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Service at ‘Penny Bank’ is second to none – Savings manager
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Service at ‘Penny Bank’ is second to none – Savings manager
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March 13, 2020
NESTLED IN THE heart of Kingstown, the St Vincent Co-operative Bank (SVCB) Limited, fondly known as “Forde Bank” and widely known as the “Penny Bank” ...
We make it easy for you to start saving
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We make it easy for you to start saving
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March 13, 2020
THE EASE OF opening an account at the St Vincent Co-operative Bank (SVCB) Limited is one of the reasons the bank remains one of the most trusted finan...
Helping Hand Centre receives television set from SVCB
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Helping Hand Centre receives television set from SVCB
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March 13, 2020
STUDENTS AT THE Helping Hands Centre at New Montrose now have a television set thanks to the social committee of the St Vincent Co-operative Bank Limi...
The Bank’s Visionary Founder – Ormond Cyril “OC” Forde
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The Bank’s Visionary Founder – Ormond Cyril “OC” Forde
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March 13, 2020
MR ORMOND CYRIL “OC” FORDE established two major financial institutions (the St Vincent Building and Loan Association and the St Vincent Cooperative B...
Tropical Shipping supports Good Friday Open Water Race – Bequia
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Tropical Shipping supports Good Friday Open Water Race – Bequia
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March 13, 2020
Tropical Shipping has donated $3000 to the St Vincent and the Grenadines Swimming Federation for the Bequia Good Friday Open Water Swim Race on April ...
Thomas Saunders student is winner of Monthly Bible Quiz Challenge
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Thomas Saunders student is winner of Monthly Bible Quiz Challenge
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March 13, 2020
A STUDENT of the Thomas Saunders Secondary School was rewarded on Monday, March 9 for becoming that school’s seventh monthly winner of the Secondary S...
Opposition Leader to consult with health ministry on COVID-19
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Opposition Leader to consult with health ministry on COVID-19
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March 13, 2020
THE OPPOSITION New Democratic Party (NDP) has initiated a social awareness campaign to help share reliable information about how to reduce the risk of...
CWSA prohibits use of hoses due to drought condition
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CWSA prohibits use of hoses due to drought condition
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March 13, 2020
THE USE OF hoses to wet lawns and plants is now prohibited, given the drought conditions presently affecting St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). The ...
PROJECTMEN2020 congratulates Vincentian women at home and abroad
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PROJECTMEN2020 congratulates Vincentian women at home and abroad
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March 10, 2020
PROJECTMEN2020 has congratulated the achievements of Vincentian women at home and abroad on behalf of the men of the nation. The group has also veheme...
Fulbright Specialist Math Educator Joins SVGCC Team
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Fulbright Specialist Math Educator Joins SVGCC Team
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March 10, 2020
THE ST Vincent & the Grenadines Community College (SVGCC) now has among its faculty, renowned mathematics- teaching educator Professor Robert “Bob” Cu...
Fitlight Corp donates medical kits to assist persons with Autism and ADHD
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Fitlight Corp donates medical kits to assist persons with Autism and ADHD
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March 10, 2020
THE MINISTRY OF Foreign Affairs, through the SVG Consulate in Toronto, Canada handed over three technological medical kits termed “FITLIGHT Jr.” value...
Guyana Election Turmoil
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Guyana Election Turmoil
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March 10, 2020
by Sir James Mitchell Former Prime Minister St Vincent and the Grenadines Founder New Democratic Party. I HAVE been keenly following events around the...
NDP calls for an end to violence against women in SVG
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NDP calls for an end to violence against women in SVG
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March 10, 2020
CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AND acts of violence should have no place in St Vincent and the Grenadines. This is the position of the opposition New Democratic Pa...
42 Ranger Guides invested and 39 renewed
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42 Ranger Guides invested and 39 renewed
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March 10, 2020
EIGHTY-ONE Ranger Guides from the No. 23 Unit of the Girl Guides Association of St Vincent and the Grenadines were invested or renewed at a ceremony o...
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Association of Social Workers revived, new executive elected
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March 10, 2020
THE NEWLY elected executive of the Social Workers’ Association of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SWASVG) will be presented to the public on March 17 a...
