Features
September 25, 2026
by: Hans King My journey with Searchlight started in 1995 after a chance encounter with Bassy Alexander. I was unemployed at the time having resigned ...
Features
September 25, 2026
by Hawkins Nanton As SEARCHLIGHT newspaper pauses its operations, I am filled with mixed emotions. So many dreams were born at SEARCHLIGHT, including ...
Features
September 25, 2026
by Katherine Renton I can remember that my time at the newspaper began as a fledgling who was 21 years old and fresh out of university. Instances that...
Features
September 25, 2026
By Carlos James, Esq. Like a perfect final symphony, a decades-old ritual played out in the pre-dawn stillness of the capital city, Kingstown, for the...
Features
September 25, 2026
by: Kirby Jackson Dramatic, yes! Over dramatic? No! The call I made to Clare Keizer in 2006, asking for an opportunity to work as a reporter was an ‘a...
Features
September 25, 2026
Bernadette Johnson-Webb, AKA Berns Location: Kingstown Bernadette Johnson-Webb, known more popularly as Berns, has been selling the Searchlight Newspa...
Features
September 25, 2026
THE ESTABLISHMENT of a newspaper press at Campden Park meant that it was no longer for Searchlight and the other local newspapers to print abroad. SVG...
Features
September 25, 2026
By: KIRBY JACKSON AN INVESTIGATION INTO the circumstances surrounding the collapse of a retaining wall at Ratho Mill last Friday morning that claimed ...
Features
September 25, 2026
by Clare Keizer My association with Searchlight began well before I formally joined its staff in 2005. The newspaper’s first Editor, the late Norma Ke...
Features
September 25, 2026
VINCENTIAN ATHLETE, Shafiqua Maloney proved that she is the fourth best Women’s 800m runner in the world at present when she finished just outside the...
Features
September 25, 2026
By Line: Kenara Woods (milestones) IF THE NATION’S YOUTH ever had the notion that their literary, photographic and other talents were not being recogn...
Features
September 25, 2026
THE PEOPLE SPOKE emphatically on November 27, 2025 in general elections in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), propelling the New Democratic Party (N...
Front Page
What is the atmosphere like in a newspaper production workplace on the final day, not of regular work, but the end of the road of publishing the paper? For the small work team at Lower Kingstown Park where the SEARCHLIGHT Newspaper office is located,...
September 25, 2026
Front Page
Sisters Keeta and Kimmette Robertson, dropped in on SEARCHLIGHT on Thursday, September 25, 2026 in the topsy-turvy of the final day of producing the newspaper. The sisters, who are engaged in producing art, came bearing a gift- a piece of art work cr...
September 25, 2026
Front Page
The election petition case which challenges to the parliamentary eligibility of Prime Minister Dr. Godwin Friday and Foreign Minister Fitzgerald Bramble over their dual citizenships, will continue on Monday, September 28, 2026 and is slotted to end o...
September 25, 2026
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Prime Minister Dr. Godwin Friday has dismissed claims that Nicholas Friday, his son, is a member of Cabinet. Speaking at a town hall meeting in New York on Sunday, September 20,2026, Prime Minister Friday said the premise of a question raised earlier...
September 25, 2026
Features
By Dexter Rose The year was 1995 and I took a call one day from my brother Renwick Rose. There was not much chitchat as he went straight to the point. He said that he, Adrian Fraser, Bassy Alexander and Oscar Allen, had broken away -finally- from The...
September 25, 2026
Front Page
September 22, 2026
THE GOVERNMENT said it has discovered discrepancies in some statutory organisations that need deeper investigation with the possibility of holding people accountable. Prime Minister Dr. Godwin Friday made this clear on Sunday, September 20, 2026 duri...
Front Page
September 22, 2026
THE CLAIM that the computers at the St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) Consulate in NewYork (NY) were wiped is still being investigated by the New Democratic Party (NDP) government. That is what Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, Foreign In...
Front Page
September 22, 2026
THE GOVERNMENT of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) can no longer borrow and invest. “...there is no room for it...”, Prime Minister Dr. Godwin Friday told persons attending a town hall meeting in NewYork last Sunday September 20,2026, while stress...
Front Page
September 22, 2026
ST VINCENT AND THE Grenadines’ Opposition Leader, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has characterized Washington’s framing of Cuba as a national security threat as “entirely farcical”, and urged an immediate shift toward diplomatic normalization. He addressed comm...
