PR- BRAGSA is advising all participants that an unknown individual is going around to schools making promises and proclaiming to be an employee of BRAGSA. All Principals and Teachers are asked to report any suspicious individual or activity on the school compound to the police.
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The St. Vincent & the Grenadines Community College (SVGCC) has welcomed a new educational partnership. On Tuesday 8th September 2020 the institution signed an MOU with the Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business Management (SCHSBM) – UWI, aimed at advancing the human capital of St. Vincent & the Grenadines and by extension that of the Caribbean region. The new partnership will allow Vincentians to access a host of flexible online programmes offered by the SCHSBM, including Executive Diplomas, Executive Masters, Masters, Doctorates and short courses. Vincentians will also be able to access via the SVGCC privileged pricing for selected SCHSBM…
The SKNFA Executive Committee has approved an immediate cash payment of EC$574,000.00 to its member clubs ahead of the restart of the 2019-2020 football season. Under the Plan, all Premier Division Clubs are eligible for a maximum amount of EC$40,000.00 and Division One Clubs a maximum amount of EC$35,000.00, provided that they meet key Club Licensing Criteria milestones for 2019-2020 season. The clubs are eligible for a second tranche of financial assistance in January 2021 following submission of report on the use of the funds in the first tranche in keeping with the supporting regulations. The SKNFA football leagues have…
BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. on Tuesday issued a sweeping new advisory warning against travel to mainland China and Hong Kong, citing the risk of “arbitrary detention” and “arbitrary enforcement of local laws.” The advisory is likely to heighten tensions between the sides that have spiked since Beijing’s imposition on Hong Kong of a strict new national security law in June that has already been met with a series of U.S. punitive actions. The statement warned U.S. citizens that China imposes “arbitrary detention and exit bans” to compel cooperation with investigations, pressure family members to return to China from abroad,…
Trinidad Express – The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) issued a statement this afternoon, advising that Commissioner of Police, Gary Griffith was invited, and not summoned to a meeting with the Prime Minister, Dr the Honourable Keith Rowley, at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s, this morning. The TTPS pointed out that the invitation came through the Minister of National Security, for the CoP, as well as the Attorney General and the two Deputy Commissioners of Police, Jayson Forde and Mc Donald Jacob to attend. A post on the Prime Minister’s Facebook page this morning stated, “Commissioner of Police, Gary…
There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect. At 5 a.m. AST, the center of Tropical Storm Teddy was located about 1030 miles (1655 km) east of the Lesser Antilles. Teddy is moving toward the west-northwest near 12 mph (19 km/h), and a west-northwest to northwest track is anticipated during the next few days. Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 60 mph (95 km/h) with higher gusts. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 115 miles (185 km) from the center. Strengthening is forecast for the next several days, and Teddy is likely to become a hurricane late today…
In one of his most sobering and reflective presentations on the campaign trail to date, Vice President of the New Democratic Party (NDP) told listeners to the NDP Virtual Public Meeting held recently that, “the most successful experience that the Unity Labour Party has had in the last twenty years, is to divide St. Vincent and the Grenadines”. He went on to say: “One of the things that our people have never bargained for, historically or otherwise, you go back to McIntosh, Joshua, Cato, even Mitchell, is for a small island permanently divided and divided in the manner in which…
PR- Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines: An apology is hereby demanded from the Unity Labour Party (ULP)after their disgraceful act in filming an election advertisement in a holy cemetery in Kingstown. In the video, released on Facebook, the ULP’s Cultural Ambassador,Rondy ‘Luta’ McIntosh,along with volunteers of the ULP are seen filming around a gravesite. The same volunteers (dressed in ULP red berets) are then seen stepping over recent graves for the filming. The filming of the ULP election video delayed a funeral which was taking place at the time – with the family of the deceased having to wait…
Commuters traveling in and out of capital Kingstown can now do so more comfortably. This follows the completion of repair work on Richmond Hill/Murray’s roads by BRAGSA. Communication Officer of BRAGSA, Mr. Rohan Cupid says the project saw the resurfacing of 1892 feet of road from Sally’s Spring to the Bus Stop at Murray’s Village gap. Mr. Cupid says 662 tons of asphalt was used on the project. He says the project was done at an estimated cost of 629-thousand EC dollars, and is part of the 19.5 million EC dollars Road Rehabilitation Programme being carried out by BRAGSA for…
At 4:15 pm on 14.9.2020, Police arrested and charged Veron Bushay, 29 years Farmer of Dickson Village, for with malice aforethought, caused the death of Kaif Fraser, 18 years labourer of the same address. Bushay is accused of stabbing the deceased on the left side of his neck with a knife at Dickson Village about 7:30 pm on 11.9.2020. Investigations revealed that the deceased was at the home of the accused on the date in question. Both men got into altercation and Bushay allegedly stabbed Fraser with a knife. Fraser was later transported to the Georgetown Modern Medical and Diagnostic Center for treatment but succumbed to his injuries at…