Marijuana debate should maintain a constructive character

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It has been a long time since any proposed piece of legislation has generated as much public interest and debate as that currently raging over three p...

Despite the gains, teachers should never forget

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Last week, teachers in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) celebrated the 43rd anniversary of the 1975 historic teachers’ strike with a series of ev...

Crime Again

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Over and over, SEARCHLIGHT and other sections of the media have raised the ugly spectre of violent crime in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) and th...

SVG’s Climate Change Resilience agenda gets major boost

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The efforts by St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) through its foreign policy, to bring attention to the effects of climate change on small island sta...

Disappointing referenda results

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We at SEARCHLIGHT share the deep disappointment of Caribbean patriots in the results of the referenda in Antigua & Barbuda, and Grenada on Tuesday...

Scratch bombs and the prohibited items list

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There are many items that cannot be imported into St Vincent and the Grenadines, some are restricted and others for which one must obtain a special li...

The Expo is over, what next?

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SEARCHLIGHT wishes to congratulate all the individuals and businesses, as well as Invest SVG for the impressive display put on at the Everything Vincy...

National Pride, Productivity and Achievement

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The outward manifestations of our national pride have definitely grown in the last 39 years. You can see it in the way our people proclaim that the...

Bring the rope of Vincentian National Pride

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All this week SEARCHLIGHT has been featuring on our website and social media platforms*, the progress being made by some of our young athletes who are...

School repairs, disrepair and crisis situations

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Why do we sometimes wait until things reach crisis proportions before action is taken? As far as we are aware, there exists a reporting procedure whi...