BEIJING, China (AFP) — China tightened the rules on a number of US media outlets on Monday, in a move it said was “necessary and reciprocal” after Chinese journalists in America were hit with restrictions last week. The world’s two largest economies, sparring over issues from trade and technology to human rights, have restricted visas for each other’s reporters, while China has expelled journalists. After the US declared several more Chinese media outlets to be “foreign missions”, Beijing late Monday demanded that six US media groups report to the government about their staffing, finances and real estate. They included the…
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As a consequence of steady emigration, especially beginning in the 1970s, only about half of Guyanese now live within the borders of Guyana, with the remainder scattered in diaspora communities across the globe. This is according to an analysis of the Guyanese diaspora done by the Washington based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The analysis found that Guyana’s emigration rate is one of the highest in the world, numbering about 30,000 annually, a sizable portion for a country with a total population that has never reached one million. A report on the analysis published recently explains that since…
Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves is becoming increasingly less tolerant of criticisms that his near twenty-year administration has done nothing for the development of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The man who is the longest serving Prime Minister in the history of the country has taken a fondness of using a glass analogy to demonstrate what he claims is a deliberate manipulation of his party’s record of achievement. He has surmised that he came and met the glass empty in 2001, filled it up with water [projects, policies and programs], has taken it above the three-quarters mark but the opposition…
If one former ganja farmer had his way, everyone in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and across the world will be waking up with a ‘Chatoyer spliff’ singing the lyrics of Jamaican artiste ‘Culture’ song: The International Herb. Boasting that the New Democratic Party will create “jobs, jobs and more jobs” for the people of North Leeward and the country, North Leeward MP Roland ‘Patel’ Matthews has called on the electorate to support his party’s quest for political power in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. On the eve of the 41st Anniversary of Independence which will culminate with a watershed…
(BBC) Nigeria’s chief of police has ordered the immediate mobilisation of all police resources to put an end to days of street violence and looting. Mohammed Adamu said criminals had hijacked anti-police brutality protests and taken over public spaces. He said this was no longer acceptable. Police officers said they had been ordered to end the “violence, killings, looting and destruction of property”. Protests calling for an end to police brutality began on 7 October. The demonstrations, dominated by young people, started with calls for a police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars), to be disbanded. President Muhammadu Buhari dissolved…
(CNN) Ethiopia can jail people for up to two years if they deliberately violate restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19, the attorney general’s office said, amid concern that citizens are becoming lax after a state of emergency was lifted. The restrictions prohibit shaking hands, not wearing a mask in a public place, seating more than three people at a table or not keeping “two adult steps” — around six feet — apart. “Now it is as if COVID is no longer there, the public is not taking care,” Health Minister Lia Tadesse tweeted on Thursday. “This will cause…
NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC)— An American Airlines plane with 28 people on board veered off the runway after landing on Runway 6 in Freeport on Saturday, officials have confirmed. They said that no one was killed or injured as Flight AA4194, an Eagle flight operated by American’s wholly-owned Envoy subsidiary, landed from Miami.
The year 2020 began as an exceptional year for St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Many made New Year’s resolutions, and they were willing to peruse their commitment to God with a passion. On March 11, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. As the infection grew and people died, most countries closed down to halt the spread of the virus. This affected economies negatively. A BBC news article on June 29 stated that unemployment rose in many countries. It affected countries like Canada, France, Italy and the United States, to name a few. On October 18, 2020, St. Vincent…
Fri, Oct 23, 2020 INDEPENDENCE MESSAGE 2020 – DR. GODWIN FRIDAY On this day, the 41st year of our political independence, we must recall the hard work and dedication of Robert Milton Cato and all the leaders that got us here. It is a time to recall our past. A past burdened with the hardships of colonialism, slavery, and racial discrimination. It is crucial that we pay respect to those who fought for the freedoms that many of us today may take for granted. Our beautiful country, with its warm, sunny climate and abundant natural blessings, is home to a…
Forty-one years ago, on October 27, 1979, St. Vincent and the Grenadines regained its independence from Britain, which had been the colonising power for over 200 years, unbroken since 1763, save and except for a four-year period 1779 to 1783 when the French was in temporary occupation. Britain’s remaking of SVG Over that period Britain remade St. Vincent and the Grenadines, known originally by the indigenous Callinago and Garifuna people as Yuremein or, alternatively, Youlou and the Begos. Britain remade St. Vincent and the Grenadines in its own image and interests by initialing, and ruthlessly implementing, the following, among other…