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Duty-free barrel concessions begin today
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November 12, 2025
The annual duty free concessions on imported barrels take effect from today, November 11, 2025. The concessions, announced on October 27, 2025 by Prim...
SVG ratifies Ocean protection treaty
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November 11, 2025
STVINCENT AND THE Grenadines (SVG) is said to have made history on September 17, 2025, when it ratified a significant marine agreement. The Ministry o...
NDP candidates turned off by blow horn noise
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November 11, 2025
THE LOUD SOUND coming from blow horns was too much for Vice President of the New Democratic Party (NDP) St Clair Leacock, when he approached the micro...
Martin has second stint as Attorney General
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November 11, 2025
WHEN JAUNDY MARTIN was first sworn in as Attorney General (AG) on Monday, September 18, 2017, he told the gathering that he never aspired to the posit...
General Accident to acquire Beacon Insurance
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November 11, 2025
GENERAL ACCIDENT Insurance Company (Jamaica) Limited (JSE:GENAC) (“General Accident”), and Beacon Insurance Company Limited (“Beacon”) have announced ...
ULP, NDP sign Code  agreeing to peaceful,  fair General Elections
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November 7, 2025
The Unity Labour Party (ULP), and New Democratic Party(NDP), have signed the General Elections Code of Conduct agreeing to keep the peace in the run-up to the November 27, 2025 polls. One inclusion in the 2025 code provides for the leader of the Oppo...
Monday, is  Nomination Day in SVG
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November 7, 2025
Candidates who will be contesting the November 27, 2025 general elections in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), will hand in their nomination papers on Monday, November 10, 2025. The Unity Labour Party (ULP), and the New Democratic Party (NDP)will ...
Media  visionary, Paul  McLeish dies
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November 7, 2025
St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has lost one of its iconic media visionaries with the death of Paul MacLeish who passed away on Tuesday, November 4,2025. MacLeish is considered a pioneer of free-to-air television in SVG as in 1980, he, along with...
No reports of political  violence say ULP, NDP
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November 7, 2025
Director of the Institute of Governance and Politics of Latin America and the Caribbean Augustine Ferdinand, and Chairman of the New Democratic Party(NDP), Daniel Cummings, have both said they have not received any reports of political violence in th...
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Duty-free barrel concessions begin today
News
Forrest 
November 12, 2025
The annual duty free concessions on imported barrels take effect from today, November 11, 2025. The concessions, announced on October 27, 2025 by Prim...
NDP candidates turned off by blow horn noise
News
Webmaster 
November 11, 2025
THE LOUD SOUND coming from blow horns was too much for Vice President of the New Democratic Party (NDP) St Clair Leacock, when he approached the micro...
Martin has second stint as Attorney General
News
Webmaster 
November 11, 2025
WHEN JAUNDY MARTIN was first sworn in as Attorney General (AG) on Monday, September 18, 2017, he told the gathering that he never aspired to the posit...
Sports
National Basketball Tournament is back
Sports
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November 7, 2025
Years after private entities stood in the gap to stage invitational 5 vs 5 competitions, the St Vincent and the Grenadines Basketball Federation(SVGBF...
From the Courts
Duo charged with multiple offenses
From the Courts, News
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November 7, 2025
Two young men who have been charged for allegedly attacks against a police officer and use of indecent language pled not guilty when they appeared sep...
Man remanded for  beating his baby’s mother
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November 4, 2025
A young man who beat his baby’s mother in her face with a stick, and struck her brother while he was defending her, was remanded pending sentencing. J...