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…
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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…
Keilrick Frankyln of ‘Franklyn Designs and Printing’ recently sat down with ANN for an interview where he shared with us just how his passion for creativity led him into the world of entrepreneurship. Franklyn Designs does printing on shirts, cups, plaques, signs, business cards, and more. First, a bit of background on the owner and operator of Franklyn Designs. He is from Rose Hall, attended the Troumaca Ontario secondary school, and went on to further his studies at the Saint Vincent and the grenadines community college. Keilrick is now a member of the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police…
The No. 27 Girl Guides Kingstown, the 1st Georgetown Girl Guides Company, No.24 JPEMSS and No. 16 Thomas Saunders Girl Guides concluded their World Thinking Day activities with a community outreach service in the village of Owia last Saturday. The girls’ journey on the “New Adventure Camp” on Friday 24th to Sunday 26th February in Owia. They happily distributed groceries to the elderly around the community. Also as part of the outreach service, books and other personal items were donated to the children in the community. The villagers were very happy to receive such warm gestures from the Girl Guides…
St Vincent and the Grenadines as of the latest World Netball rankings which wasreleased on Wednesday March 01, 2023, is now ranked number 17, having moved upthree places from the December 2022 world rankings. PHOTO -: Players and officials of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines netball team in Jamaica October 2022 (Photo by Robertson S. Henry) President of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Netball Association Natasha Baptiste was most elated stating: “This is very good news for netball in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.It shows that there are positive results after working hard, but that does not mean…
The St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ Chamber of Industry and Commerce (SVGCIC) and the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) signifying a developing business relationship between Korea and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The signing took place on Tuesday February 28th, 2023 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Conference Room. KITA is the largest business organisation in Korea. Several Vincentian entrepreneurs were in attendance at the signing ceremony, and had the opportunity to interact with the KITA representatives. Executive Director of the SVGCIC Anthony Regisford said the MOU demonstrates “a way of officially laying out…