Former members of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Coastguard Service have created an association after extensive consultation and deliberation. The Association’s goal is to: Assist the SVG Coastguard Service wherever possible Offer aid to its members when needed, and Participate in activities that improve the social life of its membersOn June 13, 2023, an election was held to select an executive to handle the association’s affairs for the next two years. The elected executive is as follows:President – Norris StewartVice President – Jerome DickSecretary – Brenton CainTreasury – Aaron FrancoisPRO – Kenneth SkerrittCommittee members – Ralph Liverpool, Tyrone JohnThe Association…
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Attorneys Grant Connell and Carl Williams, defense lawyers in the retrial in which two men were recently convicted of double murder, are of the view that the jury may have had some issues of concern in arriving at the verdicts, having taken over four hours to do so. A 12-member Jury comprised of six men and six women, on Friday, June 9, found residents of Rillan Hill – Schemel ‘Jacket’ Dunbar and Kendine ‘Hoody’ Douglas – guilty of the May 4, 2027 murder of police constable Danroy Cozier 25, and his brother Nicholas Cozier, 19. The jury retired at 11:30…
Introduction One of the most attached policies of this Unity Labour Party administration is the education revolution with its many facets covering early childhood to university education. This revolution that was rolled out within the first term of the ULP coming into office represented a visionary and transformative approach to education that was hitherto absent from previous policy initiatives. The policy as outlined was to address immediately the issue of universal access to secondary education and increase opportunities for our nation’s students at all levels including adult and continuing education. It is noteworthy to keep in mind that the same…
The blue economy has been identified by the New Democratic Party (NDP) as one of the pillars for economic development for St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The blue economy includes fishing, aquaculture, shipping, deep-sea mining, shipbuilding and repair and yachting. We believe that the blue economy should be central to our economic growth. President of the NDP and Leader of the Opposition, Honourable Dr. Godwin Friday, in his 2023 Budget presentation, spoke to the government’s poor management of the development of the blue economy. He said, “The government has now been talking a lot about developing fishing, although it doesn’t…
The island of Mustique was purchased in 1958 – see Act no. 62 of 1989. The Mustique Company Ltd. established a tourism industry and other commercial undertakings in Mustique.The ULP regime came into office in 2001 and brought in the Mustique Company Act no. 48 of 2002. Under the 2002 Act, no customs duties or other taxes or duties are imposed by the ULP government on any aircraft, ships, boats or parts thereof, imported by Mustique Company, its subsidiaries or any qualifying residential licensee.All materials, vehicles, equipment, tools, replacement parts, medicines, petroleum products and supplies which are considered by the…
LIssued at 6:00 pm, Monday 26th June, 2023Instability ahead of an approaching tropical wave will continue to generate occasionalshowers over some areas of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). However, as thenight progresses, the upper atmosphere is predicted to gradually become favourable,thus increasing the frequency and intensity of shower/thunderstorm activity. As a result,the forecast into tomorrow is for cloudy to overcast skies, pockets of moderate to heavyshowers, occasionally gusty winds and isolated thunderstorms. Similar conditions arelikely during Wednesday as instability trailing the tropical wave persist.The latest forecast model guidance suggests rainfall accumulations of 50-75 millimeters(approximately 2-3 inches) with isolated higher…
Andrew McKie, better known as Yellow, who was hit by a pickup truck last week in Kingstown succumbed to his injuries at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital on Friday. ANN was reliably informed by an eye witness that the man was struck in the vicinity of the Bank of SVG on Grenville Street and carried to Halifax Street in front of the Court House where he eventually landed. A video circulated on social media, showing a man on the street in front of the House of Assembly and Court House with injuries about his body and pick up truck with…
We are either heartbroken or marginally concerned by the news of another shooting death or some other kind of violent act inflicted on another of our brothers or sisters. I, though, still can’t get the image of a “security guard” beating a man on the streets of Kingstown with a cutlass. One half of our brain says we must do better, while the other half says it is what it is. In other words, I don’t care as long as it’s not someone related to me. As the older people will say, we must address this issue before things get…
2:35PM: A POWERFUL TROPICAL WAVE IS APPROACHING THE REGION: HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY MAINLY ON TUESDAY A robust and active Tropical Wave is located along 53/54°W approaching the Lesser Antilles at a fast pace of 20 knots. Numerous to widespread showers and isolated to scattered thunderstorms are noted east of the region moving generally westward with a slight west-northwestward motion likely from late evening or early tonight. **This Tropical Wave is forecast to bring an increase in showers and thunderstorms to most of the island chain from this evening or tonight through Tuesday. – There is a high chance…
Elvis Daniel, perhaps remembered by most Vincentians as a former New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for the North Windward constituency, died on the evening of Thursday 15th June, 2023. His passing was first made public on Friday by NDP New Times host Igal Adams. Daniel was also a local preacher and a mathematician of no mean measure. He contested General Elections in the North Windward Constituency as a candidate for the New Democratic Party (NDP) in 2005 and 2010 general elections, and was defeated on each occasion by the incumbent Montgomery Daniel of the Unity Labour Party (ULP). But Daniel…