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SVG SCHOLARS
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September 23, 2005
Two of this country's 2005 National Scholars are very happy with their achievement. Nineteen-year-olds Beneka Browne of Peniston and Deon Pompey of Mu...
CMMB gives steps
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September 23, 2005
Caribbean Money Market Brokers team field questions from the participants (above). From right Sean Spiers, Country Manager CMMB, St. Lucia and Ben Cra...
CMMB gives steps to financial freedom
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September 23, 2005
Vincentians seeking to achieve or maintain financial freedom turned out on Wednesday to a seminar hosted by the Caribbean Money Market Brokers (CMMB) ...
NURSES GET NEW WING
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September 16, 2005
A big week for the Nursing community as it marked the opening of the $1 million new wing of the St. Vincent School of Nursing which encompasses a libr...
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September 16, 2005
A number of Central Leeward residents have been paid for lands used in road construction here. Last Tuesday, 23 property owners received a total of $5...
POVERTY DOWN
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September 16, 2005
The Unity Labour Party administration has reduced poverty and improved the quality of life of people here through the creation of quality jobs. This w...
Fashion Caribbean 2005 a huge success
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September 16, 2005
If you have an elegant, sexy, conservative or just plain wild side, these dimensions and more were all brought out at Fashion Caribbean 5. The gala ev...
BEENIE MAN SIGNS ON SEARCHLIGHT
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September 9, 2005
Just as promised, Beenie Man delivered a spectacular performance last Saturday night at the Victoria Park! Clad in his designer “I Love New York” ...
OIL PACT SIGNED
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September 9, 2005
This country has formally signed on the PetroCaribe agreement which provides fuel for this country and other members of the regional community at conc...
DOC IS NO MORE
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September 9, 2005
Editor’s note: In tribute, we today reproduce an interview conducted by SEARCHLIGHT’S Hawkins Nanton in March 2004 on the occasion of National Her...
TOP GRADE
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September 2, 2005
The St. Vincent Girls’ High School is again the nation’s top school in the annual Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Certificate of Secondary Ed...
TASTE OF DEATH
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September 2, 2005
Sixteen days after his wife Anita Pereira of Arnos Vale consumed the deadly weedicide gramoxone, her husband Leroy Pereira who originates from Park Hi...
Vault Stolen
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August 26, 2005
Western Union fell prey to thieves on the weekend, who made off with the company’s vault.
Abta Magazine
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August 26, 2005
St.Vincent and the Grenadines is featured in a 12-page cover story in the August issue of ABTA magazine .
SVG EUROPE PROMOTION WORKING
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August 26, 2005
Selling a small, virtually unknown country on the world market as a tourist destination takes skill and money. No one is more keenly aware of this tha...
VAULT STOLEN
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August 26, 2005
Western Union may be the fastest way to send and receive money, but thieves proved to be even faster. On Monday, August 22, the staff turned up for wo...
POLICE BOOST
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August 26, 2005
Senior Police Officers examine the new Fire Tender Unit.
FATAL RIDE
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August 19, 2005
The mangled and twisted metal of the car driven by Sabrina Richards at the scene of the fatal accident at Arnos Vale.
Youth, 21, loses life on Arnos Vale stretch
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August 19, 2005
A loud bang echoed in the silence of the night on the Arnos Vale stretch last Sunday as traffic came to a standstill. And in the mangled Honda car PD ...
WOMAN’S BODY FOUND
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August 19, 2005
Tears streamed down their faces; some cried in anguish and for others, tempers flared. This is what transpired at the murder scene of the late Lakita ...
Man shot dead
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August 12, 2005
Frankie Sutherland (left), a friend of Javern Nero, with Donna Baptiste (right), Nero's stepmother. Inset is Javern’s girlfriend Laurel Laborder.
Man Shot Dead
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August 12, 2005
by William "Kojah" Anthony and Hawkins Nanton One week after a Sandy Bay man was shot to death, execution style, members of his immediate family are f...
AIRPORT BY 2011
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August 12, 2005
Barring unforeseen circumstances St. Vincent and the Grenadines will have an international airport by 2011, latest. Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves...
Beast in action
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August 5, 2005
Excitement bubbled over at the Peace Memorial Hall last Saturday aroused by this spectacle. Marshall law took over when Lawrence “Beast’ Marshall,...
DEPORTEE LUCKY
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August 5, 2005
Noel 'Deportee' GordoN is counting himself lucky to be alive. He survived a cutlass attack on Emancipation Day which left him with wounds to his head ...
REGGAE STAR ARRESTED
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August 5, 2005
A recommendation was made on Tuesday for the deportation of International Reggae star, Eric Donaldson, after facing a marijuana charge here but this r...
NOT GUILTY
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July 29, 2005
July 26 will always be remembered as a lucky day for five Rilland Hill men. Hilton Bennette, Maxwell Phillips, Martin Phillips, Kenford Samuel and Sam...
Youths freed of murder charge
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July 29, 2005
Samantius Gould/Glasgow gets a double dose of welcome following his acquital. It’s looking like love for Maxwell Phillips, greeted by a friend on hi...
I CAN SEE!
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July 29, 2005
by Dexter Rose in Havana What is the cost of sight regained? That, one can only fully appreciate if you had spent years with a vision of life blurred,...
45 EYEING CUBA
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July 22, 2005
Some 45 Vincentians who have suffered with various eye diseases such as cataracts left for Cuba yesterday at 1:30 p.m. hoping to return with a better ...
Postal Service takes giant leap with EMS
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July 22, 2005
The SVG Postal Corporation has taken a giant leap forward with the launch of its Express Mail Service (EMS). That step falls in line with those the co...
BOMB BLAST IN T&T
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July 15, 2005
The announcement Monday that an explosion had rocked downtown Port of Spain shocked many. The region had been only still assimilating the possible imp...
BETTER OIL DEAL
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July 8, 2005
If things work out well between Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves and Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, St. Vincent and the Grenadines ought to be ge...
DIGICEL NELSON BLOC DELIVERS
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July 8, 2005
Digicel Nelson Block, the 2005 Band of the Year champion is recovering from the rigours of its production this year entitled 'You Ask For It.' There w...
l JUNIOR BANDS SET STAGE FOR Mardi Gras
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July 1, 2005
Fabulous Mikhail Quashie, from Mirage Productions’ Fable Of The Unicorn seemed oblivious to the activity around him at 2005 Junior Carnival at Carni...
NELSON BLOC’S EM
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July 1, 2005
DIGICEL Nelson Bloc has captured the Junior Band of the Year tittle with their production called "You ask for it." Second was SVG Players Internationa...
BEAUTY BATTLE
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July 1, 2005
It promises to be a night of excitement as 10 contestants from around the region compete for the prestigious Miss Carival title Friday July 2 at the V...
QUICK PICK
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June 24, 2005
It's on. That is, the homestretch to the 2005 Carnival festivity. The build up which started as early as Labour Day celebrations in Brooklyn last Sept...
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June 24, 2005
Cingular Wireless Caribbean Limited is no more. In a hush-hush multi-million dollar deal that caught many in the telecoms industry by surprise, Irish-...