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COP: Mobile Unit was not effective
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June 27, 2008
Just about one year after it was placed in Paul’s Avenue, following a series of shootings in the area, the Police Mobile Unit that was placed in the...
‘Birdman’ is Courts Comedy champion
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June 27, 2008
Being a stand up comedian is arguably one of the most difficult jobs in the world. However, the six comedians battling for supremacy in the Courts Org...
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 Digicel Red Dawn, that’s the name of this year’s RJR Promotion for J’Ouvert. According to Jerry Howard, one of the managers of RJR Pr...
Young cricketers bank on Scotia and Digicel
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 From June 21-22 at the Grammar School Playing Field, Digicel and Scotia Bank teamed up on to give youngsters a fun games day called the “...
Digicel welcomes cricketers
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 In a show of hospitality, members of Digicel St.Vincent were on hand last Saturday and Sunday to welcome the West Indies and Australia Cric...
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 DHL Express launched a new campaign recently to drive growth for DHL Import Express Worldwide, a door-to-door import service solution aimed...
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 Today, Friday, June 27th is International HIV Testing Day. St. Vincent and the Grenadines will join with the rest of the world by putting o...
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 There are just three more days before nominations for this year’s FirstCaribbean Unsung Heroes Programme close. First introduced in 2003,...
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 The fund established by the High Commission for St Vincent and the Grenadines, London, which raises funds for Vincentian School Children in...
Twelve-year-old boy drowns at Rose Bank
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June 27, 2008
Identical twins share a special bond, so it’s beyond imagination how 12-year-old Kenroy “Biggie” Grant feels about his twin brother’s death. K...
C&W assists Moesha with medical funds
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 This country’s only Full Service Telecommunication Provider, Cable & Wireless, on Friday, 13th, donated the sum of $1,000 to Marilyn Thom...
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 The National Society of Persons with disAbilities (NSPD) is celebrating its Twenty-first Anniversary in the month of June 2008 with a progr...
Young shooter chopped to death
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June 27, 2008
Armed with a .38 revolver and a blue pocket-size New Testament, Stafford Mc Dowall stormed a house in Trigger Ridge, Redemption Sharpes, with murder o...
Wallace excels at Maritime Institute
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June 27, 2008
27.JUNE.08 Another Vincentian has excelled at his academics. Junior Carlisle Wallace, a resident of Bequia, recently graduated as the top student in t...
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June 27, 2008
A knife-wielding rapist is on the prowl in the areas between Arnos Vale, Fountain, Fair Hall and Villa, and police believe that it may be the same man...
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June 27, 2008
Security for leaders in the Caribbean must be stepped up as the sophistication of the drug cartels and networks pose a real threat to regional governm...
ON ICE
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June 27, 2008
More ‘Que Pasa’ assets frozen in SVG, Trinidad and Tobago and St. Lucia More assets belonging to Antonio “Que Pasa” Gellizeau have been frozen...
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June 20, 2008
20.JUNE.08 Adonal Foyle’s Kerosene Lamp Foundation (KLF) is proud to announce the launch of its first art/essay competition in Adonal’s home count...
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June 20, 2008
20.JUNE.08 by Herbert Young Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and UN Ambassador In early April of 1992, I had the good fortune of meeting the Cuban A...
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June 20, 2008
20.JUNE.08 “A veritable treasure trove of knowledge and experience has been lost to the Carnival fraternity, especially to the masquerade component....
Tribute: Roy Ralph
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June 20, 2008
20.JUNE.08 The Carnival Development Corporation (CDC) and its main components, the Beauty Shows Committee (BSC), St. Vincent and the Grenadines Calyps...
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June 20, 2008
An early morning heist left a leading Chateaubelair business short of its cash register and about $200 in coins. Last Saturday, June 14, when the mana...
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June 20, 2008
A new promotion by furniture and appliance retailer Courts St. Vincent Limited will feature Face Of Shabeau winner Odini Sutherland. Sutherland, who w...
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June 20, 2008
The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) will continue to lead the way in the integration process as the wider CARICOM continues to be hams...
Unsung Heroes take to the road
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June 20, 2008
20.JUNE.08 First Caribbean Bank Staff members took to the streets and into local communities last weekend to promote the 2008 Unsung Heroes Programme....
Paul’s Avenue resident batting with Digicel
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June 20, 2008
20.JUNE.08 Thanks to Digicel, Paul’s Avenue resident and cricket lover Indera Charles now has in her possession a cricket bat signed by the 2008 Wes...
Two win Wet Fete tickets
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June 20, 2008
20.JUNE.08 Two persons had the opportunity to attend The “Wet Fete” with a friend, free of charge - thanks to Digicel. Collin Charles, of Barroual...
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June 20, 2008
Government has announced a $2 million per year subsidy to electricity consumers and farmers, as escalating oil prices drive up the cost of electricity...
NLA has much to celebrate
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June 20, 2008
It was only fitting that the month of June should be a remarkable one; giving rise to not one but two Vincentian Super 6 winners, as the National Lott...
Eustace, PM seeing eye to eye
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June 20, 2008
Officials from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) visited St Vincent and the Grenadines last Monday, June 16, to conduct consultation...
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June 20, 2008
The Inland Revenue Department is dissatisfied with the voluntary compliance by lawyers and other professionals as regards the paying of taxes. About 4...
Courts gets players ready for carnival
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June 20, 2008
After a successful promotion last year with local Soca diva Zoelah, furniture and appliance dealer Courts St. Vincent Limited has decided to once agai...
Taiwanese donate 20 wheelchairs
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June 20, 2008
Newly appointed Taiwanese Ambassador Leo Lee has donated 20 wheelchairs to the Ministry of National Mobilisation and Social Development. The Ambassado...
Community College gets new facility
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June 20, 2008
Students at the St Vincent and the Grenadines Community College are the beneficiaries of an enhanced learning environment compliments the Basil Charle...
Niasha Mofford prepped for success
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June 20, 2008
Niasha Mofford is a livewire, and if she applies that confidence and spunk to everything that she does, success must be a certainty for her. The 11-ye...
Sonja set on becoming a surgeon
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June 20, 2008
Inspired by her cousin Dr Genevieve John, who is practicing Medicine in the United States, Sonja Hull has her mind set on being a doctor, a surgeon at...