The ULP faces a governance challenge, but it does not care. Having won 5 consecutive elections and in the hunt for a sixth, history will record its leader as an ‘election genius’. The governing party has mastered the art of electioneering and power retention, and that’s all that matters to Gonsalves and his clansmen. Democratic best practices are not its forte. The governing party could care less about optics. Prison officer Kenson King has been repeatedly arrested and detained in the smelly holding area at police headquarters in Kingstown. I met him in court yesterday. He appeared to answer charges…
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Introduction The months of February and March are of great significance to the Comrade, the Unity Labour Party, and our entire nation, as several notable events happened during those months over the years. Just a few weeks ago, on February 14, 2023, our nation celebrated 6 years since the opening of the Argyle International Airport and this event, now etched in history is the latest milestone to be celebrated in that month. Part of celebrating milestones is the recognizing of the significance of the event and appreciating the transformative, life-altering nature impacts they have and continue to have on our…
The Volcanoes Under-17 team are among club members who are facing a two- year ban. Manager of the Volcanoes Football Club- Kendall John, has described the Disciplinary Committee of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation decisions to impose lengthy suspensions on the entire club, the banning of selected players as well as the imposition of a fine, among other things as “cruel” and “unjust”. According to a release from the Secretariat of the SVGFF, dated Friday, 24th February, 2023, addressed to John as “President”, the following are some of the actions taken: ‘Volcanoes Football Club is to serve…
Suzette Jackson is the new President of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Basketball Federation (SVGBF) . Defeated Rohan Providence congratulates Suzette Jackson, new President of the SVGBF Jackson was given the nod of approval from 15 affiliates last Wednesday night, March 1, the Paradise Inn Conference Room, as the Basketball Federation held its Annual General Meeting. In the process, Jackson ousted Rohan Providence who was seeking reelection and got 14 votes, and another candidate – Karel Bramble mustered 2 votes. She thus becomes the second female to head the organisation. The first was Nicha Brancker. Elated at being elected…
Vincentians are disturbed by the continuous whittling away of their constitutional and democratic freedoms by the Unity Labour Party (ULP) Administration through the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force. The most recent incidence of this came on Thursday 23 February 2023, when police officers summarily arrested several citizens staging a peaceful protest outside Parliament in Kingstown. Luzette King, Adriana King, John Mofford and Robert “Patches” Knights were arrested by police officers and taken to the Kingstown Police Station where they were kept overnight and charged that they failed to disperse, when instructed by a police officer, from “an…
Vincentian Fashion Designers Kimya Glasgow is among a select group of Caribbean Designers who are featured in the region’s first ever POSFW FashionVerse experience – an NFT platform designed to market, trade, develop and build capacity for Caribbean creatives. On a mission to innovate the Caribbean fashion industry with technology, POS Fashion Week (POSFW) partnered with the Caribbean Development Bank’s Cultural and Creative Industries Innovation Fund (CIIF) and the Caribbean TechnologicalConsultancy Services (CTCS) to create and develop the platform.The project was officially launched on Tuesday (February 28th) in bmobile’s Corporate Box of the Queen’s Park Oval with a Metaverse theme…
By Mario Lubetkin, Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean. The global food security crisis reveals an increase in the undernourishment prevalence, reaching higher than in 2015, when countries first agreed to eradicate hunger by 2030 as one of the SDG targets. In the Caribbean, between 2014 and 2021, hunger increased by 2.3 percentage points, affecting 16.4 percent of its population by 2021. Moreover, the Caribbean is a net importer of almost all the main food groups such as cereals, dairy products, fruits and vegetables (except the Dominican Republic), meat and vegetable oils. This region is…
The University of the West Indies Open Campus and the Vincentian Association of Artists, Writers and Producers Inc. will host the Annual Literary Fair from Wednesday March 8th to Saturday 11th, 2023 under the theme, “Promoting the Arts, Sustaining the Environment, Preserving our Cultural Heritage”. The Literary Fair will include a Book and Art Exhibition, featuring several works by local authors and artists. The main highlight of the Fair will be an Evening with the Arts on Friday March 10th at 7:00 pm featuring live music, poetry, and the performing arts. Mr. Steve Wyllie will launch his new book, “The…
The Governments of the United States of America and the United Kingdom continue to provide assistance to the criminal justice system in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines by supporting the introduction of national case file standards. 100 officers of the Royal Saint Vincent and Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) participated in a training workshop on a new system that will improve the quality and content of criminal case files submitted by the police to prosecutors. Standardized case files enable police and prosecutors to prosecute cases more efficiently while ensuring that cases can be managed and presented in a coherent and professional…
One hundred and twenty- five (125) residents of the communities of Sandy Bay and Overland benefited from a three-month Volcanic Eruption Emergency Project (VEEP) Life Skills initiative. The programme, which provided training support to people living in the red, orange and yellow zones ended on February 24th, 2023. Two graduation ceremonies were held simultaneously on March 2nd for participants from Sandy Bay/Overland at the Sandy Bay Seventh-Day Adventist church, while 87 participants graduated from the Owia/Fancy Cohort. Parliamentary Representative for the North Windward Constituency, Hon. Montgomery Daniel described the past two years as a very challenging period for residents in…