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Students urged not to forget their Heritage
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April 5, 2007
Students of the Lodge Village Government School are urged never to forget about their past, to embrace their heritage and to shape their destiny. This...
Three government officers return from Taiwan
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April 5, 2007
Three Officers of Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines returned from a trip to Taiwan last week. They are Clarence Harry of Ministry of Foreig...
Jack’s Bar opens in Bequia
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April 5, 2007
Billed as "the most innovative beach bar in the Grenadines", Jack's Bar opened last Friday March 30, with a gala canapés reception for over 100 guest...
Parents group receives financial donation
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April 5, 2007
A newly formed association of parent advocates has received a financial donation from a family reunion committee to assist with their work programme. ...
Hospital EKG machine missing?
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April 5, 2007
For several months a new "heart machine' valued at over $20,000 had been unaccounted for at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital and Hospital Administrat...
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April 5, 2007
There will be no snubbing of existing treaty obligations with the OECS and CARICOM by this Country while it explores a closer relationship with Venezu...
Ottley Hall debt is finally settled
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April 5, 2007
The Ottley Hall debt is no more - It would be, once Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves secures and pays US$6 million by June 30, according to the settl...
Multi-Purpose Centres – A second chance
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April 5, 2007
There are some things that miles of sea and a change of accent don't change. There are some expectations that are uniform in their expression worldwid...
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March 30, 2007
30.MAR.07 The US Internal Revenue Service has admitted St. Vincent and the Grenadines to its qualified intermediary program, and is now displaying a l...
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March 30, 2007
The St.Vincent and the Grenadines Association of Barbados holds meetings every the first Monday of each month at Clement Payne Center, Crumpton Street...
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March 30, 2007
30.MAR.07 The UK government has suspended bilateral relationships with Iran until a dispute over the seizure of British sailors from Iraqi waters is r...
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March 30, 2007
30.MAR.07 Pakistan's cricket captain and six other players have left Lahore airport without speaking to the media, after returning from a traumatic Wo...
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March 30, 2007
St. Vincent & the Grenadines joined other countries in the Eastern Caribbean last week when the MAGNA programme was launched here in collaboraton with...
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March 30, 2007
30.MAR.07 While thousands of Vincentians were at the Rabacca celebrating the opening of the Yurumein/Taiwan bridge, some others were tuned to their ra...
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March 30, 2007
Over 40 farmers from the North Leeward area gathered at the Golden Grove Learning Resource Centre on Tuesday March 20 to look at measures to control a...
JEMS hosts Climate Change workshop
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March 30, 2007
On Monday, March 21 Caribbean youths from as far as Haiti in the north to Guyana and Suriname in the south gathered at the Layou Grace and Truth Camp ...
Spiritual Baptists install new Bishops
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March 30, 2007
It was as if the spirit of the African forefathers visited the St Elizabeth Spiritual Baptist Cathedral at Belmont for the consecration service of Bis...
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March 30, 2007
The Eastern Caribbean Securities Regulatory Commission is advising minority shareholders of First Caribbean International Bank that they are entitled ...
PM joins Cuban bulb distribution team
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March 30, 2007
aPrime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves last Friday joined the team of Cuban Social Workers and their Vincentian assistants in the national bulb-changing ...
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March 30, 2007
The SVG Indian Heritage Foundation has announced that it will be holding its first Classical Indian Dance and Music Workshop which will be held at the...
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March 30, 2007
On Thursday, April 5, a rally will take place in Diamond Village to focus on slavery, the slave trade and the heritage of African Caribbean contributi...
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March 30, 2007
The Central Water and Sewage Authority (CWSA) wishes to inform the general public that it has now entered the final commissioning phase of the Windwar...
Son of former national footballer shot in NY
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March 30, 2007
by Nelson A. King in New York 30.MAR.07 The son of former national football player, Ainsley Duncan, was gunned down on a Brooklyn street on the night ...
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March 30, 2007
Eight simultaneous crusades from Chateaubelair and Sandy Bay in the north to Bequia in the south for six nights is no easy feat but the mega-event was...
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March 30, 2007
Leader and co-founder of the SVG Green Party, Ivan O'Neal has slammed the ruling Unity Labour Party, for its high spending on allowances in the 2007 b...
Radio announcer axed from WE FM
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March 30, 2007
The increase in the number of high profile domestic violence cases may have had some impact on the dismissal of a top radio announcer from his post la...
PM: ‘Just saying sorry is not enough’
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March 30, 2007
Not just seeking an apology but stressing the importance of acquiring justice in the form of compensation, Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves believes ...
Indian Arrival Day Act passed
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March 30, 2007
June 1st will now be officially recognized in St. Vincent and the Grenadines as Indian Arrival Day. The Bill for an act to provide for official recogn...
Baptiste: ‘Slavery still exists today’
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March 30, 2007
Minister of Culture the Hon. Rene Baptiste is of the opinion that slavery still exists today. In her contribution to the debate in parliament last Mon...
House meets for historic session
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March 30, 2007
History was created on Monday, March 26 when Parliament met to debate a Resolution on the 200th Anniversary of the abolition of the Atlantic Slave Tra...
Barrett’s top speaker
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March 30, 2007
After taking first place in almost every category in every round she participated in, ten-year-old Kaela Barrett of the Georgetown Government School p...