridge in Old Montrose (Block 2000) last Monday a...
Another young life gone to waste
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September 3, 2004
The number of murders here went one up last Tuesday evening at Lowmans Hill in the West Kingstown constituency. The unfortunate addition to the list f...
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...