SVGCC Takes Regional Debate Top Spot
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SVGCC Takes Regional Debate Top Spot
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March 10, 2020
THE ST Vincent and the Grenadines Community College (SVGCC) emerged as champions of the 2020 Windward Islands Debating Competition (WIDC) held this pa...
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CarSIF provides small grants for coastal and marine resource management in the Caribbean
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March 10, 2020
NINE CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) from Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines an...
Lewis Punnett Home residents get warm welcome from Rapid Relief Team
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Lewis Punnett Home residents get warm welcome from Rapid Relief Team
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March 10, 2020
THE RAPID RELIEF Team (RRT) St Vincent showed their support to the Lewis Punnett Home on Saturday, February 29, by welcoming them to their new locatio...
CARPHA has only lab accredited to test for Covid-19 in the Caribbean
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CARPHA has only lab accredited to test for Covid-19 in the Caribbean
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March 7, 2020
The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has the only CARICOM regional reference laboratory accredited to test for the novel coronavirus disease (C...
Risk of transmission of Covid-19 in the Caribbean raised to ‘Very High’
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Risk of transmission of Covid-19 in the Caribbean raised to ‘Very High’
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March 7, 2020
The risk of disease transmission for coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Caribbean has been raised from ‘Moderate to High’ to ‘Very High’ by the Caribbean P...
Gov’t of SVG concerned about Guyana situation, calls on election authorities to follow the law
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Gov’t of SVG concerned about Guyana situation, calls on election authorities to follow the law
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March 7, 2020
The Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines has joined with the election observer missions from CARICOM, the hemisphere and internationally in exp...
UWI Open Campus Site in SVG to be reopened
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UWI Open Campus Site in SVG to be reopened
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March 6, 2020
THE REFURBISHED St Vincent and the Grenadines Open Campus Country Site will be reopened next Thursday March 19, at 6:00 pm at the Site’s Murray’s Road...
Massy Stores donates towards environmental conservation
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Massy Stores donates towards environmental conservation
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March 6, 2020
THREE ORGANIZATIONS concerned with environmental conservation here, have each received EC$10,000 from Massy Stores. The donations are part proceeds fr...
Batch 20 Nurses celebrate their 30th Anniversary
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Batch 20 Nurses celebrate their 30th Anniversary
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March 6, 2020
THIRTY YEARS AGO on March 5, 1990, 24 females and one male journeyed to Largo Height to commence the registered Nursing program. It was quite a challe...
‘Ellie’ Bowman passes suddenly in Texas
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‘Ellie’ Bowman passes suddenly in Texas
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March 6, 2020
VINCENTIAN, Eldridge “Ellie” Bowman died suddenly in Dallas, Texas on February 20, aged 75. A Memorial Service was held on February 28 at Mary Immacul...
Police Band Master dies
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Police Band Master dies
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March 6, 2020
A 34-YEAR VETERAN of the Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) died suddenly on Tuesday, after a brief illness. Assistant Superint...
Black Sands swim squad cleans up children’s home
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Black Sands swim squad cleans up children’s home
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March 6, 2020
BLACK SANDS Swim Squad raced against the clock, out of the pool, when the team cleaned up and painted the Salvation Army Children’s’ Home in Pembroke ...
SVGCC debaters to compete in Dominica
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SVGCC debaters to compete in Dominica
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March 6, 2020
FOUR STUDENTS representing the St Vincent and the Grenadines Community College (SVGCC) left the State yesterday March 5 to compete in this year’s Wind...
Anglican Church Women condemn violence against women in SVG
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Anglican Church Women condemn violence against women in SVG
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March 6, 2020
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH Women Association (ACWA) joins the voices lifted in condemning violence against women in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). Whil...
Windsor passes suddenly at home
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Windsor passes suddenly at home
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March 6, 2020
THE SPORTING AND cultural fraternity in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is mourning the loss of Gailene Windsor, who passed away suddenly at her h...
Dominican Republic confirms first case of coronavirus
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Dominican Republic confirms first case of coronavirus
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March 3, 2020
(REUTERS) – Health authorities in the Dominican Republic said Saturday that they had confirmed the first case of coronavirus in the country, a tourist...
VINLEC Generation Department Staff trained in Vibration Analysis
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VINLEC Generation Department Staff trained in Vibration Analysis
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March 3, 2020
Seven persons assigned to the Generation Department at St Vincent Electricity Services Limited (VINLEC) completed three days of training in Vibration ...
