As people all over the world observe World Water Day, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Central Water and Sewerage Authority (CWSA) Winsbert Quow has highlighted the negative impact of climate change on water supply. Mr. Quow in his world water day message said that persons should not take access to water for granted, as he cited a regional study pertaining to the issue. “We should never take this tremendous blessing for granted. One regional study highlights that climate change will impact water quality and quantity, in that there will be a general drying trend, less overall rainfall, and an increased…
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Work on the Sir Vincent Beache Stadium is set to continue throughout 2024. The facility will soon boast a Warm-up track, Locker rooms, Male and Female showers and an administrative block. Minister of Finance Camillo Gonsalves during a call to WE FM’s Issue At Hand program said that the Warm-up track will reduce some of the daily traffic on the main track for those athletes training or ordinary citizens who utilize the track for exercise. Minister Gonsalves said lighting will be installed along with additional seating on the opposite side of the track and provisions for videographers and media personnel.…
Photo Credit:Lance Neverson The Holiday Inn Express hotel at Diamond will be up and running in time for St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ hosting of the 2024 Canadian Bank Note/ Winlott Inc. Windward Islands Schools’ Games. This was confirmed by Minister of Finance Camillo Gonsalves during a call to WE FM’s Issue At Hand program on Sunday. Minister Gonsalves said this would allow for visiting athletes to stay nearby the Sir Vincent Beache Stadium. “Very importantly for the Winlott games, when the athletes from the region come, we will have the Holiday Inn Express open and running at that time.…
The issue Historically, there have been four political tendencies among our people, namely: (i) Roll-over-and-play-dead to colonialism, neo-colonialism, imperialism, and monopoly capitalism; (ii) Accommodation, as strategy, in a vassal-like relationship to colonialism and imperialism; (iii) Accommodation, as tactics, in pragmatic terms to acquire people-oriented benefits; and (iv) Creative Resistance, Renewal, and People-Centred Development. Of all the governments in SVG since universal adult suffrage in 1951 up to the reclamation of independence in 1979, and subsequently, the ULP government has elaborated the tendency of creative resistance, renewal, people-centred development and fashioned it into a fully-fledged popular tradition, underpinned by the requisite…
While not giving the names of those who will fill the post, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves assured that a senior magistrate and a magistrate have been appointed by the Judicial and Legal Services Commission. The two appointees are Vincentian women, with the appointment of the senior magistrate in a permanent capacity while the individual appointed to serve as magistrate will do so temporarily for one year, Dr. Gonsalves disclosed on radio on march 20. Three vacancies in the Magistracy were thrown up recently with the retirement after many extensions of magistrates Zoilla Ellis-Browne and Bertie Pompey, and the elevation…
It is quite heartwarming the amount of love and support that continues to be issued to Shafiqua Maloney since the infamous SportsMax interview. I am of the belief that every Vincentian home and abroad are all pleased with the amount of support that corporate SVG and the government continue to offer Maloney in her quest for gold at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games later this year. This only highlights the need for corporate SVG and the government to accept the need for corporate social responsibility. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) ultimately implies that a company is responsible for assessment of their…
There has never been another time in our history when we had more vehicles on our roads than now. This is a sign of a bit of progress in our society. Our government is largely about progress and development. However, there are two reasons why the current administration might not be placed back there by the Vincentian people in the next elections. One is their failure to fix the roads in this country after being in office for so many terms and the other their inability to improve the public transport system. Everyone is watching this for too long. There…
Photo :credit Fernando Horne The female body that was discovered on Sunday 24,March, 2024 has been identified as 17 year old Kemeisha Haynes, of Murray’s Village Haynes’s body was found over an embankment with what appears to be wounds. One family member told ANN that “Haynes was a troubled child growing up, but despite all that, she doesn’t deserve to die like that. Police are treating the death as a homicide. However, the Autopsy report would determine such .
By Dr. Richard A. Byron-Cox Over the last score years, I have been saying that violent crime in SVG will take a terrible turn, putting us alongside Jamaica and Trinidad. Now SVG has left these in its wake, becoming the top Caribbean killing field. Actually, in murders per 100, 000, we are “numero uno” globally. Apart from being besieged with housebreakings, we have had cutlass attack in church; public servants stealing the nation’s wealth; graduated to mass murder American style; and our MCM Hospital is now a stage where the crime spree is dramatized in living colours. Criminals have an…
Andy: Natalie, Today is a beautiful day for going to the beach, the weather man said the temperature would be 27℃ and humidity is 80%. I think you should call Robert, Anna, and Lisa and let us have that picnic today at the beach. Natalie: I just got off the phone with Robert, Anna, and Lisa and they would be bringing some snacks and food. I think we should start packing and we can leave home for 9:00am. Andy: I love the beach, it is a beautiful place to enjoy the golden sunshine, the sounds of sea birds flying over…