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4.8 Magnitude earthquake rattles St Vincent
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake rattled St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Friday morning, according to data from the UWI Seismic Research Centre. UWI, SRC – Automatic Earthquake Location DATE AND TIME: 2025-10-03 10:59 am (Local Time) MAGNITUDE: 4.8...

The partisan political officer!!!
Tuesday night’s incident at a political meeting of the Constituency Branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the St Andrew North-east constituency calls for our political parties to settle among themselves a roadmap for their supporters...
Jamaica to host Caribbean Week of Agriculture 2026
Jamaica will host the 20th Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA)🌱, the Hon. Indar Weir, Chair of the 121st Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Agriculture, announced on Thursday, 2 October 2025. The Minister...
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines launches a pilot project on sargassum to turn a challenge into an opportunity
Sargassum, long considered a scourge of the Caribbean, is now at the heart of an innovative project in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The archipelago is embarking on a pilot initiative to transform this brown seaweed into agricultural and...

St Vincent PM slams US imperialism, Israeli genocide in Gaza
Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, emphasized that though the world is “more dangerous than ever […] a better tomorrow is possible — even as catastrophes loom and dangers lurk”. In a bid for unity amid global...

Tobago’s Jolé St. John is CTO 2025 Regional Tourism Youth Congress Winner
Regional Tourism Youth Congress participants with (l-r) Charles Fernandez, Minister of Tourism of Antigua and Barbuda; Dona Regis-Prosper, CTO Secretary-General; Councillor Tashia Burris, Secretary of Tourism, Tobago; Ian Gooding-Edghill, CTO...
Financial Information Month Festival 2025 Launched
The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) officially launched Financial Information Month (FIM) Festival 2025 on 30 September with a regional media event that brought together banking partners, students, educators, government representatives, and...
Voting in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, our journey and responsibility
EDITOR: The right to vote in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), like across much of the Caribbean, was not freely given. It was won through centuries of resistance, advocacy, and reform. Under British colonial rule, voting was severely...

St. Vincent And The Grenadines Gets Ready For 2025 Cannabis Festival
News Americas, Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Fri. Sept. 19, 2025: St. Vincent and the Grenadines, (SVG), is rolling out the green carpet this October with the return of CannaBliss SVG, the Caribbean’s premier medicinal cannabis...

St. Vincent and the Grenadines to host second CannaBliss SVG Festival in October
St. Vincent and the Grenadines is gearing up to welcome visitors from around the world for CannaBliss SVG 2025, the Caribbean’s premier medicinal cannabis festival, set for October 2–5 at Victoria Park in Kingstown. - Advertisement - Now in its...

Mexico, Paraguay back Guyana’s candidacy for IICA top post
MEXICO and Paraguay, two countries with governments of different political leanings but with significant agricultural development policies in common, officially announced their decision to support Guyana’s candidacy for the position of...

Four major hotel development projects for St. Vincent and the Grenadines
LEFT TO RIGHT: Moderator - Neeka Anderson-Isaacs, Carlos James - Minister of Tourism, Civil Aviation, Sustainable Development and Culture, Camillo Gonsalves - Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Information Technology, Trevor Sadler -...
Life Sciences Cloud Content Migration: Separating Fact from Fiction
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St Vincent could benefit from India’s tax cuts on medicines
Next Gen GST reforms: A step towards Atmanirbhar and Viksit Bharat by 2047 Coinciding with the start of the festive season, India is set to revamp its Goods and Services Tax (GST) system starting 22 September 2025 by rolling out GST 2.0 that is...

Andre Cox: St. Vincent’s Lone 9/11 Victim
On this solemn day, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines remembers Andre “Colin” Cox, the nation’s only victim of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, whose story of determination and sacrifice continues to resonate two decades later. Andre Cox...

CARICOM lawyers ‘must meet Barbados Bar requirements’
10 The Barbados Bar Association issued a firm reminder that all attorneys wishing to work in Barbados under the new CARICOM cross-border initiative must first satisfy the established legal entry and registration requirements, regardless of their...
Cannabliss Festival opens in SVG
News October 3, 2025 by GRACE FRANCIS THE 2025 CANABLISS Festival opened at Victoria Park, yesterday, Thursday, October 2, 2025, where it was noted that CannaSVG is the world’s leading medical grade cannabis manufacturer based in St Vincent &The...

Vincy software engineer launches Decision SVG website
Europe-based Vincentian software engineer Janique-Ka John has launched an innovative interactive platform that presents historical election data for St. Vincent and the Grenadines dating back to 1994. Driven by a longstanding passion for data...

Bar Association requirements still stand in Barbados
174 The Barbados Bar Association is reminding regional attorneys that while it supports the October 1 free movement arrangement among four CARICOM states, anyone seeking to practise law in Barbados must still be admitted to the local Bar. In a...

UK company provides technology to combat sargassum seaweed in St Vincent
Sargussum (Photo: CMC) September 6, 2025 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — A United Kingdom (UK) based ocean farming company is providing the technology to transform the Caribbean’s sargassum seaweed problem into a sustainable business. If the project...