Canadian Charity, GlobalMedic, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture donated a number of food items to the Ministry of Education today, Friday October 7, 2022. The food items will go towards the Schools Feeding Program which is being run by the Ministry of Education. GlobalMedic volunteer Kathy Rigby said their organization has been in the country for the last Eight (8) months organizing food donations which went to families and communities throughout the country. Rigby said to date they have donated over Fourteen Thousand (14,000) kits. She said they are very excited to assist with the school’s Feeding Program.…
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By Professor Richard A. Byron-Cox (PhD) I am never perturbed by the dissonance my writings cause the “intellectual penny-section,” for conscientious stupidity and sincere ignorance are their lot. I however entreat the rational to subject their belief to reason, measuring it against objective reality, and to consider evidence before sentencing, so as not to demonise mere enquiry and sensible conclusion. I grew up on a religious diet praying five times minimum daily at home and four at school, with this being fortified by Religious Knowledge twice weekly. Sunday school related a multitude of stories about Jesus who was “the same…
Has anyone stopped and taken a look at our revenues lately? A large portion of our annual operating budget is funded with revenues from the “Foreign Land Holders Act”; in short, revenue from land sales and taxes by non-Vincentian property owners. As indicated earlier this year by the Prime Minster, this income stream is lower than it has been in previous years. This is one of the reasons why I previously advocated that we should not use this income to fund daily operations. It is too sensitive to the global economic conditions and indeed not recession-proof. One way to use…
By Jomo Thomas ‘We have been oppressed a great deal, we have been exploited a great deal, and we have been disregarded a great deal. It is our weakness that has led to our being oppressed, exploited and disregarded. Now we want a revolution–a revolution which brings an end to our weakness, so that we are never again exploited, oppressed or humiliated.’ Julius Nyerere, former president of Tanzania. The Vincentian government is very oppressive to its citizens. It actively fosters the exploitation of citizens. Take its pension policies. Workers who retire are made to wait years before they can collect…
Introduction Over the last two weeks, the progressive and proactive foreign policy of the government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has been on display for all to see. One of the reasons that SVG’s global reputation has seen such dramatic improvement over the last 20 years, is that our well-thought-out foreign policy that has allowed us to increase our multi-lateral engagements in organisations such as the Organisation of American States, the Commonwealth and the United Nations. Our country has for the last 21 years provided serious leadership at the regional level; the OECS and CARICOM, on a number of…
The lack of universal preschool education provision in SVG is having a negative impact on children’s short and long-term life opportunities and outcomes. It is the children of the poor who suffer the most from the ULP regime’s failure to provide free preschool education for all. Research indicates that high-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) can have a positive effect on children’s educational, cognitive, behavioural and social outcomes, in both the short and long term. ECEC can also play a positive role in raising attainment and closing the gap between outcomes for children from disadvantaged backgrounds and other children.…
Eighteen-year-old Joel Williams of New Montrose was, on Wednesday granted $14,000 bail with one surety when he appeared in Court on firearm and ammunition charges. He is charged with possession of a Glock .27 pistol, and five rounds of .40 ammunition, without licenses. Williams pleaded not guilty to both charges when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Rechanne Browne at the Serious Offences Court on Wednesday. Williams was wearing the uniform of a secondary school, but Court Clerk, Sergeant Atnel Ash informed the Court that Williams was no longer in school. But Williams’ attorney Grant Connell responded, “That was not in…
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has stressed that the materials received are for one purpose only. The building materials that arrived here from the Jamaican company, Tank-Weld is to be used in the repair and construction of homes for persons in the red and orange zones. According to Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves, since the quantity of building materials arrived here, members of government have been ‘bombarded’ by requests for some of the items from persons from all over country. The assignment of the EC$5 million worth of items cannot be assigned generally because they are needed to finish the…
The New Democratic Party (NDP) believes now more than ever, that we have to revisit our administrative development approach. If we examine the constituency representatives’ records of service to the voters of our blessed land, it is difficult not to conclude that we have witnessed a system failure in our political administrative process. We can solve the problem through the implementation of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF).If we approach national development from a constituency level, we are more likely to have a better result, specifically the following: more people will share the national pie, national wealth will be more adequately…
Students from ten schools across St. Vincent and the Grenadines benefitted from Digicel SVG’s recent back to school initiative. Five students at each school were the happy recipients of school supplies, lunch support for the term through the school feeding program or transportation. Digicel SVG’s Brenda Barbour-Charles said, “The impact we have on our communities is very important to us, and education plays such a key role in improving livelihoods. Coming out of the pandemic, we know that many people are having a tough time, and the rising cost of living has resulted in greater challenges than we would normally…