Private citizens at home and abroad, governments near and far as well as internationally based aid agencies are flocking to help the thousands of Vincentians who have been displaced by the ongoing explosive activity at the La Soufriere volcano. The Global Empowerment Mission along with Aerial Recovery, the Janice Lyttle Foundation (and other partners) are amongst those who are “responding in the first phase of the disaster response.” A letter, posted on GEM’s official website and dated April 11, detailed Prime Minister’s Gonsalves’ request to the decade old “first responder to global disasters.” True to form, GEM was able to…
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Two young men are now on remand at Her Majesty’s Prison, having been charged for burglarizing a shop in Sandy Bay – one of the villages in the north of the country which has been evacuated because of the erupting La Soufriere Volcano. Chief Magistrate Rechanne Browne remanded Shemmar Baptiste and Raphael Lavia when they appeared before the Serious Offences Court yesterday. Baptiste and Lavia are charged that on April 9, 2021 at London, Sandy Bay, he entered the liquor and provision shop of Calvert John as trespassers and stole two boxes of Bambu paper valued $400, four bottles of…
This country has lost one of its most senior practicing legal luminaries. Queen’s Counsel Parnel ‘PR’ Campbell died last night after battling health issues. Campbell’s death came on a night that ‘The Law and You’ half-hour television programme he founded and hosted is broadcast. ‘The Law and You,’ a public education programme, is celebrating its 24th year this month, having begun airing in April 1997 on the indigenous SVG TV which has been sponsoring the programme since its sixth year. Campbell served as Attorney General and Minister of Justice under the James Mitchell-led administration from 1987 to 1985. Campbell, while…
Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General The Secretary-General expresses his deep solidarity with the people and Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines following the eruptions of the La Soufrière volcano. This crisis comes at the most difficult time, as the world is grappling with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and ahead of the hurricane season. The Secretary-General commends the local response efforts underway and reiterates the full support of the United Nations. The United Nations has released $1 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund to assist the emergency response and stands ready to provide additional help.
On 19th April 2021, members of the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) were the recipients of a donation of one (1) 40-foot container containing two thousand six hundred (2600) cases of bottled water from the Coreas Distribution Limited. “To assist the population of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) to cope with the effects of the eruption of La Soufriere Volcano, Coreas Distribution Limited has embarked on a drive as a member of the corporate society to assist in the time of crisis.” Those were the words of Mr. Jimmy Forde, Chief Executive Officer of Coreas…
No new COVID-19 positive cases were reported from forty-three (43) samples processed on April 18th, 2021. No new recoveries were recorded over the reporting period. Total recoveries remain at sixteen hundred and eighty-six (1686). One hundred and twenty-three (123) cases are active and ten (10) persons with COVID-19 have died. One thousand, eight hundred and nineteen (1819) cases of COVID-19 have been reported in St. Vincent and the Grenadines since March 2020. The public is urged to continue to use masks, sanitize, physically distance and getvaccinated to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
By Professor Richard A. Byron-Cox Phd “Brother Richard,” he half exclaimed, standing as he spoke and embracing me warmly with what seemed to be a genuine quiet giggle of welcome. I say “seemed” because figuring out Parnel R. Campbell Q.C. is for me mission impossible. I have been at it for a while now! “Mr. Campbell, thanks for…” “Brother Richard,” he interrupted, “what is this Mr. Campbell? P.R. man.” “Me? Call him PR!” I thought incredulously, hoping that I displayed no expression that betrayed my desperate wish to get behind the bespectacled, seemingly ever-penetrating eyes, in search of the complex…
GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands (CMC) — The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) Monday said that it would be paying out an estimated US$2.2 million for relief and recovery efforts following the eruption of the La Soufrière volcano in St Vincent and the Grenadines. The volcano first erupted on April 9, forcing the evacuation of more than 16,000 people in the Red Zone area. Scientists monitoring the volcano have warned of continued seismic activity. The CCRIF, a segregated portfolio company, owned, operated and registered in the Caribbean, said that it has provided financial support in the form of a grant…
The episode of continuous seismic tremor generated by explosive activity at La Soufrière, lasted until about 9 pm on 18 April.Following this, small long-period and hybrid earthquakes started to be recorded again, at a rate similar to before the explosive activity. This rate dropped significantly at about 1 am on 19 April.No volcano-tectonic earthquakes were recorded in the last 12 hours.One rockfall was recorded, at 1:39 am. Rockfalls can be generated by a growing lava dome, but this cannot be confirmed without visual observations.The continuous GPS network has shown a change in horizontal and vertical movement since the initial depressurization…
Deeply troubled by the series of volcanic eruptions afflicting their homeland by La Soufrière volcano, nationals of St Vincent and the Grenadines residing in the United States are calling for “all hands on deck” to rush urgent relief aid to their homeland. “This is a day we all hoped would never have come,” declared Vaughan P A Toney, the chief executive officer and president of the Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centres, at a hastily-arranged media briefing called by the Brooklyn-based St Vincent and the Grenadines Relief Inc. Toney, who is also a member of SVG Relief Inc, noted that,…