News
July 4, 2023
A van conductor was stabbed yesterday around 6.40 p.m. in Richmond Hill and later died at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH). Dead is Glen resid...
Front Page
July 4, 2023
Fourteen students matriculated as undergraduates in the recently implemented Associate of Applied Science (AAS) in Sports Science, successfully comple...
Breaking News
July 1, 2023
A Cuban doctor had to undergo emergency surgery following a knife attack which occurred in Kingstown on Saturday, July 1. SEARCHLIGHT understands that...
Front Page
July 4, 2023
Venezuelan’s enthusiasm for beauty pageants is unparalleled, and Miss Venezuela — the crown jewel of them all — may be the only event able to unite th...
Breaking News
July 1, 2023
Reigning calypso monarch Maxwell 'Tajoe' Francis will definitely be defending the calypso monarchy he won in 2022. Tajoe made his first appearance for...
Breaking News
July 1, 2023
The eleven calypsonians to compete against the reigning monarch in the 2023 Calypso Finals on Sunday, July 9 in the Dimanche Gras show have been annou...
Press Release
June 30, 2023
The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment wishes to encourage persons to take all the necessary precautions during this carnival season to ...
Front Page
June 30, 2023
The activities for Vincy Mas 2023 will be in full swing starting today June 30 when Fantastic Friday, the finals of the Calypso competition, gets unde...
Front Page
June 30, 2023
The late announcement for the staging of Vincy Mas 2022 meant that no mas bands were judged in last year’s Mardi Gras. This year, however, competition...
Front Page
June 30, 2023
Chauncey resident, Yanick Charles, who has been paralysed for more than half of his life has graduated from the St Vincent and the Grenadines Communit...
Front Page
June 30, 2023
This country’s largest credit union is without a chief executive officer (CEO) after Rohan J Stowe, who took up the post in October 2020, left office ...
Regional / World
June 27, 2023
Pride Barbados marked the celebrations for International Pride Month over the weekend with the staging of its third pride parade in the capital city, ...
News
June 27, 2023
The Carnival Development Corporation (CDC) has announced the finalists of the Ragga and Power soca competition following the judging of the preliminar...
Front Page
June 27, 2023
TROPICAL STORM Bret made landfall on the evening of Thursday, June 22 and has left in its trail damaged houses, dislocated residents and power outages...
Front Page
June 27, 2023
CONSUMERS in St Vincent and the Grenadines may be faced with a scarcity of plantains and bananas on the local market and the likelihood of higher pric...
Front Page
June 27, 2023
BROKEN RIBS and legs, a bleeding and swollen head as well as damaged abdomen. These are some of the injuries sustained by the island’s latest road fat...
News
June 27, 2023
ISHATTA “SHATTA” DA SILVA has three Soca Monarch crowns under his belt so far for 2023, and he has his eyes set on winning the national Soca Monarch c...
News
June 27, 2023
SUPERINTENDENT OF Police Trevor Bailey, has warned the general public not to circulate child pornography as it contributes towards the goal of the sex...
From the Courts, News
June 23, 2023
A man who told the police that he found a firearm while he was searching for ‘gold’ and kept it as a souvenir was sentenced to three years on gun and ...
News
June 23, 2023
Graduate of the Barrouallie Government School (BGS) Rayshawn Richards who left grade five as a struggling reader rose above those limitations to emerg...
From the Courts, News
June 23, 2023
A 34 year old man of Lowmans Hill was bonded and ordered to compensate his ex girlfriend $2000 after he beat the woman with a cutlass and badly cut fo...
News
June 24, 2023
Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves is expected to return to St Vincent and the Grenadines on June 25 after a week of meetings on two continents that fo...
News
June 23, 2023
On Monday night, June 19, around 10.45, two gun toting men, one masked, one wearing a bucket hat, emerged from a white Suzuki Swift, registration numb...
Front Page
June 23, 2023
The hundreds of West Africans who have been stranded in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) since 2017 are beneficial to the country. And, Prime Minis...
