In a recent media briefing, hosted at Cabinet Room in Kingstown, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves opined that 2 recently published videos that captured inmates at the Belle Isle prison of Her Majesty’s Prisons using contraband must have been facilitated by one or more prison officers. Dr. Gonsalves was at the time responding to questions posed with respect to the results of any investigations into the matter. “I’ve haven’t gotten the results but I personally called the Commissioner and I personally called the Superintendent of Prisons telling them the I would like to get the report now! The prisoners were breaking…
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Four (4) students representing the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Community College (SVGCC) would leave the state on Thursday 5th March, 2020 to compete in this year’s Windward Islands Debating Competition (WIDC). Zachary Richards, Casey DeFreitas, Deaney Gellizeau, and Haronese Collins would compete in the weekend long competition in Roseau, Dominica where they would address topics surrounding youth involvement in climate change, medicinal marijuana, and the political climate within the Caribbean. This year’s competition is hosted by the Dominica State College (DSC) and would see participation from students representing the various state colleges of St. Lucia, Grenada, St. Vincent &…
(SNO) – Relatives of a teenager of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, who moved to Saint Lucia last year, are concerned about her whereabouts since they are not hearing from her. A relative told Saint Lucia News Online that Jatilda Umbris, 19, left her country for Saint Lucia in September last year to live with a lady but no one has heard from her since. “We have no form of contact for her, the last contact we had for the people she is living with is coming up unavailable,” the relative stated. To compound the situation, Umbris is said to be…
The members of the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) and its auxiliary force are in mourning due to the death of a veteran senior police officer. On Tuesday March 3, 2020, former Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Mr. Daniel Hall died at his home in Lower Questelles (Rucher Bay) after a brief illness. Mr. Hall had a long and distinguished career as a police officer. He was first enlisted as Band Cadet on April 1, 1982. Having served in that capacity, he enlisted in the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force on January 10,…
Officials from Health Education England (HEE) conducted the 2nd phase of the one (1) week recruitment process of unemployed registered nurses to the United Kingdom from February 25 – 27, 2020. A total of forty-nine (49) candidates were shortlisted with a selection of 29 candidates who were offered a post at Leeds Teaching Hospitals in the United Kingdom, which has a large Caribbean diaspora. The twenty-nine (29) successful candidates will now go through various processes, inclusive of a series of assessments to become qualified to work as a registered nurse in the UK. This second cohort of nurses is expected…
PAHO – 3 Caribbean Countries Amongst Reported Positive COVID-19 Cases While the global tallies keep changing, the World Health Organization through its Pan American Health Organ announced on Sunday that at least 3 Caribbean countries have reported some 6 cases, in total, of the dreaded novel coronavirus (or COVID-19 as it’s been renamed). “In the region of the Americas… 3 cases in the Dominican Republic, 2 cases in St. Martin and 1 case in St. Bart’s,” PAHO’s Dr. Carissa F. Etienne reported. She is the public health expert in charge of the Washington D.C. based PAHO and was at the…
Several countries in the Caribbean have the capacity to test for the dreaded COVID-19, Pan American Health Organization’s Director Dr. Carissa F. Etienne revealed. These include Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, Dominica, Belize, Martinique, Haiti, the Bahamas, French Guiana, Aruba, St. Marteen, Curacao, Cayman Islands, and Bermuda. The exclusion of St. Vincent and the Grenadines from this list has sparked much debate in recent times although Health authorities here disclosed, from the outset, the local capacity to test for COVID-19. At a February 3 Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment media briefing, Elliot ‘Black Ice’ Samuel, Chief…
Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, March 2nd 2020 – The SVGIHF is pleased to report that President of the SVG Indian Heritage Foundation Mr. Junior Bacchus and members of the Executive met with Dr the Hon. Ralph E. Gonsalves Prime Minister of SVG at Cabinet Room on Thursday, February 27th, 2020 at 12.00 noon. The president thanked the Prime Minister for including the Foundation in his official visit to India in September of 2019 and for taking Mrs. Cheryl Rodriguez, their representative and Treasurer of the Foundation, with his delegation. President Junior presented the Prime Minister with a copy…
On July 3, 2018, Massy Stores across the region took the bold decision to transition customers to reusable bags through the introduction of a charge on single-use plastic shopping bags. That decision to reduce plastic waste is part of our organisation’s broader commitment to find ways of operating more sustainably and becoming more environmentally conscious. Today, we can proudly announce that here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines we have noted a 67% decrease in plastic bag usage across our 3 supermarkets. This translates to 480,000 single use plastic bags, which could have ended up in our island’s landfill and…
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The St Lucia government says it will prosecute persons who spread false information about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), as the island moves to adopt measures to prevent any occurrence of the virus that has killed nearly 3,000 people globally. Prime Minister Allen Chastanet, speaking with reporters after a meeting with stakeholders, said that St Lucia is beefing up border controls to deal with the situation. “My government is exploring every single thing…I don’t want anybody to believe we have a corona case, but the fact is it is in the neighbourhood and the likelihood is…