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College student is budding Fashion Designer
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July 11, 2008
Jeremy Payne comes off as an easy-going, soft-spoken 17-year-old, but underneath his nonchalant demeanor, lies a fiery young fashion designer who has ...
Students to host lecture series
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July 11, 2008
Three young Vincentain university students are doing their part to stimulate positive, progressive discussions in their homeland. Luke Browne, Kimsha ...
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July 4, 2008
One person can make a difference, and a Vincentian nurse based in Canada is doing her part to impact the lives of over 200 Vincentian school children....
Karib Cable endorses Daneya Charles
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July 4, 2008
13-year-old Daneya Charles has been given a well-deserved boost in her quest to secure her place in history. At a press conference last Friday, it was...
Japanese volunteers arrive
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July 4, 2008
04.JULY.08 Four Japanese Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) volunteers arrived in St.Vincent and the Grenadines on the 24th June, 2008. These volu...
Coast Guard, Customs now better equipped
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July 4, 2008
The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Coast Guard and the Customs and Excise Department are now better equipped to secure this country’s borders and to...
Roy Ralph laid to rest
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July 4, 2008
Last Thursday, June 26, the Kingstown Methodist Church was bursting at its seams with family members, well wishers, featured speakers and other dignit...
Stapleton: Marijuana was a necessary evil
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July 4, 2008
“Marijuana was a necessary evil, but it has outlived its usefulness in the economic development of North Leeward”. This is the view of Bertram Sta...
Digicel hosts corporate breakfast meeting
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July 4, 2008
04.JULY.08 Whatever you plan to do in business, your business must have a strategy for using the Internet. That’s according to Digicel’s Public Re...
Vinlec donates drums to Ministry of Health
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July 4, 2008
04.JULY.08 VINLEC donated 30 drums to the Ministry of Health and the Environment to be used as garbage receptacles. They will be placed at strategic l...
Record 218 graduate from GHS
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July 4, 2008
As the tears and pride flowed, teachers, parents and the graduating class of 2008 of the St. Vincent Girls’ High School shared the honour of being a...
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July 4, 2008
Smiling faces and occasional chants kept the atmosphere at the St. George’s Cathedral buzzing for more than three hours last Wednesday as the 2008 g...
Joemilia Jackson is Valedictorian
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July 4, 2008
Describing her as "An amazing woman ... who has been a pillar of strength and support," Technical College Student of the Year Joemilia Jackson, while ...
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July 4, 2008
The report on the 2005 General Elections has still not been presented to the Opposition, and Senator St Clair Leacock believes that something is amiss...
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July 4, 2008
If the bell for General Elections here in St Vincent and the Grenadines rings, the New Democratic Party (NDP) is ready and raring to go. General Secre...
CED conducts Management workshop
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July 4, 2008
Supervisors are now better able to carry out their varying roles. This is after a two-day workshop held at the Knowledge Institute in Kingstown. The w...
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July 4, 2008
04.JULY.08 Members of the Youth Advocacy Movement (YAM) are expected to benefit from a joint partnership between the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Pl...
Grammar School celebrations to move up a gear
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July 4, 2008
With less than three months to go before the official celebration of the 100th anniversary of the St.Vincent Grammar School, this country’s premier ...
Tough love for Fitzhughes siblings
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July 4, 2008
To raise successful children is no easy feat, but to raise successful children in a community riddled with drugs, alcohol abuse and idleness is highly...
Against the Odds
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July 4, 2008
‘Sometimes I only attended school one to two days a week’ Looking up to heaven and shaking her head satisfactorily, Camille Haynes walked up the a...
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 The Ministry of Tourism announced on Wednesday that Storm Halbich of the Windsor Primary School has been named St. Vincent & the Grenadines...
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 The children of St. Vincent & The Grenadines as well as the wider Caribbean are taking the spotlight this week and the coming week. Central...
US$12,000 for Fancy Youth Path
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 Come July, the Fancy chapter of the Youth Poverty Alleviation through Tourism and Heritage (Youth Path) will be better able to carry out th...
Odini Heads to Guyana for Shabeau Style
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June 27, 2008
On June 27, an eight-member team comprising Face of Shabeau winner Image Modelling Agency’s Odini Sutherland, a film crew and members of the Carib V...
Insurance companies recognized
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June 27, 2008
Close to 20 of this country’s insurance companies received their certificates of registration as members of the rejuvenated Insurance Association of...
Mas to honour fallen soldiers
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June 27, 2008
Come 2009, competitors in the King and Individual of the Band categories will be competing for titles named after local mas legends. At Wednesday’s ...
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June 27, 2008
The Minister responsible for Labour is also concerned that the new wages order could lead to unemployment as some businesses lean towards cost cutting...
New executive at VINSA Cave Hill
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 In April 2008, Vincentians at the Cave Hill Campus of the UWI elected eight young persons to the Executive of the St Vincent and the Grenad...
Kishawn wins Bible quiz
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 A third form student of the St. Vincent Grammar School has emerged as the winner of the Scriptural Search Secondary School Bible Quiz (SSBQ...
Hospital gets new Paediatric Critical Unit
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June 27, 2008
The commissioning of an 8-bed Paediatric Critical Care Unit at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital last Friday, June 20, signaled another crucial step i...
Sponsors hand over cheques to CDC
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June 27, 2008
As the countdown to the Hottest Carnival in the Caribbean continues, some of the contributors to the country’s largest cultural festival came throug...
16 more Vincentians graduate in Cuba
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 Sixteen Cuban-trained Vincentian professionals are looking forward to putting their newly acquired skills at the disposal of their country ...
Equipment rolls to Argyle
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June 27, 2008
Reiterating that he is by no means perfect, Prime Minister Dr.Ralph Gonsalves, in an emphatic mood, reminded Vincentians that he was chosen by God to ...
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 Vincentians and visitors alike are being urged by the National Commission on Crime Prevention (NCCP) to take due care during the Carnival s...
Taiwan hosts Trade Fair in SVG
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June 27, 2008
St.Vincent and the Grenadines’ lack of a well established private sector is a hindrance to the country’s economic pursuits. Acting Prime Minister ...