(Left) FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2008. – Noreen Richards (left), Director of Metrocint General Insurance Company, and Norma Keizer, Editor Emeritus of SEARCHLIGHT cut the ribbon to officially declare the SVG Publishers Inc. opened.
(Top Right) FROM LEFT: Desiree Richards, her mother Noreen Richards, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, Norma Keizer, Searchlight’s Editor Emeritus, Harold Hoyte, Editor Emeritus of The Nation Publishing Company, Barbados, and Clare Keizer, Chief Executive Officer of Interactive Media Limited, publisher of Searchlight Newspaper.
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HAROLD HOYTE
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 Publishers Inc., a private enterprise owned by a group of Vincentians, was officially opened on Tuesday, May 20th, 2008.
Editor Emeritus at The Nation newspaper in Barbados, Harold Hoyte, delivered the featured address, themed:THE FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS.
