Technical and Vocational Training is in demand and the Adult and Continuing Education unit continues to expand its programme base. In an interview with the API earlier today (Friday January 26, 2024), Senior Education Officer Dearie J. K Richards said beyond the Literacy and Numeracy programme being offered, there are specialised training areas in Theatre Arts, Barbering, Cosmetology (hairdressing), Cake Decorating and Tiling. Tiling is an area that is in the planning stages to be done in practical sessions at a Learning Resource Centre notably, Questelles, because of the demand for that programme in that area. Programmes are open…
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SOON Extensive repair work is being carried out on the Bequia Community High School. This along with several other schools across the country are being repaired under the national school repair programme. The work at the Bequia Community High School includes the renovation and extension of both the upper floor to allow for more than two hundred students as well as work to the lower floors. Allowances are also being made for technical students. The roof of the entire main block is being changed and extensive work is being carried out to expand library facilities at the school. The…
The Meteorological Services at the Argyle International Airport in an advisory issued on Sunday January 28, 2024, advised that starting on Tuesday January 30, 2024, St. Vincent and the Grenadines will be impacted by increasing levels of haze caused by a thick plume of Sahara dust. An initial occasional film of haze is possible across the islands progressing to moderate haze in the evening with decreasing visibility across St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Overnight increasing concentrations of Sahara dust from the plume will result in very poor visibility by Wednesday, January 31, 2024. The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the…
Raphael Ferguson, a 21-year-old Bus Conductor of Redemption Sharpes was arrested and charged with the offence of Possession of an Offensive Weapon. The accused was charged that on Friday January 26, 2024, he had in his possession one (1) cutlass without lawful excuse, in a public place to commit an offence of bodily harm against, a 23-year-old resident of Redemption Sharpes. The incident occurred at Bentick Square, Kingstown about 7:00 p.m.Ferguson appeared at the Kingstown Magistrate Court on Monday January 29, 2024. He pleaded guilty to the charge. He was fined $300.00 to be paid in one (1) month or…
(TT GUARDIAN) – A freak accident claimed the life of a Chaguanas man when his tractor overturned as he sought to drive it atop a flatbed truck. Sunil Samaroo, 36, of Edinburgh Road, Longdenville, Chaguanas, had his head crushed when the tractor overturned and pinned him. It was around 11.49 am on Saturday that Samaroo was driving his Ford Major tractor up a steel ramp onto a DFM 3-tonne flatbed truck which had been parked in the driveway of his premises. It was alleged that as the tractor toppled over onto the driveway with Samroo inside, he was pinned and…
CMC – St Lucia has registered new cases of leprosy so far this year, after recording 11cases last year, health officials have confirmed. In a message to mark World Leprosy Day on Sunday, the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs, said that “leprosy is not an illness of the past, it still affects millions of persons around the world and scores of St Lucians today. “In 2023 the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs registered 11 new cases and at the start of 2024 has already diagnosed new cases. This infection may be transmitted mainly through droplets from…
(TRINIDAD EXPRESS)- Calypsonian Weston “Cro Cro” Rawlins defamed businessman Inshan Ishmael in one of his songs, and has been ordered to pay $250,000 in damages. The ruling was made in a judgment delivered today by Justice Frank Seepersad at the Waterfront Judicial Centre in Port of Spain. Cro Cro was accused of defaming Ishmael on February 5, 2023, during an on-stage performance in which he sang a calypso titled “Another Sat is Outside Again” that allegedly named Ishmael. At a hearing last December, Ishmael said there was no doubt in his mind that Rawlins had been “singing” about him in…
JAMAICA OBSERVER – Rumours are swirling in Jamaica’s indigenous community that reparation money is already here for those people who believe they have been wronged by colonial enslavers. Moreover, questions are being raised in some circles as to how the money will be distributed among the country’s indigenous peoples who should have claim to compensation. “In light of the fact that the Jamaican State has not recognised any indigenous people officially — if there are no indigenous peoples officially in Jamaica — then any reparations money would go straight to the Government,” an inside source said. The Jamaica Observer has…
Plain Talk joins the unions representing public sector workers in criticising the government’s decision to increase taxes as it announced changes to the National Insurance Services (NIS) pension system. These taxes, coupled with the proposed 10 to 15 percent contribution increase announced earlier this month by Finance Minister Camillo Gonsalves, will make life far more difficult for workers and their families. Where are the working class instincts of so-called progressives and veteran trade union leaders Burns Bonadie and Noel Jackson in light of the most recent assault? The simple answer is that the once vibrant ‘progressives’ have thrown in their…
(Excerpts of the Leader of the Opposition, Honourable Dr Godwin Friday’s response to Budget 2024) We have tourism as one of the pillars of the economy. I think it is the largest foreign exchange earner in the country other than remittances. So, it is critically important that we do everything we can to expand it. We heard of the investments in hotel facilities and Sandals coming on stream next month; I believe that is something, Madam Speaker, that we had supported from the beginning. But, don’t forget that this project that Sandals is taking over should have been opened back…