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Christmas tree lights up city
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December 10, 2004
Dance champs La Gracia Dance Company were not deterred by the wet stage and delighted the audience with their energetic moves at the lighting up of th...
WATER WOES
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December 3, 2004
Like the song made popular by Barbadian entertainer "Timmy", Vincentians had to "Grab a Bucket of Water" as torrential rains disrupted water supplies ...
Teenaged Bajan boy nabbed
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December 3, 2004
Vincentian police were expected to hand over a teenaged boy to Barbadian authorities yesterday. Sixteen-year-old Derry Bailey of Yearwood Road, St. Ja...
TAXI MAN SLAIN
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December 3, 2004
Confusion, uncertainty and speculation surround the death of 43-year-old slain taxi driver Peter "Kazaman" Joseph. {{more}} Joseph's bullet-riddled bo...
FLOOD WATERS
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November 26, 2004
Torrential rains continued to wreak havoc in St. Vincent as landslides reached a high point Wednesday blocking roads, disrupting public transport and ...
Vincy youth dies in Toronto car crash
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November 26, 2004
A Vincentian youth died in a car crash last Sunday night in Scarborough, Toronto. Adrian King, a 25-year-old youngster originally from Biabou, who had...
JUSTICE SYSTEM IN BREACH OF BEIJING RULES
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November 26, 2004
The local justice system is in breach of at least two articles of the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the administration of juvenile justice...
BYERA HOUSES DAMAGED
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November 19, 2004
A premonition in one instance and quick feet in another, saved lives last Wednesday morning when a hillside crashed down on four houses in Byera. Two ...
POLICE RAID
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November 19, 2004
Members of the local constabulary swooped down on a number of houses in the Paul's Avenue area last Thursday 11, as part of a police initiative aimed ...
IN  THE BAG
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November 12, 2004
The George McIntosh Community Market was officially opened in Paul’s Avenue Wednesday evening - a pictureque $1.2 million building erected on a site...
DOCTORS AT LARGE
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November 12, 2004
Thirty young professionals who graduated from universities in the region this year are at present still without jobs. Of this number, six are medical ...
Yasser Arafat  is dead
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November 12, 2004
PARIS, France (CNN) – Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, 75, the leader who passionately sought a homeland for his people but was seen b...
NDP MARCHES ON CITY
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November 5, 2004
Wednesday evening was like a mini-carnival as thousands of jubilant New Democratic Party (NDP) supporters flooded the streets of capital, Kingstown in...
OPERATION CRACKDOWN
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November 5, 2004
They have been using vehicles borrowed from governmental departments and statutory bodies in the thrust aimed at crime reduction. Sadly though, the to...
HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY
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October 29, 2004
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has said that there is more work which remains to be done especially to reduce poverty further, to create more qual...
Man shot in head at Walvaroo
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October 22, 2004
Caspar Caine, also known as Dan, a 35-year-old carpenter from Walvaroo was hospitalised last Wednesday evening. Caine became the victim of a burst of ...
Vincy Valedictorian at Cave Hill
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October 22, 2004
Vincentian national netballer Halimah DeShong is one of two Valedictorians of the 2004 graduating class of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hil...
UNSUNG HEROES
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October 22, 2004
The name Lucy is Latin for light and Lucy Miguel -Tanty Lucy – has always been and still is a guiding light to many persons, mostly children, who co...
FIREBUG STRIKES
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October 15, 2004
Arsonists struck with deadly accuracy last Saturday morning. Hepsie Prescott, an 80-year-old woman of South Rivers, died after the two-bedroom board a...
KIRBY CREATES HISTORY
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October 15, 2004
Shermalon Kirby has created history by becoming the first Vincentian to ever present the valedictory address at the University of the West Indies (UWI...
UWI lockdown in Jamaica
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October 8, 2004
by Hawkins Nanton, UWI, Mona, Jamaica Even while being tear-gassed by police, hundreds of students at the Mona Campus, University of the West Indies, ...
CRACK FORCE
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October 8, 2004
The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force called in the media Wednesday to demonstrate they are maintaining their vigilance with a number of ope...
Severely Burnt
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October 1, 2004
Up to Wednesday, Bernie Lampkin and Margarita Patterson, two Rose Hall residents, were still recovering at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital after suf...
Paul’s Avenue Craft Market unveiled
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October 1, 2004
By October 27, in time for the 25th Anniversary of Independence, Paul's Avenue will be greatly enhanced. A new $1.2 million building will be opened to...
FIRST STRIKE
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October 1, 2004
by Ashford Peters Ormiston Ken Boyea and Hudson Williams the former CEO and Financial Controller respectively of the East Caribbean Flour Mills are sm...
TRINIS ON MURDER CHARGE
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September 24, 2004
by William 'Kojah' Anthony and Ashford Peters POLICE here are announcing a breakthrough in the case of a dreadlocked Vincentian found dead on Carenage...
FIU BAGS ONE
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September 24, 2004
By Dexter Rose As CEO of the company Alternative Market Exchange Robert Browne had become a regular on the cocktail circuit here in St. Vincent and th...
FIRST DAY BLUES
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September 10, 2004
The excitement of their first day out to school, the first day entering a new secondary or primary school was dampened Monday by the threat of the imp...
•SVG hit by most powerful hurricane in years
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September 10, 2004
An assessment of damage wrought by the passage of Hurricane Ivan is still to be finalized. However, when the figure is tabulated it would run into the...
Two die in North Leeward accident
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September 3, 2004
Two North Leeward villages were overcome with grief this week and have been left to bury two of their own. Dead are Theophilus Duncan, a 30-year-old l...
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 13
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September 3, 2004
Prime Minister Dr.Ralph Gonsalves set a record yesterday when he awarded 13 scholarships to students. This is the most ever given in St.Vincent and th...
NCB FOR SALE?
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September 3, 2004
A merger of the National Commercial Bank (NCB), the Development Bank and a regional finance entity is in the making. Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalve...