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…
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(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…
INTRODUCTION In Budget 2024, Education receives an allocation of $204.1 million ($173.4 million in the recurrent budget and $30.7 million in capital spending) or 12.6 percent of the overall budget of $1.6 billion ($1.045 billion recurrent budget; $570.5 million, capital budget). MAIN 2024 CAPITAL PROJECTS IN EDUCATION: A SUMMARY Human Development Service Delivery Project of $27.85 million financed by soft-loan from World Bank (IDA) of $27.7 million and a Local Loan of $150,000. Project duration 2017-2025. Cumulative expenditure thus far: $14 million. Budget for 2024: $4.43 million Four components: (i) Strengthening Pedagogy for Basic and Special Needs Education; (ii) Building…
Less than a week after Eardley Martin, President of the SVG Volleyball Association, said he was “unfazed” (as reported in THE VINCENTIAN of January 19, 2024) by a move to have him removed, he has bowed to that pressure. That pressure, mounted by two clubs- Gremlins and Country Roots, had reached a level to which Martin eventually had one response, i.e. to resign. As a consequence, a new Executive could be elected as early as Monday, January 29, 2024. This follows on a letter from the Gremlins Club and signed by Nikita Campbell, which summoned clubs to a meeting at…
There will be no Elective Congress of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF) this Saturday, November 27, 2024, as previously announced. Instead, an Extra Ordinary Congress will be convened via Zoom on that date, beginning at 9:30am, to get approval of the SVGFF Electoral Code, the Electoral Committees, as well as the decision/position from parent bodies and the road map to Elective Congress. The deferral of the Congress which should have seen the election of a new Executive to administer the affairs of the SVGFF for the next quadrennial, came on the advice of the sport’s world…