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December 5, 2025
EDITOR: Last month, Grenada joined a growing number of independent English-speaking Caribbean countries in raising the minimum age of marriage to 18 y...
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December 5, 2025
EDITOR: Congratulations and many thanks to the Vincentian working class for effecting a peaceful change of government. Already working people have hel...
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December 5, 2025
SOME THINGS re-happening in the world of today, so remarkably dangerous and discriminating that I would dearly like to make a comment or two, but I am...
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December 2, 2025
WITH THE NDP elected to lead after twenty-five years of ULP governance, St.Vincent & the Grenadines stands at the beginning of a significant new chapt...
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November 28, 2025
WHEN THE NORM IS hearing a working Vincentian complain about how overworked, undervalued and underpaid they are, that’s when you take to the press. It...
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November 28, 2025
UNDOUBTEDLY, THERE is a smoking epidemic in our country currently. Many young people are engaged in this destructive habit. There was a time when it w...
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November 28, 2025
EDITOR: The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Indigenous People Association, Inc. (SIPA), of which I am Chair, proposes a reconsideration of the naming o...
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November 25, 2025
EDITOR: Greetings to the people of the Southern Grenadines. I extend blessings of peace, strength, and hope to Union Island, Mayreau, and Canouan.Whet...
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November 24, 2025
by Dr. A Linton Lewis Introduction Section 25 of the Constitution provides the requirements that should be satisfied by a Commonwealth citizen who wi...
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November 21, 2025
Editor: It’s another election season in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) and we continue to see certain patterns in relation to the selection of...
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November 21, 2025
Editor: For several years now, I have been endeavouring, as I consider it my responsibility as a citizen to draw the attention of the relevant authori...
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November 21, 2025
Editor: I am responding to an article in a November 7, 2025 issue a local newspaper, entitled “NDP promises Public Servants 50% duty-free concession o...
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November 21, 2025
Editor: The Vincentian working class faces the November 27th elections divided in its support of the political parties – co-worker against co-worker, ...
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November 21, 2025
Editor: We had a beautiful thing going-oil, sanctions, coups, you name it. Venezuela? We were gonna flip that place like a condo in Atlantic City. I s...
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November 21, 2025
The fallacy of a constitutional crisis: why a constitutional claim against the election of dual citizens will likely fail By: Jason Haynes, PhD. In h...
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This is the final of a three-part Opinion series titled: “Gratitude, Grievance, and the Future: A Look at Election 2025” written by: Allana K. Cumberbatch LL.B (Hons.) UWI, LEC HWLS Barrister-at-Law & Solicitor.
November 19, 2025
The series offers a balanced and thought-provoking reflection on key issues shaping the upcoming general elections- from the achievements and shortcom...
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This is part two of a three-part Opinion series titled: “Gratitude, Grievance, and the Future: A Look at Election 2025” written by: Allana K. Cumberbatch LL.B (Hons.) UWI, LEC HWLS Barrister-at-Law & Solicitor.
November 19, 2025
The series offers a balanced and thought-provoking reflection on key issues shaping the upcoming general elections- from the achievements and shortcom...
Our Readers' Opinions
This is part one of a three-part Opinion series titled: “Gratitude, Grievance, and the Future: A Look at Election 2025” written by: Allana K. Cumberbatch LL.B (Hons.) UWI, LEC HWLS Barrister-at-Law & Solicitor.
November 19, 2025
Recently, while sitting in the Miami International Airport, someone asked me a simple question: "When was the first time you flew?" It took me back to...
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November 19, 2025
By Professor C. Justin Robinson Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal, The UWI Five Islands Campus As negotiators struggle to maintain the fragile ceasefi...
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Why NDP Must Win Ten Seats in the General Elections on 27th November 2025
November 17, 2025
by Dr. A. Linton Lewis Introduction The candidacy of two representatives of the New Democratic Party (NDP) was challenged on the 7th of November 2025 ...
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November 14, 2025
EDITOR: In the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl with the influx of resources to aid the recovery, the ULP had a golden opportunity to win the hearts of th...