News
September 25, 2026
CONCERNS have been raised about the administration and operation of a publicly funded social-support organisation following comments by Prime Minister...
News
September 22, 2026
ST.VINCENT AND THE Grenadines (SVG), has been shortlisted in six categories in the 2026 Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards, one of the United Kingdom’s l...
News
September 22, 2026
ST.VINCENT AND THE Grenadines joined communities around the world in observing World Alzheimer’s Day 2026 with renewed emphasis on the importance of e...
From the Courts, News
September 22, 2026
A chef of Canouan was ordered to pay over EC$ 1,000 when he appeared in court on September 21, 2026 on two marijuana charges. Twenty-two-year old Jova...
News
September 22, 2026
PRIME MINISTER Dr. Godwin Friday met on Sunday, September 20, 2026 with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, at United Nations Headquart...
News
September 18, 2026
The Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), is advancing a data-driven partnership to connect local farmers to international buyers while d...
News
September 18, 2026
Forty persons, many of them members of the Kingstown Cooperative Credit Union (KCCU), benefitted from a one-day workshop, ‘An Introduction to Record k...
News
September 18, 2026
Appointed as Chairman of the Carnival Development Corporation (CDC) in 2016, Ricardo “Ricky” Adams has now resigned from the position. Word of his res...
From the Courts, News
September 15, 2026
A 20-year-old farmer of Fitz Hughes, who has been charged with the offence of criminal assault, will appear at the Magistrate’s Court in Chateaubelair...
Sports
September 22, 2026
FUN SIZE SYSTEM Three retained the Carib Beer SEDI Inc Stubbs League title, with a 3-0 defeat of Je Belle in the final played at the Stubbs Playing Fi...
Sports
September 22, 2026
PLANS FOR A statue honouring Olympic champion Julien Alfred are moving forward as the Government of St Lucia advances its commitment to recognise her ...
Sports
September 18, 2026
The Bequia Basketball Association (BBA) has launched an Elite Athlete Programme, an initiative it said that’s designed to identify, develop and prepar...
Sports
September 18, 2026
Four new areas of competition were added to the 2026/27 schools’ sports programme in St. Vincent and the Grenadines school, revealed at a media launch...
Sports
September 18, 2026
The St Vincent and the Grenadines Tennis Association (SVGTA), will host its 2026 National Open and Masters Tennis Tournaments later this month. The hi...
From the Courts, News
September 11, 2026
THE POLICE, on September 5, 2026, arrested and charged Liane Jaxon-Defreitas, a 33-year-old consultant of Green Hill, with three counts of deception. ...
From the Courts, News
September 8, 2026
A 30-YEAR-OLD labourer of Rillan Hill/Pole Yard who pleaded not guilty to multiple theft charges and illegal firearm and ammunition possession will re...
From the Courts, News
September 8, 2026
The Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) said in a release that on September 3, 2026, they arrested and charged Anthony Williams,...
From the Courts, News
September 4, 2026
A 44-YEAR-OLD electrician of Belair charged with multiple offenses, was granted EC$10,000 bail with one surety when he appeared at the Serious Offence...
From the Courts
August 28, 2026
Five men, two of whom are teenagers, have been charged with the offense of affray, which is described as a criminal offense that involves two or more ...
From the Courts, News
August 21, 2026
A cashier who is alleged to have stolen almost $70-thousand from a senior citizen over a span of several weeks in 2023 and 2024 pleaded not guilty whe...
From the Courts, News
August 11, 2026
Middle-aged men continue to constitute the largest bloc of the prison population in St.Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). Superintendent of Prisons Dwa...
News
September 25, 2026
CONCERNS have been raised about the administration and operation of a publicly funded social-support organisation following comments by Prime Minister...
News
September 22, 2026
ST.VINCENT AND THE Grenadines (SVG), has been shortlisted in six categories in the 2026 Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards, one of the United Kingdom’s l...
News
September 22, 2026
ST.VINCENT AND THE Grenadines joined communities around the world in observing World Alzheimer’s Day 2026 with renewed emphasis on the importance of e...
From the Courts, News
September 22, 2026
A chef of Canouan was ordered to pay over EC$ 1,000 when he appeared in court on September 21, 2026 on two marijuana charges. Twenty-two-year old Jova...
News
September 22, 2026
PRIME MINISTER Dr. Godwin Friday met on Sunday, September 20, 2026 with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, at United Nations Headquart...
