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Minister of Health, Jimmy Prince. (File photo by Lance Neverson/Facebook)

Diabetes-related amputations still a major concern in SVG — Health Minister

Diabetes remains a major health concern in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), leading to amputation of limbs among a significant, but declining number of residents. Minister of Health, Wellness…

30 Dec 2022 6:57AM

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Bequia Express, whose vessels are pictured here, will provide the transportation between St. Vincent and St. Lucia.

St. Lucia-St. Vincent ferry service to commence in January

29 Dec 2022 10:09PM

Police use used tyres to destroy illegal drugs at Rabacca on Nov. 9, 2022.

Gov’t to cease burning tyres at Rabacca

20 Dec 2022 7:03AM

Dialysis stations at the Modern Medical and Diagnostic Centre in Georgetown in April 2021. (Photo: SVG Health/Facebook)

Nearly half of SVG’s dialysis patients have died since 2018

20 Dec 2022 6:52AM

Two government ambulances in Kingstown in March 2017. (Photo: SVG Health/Facebook)

No special insurance for nurses on ambulance duty

20 Dec 2022 6:16AM

I was reunited with my suitcase three days after I arrived in Angola and one day before the conference I was covering was scheduled to end.

How decisions in Europe affect people in Africa: The case of a journalist and his suitcase

By Kenton X. Chance LUANDA, Angola — I spent six nights in Angola — a Portuguese-speaking, southern African country — in December on a journalism assignment. The entire trip was 10 nights…

18 Dec 2022 6:15PM

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