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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…

The St Vincent and the Grenadines Cadet Force is preparing to hold Lecture next Tuesday,April 16th at Frenches House in Kingstown. The Lecture which begins at 7:00 p.m will be held as part of activities to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the eruption of La Soufiere. The lecture is entitled: “Logistic Processes in Disaster Operations: Lessons learnt from volcanic eruptions in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.” The presenter will be Major Curtis Dennie a logistics expert with over 20 years’ experience in international and 3rd party logistics, port operations, humanitarian logistics, warehouse management and transportation. A release from the Cadet…

The United Nations Resident Coordinator of the U.N Sub-regional Office for Barbados and OECS, Didier Trebucq, presented Letters of Credence to Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves earlier this week. Mr. Trebucq arrived in Barbados in January this year, to assume duties as the Resident Coordinator and Designated Official for Security, on behalf of the United Nations System. He will have overall responsibility and exercise team leadership for the coordination of operational activities for development in Barbados and the OECS countries. Mr. Trebucq will be the highest-ranking representative of the United Nations development System in Barbados and the OECS. The Government…

Minister of Agriculture, Saboto Caesar says the Government continues to strengthen its Agri Export Strategy Initiative. He made this statement during yesterday’s ceremony which was held for the Government to sign an agreement with Rainforest Seafoods, which is the region’s largest processor and supplier of premium quality seafood. For the project approximately nine million dollars will be invested here for the establishment of a Fish Processing Plant at Calliaqua. The project is expected to become operational within the next 12 to 18 months.

On May 3rd the Electoral Office will be holding a Public Sensitization program in Kingstown. The program will be held at the Space which was formerly the Old Treasury Building. Deputy Supervisor of Elections, Sylvester King says objective of the event will be to sensitize members of the public about the Electoral Office and its work. Mr. King stressed that during the Community Educational program they will also be conducting reregistration for people with expired Identification Cards. He however notes that no Identification Cards for new registrants or transfers will be processed during this event. He stressed that this will…

A twenty-year-old St Vincent national arrested moments after disembarking the inter-island ferry (Osprey Line) on the sister isle of Carriacou last Monday has been remanded to the Richmond Hill Prison. Paval Patterson whose address was given as Chateau Belair in St Vincent was denied bail as he made his first appearance before Magistrate Taheria Gellineau at the #2 Magistrate Court in St George’s on Wednesday on a single charge of money laundering. According to information reaching the Grenada Informer, Patterson was intercepted by law enforcement officers, moments after getting off the Osprey on the sister isle. A search was carried…

The Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines signed a Memorandum of Understanding with regional Seafood exporter, Rainforest Seafoods on Wednesday April 10th 2019 Under the agreement within the next 12 months Rainforest Seafoods will establish a Fish packaging facility at Calliaqua. Speaking at the signing ceremony, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says when Rainforest Seafoods starts operating in St. Vincent and the Grenadines it will complement the work the Government is already doing to ensure further growth in the country’s fisheries sector. CEO of Rainforest Seafoods Brian Jardim says they are ready to start working because St. Vincent and…

The Inland Revenue Department has been challenged to pay greater attention to its Revenue Collection measures. The challenge was issued by Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves while contributing to the debate on the Income Tax Amendment Bill in Parliament last week. Prime Minister Gonsalves, the Government has taken a number of initiatives to reduce taxes and put certain measures in place to make the tax system more efficient. However, he expressed disappointment with the collection of taxes by the Inland Revenue Department.

A self-con­fessed panty thief was sent to prison for four years on Wednes­day af­ter elud­ing of­fi­cers for al­most a year. Bri­an Mc Ken­zie, 36, was nabbed by un­der­cov­er po­lice of­fi­cers ear­li­er this week near a bar in San­gre Chiq­ui­to, a vil­lage south of San­gre Grande. Po­lice said Mc Ken­zie was ac­cused of steal­ing var­i­ous items of cloth­ing which were put out to dry by home­own­ers. He is ac­cused of steal­ing women’s un­der­wear and men’s cloth­ing, house­hold items, fruits, veg­eta­bles and threat­en­ing home­own­ers who con­front­ed him in the San­gre Chiq­ui­to dis­trict. Mc Ken­zie ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Bramb­hanan Dubay in the First…

The en­tire West In­dies se­lec­tion pan­el has been fired by the new ad­min­is­tra­tion and a three-man com­mit­tee will se­lect the re­gion­al team for the up­com­ing In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) World Cup in Eng­land. New­ly elect­ed pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Ricky Sker­ritt will an­nounce at a press con­fer­ence this morn­ing in An­tigua, that there is a new coach tak­ing the team to the World Cup and al­so a new se­lec­tion pan­el will be pick­ing the said squad. Bar­ba­di­an Floyd Reifer will re­place Richard Py­bus as coach of the re­gion­al team. Reifer comes in to re­place Py­bus be­fore the Eng­lish­man’s…