According to the Budget Estimates 2021, the ULP regime plans to spend $1,212,601,578. The problem is the amount of money the government has coming in – revenue – is only $647,385,000. There is a substantial gap between the government’s income and their planned spending. A government’s income figure is regarded as only taxes and other revenues. To make up for this massive gap between proposed spending and income, the ULP regime is resorting again to relying on begging and borrowing. The fiscal deficit for the year 2021 is set to be $565,216,578. For years, the ULP regime has madly been…
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(Excerpts of Dr Friday’s Budget Presentation) We on this side of the house have a plan to foster participation by all in the re-orientation of our economy and provide the means for everyone to participate in the socio-economic development of our country. One way of doing that is to reduce the tax burden from our people and find ways to raise revenue from international activities and non-residents. The government has failed to grasp this concept and the only thing they can take from our proposals was to misrepresent our proposals; for e.g. descending to scaremongering about CBI. That is a…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today reported one (1) new positive case from two hundred and twenty (220) samples received and processed on Thursday March 4, 2021. The case is not linked to the Mental Health Rehabilitation Centre. The positivity rate for Thursday March 4, 2021 is 0.45%. Thirty-four (34) persons were cleared bringing the number of total recoveries to one thousand and five (1005). Six hundred and forty-six (646) cases remain active and eight (8) persons with COVID-19 have died. One thousand, six hundred and fifty- nine (1659) cases of COVID-19 have been reported in St. Vincent and the…
“There was actually a moment when I panicked. That’s when I found out that while I was doing good, there was a friend of mine who also tested positive and was battling for his life at the time. That reality broke me While I was concerned about the possible chances of affecting those I came in contact with, my greatest fear was my daughter becoming infected.” That was a response the recently recovered popular DJ and radio personality ‘DJ Fugitive’(Joel Bibby) gave earlier this week when ANN News asked him what were his greatest fears, especially in a case where…
Come March 24, 2021, Digicel SVG will celebrate eighteen y.ttelecommunications company here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. In 2003, unlike what existed previously, Digicel immediately set the pace with a repertoire of services that offered its customers non-payment for incoming calls. Since then, with innovative telecommunication services, Digicel has been achieving a plethora of milestones that has placed it into the category of major provider of such integral services. Digicel’s evolution began with transitions from merely providing a GSM network and moving on to GPRS or 2G then onto to EDGE; as was the order of the day. It…
On Saturday, March 6 and Sunday March 7, 2021 from 9.00Am, the COVID-19 National Vaccination Deployment Programme would be at the Georgetown (Police Station), Chateaubelair SMART Hospital, and Calliaqua Playing Field (7/3/21) St. Vincent and the Grenadines recorded its first case of COVID-19 on March 11, 2020. As of March 1, 2021 St Vincent had recorded sixteen hundred and twenty-eight cases (1628) of COVID-10 and 8 deaths. The early and successful introduction of COVID-19 vaccines has been identified as one of the interventions capable of making the most significant impact on controlling and reducing the impact of COVID-19 in St.…
Guardian General Hope International will play in Group C of the 2021 CONCACF Caribbean Club Shield (CCCS), set for Willemstad, Curacao next month. Hope International, the 2019/2020 Premier Division champions of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation National Club Championships, has been drawn alongside Fruta Conquerors of Guyana and Aruba’s SV Racing Club. When the draw and fixtures were released last Friday, it showed that Hope International will meet Conquerors at the Ergillo Hato Stadium on 23rd April and take on SV Racing Club on the 25th. Fourteen clubs are competing in the CCCS. Group A comprises RKSV…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ Vincy Heat has given up its home advantage in the CONCACAF World Cup Qualifiers against the British Virgin Islands. Originally set for 30th March here at the Arnos Vale Playing Field, that fixture will now take place at the Ergillo Hato Stadium in Willemstad, on the same date. This was made known last weekend as CONCACAF finalised most of the fixtures. Before meeting the British Virgin Islands, the Vincentians will take on Curacao as scheduled on 25th March. Vincy Heat is drawn in Group C of the Qualifiers, along with Curacao, the British Virgin Islands,…
Forty-Seven families who will be affected by the Port Project in Rose Place are expected to move into their new homes at Lowmans Bay, later this year. The port modernization project, estimated to cost US$ 185 million, is funded by the Caribbean Development Bank through the United Kingdom Caribbean Infrastructure Fund, and will take place in two phases. The first phase involves the construction of a new cargo port that will also allocate land for expansion of the current cruise facility. The second phase will include construction of an inter-island and regional port. Both phases are estimated to take two-and-a-half…
Some persons with mental health problems who take to the streets when they are supposed to be at the Mental Health Rehabilitation Centre (MHRC), are creating problems for the rest of society. Senior Magistrate Rickie Burnett raised this concern on Tuesday during a sitting of the Kingstown Magistrate Court. He was presiding over a matter in which 44-year-old Alvan Richardson of Diamond pleaded guilty to stealing a JanSport bag valued $400, containing $700 in cash and other items including a passport, all being the property of someone who was doing maintenance work at Browne’s Hardware, Kingstown. The theft is said…