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Chamber relief fund helps Grenadians
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September 17, 2004
The St.Vincent and the Grenadines Chamber of Industry and Commerce continues to do its part in helping hurricane ravaged Grenada get back on its feet....
Ivan pushing Montrose man over cliff’s edge
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September 17, 2004
Curth Clifton, a 25-year-old artist of New Montrose is pondering how his plight can be brought to the attention of the National Emergency Management O...
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September 17, 2004
AT&T Wireless says it has joined in relief effort to help the people of Grenada. An aircraft chartered by AT&T Wireless landed in Grenada on Friday 10...
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September 17, 2004
MIAMI – Hurricane Ivan smashed apartment complexes to bits, washed away many homes and damaged nearly all the roofs in the Cayman Islands, residents...
GRENADA WRECKED
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September 17, 2004
Mongoose Gang, Revolution, Coup d'etat, Invasion, Grenada has seen it all. But nothing could have prepared the people of this small country for what H...
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September 17, 2004
When Hurricane Ivan thrashed Grenada, all of the country's FM stations were knocked off the air. But help was forthcoming quickly from sister islands ...
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September 17, 2004
Fluids are in scarce supply in Grenada. Especially water. Ironically, this is so only days after this country had seen an overabundance of the preciou...
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September 17, 2004
The World Bank has pledged its support to the Government and People of St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the rebuilding process after the passage of H...
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September 17, 2004
Minister of Public Service the Hon. Sir Vincent Beache launched the activities for Public Service Week 2004 at Cabinet Room last Monday. {{more}} Mini...
Island scholar prepares for ambassador role
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September 17, 2004
by Ashford Peters Just a year ago, young island scholar Anesia Richards had her eyes set on becoming possibly the first and youngest Vincentian with a...
Guardsman gives scholarship
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September 17, 2004
In only one year Guardsman SVG Limited is making great strides in being the security provider and employer of choice. They awarded an annual scholarsh...
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September 17, 2004
The Times newspaper June 19, 1919 ST. VINCENT ABROAD – Hugh Mulzac "Richard Mulzac of Union Island and his fellow countrymen in St.Vincent will be p...
Health Officials:  Dialysis Unit too costly
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September 17, 2004
by Nelson A. King in New York As the broad-based St. Vincent and the Grenadines Renal Failure Relief Committee gets ready to stage its Third Annual Go...
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September 10, 2004
The British dependency of Anguilla is wooing police officers from the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force. Royal Anguilla Police Force C...
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September 10, 2004
Cable & Wireless has launched its Xnet service which offers highspeed internet, twice the speed, while being 42% cheaper. Acting Chief Executive (CE) ...
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September 10, 2004
A Rose Place family was left homeless Tuesday after the storm surge from Hurricane Ivan smashed their one-bedroom plywood house and swept most of it a...
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September 10, 2004
Russia has offered 300m roubles ($10m) for information leading to the arrest of Chechen rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov. Security ser...
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September 10, 2004
The OECS Secretariat expresses solidarity with the people of Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines as they count the loss of life and damage to p...
Bollers heads Digicel
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September 10, 2004
A young Vincentian has taken over the helm at Digicel as CEO. Digicel, which prides itself as the leading mobile telecommunications operator in the Ca...
Murray’s Village feels Ivan’s fury
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September 10, 2004
Hurricane Ivan, packing winds of 135 miles per hour, smashed a number of homes in the Murray's Village area Tuesday, leaving several families displace...
Sisters query brother’s death
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September 10, 2004
A Brighton family is mourning the sudden loss of one of their own who died in circumstances that have yet to be explained to them.{{more}} Sisters Ann...
Ivan removes man’s roof
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September 10, 2004
Hurricane Ivan has been described as the most powerful storm to hit the Caribbean in 14 years. And Minister of Tourism and Culture and Parliamentary R...
Elderly couple needs home
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September 10, 2004
An elderly couple of Kingstown is now in dire need of a dwelling house following the passage of Hurricane Ivan. The couple, Elwin Howe and Jermaine Sa...
Contractor rebuilds after Ivan’s fury
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September 10, 2004
Prominent building contractor, Leon Barnwell of New Montrose, has estimated that it will cost him $60,000 to rebuild his roof which was seriously dama...
Horne proposes relocation of houses
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September 10, 2004
Former Government Minister, John Horne has expressed the view that the dwelling houses constructed on the bay at Rose Place would have to be relocated...
Hurricane Ivan on course to Jamaica
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September 10, 2004
BARRING an 11th hour shift in its direction, Hurricane Ivan, having already wreaked havoc in the southern Caribbean, was on course to hit Jamaica with...
Mitchell: Ivan devastated Grenada
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September 10, 2004
Grenada's leader says at least nine people have died after Hurricane Ivan hit the eastern Caribbean island, triggering ferocious winds and rains. {{mo...
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September 3, 2004
When 25th Independence anniversary celebrations are observed here October 27, the festivity will have something of a regional outlook. The celebration...
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September 3, 2004
Last week Tuesday she bought in Quick Pick in the National Lotteries authority game. There was no winner that night, and Nola Debique a mother of six ...
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September 3, 2004
Last April, before the opening of the third school term, members of the National Omnibus Association held a meeting on the Sunday before school reopen...
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September 3, 2004
by Nelson A. King in New York Buoyed by its extraordinary success last year, and despite incessant showers, the lone Vincentian-New York mas band “M...
Bancroft Exeter found dead under bridge
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September 3, 2004
The body of a man in his late fifties, identified as Bancroft Exeter of Kingstown, was found under a bridge in Old Montrose (Block 2000) last Monday a...
Another young life gone to waste
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September 3, 2004
The number of murders here went one up last Tuesday evening at Lowmans Hill in the West Kingstown constituency. The unfortunate addition to the list f...
Coastguard summer programme a success
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September 3, 2004
Saturday August 21 saw 119 youngsters graduate from the annual Coast Guard Youth Summer Programme held at the Base at Calliaqua. {{more}} The programm...
First International helping students
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September 3, 2004
Having performed creditably at Common Entrance, ten students have been rewarded by First Caribbean International Bank and at the same time has eased s...
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September 3, 2004
The St. Joseph’s Convent Kingstown (SJCK) recorded an overall pass rate of about 78% at this year’s Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) Examinatio...
Teachers get credit union help
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September 3, 2004
This is the time that organisations hand out scholarships and bursaries and St. Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers’ Credit Union has made sure that...
Prison officers for training programme
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September 3, 2004
Sixteen Grade 2 prison officers have been selected for a training programme which is scheduled to commence at 8.30 a.m. on Monday, 6 September. The tr...
Oxfam consultant visits St.Vincent
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September 3, 2004
By Ashford Peters Banana farmers in this country may soon get further assistance in meeting EurepGap standards. Oxfam’s Water Resource Management co...