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Vincentian fashion designer, Kimya Glasgow.

Vincy designer turns heads at Barbados Fashion Week

Persons in the audience were left mesmerized when Kimya Glasgow’s designs hit the runway at the International Fashion Festival – Barbados Fashion Week last month, hosted and managed by the…

11 Nov 2018 6:36AM

Entertainment

On the other side of Windward Carenage Bay is Salt Whistle Bay on the Caribbean Sea coast. The world famous beach attracts visitors to the Mayreau, where tourism is a mainstay of the economy. Credit: Kenton X. Chance/IPS

The Caribbean island of Mayreau could be split in two, thanks to erosion

11 Nov 2018 6:08AM

The Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami of March 2011 demonstrated the destructive power of tsunamis. (Internet photo)

Lessons for SVG from Japan’s 2011 tsunami

5 Nov 2018 12:05AM

Tour guide Toshiko Miura stands inside a museum and information centre in Nobiru, Higashimatsushima, Japan. The centre documents the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which claimed the lives of thousands, including her father. (iWN photo)

For this guide, the tour is personal

5 Nov 2018 12:01AM

A grave in St. Vincent immediately after a funeral. (iWN file photo)

The ‘spirit’ of Vincy funerals (+video)

5 Oct 2018 7:11AM

How Guyana must prepare to cope with the ‘jeopardies and perils’ of oil discovery

By Desmond Brown GEORGETOWN, Guyana (IPS) — Recent huge offshore oil discoveries are believed to have set Guyana — one of the poorest countries in South America — on a…

24 Sep 2018 6:58PM

Environment