Lifestyle

Whales frolicked in Kingstown Harbour last week. (Photo: Robert Clouden/Facebook)

While Bequia whalers hold dry harpoons, humpbacks frolic in Kingstown

With just a few weeks remaining in the annual whaling season, whalers on the Grenadine island of Bequia are facing the stark possibility that they will not land any of…

16 Apr 2014 7:38AM

Environment

Soca Fest is among the main attractions for Easterval. (IWN file photo)

Union Island hyped for Easterval 2014

16 Apr 2014 6:44AM

Elliot Lewis of Union Island's Team KEVISHA caught the largest lionfish (15.5 inches) in the first Union Island Lionfish Derby.

Unionites feast on invasive lionfish

15 Apr 2014 7:55AM

Lavinia Gunn, administrator of the MCT, left, and Pauline Garabedian-DeFreitas, managing director of Health Solutions Inc.

Kidney patients get donation from the Mustique Charitable Trust

10 Apr 2014 10:52AM

Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral illness. It caused the deaths of five students in St. Vincent and the Grenadines last year.

SVG braces for possible outbreak of chikungunya disease

6 Apr 2014 6:55PM

Entomologist Mark Lathamwill spend five days investigating the types of mosquitoes in SVG and their breeding habitats.

Action Bequia invites US specialist to talk about combatting chikungunya

The UN’s World Health Day is celebrated each year on the April 7. The Slogan for 2014 is “Small Bite, Big Threat”, and refers to insect-borne diseases, predominately those transmitted…

6 Apr 2014 6:36PM

Health

LIAT appoints British national as new CEO

31 Mar 2014 7:48PM

12,500 laptops to be donated to secondary school students in SVG

24 Mar 2014 5:53AM

SVG returning nationals assist the Ministry of Health

24 Mar 2014 5:31AM

Medical tourism presents economic growth potential for the Caribbean — experts

24 Mar 2014 5:27AM

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