Environmental consultant Reynold Murray says the most serious environmental issue associated with the state-led sand and aggregate harvesting project at Roseau in North Leeward is the potential damage to fisheries,…
Chair of the National Insurance Services (NIS) board of directors, Stephen Joachim, says that the state-managed social security agency is under pressure but “financially stable for a while”. He said…
Opposition Leader Ralph Gonsalves is claiming that the government fired 28 employees attached to the Youth Employment Service (YES Programme) and is calling for their compensation. Gonsalves used his show…
A 23-year-old Union Island man registered his first criminal conviction when he pleaded guilty to gun and ammunition charges at the Serious Offences Court on Monday. Rasheed Frogget, a marine…
A 25-year-old Ottley Hall man who owes the court EC$500 of an EC$700 fine for the possession of ammunition dating back to 2024 has paid a fine of EC$140 forthwith…
A Glen man accused of killing another over a plumrose has been committed to stand trial for murder in the High Court. Chief Magistrate Colin John committed the man, Deondre…
A Kingstown man who was arrested wearing the same clothes he was wearing when he entered a woman’s property will spend the next five months in jail. The man, Jamel…
Vermont resident Kamal Small aka Condom has been charged with murder in connection with the stabbing death of a woman in Campden Pak on Friday. Small appeared before the Serious…
HAVANA, Cuba — St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) and Cuba marked 34 years of diplomatic relations on May 26, with Kingstown’s Embassy in Havana hosting an event on Saturday…
Founder and former executive editor of iWitness News, Kenton X. Chance, on Thursday, presented his letter of credence as the St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ (SVG) Ambassador to Taiwan. Chance,…
Prime Minister Godwin Friday says any citizenship-by-investment (CBI) programme his government plans to introduce later this year will be structurally separated from the political directorate. He said the initiative will…
Prime Minister Godwin Friday says his administration is executing a “course correction” of St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ public finances, after discovering on taking office in November that the country’s…
The government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Global Ports Holding (GPH), the world’s largest cruise port operator, paving the way…
NASSAU, Bahamas — Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Godwin Friday has urged the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to move faster and more decisively on reforms and…
For more than 15years, Kendal Neverson has been welcoming visitors to St. Vincent and the Grenadines from behind the wheel of his taxi. It was steady work, but in 2024…
Prime Minister Godwin Friday has announced a set of temporary tax waivers and mandatory discounts on fuel surcharges aimed at preventing steep increases in household and small-business electricity bills, as…
Ask Enterprise Ltd. has announced the upcoming production of “Number Seven,” a play by Vincentian playwright Kevin Roderiques. The production will be staged in St. Vincent and the Grenadines on…
President of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Calypsonians Association, Earl “Cabba” Bennett, says calypsonians remain the only major Vincymas stakeholders not guaranteed payment, even as other players in the…
The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Calypsonians Association has agreed to a new judging framework for the national calypso monarch and is pressing for changes in how results are compiled,…
Minister of Tourism Kishore Shallow says St. Vincent and the Grenadines is lagging behind other countries in the region, although stay‑over visitor arrivals have posted double‑digit growth in the first quarter…
The Ministry of Sports has announced the appointment of former national footballer Renson Haynes as manager of the National Sports Council (NSC).Haynes’ appointment took effect on May 4. The ministry…
Minister of Sports Kaschaka Cupid says that the government will further enhance the refurbished Edinboro Hardcourt by installing solar-powered lighting. He said that the hardcourt, which was handed over to…
The H20 Lions Swim Academy of Questelles represented St. Vincent and the Grenadines at the Sonia O’Neal Memorial Invitational Swimming Competition held in Barbados from May 21–24. Swimmers Tezza Sutherland,…
Vincentian tennis player Ethan Kent represented his country in the Junior Infantile Tennis International Championships (JITIC): a premier COTECC Under-14 tournament in El Salvador. This event hosts the top 48…