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Group in for Indian dance workshop
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April 13, 2007
It has not yet been a year since they were established, and already, members of the Indian Heritage Foundation can boast of having achieved a great de...
Troumaca School wins Spelling B Competition
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April 13, 2007
After navigating through words like 'embezzle', 'sequins', 'apocalypse' and 'lingerie' and an almost perfect score, the Troumaca Government School too...
MVAA wins History competition
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April 13, 2007
The Mountain View Adventist Academy took first place in the Community College Heritage Club Local History Competition which was held last Wednesday at...
Insurance salesman finds life in British Army
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April 13, 2007
Six years ago an insurance salesman gave up his desk job in search of adventure and new worlds, he found it in the British Army. Today Sergeant Calber...
Students return from Camp in Venezuela
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April 13, 2007
Thirty-two fourth form students of the Girls' High School returned home on Saturday after a week-long camp in Venezuela, where they sharpened their Sp...
Female sailor battles in Bequia Regatta
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April 13, 2007
Being a sailor is a rough and tumble job, so when people observed petite 5ft 5-inch Florida born Jaqui De Meric as part of the crew of the yacht 'Clou...
Ship ahoy!
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April 13, 2007
The waters around the tiny Grenadine Island of Bequia were awash with boats of all sizes over the Easter weekend, as the Bequia Sailing Club’s 26th ...
Fire leaves Vermont woman homeless
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April 13, 2007
From the ashes of mourning a 29-year-old domestic has to pick up the pieces and try again - having watched all that she worked for burnt to the ground...
CTAWU head calls for boycott of Food City
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April 13, 2007
If the leadership of the Commercial Technical and Allied Workers Union (CTAWU) has their way, an all out boycott of Food City Supermarket and National...
Workers strike at Peters Hope
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April 13, 2007
Three weeks after the groundbreaking ceremony to start construction of a new secondary school at Peters Hope, workers at the site went on strike. Citi...
Frenchman dies after Soufriere hike
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April 13, 2007
Olivier D'Ovout a 55-year-old French national died as a result of a heart attack after hiking to La Soufriere on Sunday.{{more}} D'Ovout and his frien...
Wanted men now in custody
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April 13, 2007
The three Trinidadian fugitives who were believed to be hiding out in St Vincent are now in police custody, in Trinidad. A massive manhunt was mounted...
Victoria Village man shot
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April 13, 2007
Reynold “Spragga” Shallow is now a patient at the male surgical ward of the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH) after being shot. The shooting oc...
Walvarou man stabbed to death
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April 13, 2007
The mentally ill father of four who died two Wednesdays ago after receiving a stab wound to his chest, wasn't a violent man but rather very helpful an...
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April 13, 2007
Facing the possibility of a pull out by the Kingstown Medical College because of security concerns, the landlords of the medical students have come to...
Parris thankful, happy to be alive
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April 13, 2007
As the visitors, well wishers and messages from around the country and overseas poured into the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, Zaccheus Parris was usi...
EC$360 million drugs destroyed at Rabacca
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April 13, 2007
From sealed cans labeled orange juice, milk and pet food to suitcase handles and even a wedding dress, drug traffickers found ingenious ways to concea...
Rastafarians embrace first beauty queen
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April 5, 2007
05.APR.07 Jamaica – Rastafarians have enthusiastically embraced the crowning of the first Rastafarian Miss Jamaica Universe 2007, Zahra Redwood, in ...
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April 5, 2007
05.APR.07 JAMAICA – Camesha Blake, the 26-year-old Greater Portmore, Jamaica resident who was found in a police lock-up with a gun hidden in her pan...
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April 5, 2007
05.APR.07 NEW YORK – 27-year-old Trinidadian-born Catholic High School teacher was on Thursday slapped with charges of statutory rape of a student a...
Nelson block holds Carnival @ Large
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April 5, 2007
Come this Easter Monday, the Bishop’s College School grounds will be transformed into carnival heaven as Digicel Nelson Block would be holding their...
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April 5, 2007
A delegation from the Civil Defense Ministry in Cuba visited this country to evaluate the national system for disaster management and make recommendat...
Hannaway is new head at Cable & Wireless
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April 5, 2007
At the start of their new financial year, Cable & Wireless not only had change of business name, but also a new man at their helm. Effective April 1. ...
Community College boys in bloody clash
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April 5, 2007
Blood flowed at the Community College last Monday when an altercation landed two students at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital. Olton Ottley of Belair...
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April 5, 2007
United States President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet with the fifteen Heads of State/Government and Foreign Minist...
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April 5, 2007
Lone female Senator Rochelle Forde of the Unity Labour Party (ULP) Government has slammed the New Democratic Party (NDP) for what she described as fai...
Woman in man’s world at Town Board
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April 5, 2007
While most women employed with the Kingstown Town Board are office attendants, clerks or sweepers, Sandra Lampkin is a full-fledged mason. Formally of...
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April 5, 2007
The U.S. Commercial Service of the United States Embassy to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean in partnership with the Florida Foreign Trade Associati...
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April 5, 2007
The Coast Guard will be given a $21 million injection over the next four years and the Italian State Agency, SACE is expected to partner with the Gove...
Government Administrative Centre evacuated
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April 5, 2007
Last Thursday around 9 a.m. workers at the government Administrative Centre located on the reclamation site on Bay Street had to evacuate the building...