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Customers talk themselves to Digicel $500
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October 9, 2009
09.OCT.09 Talking for a long period of time on their Digicel phones has earned three of the company’s customers EC$500 cash.{{more}} On Wednesday, a...
25 receive Back to School packages
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October 9, 2009
09.OCT.09 Last Wednesday, 25 of Digicel’s customers were rewarded with back to school packages that among other things afford them the opportunity t...
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October 9, 2009
Five of this country’s leading businessmen are expected to be honoured this weekend, as the Chamber of Industry and Commerce hosts its first ever Bu...
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October 9, 2009
For the 5th consecutive year, the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Medical Association will host the College & Career Exhibition, and will do so this ye...
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October 9, 2009
JEMS Progressive Community Organization officially launched its HIV and AIDS Awareness and Prevention School Poster Competition this week with an orie...
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October 9, 2009
09.OCT.09 LIME is poised to introduce a simpler, “greener” bill, as it continues to deliver on its publicly-declared Go Green initiative.{{more}} ...
More scapers arrive to boost  airport project
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October 9, 2009
Work on the second kilometre of the Argyle International Airport is expected to move a bit faster, with the addition of two new pieces of machinery.{{...
Car goes over cliff with mother and daughter
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October 9, 2009
Hassan Matthews-Wickham and her daughter are lucky to be alive today.{{more}} Hassan, a teacher of the Park Hill Government School, and her 12-year-ol...
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October 9, 2009
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has invited the People’s Movement for Change to join his government’s Yes Vote Campaign, while issuing a resoun...
Baptiste: Currency will remain the same
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October 9, 2009
The Eastern Caribbean Dollar used by St.Vincent and the Grenadines will remain the state’s official currency even if the proposed 2009 Constitution ...
Special Warrant approved for Yes campaign
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October 9, 2009
Under the present Constitution, the Director of Audit does not have to respond to a letter that Opposition Leader sent him on Monday seeking answers o...
Sir Vincent says NDP not honest with populace
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October 9, 2009
Former Political Leader of the Unity Labour Party (ULP) Sir Vincent Beache has accused the top brass of the New Democratic Party (NDP) of trying to ma...
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October 9, 2009
Students of the Division of Technical and Vocational Education of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Community College will soon be assessed by an int...
Two make history for Technical College
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October 9, 2009
Two recent graduates of the Division of Technical and Vocational Studies of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Community College are thrilled beyond m...
SVG Diplomat  to deliver  major lecture
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October 2, 2009
A Vincentian diplomat in Canada will deliver a major lecture in that country this month on the impact of West Indians on Canadian life.{{more}} Organi...
Digicel rewards winners
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October 2, 2009
02.OCT.09 LOYAL DIGICEL CUSTOMERS have been getting their pockets stuffed with free cash, thanks to the telecoms service provider.{{more}} Just last F...
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October 2, 2009
Furniture and Appliance giant Courts (St.Vincent) Ltd last Friday, September 25th, 2009, launched their first in the series of three Christmas Promoti...
Hams now better prepared for crises
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October 2, 2009
One of St. Vincent’s leading commercial banks and a national regulating agency have teamed up to ensure that a larger number of Vincentians are equi...
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October 2, 2009
Minister of Urban Development and Culture René Baptiste has warned students not to deface government property.{{more}} Baptiste, speaking at the offi...
SVG launches new tourism website
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October 2, 2009
The Ministry of Tourism’s “bright and vibrant” new website got the full approval of guests who witnessed its launch earlier this week.{{more}} T...
Searchlight begins special series
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October 2, 2009
Beginning this week, and continuing for the next 25 weeks, Searchlight will publish a series of photographs which are part of the R.M. Anderson collec...
Steele, LIME reach deal to extend CE contract
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October 2, 2009
Angus Steele is to stay on as LIME’s Chief Executive. LIME’s Corporate Communications Manager Fitz-Gerald Huggins on Wednesday confirmed that Stee...
RBTT Young Leaders 2009-2010 kicks off
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October 2, 2009
If the students of the St. Vincent Grammar School have their way, they will be celebrating their third straight win of the RBTT’s Young Leaders Prog...
Guyanese students on CSME mission in SVG
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October 2, 2009
Twenty five tertiary level students from Guyana are currently in St. Vincent gathering information on the country’s readiness for the CARICOM Single...
Argyle Cemetery moved to Peruvian Vale site
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October 2, 2009
Human remains at the Argyle Cemetery have been relocated to a new grave site at Peruvian Vale.{{more}} This exercise was done to facilitate the constr...
Graham is country chair of MDRT
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October 2, 2009
Harvey Wendell Graham, an agency manager with Clico International Life Insurance Limited, of Kingstown, has been named Million Dollar Round Table’s ...
Taiwan mission hosts Trade Fair
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October 2, 2009
ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES’ food import bill now stands at a whopping $200 million. And Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, who made the disclos...