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November 14, 2025
EDITOR: The countdown to general elections [has] begun and soon it will be time to cast our X to the candidate of our choice. As emotions run high, le...
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November 14, 2025
EDITOR: Tucked away in the northeastern pocket of St.Vincent and the Grenadines are the flourishing villages of Sandy Bay, Owia, and Fancy, affectiona...
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November 10, 2025
Letters of objection have been sent to the Returning Officers for the Northern Grenadines Constituency, and that of East Kingstown seeking the disqual...
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November 7, 2025
Editor: In 2021, when La Soufrière Volcano erupted and our homeland, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, was covered in ash, the Jamaican community here i...
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November 7, 2025
A year and a half after Hurricane Beryl, there is no revenue office where residents of Union Island can pay their taxes. After so many years, there is...
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November 7, 2025
The Intermediate High School (IHS) founded by the late John Parmenos Eustace in 1925, is this year celebrating 99 years of service in the field of sec...
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October 31, 2025
Editor: While loved ones were gathered at West Indies Mission Church at Biabou to say farewell to our precious sister Nurse Danae Bailey Lockhart on S...
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October 31, 2025
Most of us know that uneasy moment when a phone screen suddenly flashes “low battery.” The brightness fades, performance slows, and everything we depe...
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October 24, 2025
EDITOR: The history of West Indies cricket stretches back to the 1890s, when the first representative side faced visiting English teams. Over a centur...
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October 24, 2025
EDITOR: President Donald Trump has brokered a 20-point Gaza peace plan between Israel and Hamas. Stopping the bombing and securing the release of the ...
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October 17, 2025
Editor: The state of Windies Cricket calls for resignation of the Management, Board, and Coaches of the West Indies cricket team. If there is no resig...
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October 17, 2025
EDITOR: Indian Bay, located on the South Coast of mainland St Vincent is a beautiful and picturesque site. Sunsets are an array of colours, and hues a...
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October 17, 2025
Our constitution declares that we are a democratic state founded on the belief in the supremacy of Jehovah the creator and the freedom and dignity of ...
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October 3, 2025
IN HIS ADDRESS to the United Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump portrayed climate agreements as a “globalist concept” that forces succes...
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October 3, 2025
“FOR YAHSHUA HIMSELF shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of Yahweh: and the dead in the Mes...
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October 3, 2025
EDITOR: Crime is everyone’s responsibility. The rise in crimes, mainly homicide, gives us no joy and is something that ought to concern each one of us...
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October 3, 2025
EDITOR: The Parliamentary representative for East Kingstown has made an unfounded claim regarding his discussions with the media about the ongoing wor...
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September 30, 2025
In the upcoming general elections, the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines will be making a choice between the future of their children and the N...
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September 30, 2025
“Our world is not short on resources, it is short on fairness and courage.” — Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, 25 September, 2025. This week marks fiv...
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September 26, 2025
We here in St Vincent and the Grenadines are now distinctively on the eve of our next general elections. It is the process by which we select the pers...
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September 26, 2025
EDITOR: The right to vote in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), like across much of the Caribbean, was not freely given. It was won through centuri...
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September 26, 2025
EDITOR: Within recent times candidates and members of the NDP have been publicly supporting the capital projects of the ULP. In particular, the Kingst...
News
December 5, 2025
AIWAN HAS PLAYED DOWN concerns that St Vincent and the Grenadines might switch diplomatic recognition to Beijing, insisting ties with its Caribbean al...
News, Regional / World
December 5, 2025
ST. LUCIA’s political map turned bright red on Monday as the St. Lucia Labour Party secured a commanding re-election victory, clinching 14 of 17 seats...
News
December 5, 2025
THE HIGH COURT sitting in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), ruled in favour of the Public Service Union (PSU) in the matter leading to the appointm...
News
December 5, 2025
SEVERAL VINCENTIAN soldiers attached to military units in the United Kingdom (UK), who were part of war games which were recently held on Salisbury Pl...
News
December 5, 2025
RECENTLY APPOINTED Minister of National Security, Major St. Clair Leacock, says the crime situation in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), goes way b...