Sion Hill Government School now part of Youlou Arts  Afterschool Art Club
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Sion Hill Government School now part of Youlou Arts Afterschool Art Club
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March 3, 2020
Fifteen students of the Sion Hall Government School are now part of the Youlou Arts After school Art Club which aims to get the children to use their ...
SVG adds travellers from Italy to Covid-19 Quarantine List
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SVG adds travellers from Italy to Covid-19 Quarantine List
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February 28, 2020
Travellers to St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) from Italy have been added to the list of areas from which travellers will be quarantined for Covid-...
Former Cabinet Secretary to be laid to rest March 3
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Former Cabinet Secretary to be laid to rest March 3
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February 28, 2020
Tribute has been paid to Brendon Browne, a former Cabinet Secretary, who passed away on February 17, 2020. The former civil servant was the first pers...
Police breakthrough  in Calliaqua burglaries
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Police breakthrough in Calliaqua burglaries
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February 28, 2020
Police officers in the Calliaqua district believe they have made a breakthrough in relation to a number of burglaries that have been taking place in t...
OSV Group Inc joins list of companies to donate to A&E
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OSV Group Inc joins list of companies to donate to A&E
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February 28, 2020
A public private partnership aimed at refurbishing the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department of the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH) is reaping ...
Vincentian awarded Captain’s Prize in Navy
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Vincentian awarded Captain’s Prize in Navy
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February 28, 2020
A Vincentian has been awarded the Captain’s Prize for being the best recruit in the Royal Navy. Etme Maloney received the highly coveted award on Febr...
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Park Hill Evangelical Church to host week of deeper life services
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February 28, 2020
The Park Hill Evangelical Church (PHEC), a member of the Evangelical Churches of the West Indies (ECWI), will host a week of Deeper Life services in P...
Ministry of Education impressed with first writing  fair hosted by IHS
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Ministry of Education impressed with first writing fair hosted by IHS
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February 28, 2020
The first annual writing fair of the Intermediate High School (IHS), which was held earlier this month, has been deemed a success. The fair was organi...
Canadian paralysed  after  being  shot in  Barbados home  invasion
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Canadian paralysed after being shot in Barbados home invasion
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February 28, 2020
A Canadian visitor who was shot during a house invasion in Barbados last Saturday is said to be paralysed from the shoulder down. Ken Elliott, 65, a r...
36 males ready for the job market
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36 males ready for the job market
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February 28, 2020
Thirty-six males are now better positioned to access the job market after successfully completing a ‘male education and empowerment program’ organized...
VINLEC employees undergo training in First Aid and CPR
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VINLEC employees undergo training in First Aid and CPR
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February 28, 2020
Twenty-seven employees of St Vincent Electricity Services Limited (VINLEC) are now First Aid / Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certified (Basic) ...
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Rose Place  businessman with 38 convictions cries ‘spite’
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Rose Place businessman with 38 convictions cries ‘spite’
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June 24, 2025
A Rose Place man who was convicted for the 39th time, after he was caught with 964 grammes of cannabis in his shop said he was being spitefully treate...
Former St Joseph’s Convent, Kingstown student cries for help
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Former St Joseph’s Convent, Kingstown student cries for help
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June 24, 2025
Life is becoming very hard for an ailing woman who takes care of her elderly mother, but who has now lost her ability to do so. “I can’t even do anyth...
SVG welcomes new British High Commissioner
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SVG welcomes new British High Commissioner
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June 24, 2025
The Government of the United Kingdom (UK), has announced the appointment of Simon Mustard as the new British High Commissioner to St. Vincent and the ...
Advisory Council launches ‘Ignite – the Official Talent Search’
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Advisory Council launches ‘Ignite – the Official Talent Search’
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June 24, 2025
The Prime Ministerial Advisory Council on Youth has launched “Ignite – The Official Talent Search”, a national competition aimed at discovering and ce...
Road rage almost lands ‘Bagga’ van driver in jail
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Road rage almost lands ‘Bagga’ van driver in jail
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June 24, 2025
A Barrouallie omni-bus driver, who opened another driver’s door, raised a knife at him, then punched his shoulder after their vehicles’ wheels touched...

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