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New Taxi Centre at Port
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June 23, 2006
The Taxi Drivers Association is now fully set towards making their organisation more reliable and well organized. On Thursday, June 8, at the Cruise s...
9-month pregnant woman shot, killed
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June 23, 2006
Vanessa Williams, a 23-year-old woman of Lower Questelles, was due to have a baby on Thursday, June 25. But she never lived to make the delivery. She ...
Taj Lee makes St. Mary’s proud again
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June 23, 2006
Taj Lee has carved out a name for himself. Whenever there is an art competition, you could bet that Taj Lee would take part. He has had a number of su...
Shackeil is the talk of Dickson
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June 23, 2006
Shackheil Simmons is the talk of the Dickson village. She placed fifth for girls and seventh overall in the recent Common Entrance examination. That p...
Brittney excited
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June 23, 2006
Brittney Drayton is "excited" over her performance at the recent Common Entrance examination. And she has every right to feel that way. She has brough...
Lodge Village in the Hall of Fame
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June 23, 2006
The Lodge Village Government School has established as itself the school to be reckoned with in the Primary School Leaving Examination. They set a sta...
Bequia boys lead the way in Grenadines
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June 23, 2006
Chezaul Walker of the Bequia Seventh Day Adventist Primary school is one of three pupils who gained the highest score nationwide in Mathematics in the...
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June 23, 2006
Telecommunications service provider Digicel is urging the public to be on the look out for their mobile service phone card sales persons on motorbikes...
Digicel launches brand in French WI.
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June 23, 2006
Digicel, the fastest growing mobile telecommunications company in the Caribbean on Friday marked the launch of its services in the French West Indies ...
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June 23, 2006
FirstCaribbean International Bank’s Capital Markets Unit announced on Monday developments, which the release claims will “further enhance the stre...
Trend Bank donates to hospital
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June 23, 2006
Trend Bank Ltd., one of the largest offshore banks in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, with business in Brazil, donated some 16 standing fans and a sup...
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June 23, 2006
LIAT, the Caribbean airline, announced on Wednesday that it has appointed H&F Inc. a Guyanese-based firm as its General Sales Agent in Guyana. It, als...
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June 23, 2006
This country’s export figures have fallen at an alarming rate, and in an effort to strengthen this country’s export competitiveness, the National ...
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June 23, 2006
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has acknowledged government’s plans to introduce a value added tax (VAT) system by next year as a step in the ...
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June 23, 2006
Consumer price index for May During the month of May, the Consumer Price Index increased by 1.0 percent. An inflation rate of 2.4 percent was also rec...
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June 16, 2006
WE FM, a radio station that came on stream in 1997, has rewarded a number of persons for their contribution to the progress of the entity. Among those...
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June 16, 2006
16.JUN.06 The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) celebrates its 25th Anniversary since the signing of the Treaty of Basseterre in 1981. T...
Calliaqua School to reward top performer
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June 16, 2006
The principal and the best common entrance performer of the Calliaqua Anglican Primary School will both be given an all expense paid trip to Florida l...
Students get Rotary recognition
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June 16, 2006
The Rotary Club of St. Vincent recognized twenty-one outstanding fourth formers from throughout St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Thursday, June 1, 20...
New rates for C&W internet service
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June 16, 2006
Customers of Cable & Wireless Internet service will now receive more value for their money. Their Internet speed was doubled last Friday, as part of C...
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June 16, 2006
People who were divorced before they were converted to Christianity can now be remarried at Pentecostal Assemblies of the West Indies (PAWI) churches ...
NCB donates to Melody Makers
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June 16, 2006
30 young men and their Director of the NCB Richland Park Melody Makers on Friday June 9, 2006 were presented with 93 polo shirts in the colours of bot...
CPU meeting ends today
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June 16, 2006
The Caribbean Postal Union (CPU) will wrap up its 10th Annual Conference here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines today, Friday June 16. The conference,...
GECCU hosts training workshop for teachers
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June 16, 2006
Credit union giant, General Employees Co-operative Credit Union Ltd (GECCU), has initiated a schools' co-operative programme to instill discipline and...
Sandy Bay Secondary hosts Career Fair
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June 16, 2006
The students of the Sandy Bay Secondary School took the community by storm in their first Career Fair and Recognition Day on Wednesday June 7, 2006. T...
Guardsman embarks on recruitment drive
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June 16, 2006
A number of job opportunities were highlighted last week Friday by Guardsman St. Vincent and the Grenadines Limited as they held a recruitment drive a...
EU funds national parks project
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June 16, 2006
Limited financial resources have always been a challenge to the Ministry of Tourism, but on Friday, June 9, much needed aid came to the ministry court...
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June 16, 2006
Montgomery Daniel, this country's Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister is not giving up on agriculture. He made his position clear last Tuesda...
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June 16, 2006
Fifteen members of a steering committee of the newly formed People's Action Alliance of Bequia agreed at a meeting last week Thursday on "the urgent n...
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June 16, 2006
The Constitutional Review Commission (CRC), strongly considered including a recall mechanism in their constitutional reform proposal but was not able ...