After a two-year hiatus, The Headstart Pre- School hosted their independence celebrations on Wednesday 26th October, 2022 at the school’s premises in Villa/Fountain road. The exhibition featured an impressive array of local goods from St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The students were all dressed in their national attire and took pride in wearing the national colours. The very festive exhibition, included a wide assortment of local fruits and vegetables, craft items,jewelry made using local materials and beads, in the colours of the national flag, as well as paintings depicting local aspects of our heritage and culture. The excitement went to…
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October 27th: What matters? By Professor Richard A. Byron-Cox (PhD) We celebrated our 43rd year of independence with all and sundry decked out in the blue, yellow, and green. There was clearly great pride and some catwalk patriotism, all giving a real boost to national spirit and a sense of unity. Notwithstanding these purposeful spectacles, we ought to rethink somethings in marking October 27th. Independence is standing firm on our own, which must be done primarily through creation, innovation, and persistent diligent hard work; yet October 27 is a holiday. Its real purpose should be a day of national renaissance,…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation will launch its first ever FemaleConcacaf C License Coaching Program on Saturday 29th October 2022 with a totalof twenty-seven (27) participants on Saturday 29th October 2022 at the MethodistChurch Hall from 9:00am. The course is scheduled to run up to a minimum of five (5) weeks with a minimumduration of sixty (60) hours, of theoretical, online and practical sessions. The general aims are to increase the number and quality of certified female coac hesin the country, improve the structure and process of coaching education anddevelop the competencies of our coaches. This will complement…
A Bill for an Act to establish a Medical Laboratories Council was passed in the House of Assembly on Tuesday October 25, 2022. This new legislation will regulate the licensing and monitoring of medical laboratories to ensure medical labs meet international standards and can provide reliable, accurate information to those who use the services. Minister of Health Hon. St Clair Prince said this is critical as there is an increase in the number of public and private labs; additionally, since lab results determine diagnosis and treatment, the quality of the labs must be of the highest standards. “We know that…
As of Monday 31st, of October, gasoline at the pumps will be reduced by $2.10 per gallon and diesel by $1.00 per gallon. Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves made this announcement at the annual independence military parade on Thursday. Dr Gonsalves in his address, said as the nation moves forward from its challenges since 2020, the government notes enhanced benefits and material improvements immediate and prospective; one of which is the establishment of the wages council to review minimum wages which will result in a minimum wage increases from 2023. At the moment, he added, and continuing to the end…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is now the second Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority (ECTEL) member state to introduce new legislation governing the telecommunications sector. This follows the safe passage of the Electronic Communications Bill during the 12th sitting of the House of Assembly on Tuesday October 24th, 2022. The new legislation was tabled by Prime Minister and Minister of Information Hon. Dr Ralph Gonsalves and replaces the Telecommunications Act which was passed by Parliament in the year 2000. In his contribution to the debate in the House of Assembly on Tuesday, Minister of Finance Hon. Camillo Gonsalves thanked ECTEL…
I am going to leave that question for you to answer while I comment on some current issues affecting and afflicting many Vincentians. Earlier this year, officials from Kuwait visited this country to see how their money was being spent on a road project in the Montreal Gardens area. A local newspaper stated that the Prime Minister noted that a contractor had not delivered on the contract, so it was not completed. However, that newspaper failed to name who that contractor was. Earlier this year too, the government boasted that this country had exported its first batch of medical marijuana.…
Third former, Oscar Browne of the St. Martin’s Secondary walked away with the Flow/Lions Club St. Vincent South National Secondary Schools’ Public Speaking championship title, when he gained 412/500 points at the competition finals held at the Methodist Church Hall. On his way to first place, he competed with Derissa James of the Union Island Secondary School, Elrose Millington of the Thomas Saunders Secondary School, Andre Bowman of the Mountain View Adventist Academy, Fayth English of the St. Vincent Girls’ High School and Kondolesha Browne of the Georgetown Secondary School. The championship saw competition in speaking on the main topic:…
Vanique Gumbs will be a young lady when her father Vandyke King, a former police officer, and security officer at the Argyle International Airport (AIA), is released from prison, after serving a sentence of 17 years plus for murder. But the March 7, 2020 slaying of her mother Mickeisha Gumbs, may never be erased from her mind. Vanique was one-year-old at the time of incident, and was the only child the intimate relationship between King and Gumbs produced. But Gumbs, a 26-year-old former preschool teacher also had two elder daughters, from a previous relationship.At the sentencing hearing at the Criminal…
Police constable Jason Adams, attached to the local constabulary was cleared of an attempted rape charge on Monday, after the virtual complainant informed the High Court that she had chosen not to proceed with the matter. When crown counsel Kaylia Toney asked the complainant whether she was beaten, threatened, or promised anything to come to that decision, she said no. Toney, then indicated to the Court that the crown was withdrawing the charge. Adams, 28, of Stubbs was initially charged with raping the woman, who was in her twenties, at the time of the alleged incident, which had reportedly occurred…