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May 19, 2006
National Properties Food City. This will be the new name of the Marketing Corporation Supermarket when restructuring measures by the National Properti...
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May 12, 2006
Last Saturday at about 3:30 p.m. people in the South Windward area witnessed this waterspout at Shipping Bay in the Biabou area. A waterspout is an in...
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May 12, 2006
Vincentian journalist, Hans King, is tipped to become Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves new press secretary. Reliable sources told SEARCHLIGHT that K...
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May 12, 2006
Trade Union matters: Marketing Corporation workers on the picket line last Wednesday.
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May 12, 2006
Angry workers and their trade union, the Commercial Technical and Allied Workers' Union (CTAWU), gathered outside the St. Vincent Marketing Corporatio...
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May 5, 2006
Malaysian Prime Minister Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has succeeded in bringing about some level of unity among opposing political parties here. Le...
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May 5, 2006
Francis Williams, 23, of Sion Hill has been charged with the murder of the Prime Minister's press secretary and personal aide, Glenn Ian Jackson. The ...
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April 28, 2006
Monday, May 1 is Labour Day but the most pressing concern for Alice Mandeville, president of the Commercial Technical Allied Workers Union (CTAWU) is ...
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April 28, 2006
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has dispelled claims by Government's critics that its coffers are empty. On Monday, April 24, the Prime Minister, s...
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April 28, 2006
The European Commission has allocated 13.59 million Euros (BDS$32.61M; EC$44.30M) under the 2006 Special Framework of Assistance (SFA) for the four Wi...
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April 28, 2006
As if the cement shortage were not enough, the scarcity of workers is causing another challenge to the local construction industry. Carpenters, masons...
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April 28, 2006
28.APR.06 Photo left: The investigating team including Scotland Yard officers leaving the Sion Hill house after three hours. Photo right: A member of ...
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April 28, 2006
At press time Wednesday, a 22-year-old man of Sion Hill was assisting the police with their investigations into the death of Glenn Jackson, former Pre...
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April 21, 2006
Last Saturday, April 15, 32-year-old fisherman, Vikki Alexander and Rudolph Alexander both of Union Island and Celini Vivian and Kasier John of Guadel...
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April 21, 2006
A bad signal by a baggage handler performing the role of an aircraft traffic marshal at the E.T Joshua Airport on Wednesday morning may have resulted ...
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April 21, 2006
It has often been repeated that 'crime doesn't pay.' No matter how imperceptible the offence may be, those wishing to acquire riches by illegal means ...
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April 13, 2006
The tranquility of the Palm island Resort was interrupted last week Wednesday, April 5, by the death of a visitor, who was at the time bathing in the ...
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April 13, 2006
CONDOMISE! Get sexy with condoms! This is the advice being sounded by the National AIDS Secretariat. At a luncheon held at Roy's Inn on Thursday, Apri...
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April 13, 2006
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is ruling out the idea that the proposed Argyle International Airport be given his name. Dr. Gonsalves dispelled su...
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April 13, 2006
United Kingdom returnee: âThe package you put forward is not far enough!â There was no fete at P'Tani Resort on Monday evening, yet the heat emana...
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April 7, 2006
The increasing rate of divorce in St. Vincent and the Grenadines is threatening the nuclear family structure. Statistics show that between 1990 and 19...
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April 7, 2006
The price of Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) in St.Vincent and the Grenadines has been increased. The announcement was made by Deputy Prime Minister, Si...
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April 7, 2006
It is restructuring time again at Cable & Wireless. And as a result, former employees: Anthony Regisford â Vice President Retail Services; Leslie Fe...
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April 7, 2006
More than 50 percent of the Grade 2 students at the CW Prescod Primary School were found to be unable to read at their class level in a recently condu...
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March 31, 2006
Geccu: Right on the block If you need proof of GECCUâs involvement in community activity, you donât have to go far from Kingstown. In the South Le...
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March 31, 2006
PM wants quick settlement with farmers With time running out and $100 million at stake, Prime Minister Dr.Ralph Gonsalves has made it clear he does no...
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March 31, 2006
It is written! The Right Reverend Calvert Leopold Fridayâs name is indelibly etched in the history books of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as the f...
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March 24, 2006
The opposition New Democratic Party has termed the admission by former National Security Minister Sir Vincent Beache that âsome telephones were in f...
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March 24, 2006
If peopleâs telephone calls are being monitored in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, it is happening without the approval or complicity of the governm...
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March 24, 2006
Even if the International Cricket Councilâs (ICC) Cricket World Cup was not to be held in the Caribbean from March 2007, the Arnos Vale Playing Fiel...
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March 24, 2006
Taxpayers in St.Vincent and the Grenadines owe the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) $70 million in tax arrears. Kelvin Pompey, Comptroller of the IRD, ...
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March 17, 2006
In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his Press Secretary, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has vowed to become more outspoken. âI am more incl...
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March 17, 2006
Susan Jackson, widow of slain journalist Glenn Jackson, is confident that the person or persons who killed her husband will be caught. But she has alr...
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March 10, 2006
Former Minister of Government, Sir Vincent Beache has hinted that laws may soon be introduced to make telephone tapping legal here. Sir Vincent, who i...
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March 10, 2006
When word spread on Monday March 6 that Press Secretary to the Prime Minister, Glen Jackson was dead, many believed it was just a sick rumour. {{more}...
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March 6, 2006
Press Secretary to the Prime Minister, Glenn I. Jackson is dead. The body of the veteran journalist, activist and radio personality was found in his v...
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March 3, 2006
With 27 Aâs and 6 Bâs in the 11 subjects that she sat for the 2005 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Exam, former Girlsâ High Sch...
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March 3, 2006
The ownership of one dog may have to be decided by a DNA test or through the Court. That's the extent to which two dog lovers will go to get custody o...
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February 24, 2006
Small to medium size enterprises in St. Vincent and the Grenadines stand to benefit from over EC$20M worth of assistance over the next few years. This...
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February 24, 2006
With the introduction of the Value Added Tax (VAT) system by January next year, the use of stamps on receipts may soon be a thing of the past. This is...
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February 24, 2006
Controversy seems to surround him. He has come in for accolades and condemnations, as his career rolls on. Pamenos Ballantyne, the acclaimed Vincentia...
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February 24, 2006
âThere really seems to be no solution right now to ease the pain!â This is Lonnie Robinsonâs plight as he endures endless sleepless nights. He c...
From the Courts, News
December 12, 2025
A ROCKIESWOMAN, who apologised to the police for stealing a dozen eggs and less than a pound of onions from Coreas Supermarket, was given a suspended ...
News
December 12, 2025
OPPOSITION LEADER Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says the Argyle International Airport (AIA), under his Unity Labour Party (ULP) administration, has never had to...
News
December 12, 2025
THE DIOCESE of the Windward Islands this week announced the passing of the Rev’d Canon John Rohim who died in Trinidad on December 1, 2025. The Anglic...
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December 12, 2025
DIPLOMATIC PRESSURE on Nicolás Maduro has grown after the US interdicted a “dark fleet” tanker off the coast of Venezuela in a move that has been inte...
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December 12, 2025
AFTER SEEING SINGLE MOTHERS From her community struggle to make ends meet and feed their children, Natilia Franklyn-Pilgrim from Dickson Village, Geor...
