Minister of Social Development and Community Development, Frederick Stephenson is among Senior Officials from eighteen Caribbean Countries, attending the launch of the US-Caribbean Resilience Partnership Ministerial in Miami, Florida. Minister Stephenson is accompanied by Director of the National Emergency Management Organization, Michelle Forbes at the Ministerial session, which is looking at new opportunities for collaboration to enhance the region’s preparedness and response efforts In his address at the Meeting, Minister Stephenson said the partnership that has been ongoing between SVG and the US Southern Command is one that is welcomed. He said it will test the national response mechanisms, identify…
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The cash-strapped, Antigua-based regional airline, LIAT, says despite pilots and its workers across all its destinations agreeing to a six per cent salary cut, the airline is still facing a severe financial problem and may require additional salary cuts from its employees, the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) has learned. According to an internal document seen by the CMC, following a shareholders’ meeting in St Vincent and the Grenadines last Friday, the regional airline said that the six per cent cut did not go far enough. “The shareholders are of the view that this proposal did not go far enough and…
The views expressed are not those of ANN but those of the writer . One of the biggest problems in the Caribbean is the cost of governments. Notionless prime ministers who want to play with the big boys on level playing fields. Want the same salaries and the same perks as large countries while only administering countries the size of small towns or large villages in real countries. They cost so much to employ that small country incomes simply cannot support their cost and expenditure. It’s well known that many countries are robbed blind also with money skimmed, paybacks, and…
The National Emergency Management Organization NEMO launched its Volcano Awareness Activities to commemorate 40 years since the last eruption of La Soufriere Volcano on Friday April 12th 2019 NEMO says the activities will focus on community preparedness for a volcanic eruption and sensitizing the public about the ‘Volcanic Emergency Evacuation’ aspect of the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Component of the Tradewinds Exercise 2019. These activities will be conducted in collaboration with the UWI Seismic Research Centre, and with support from the Soufriere Monitoring Unit; the Forestry Division; the Ministry of Health; the Police Force Tradewinds Secretariat and the…
The Government is seeking to establish a SVG-based High Seas Fishing Fleet. Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Saboto Caesar made this statement earlier this week during a ceremony which was held for the Government to sign an agreement with Rainforest Seafoods. Under the agreement Rainforest Seafoods will be constructing plant at Calliaqua and they are expected to commence operations from St. Vincent and the Grenadines over the next 12 to 18 months. Minister Caesar says plans to have this SVG-based High Seas Fishing Fleet comes as part of the Fleet expansion program. He says they are also seeking to…
Police are now investigating the deaths of four people found in a car in Hambug Trace in Toco. The incident appears to be a case of triple murder and suicide. We’re being told that a man appears to have slashed the throats of his wife and two children, including a 7-month-old baby and 11-year-old child before killing himself. This is a developing story and we will have more later.(CNC3)
Following discussions with the Director of Grenadines Affairs, Edwin Snagg, the Bequia Express will be operating from Kingstown to the Southern Grenadines as follows: Today Friday 12th April Leaving Kingstown 10.30am / Union at 4pm Tuesday 16th April Leaving Kingstown 10.30am / Union at 4pm Thursday 18th (subjected to the return of the MV Barracuda) Leaving Kingstown 10.30am / Union at 4pm Monday 22nd at 4pm the boat will be available to take persons from Union Island to St Vincent. Tuesday 23rd April Leaving Kingstown 10.30am / Union at 4pm
Dr. Julian Ferdinand has been selected as the best Lecturer at the UWI Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business for 2018. In fact, this is the fourth occasion on which Dr. Ferdinand has been so honoured, having previously received such an accolade in 2014, 2015 and 2017. The Top Lecturer is assessed, based on evaluation scorers and a lecturer’s teaching by students, and on written comments they provide. In a congratulatory note to Dr. Ferdinand, Professor Wayne Hunte, Academic Director at the Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business, said that students speak…
Another Book Launch will take the place here in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on Monday 15th April 2019. This time is the eagerly awaited Law Test – “Commonwealth Caribbean Sports Law” by Jason Haynes and J. Tyrone Marcus – a joint publication by a Vincentian national and a Trinidadian. The Book was first launched in Trinidad and Tobago on 29th January 2019 at St.Augustine. This Book has over 350 pages and features chapters on Sports Governance; Sports Contracts; Intellectual Property and the Protection of Sports Rights; Civil Liability in Sports; the Legal Regulation of Drugs in Sports; and Emerging…
The views expressed are not those of ANN but of the NDP (Excerpts of Dr. Friday’s Press Statement) On February 11, 2019, the long-awaited trial of the election petitions filed by two of the candidates for the New Democratic Party (NDP), Mr. Benjamin Exeter and Mr. Lauron Baptiste, began. Evidence presented by the petitioners’ witnesses and in cross-examination of the Respondents’ witnesses revealed that all was not well with the 2015 elections in Central Leeward and North Windward constituencies. The evidence revealed many irregularities and illegal conduct on the part of election officials in the conduct of the elections. After…