Chief Magistrate Rechanne Browne has warned 26-year-old Jahmol Carter of the possible damaging effect of a skin cream he stole from Coreas/Hazells Pharmacy in Kingstown on Monday. Appearing before Chief Magistrate Rechanne Browne, at the Serious Offences Court on Tuesday, Carter pleaded guilty to stealing one Precious Ultra Brightening Gel, a cream used to brighten the skin, commonly called ‘bleaching’. The security guard at the business place who had kept Carter under observation, intercepted him with the cream in his pants pocket, as he was about to leave the Pharmacy around 9:20 a.m. Carter told the Court he wanted to…
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which can be used to change the world,” Nelson Mandela. If education is to be used as a weapon of change, what are the ammunitions needed to enable us to effectively bring about positive student outcomes in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, thus putting us on the path of job creation and economic success? In the New Democratic Party (NDP), we envisage the creation of a whole new world filled with ammunitions to capture the creativity of our young people, giving opportunities to all to reach their full potential. We must re-engineer our education…
While the COVID-19 pandemic rages the world-over, its impacts are as diverse as the people who are influenced in one way or the other by its long reach. Eighteen year-old Rejiro Roberts a.k.a R’Jay like so many others did not escape unscathed; his experience turned him on to music. Born and raised on Union Island, he left his studies at the Union Island Secondary School when he migrated last November to the United Kingdom to live with his mother Karen Roberts, formerly of Union Island by way of Spring Village, and older brother who’s enlisted in the British Army. Recardo…
Several of Barbados’ major airline partners have already confirmed they will be first out the gates come next week when commercial flights are scheduled to return to the tourism dependent island. According to a draft airline schedule for summer 2020 for the Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA), which was last updated on Saturday, June 13, Jetblue, Air Canada, Caribbean Airlines and British Airways are to be the first passenger flights to resume passenger service at the reopening of the airport. Barbados TODAY understands that Bridgetown is yet to receive confirmation from Virgin Atlantic and regional carrier LIAT, among others. With…
Barbados Today-The Guyana Elections Commission’s Chief Elections Officer has refused to submit his report containing results for a possible declaration after receiving filed court documents. GECOM spokeswoman, Yolanda Ward says Lowenfield did not submit his report when he was served with a notice of motion. Elections Commissioner, Bibi Shadick said the Appeal Court cannot grant injunctions. A Notice of Motion was filed in the Court of Appeal and served on the Chairperson and Chief Elections Officer. The Notice was severed on the CEO before 13:00hrs (deadline for submission of report). The Notice restraints the CEO from ‘complying with the directions…
The US Supreme Court has ruled against President Donald Trump’s bid to end a programme that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. The justices upheld lower court rulings that found his move to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) programme was “unlawful”. It protects “Dreamers”, who entered the US without documents as children. The Trump administration has sought to end the Obama-era policy since 2017. The Supreme Court took up the case after lower courts ruled that the Trump administration did not adequately explain why it was ending the programme, criticising the White House’s “capricious”…
Kingston – Communications and entertainment provider Digicel, which operates across 32 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and Asia Pacific, today announced that Digicel Group One Limited’s (“DGL1”) scheme of arrangement (the “Scheme”) is effective. This announcement marks the conclusion of the last significant milestone in the comprehensive debt reduction process that Digicel announced on April 1, 2020 which followed extensive prior engagement with a number of large bondholders. The debt reduction process is expected to be complete next week, following consummation of the previously announced offers to exchange existing debt of Digicel Group Two Limited for various new securities. Effective completion…
“You talk of star pegs in round holes; the point is to ensure that you have people of competence doing their jobs….”A Dr. Godwin Friday-led government would lead by example in the House of Assembly as they hope to establish bipartisanship in parliament and across St. Vincent and the Grenadines. This commitment came from Dr. Friday as he responded to questions from the Vincentian electorate last Sunday via Asbert News Network and ITFX Digital Solutions’ interview series ‘On D Spot.’ Following a New Democratic Party victory at the polls, Dr. Friday explained, his administration would make a practice of listening…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines now has twenty-six (26) recovered COVID-19 cases. This follows the receipt of the second negative PCR result for one person from the Public Health Laboratory at CARPHA. These results were included in a batch of results for twenty-five (25) samples sent to the lab on Wednesday June 17, 2020. Four (4) Disney Crew members who disembarked on June 15, also tested negative for COVID-19.No new positive COVID-19 cases were reported, so there are now three (3) active cases of COVID -19 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, out of a total of twenty-nine (29) recorded…
The New Today- Two Vincentian nationals jointly charged for the offences of Money Laundering and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering, by having in their possession cash amounting to $10,000.00 Euros, have pleaded guilty in a court in Grenada. 35-year old Lamar Condice, and his 28-year old countryman Elvis Harold, both Fishermen of Clear Valley in St. Vincent appeared at the St. George’s No.2 Magistrate’s Court on Thursday to answer to the charges where they pleaded guilty to the offences. Condice and Harold were fined EC$5000.00 each by sitting Magistrate George Prime who ordered them to pay the fines forthwith and…