Thanks to the work of St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ Consul General in Canada Mr. Fitzgerald Huggins, the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital will soon be equipped with new beds and other medical equipment. Consul General Huggins during a call to WE FM’s Issue At Hand program, said there will be 165 beds and mattresses donated by a Canadian hospital. He also confirmed that the three containers containing the beds and other medical equipment are currently on the ground in SVG. SVG’s Consul General to Canada said that following a discussion with those in charge at MCMH about is needed at…
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Following the dismissal of a case against St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ buggery and gross indecency law brought by two LGBT Vincentians by the nation’s high court, International Human Rights Lawyer Jeshua Bardoo, has said that these laws embolden persons to feel justified in discriminating against those in the LGBT community Mr. Bardoo was at the time appearing as a guest on WE FM’s Activated Mornings program, where he highlighted the human rights aspect of the law’s existence, saying that the law violates human rights. “These laws violate people’s human rights and basic dignity, you do not deserve to be…
February 20, 2024, Kingstown: On Monday 19th February 2024, Police arrested and charged Rohan Peters, 54yrs, Labourer of Stubbs with wounding. The accused allegedly, unlawfully and maliciously wounded a 45-year-old Labourer of Stubbs by chopping him on the back of his head with a cutlass. The incident occurred at Stubbs on September 02, 2023 about 10:15 am. Peters appeared at the Calliaqua Magistrate Court on Tuesday 20th February 2024 and pleaded guilty with an explanation. After hearing the explanation, the presiding magistrate entered a not-guilty plea on the defendant’s behalf. The matter was adjourned to April 2nd, 2024 for trial. The accused…
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent. – The National Insurance Services (NIS) would like to inform its valued pensioners who receive their pension payment via cheque, that their cheques must becollected at the NIS’ office in Kingstown, on Friday February 23, 2024. Furthermore, these valued pensioners are strongly advised to submit a bank or creditunion account during their visit, to facilitate their pension payments. Failure to do this will result in delays to their pension payments going forward. If a pensioner does not have an account, theNIS will work along with them to provide the necessary assistance to facilitate the opening of one.…
Invest SVG, the agency responsible for promoting investments in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, recently hosted a tour for two prospective investors from a prominent corporation interested in the logistics industry within the region. This tour showcased the site of the upcoming port facility, a project poised to transform the Kingstown waterfront with substantial infrastructural enhancements. Mr. Lenski Douglas, the Assistant Project Manager for the Government, conducted the tour of the new port project, providing valuable insights and lending his knowledge to explain the vision of the Port Facility. The tour began at the Batch Plant, where the cement is…
By Arianne Johnson Forbes .com (Forbes .com) I cover the latest trends in science, tech and healthcare. TOPLINE Covid vaccines from companies like Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca were linked to rare occurrences of heart, brain and blood disorders, a recent peer-reviewed study found, though experts say the risks of developing Covid-19 greatly outweigh the risks of getting vaccinated. KEY FACTS Researchers from the Global Vaccine Data Network—a research arm of the World Health Organization—looked at expected versus observed rates of 13 medical conditions that were considered “adverse events of special interest” in a study population of 99 million vaccinated people eight countries,…
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A Union Island fisherman and diver walked free from the High Court on Tuesday after being acquitted on charges of attempted murder, wounding with intent, unlawful use of a firearm, and using a firearm to aid in the commission of the offense. Caldwell Brown was on trial for the attempted murder of Anthony Franklyn, 28, also of Union Island, wounding Franklyn with intent, unlawfully discharging a firearm at Franklyn, and using a firearm with intent to commit the murder of Franklyn. All four offenses were allegedly committed at Union Island on November 5, 2022, stemming from the same incident. However,…
St Vincent and the Grenadines and the Republic of India continue to build relations, there is potential for trade and investment within India’ s many industries. India’s Minister of Commerce and Trade Piyush Goyal said India is open to trading on different levels with its Caribbean and Latin American counterparts. The Minister said areas such as textile, energy and pharmaceuticals are some immediate areas of trade collaboration and investment. ” Trading relations between us can be huge, pharma[ceutical] is a low hanging fruit, India’s pharma[ceutical] can reduce cost of healthcare…we have the best of medicines, quality products which take care…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines continue to be sold out, and the locals always end up with the short end of the stick. “This resort is a dream more than two decades in the making- from the moment we laid eyes on Vincy, as the locals lovingly call her, and felt this sense of magic and wonder and awe so palpable you could almost touch it,”- Adam Stewart, executive chairman of Sandals Resorts International. Universally, citizens of SVG and foreigners would strongly agree with the words above that were uttered by the “big man” for Sandals Resorts International. SVG is…