Press Release
June 23, 2023
At 11:00 a.m. today, June 23, 2023, the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Meteorological Services discontinued the Tropical Storm Warning for St. Vincen...
Front Page
June 23, 2023
It started with one announcement, and now a total of five soca artistes have announced their boycott of the 2023 Soca Monarch competition. On Tuesday,...
From the Courts, News
June 23, 2023
A taxi operator with over 19 years of driving experience was sentenced to nearly two years in prison for causing the death of an elderly woman by dang...
Features
June 21, 2023
by Cleve Scott The musical band TOUCH was founded in 1984 by Bryan “Paper” Alexander. In 2001, the band agreed to commence the process of collecting ...
Front Page
June 20, 2023
“THERE IS NO REGRET in my life.” This is the bold statement coming from Bishop Hollis Charles, as he celebrates close to 60 years as a minister of the...
Front Page
June 20, 2023
THE New Democratic Party (NDP) has extended condolences on the passing of former educator Elvis Daniel and spoke positively of his contribution to nat...
Front Page
June 20, 2023
ISHATTA “SHATTA” DASILVA is making waves and setting trends with his 2023 Soca hit “Long fuh see town”. Last Saturday, June 17, the up and coming Soca...
Front Page
June 20, 2023
This year has proven to be a good one for the Sion Hill Government School in more ways than one as it not only marks their 60th anniversary but it has...
News
June 19, 2023
Police in St Vincent and the Grenadines are investigating the circumstances surrounding the discovery early Monday morning of a partially decomposed b...
News
June 19, 2023
The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Meteorological Services is monitoring the newly formed tropical depression which has formed over the Central Atlant...
News
June 16, 2023
by Christina Smith From the time Libby Kolin was young, there was a question swelling inside her; a deep longing to find the missing puzzle pieces of ...
Front Page
June 16, 2023
by Jada Chambers United States-based Vincentian Neonatologist Josel Doyle, was expected to die shortly after birth having been born prematurely. She h...
From the Courts, News
June 16, 2023
A 33 year old ‘trusted’ family friend was sentenced to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty on two counts of attempted unlawful sexual intercour...
Front Page
June 16, 2023
Tongues were set wagging last week as an Internet poster claimed that a man who was wanted in Canada and had a CND$100,000 bounty on his head was beli...
Front Page
June 16, 2023
Six years after a police officer and his younger brother were killed and their bodies dumped at Sion Hill Bay, two men from Rillan Hill were found gui...
Breaking News, Press Release...
June 15, 2023
Issues for the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) continue as this week test papers in Jamaica were reportedly stolen. A statement from CXC states t...
Press Release
June 14, 2023
The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Conservation Fund (SVGCF), on Thursday, June 8, 2023, signed a Grant Agreement with the National Parks Rivers and B...
From the Courts, News
June 13, 2023
A 19 year old teenager who threw a Hairoun bottle at his younger brother resulting in a cut to his head was remanded into custody until today, June 13...
Front Page
June 13, 2023
The Park Hill Government School on Sunday, June 11, 2023, defeated the South Rivers Methodist School by 21 runs in a highly competitive encounter at t...
News
February 19, 2026
The remnants of the fishing vessel ‘Zouti’ Creole for tools, is found by a group of Saint Lucian fishermen in the Caribbean Sea, hours after it and it...
News
February 17, 2026
OPPOSITION LEADER Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, said Prime Minister Dr. Godwin Friday has used ChatGPT to help write his 2026 Budget speech. ChatGPT is describ...
News
February 17, 2026
OPPOSITION SENATOR Carlos James, has issued a stark warning regarding the new government’s fiscal roadmap, characterising the 2026 Budget as a dizzyin...
From the Courts, News
February 17, 2026
A 56-YEAR-OLD labourer of Redemption Sharpes who is charged with the offense of wounding, was granted bail when he appeared in court on Friday, Februa...
News
February 17, 2026
THE GOVERNMENT HAS promised to implement screening and support this year for breast cancer, cervical cancer, as well as prostate and colon cancers. Th...
