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PSU case continues today
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November 26, 2013
The case between ousted president of the Public Service Union (PSU) Cools Vanloo and an interim committee set up to run the Union, until a new executi...
LIME Soca Dans giving back this Christmas
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November 22, 2013
The LIME Soca Dans are not going to be left out of sharing the Christmas cheer this year.{{more}} At the launch of the LIME Christmas campaign, manage...
SVG exports over 16,000 pounds of fish to NY
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November 22, 2013
After a drought of two decades, a container of 16,000 lbs of fish, sourced from the Grenadine islands of Bequia, Canouan and Union, left this country,...
High hopes for this week’s export of fish
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November 22, 2013
If all goes well with this week’s export of fish from St Vincent and the Grenadines, the fishing industry will have great potential to thrive.{{more...
Youlou Pan Movement (YPM) Fun Day
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November 22, 2013
The most “fun” event on the Youlou Pan Movement’s (YPM) calendar took place last weekend.{{more}} Members of the steel pan fraternity stepped ou...
Can Fest – Building a better Vincy Land
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November 22, 2013
Ever since it was introduced seven years ago, Can Fest has been one of the most highly anticipated charity events to be hosted during the month of Dec...
35-foot long canoe arrives in Bequia
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November 22, 2013
A replica of an ancient dug-out canoe, purchased by the Bequia Heritage Foundation (BHF), arrived at Admiralty Bay, Bequia, last week, onboard a Frenc...
Phillips admitted to Bar
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November 22, 2013
His first intention was to follow in the footsteps of Nobel Prize winners Sir Arthur Lewis and V.S. Naipaul, but his journey thus far, has brought him...
Man dies after falling out of tree at Mespo
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November 22, 2013
Eighty-three-year-old Eldica Gaymes says that she does not intend to hide her deceased son’s faults.{{more}} She spoke to SEARCHLIGHT on Wednesday, ...
Youth loses life on way to visit mother
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November 22, 2013
Asbourn Simon, the young man who lost his life in an accident on the Belmont public road last Sunday, was on his way to visit his mother when he died....
Who will compensate me?
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November 22, 2013
Orange Hill resident Georgiana “Blackie” Edwards is asking who will compensate her for the losses she incurred in a house fire that was set by two...
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November 19, 2013
Once standards for the tourism product are set in St Vincent and the Grenadines, the country will be ahead of its competition in the Caribbean.{{more}...
SVG wins two awards for tourism packages
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November 19, 2013
St Vincent and the Grenadines recently won two awards for exceptional tourism packages.{{more}} Yesterday, during a press conference, chief executive ...
SVGTA pushing country as diving destination
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November 19, 2013
Branding St Vincent and the Grenadines as a diverse diving destination is one of the things that are at the top of the SVG Tourism Authority’s (SVGT...
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November 19, 2013
A shooting incident which occurred on Sunday evening in Greiggs has resulted in 23-year-old Michael Thomas sustaining a gunshot wound to the back of h...
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November 19, 2013
Asbourn Simon, a 22-year-old electrician of Fairbaine Pasture, became this country’s seventh road fatality when the bicycle he was riding collided w...