On Friday 27th November 2020, the “SVG Seafarers Group” launched its services to Vincentian Seafarers and other water users. In light of the recent events regarding seafarers and the lack of a seafarer association in SVG – Mr. Chevanev Charles, a lawyer holding a Master’s degree in International Maritime Law from the International Law Maritime Institute (Malta), started this service to empower seafarers to be safer and confidently work locally and abroad. Lawyer Charles states that “Seafarers are the lifeblood of shipping, if there are no seafarers you cannot go the Grenadines, transport goods in volume, get any resource from…
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The Unity Labour Party (ULP) regime has deceived the youth of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. They were promised thousands of jobs, and nineteen (19) years after the ULP gained power the situation remains the same. During the recently held general elections campaign, the New Democratic Party (NDP) presented an impressive programme of job creation and opportunities for our youth. Unfortunately, the youth will not benefit from our programme and are still suffering. The youth supported the NDP because of the high unemployment rate. They supported because they were fed up on the ULP. They supported because they were fed…
Introduction On Sunday, December 6th 2020, the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Nine Morning Committee had a very impressive launch of the 2020 edition of the Nine Mornings festival. The launch took place against the backdrop of a well-managed Covid-19 pandemic that continues to create serious challenges to developed and developing countries alike, and a global economic crunch brought on as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite this reality, thousands of Vincentians came into capital city Kingstown to be part of the very seasonal Sunday shopping experience, as well as to be part of the launch that took the…
Up to press time Wednesday, Andy ‘Blacka’ Bennett, 62-year-old farmer of Chateaubelair, was awaiting the return of monies detained by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) since February last year. In a judgement handed down at the Serious Offences Court on December 2, this year, Chief Magistrate Rechanne Browne said she was not satisfied that there was sufficient evidence to show that the monies were intended for unlawful use, or were the proceeds of unlawful conduct, directly or indirectly. As a result, she ordered the release and return of the monies to Bennett. The Magistrate had reserved her decision in the…
Senior Prosecutor Adolphus Delpleche minced no words in castigating investigator Cpl. Colin May and others responsible for the tardiness in ensuring proper presentation of typed transcripts of witnesses’ statement. An issue regarding the clarity of witnesses’ statements in a murder Preliminary Inquiry (PI), and the attitude of some in authority, may have been the impetus for an angry response from Senior Prosecutor Adolphus Delpleche during on Monday’s sitting of the Serious Offences Court. The Prosecutor, in expressing his disgust, referred to the investigator Corporal Colin May as a “dastardly liar,” as an unaccustomed drama unfolded at the Court. The matter…
The Public Health Department based on its mandate under the Public Health Act No. 7 of 1977 wishes to inform all butchers, slaughter men and farmers that all locally harvested food animals in St. Vincent and the Grenadines must be inspected and passed as fit for human consumption by the Public Health Department before being sold for human consumption. In this regard, the Public Health Department further reminds all parties of the meat inspection process for the Christmas season. ● Anti-mortem inspection or the examination of animals prior to slaughter must be conducted by an Environmental Health Officer. Persons are…
MISSION, Kansas (AP) — Just when the US appears on the verge of rolling out a COVID-19 vaccine, the numbers have become gloomier than ever: Over 3,000 American deaths in a single day, more than on D-Day or 9/11. One million new cases in the span of five days. More than 106,000 people in the hospital. The crisis across the country is pushing medical centres to the breaking point and leaving staff members and public health officials burned out and plagued by tears and nightmares. All told, the crisis has left more than 290,000 people dead in the US, with…
WASHINGTON, United States (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is naming Susan Rice as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, giving her broad sway over his administration’s approach to immigration, health care and racial inequality and elevating the prominence of the position in the West Wing. The move marks a surprising shift for Rice, a longtime Democratic foreign policy expert who served as President Barack Obama’s national security adviser and UN ambassador. She worked closely with then-Vice President Biden in those roles and was on his short list to become his running mate during the 2020 campaign. Biden is…
A 37-year-old man convicted of six counts of having sex with a female under the age of 14 is the first person to be ordered by the court to register as a sex offender.Everton Joseph will have to register at the police station in his district seven days after he serves a nine-year prison term. His name will remain on the register for ten years and he must report annually, as ordered by the judge who sentenced him on Wednesday.Joseph was before Justice Hayden St Clair-Douglas at a virtual sentencing hearing from prison. He was convicted by a jury in…
Former public servant Mitchell ‘Mitch’ Israel will stand trial in the High Court for the murder of his wife Arianna Taylor-Israel, a Cuban national who was employed here as a nurse. Taylor-Israel was reportedly shot multiples times on the compound of the St. Martin’s Secondary School around 3 p.m. on January 30 this year. Following a Preliminary Inquiry (PI) which started at the Serious Offences Court earlier this year and concluded there on Monday, Chief Magistrate Rechanne Browne ruled that the Prosecution had presented sufficient evidence for the accused to stand trial. Several witnesses had testified at the PI for…