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I recently visited the general area of the Richmond Quarry. I was surprised that there was no stone-crushing activity being done. Then I asked myself why we considering dredging sand in the “sensitive area around our airport.” They are moving so much topsoil in search of quarry material that we could satisfy all our backfill material need at the modern deep-water port if we had the means to transport it. Note this was not an official visit, so I was not allowed to go on-site and did not attempt to get on the property. I made this observation from a…

St. Vincent and the Grenadines NetballAssociation (Netball SVG) has forged a working relationship with LondonPulse. Netball SVG’s President Natasha Baptiste connected with CEO of London Pulse out of the United Kingdom, Sam Bird to build a relationship that will assist in increasing participation in the sport and raise thecompetitive standards of the game. Online meetings were held which led to a positive working relationship thus far. London Pulse has shared with Netball SVG fitness testing standards that can be used for the assessment of athletes as well coaching information to assist with the preparation of teams and development of the…

Names of women are among those to be considered for National Hero. According to Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves, the National Advisory Committee on National Heroes, has put forward a number of names for consideration including one of National Hero, Joseph Chatoyer’s five wives. Speaking on the occasion of National Heroes Day at Dorsetshire Hill, Dr. Gonsalves said “We should look perhaps at a few other names, including women, who have not yet emerged and various names have been suggested including the person whom history suggest was Chatoyer’s favourite spouse, but there are other women whose names have been suggested.”…

The decision by High Court Judge Esco Henry in the vaccine mandate case is a significant victory for the people and democracy in SVG. History will record when all else failed, it was the leadership of the Teachers and Public Service Unions and the erudite, lion-hearted judges of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court who stood between the anti-people, autocratic and evil policies of the Ralph Gonsalves regime and SVG’s downward spiral into a hellish reality. In the decision delivered last Monday, Justice Henry ruled that the government’s mandate was unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, disproportionate and tainted by procedural impropriety. The…

Introduction On Tuesday March 14, 2023, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines celebrated National Heroes’ Day, with the formal wreath laying ceremony at the Obelisk in Dorsetshire Hill. There were other localized activities in communities such as Greggs and Fancy celebrating our ancestral heritage through expressions of song, dance, and the spoken work. The level of acceptance and growing expansion of this day of national significance must be commended since the formal recognition only began at the start of this 21st century. The naming of the day began a much overdue process of the recognition of the Garifuna and Kalinago people…

The New Democratic Party (NDP) welcomes the ruling on Monday 13th March by the High Court in the lawsuit that was brought against the Unity Labour Party (ULP) government by the public sector unions, which challenged the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The judge ruled in favour of the unions. The government has signalled its intention to appeal the ruling. It must be noted that an NDP government will discontinue any appeal in the vaccine mandate lawsuit. And, we reiterate our call for the government to reinstate the workers. November 2021, the ULP government instituted its draconian COVID- 19 vaccine mandate, requiring…

SVG Green Party welcomes the ruling of the High Court that said it was illegal for the ULP government to deem public servants to have resigned or left their jobs, if they did not have a Covid-19 vaccination by December 2021. The ruling declaring the government’s actions to be illegal was what most people had already believed. The ULP government’s approach to Covid-19 vaccinations was heavy-handed when it came to public servants. The government had overstepped the mark and appeared to forget an important principle. i.e. that government rules on behalf of the people, not over the people. The ULP…

New York-based, SVG-born football coach – Renrick ‘Scrambler’ Alexander has added his voice in reference to the banning of the Volcanoes FC from all Football activities organized on the auspices of and/or supported by the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF). A ruling by the Disciplinary Committee of the SVGFF after considering the circumstances surrounding an incident at the Victoria Park on February 8, handed down a two-year ban of the senior male and female teams, as well as the club’s Under-13, Under-15 and Under-17 teams. Additionally, four players got individual bans ranging from two to ten years,…

After an absence of two years, the Greiggs Heritage Festival returned to the Greiggs Central Playing Field last Tuesday, March 14, National Heroes Day. An undertaking by the Greiggs Garifuna Council, the Festival attracted a large crowd and was a culmination of five days of activities within the community. The playing field was transformed as it became the site for a recreation of a tribal and traditional village setting, with eighteen structures made of wood and coconut branches. Including among the structures were a wattle and daub hut and a cayo hut. And even as the patrons were in awe…

The selection of St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ Carifta team was finalized with 11 athletes set to travel to The Bahamas, for the Easter weekend. The team will consist of: UNDER 17 GIRLS –Tyhra Charles (100m & 200m) UNDER 17 BOYS –J’aivar Cato (Long Jump)Henreek-K Francois (3000m) UNDER 20 BOYS –Keo Davis (100m & 200m)Amal Glasgow (400m)Zichri Hepburn (5000m)Kyle Lawrence (100m & 200m)Tedre O’Neil (Pole Vault)Uroy Ryan (Long & Triple Jump)OPEN –Samaya Connel – HeptathlonRecardo Williams – Octathlon