St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says he believes “there is a general acceptance” within the Caribbean for a lowering of taxes so as to encourage intra-regional travel. Gonsalves, who is chairman of the 15-member regional integration grouping, Caricom, told a panel discussion organised by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) on Thursday night, that the regional governments have come to the realisation that there is a need to lower airline taxes in order to make the sector profitable. He told the discussion on the “COVID-19 pandemic and regional air transport” that the governments would have…
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The Antigua and Barbuda government has provided an avenue for the regional airline, LIAT, to seek Court protection rather than being forced into liquidation after it announced that the Companies (Amendment) Act 2020 was gazetted on Wednesday. A statement issued after the weekly Cabinet meeting said that under the amended legislation “firms that find themselves in trouble may now apply to the Court for protection from their creditors, rather than be compelled to liquidate as was the only option available to owners and creditors before passage of the law”. The statement quoted Cabinet as expressing its appreciation to “the lawyers…
By Nathan ‘Jolly’ Green. July 16, 2020. Almost every country in the World paid the owners of slave’s compensation when the abolishment of slavery took place. Only Britain has been singled out as a nation who compensated slave owners but not the slaves. Of course, that is untrue Britain was just one among most of the World’s nations, who all compensated the slave owners in one way or another. Britain was most certainly not the only one as intimated by Ralph Gonsalves and Hilary Beckles. Every nation did the same, many before Britain did so, and many afterwards. Compensation of…
Dear Crystal, I have been married to my wife for ten years, we are proud parents of an eight year old boy. They say that, the first 2 – 5 years , or so of marriage is the hardest. My wife and I met in college, we both hold good jobs, we have built a beautiful life together. We got married rather young, in our early twenties. Over the years, our marriage seem to have declined. We don’t talk a lot, if I bring up an issue she gets on the defense to the point where she would go as…
By Jomo Thomas The decision by the government of SVG to order the removal of the vendors behind the Massy supermarket at Arnos Vale is a clear and distinct attempt to disrupt, destroy and dishonour the attempts of the poor among us to make a living through their hard work and efforts. In this hard season, made worse by the difficulties and disruptions brought on by the coronavirus, it boggles the mind that the government will choose this time to tell a group of vendors that because of sanitation, security and traffic concerns it is forced to give them an…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today recorded three (3) new COVID-19 cases, following the receipt of PCR results from the local Molecular Laboratory Unit. Two of the new positive cases are returning Vincentians who arrived here on the AA 945 tlight on Saturday, July 11″ and initialy tested negative tor COVID-19. The third case is a contact of one of the original positive cases who arrived on Saturday 11, 2020. The new positive cases are in quarantine having been identified as high-risk travellers on arrival, or a contact of a known positive case. They will be in isolation until they…
My name is Shavorn Stephens, an AA 945 passenger who arrived at Argyle International Airport (AIA) in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) on July 11, 2020. In the weeks leading up to my flight, I read studies and scientific reports on traveling during the pandemic, spoke with health officials, and I also checked in frequently with Airline for updates on their safety precautions during the trip. My findings revealed that the air in a plane is constantly turning over, with outside air sucked into the cabin and old air pushed out. Ten to 50% of the air is recirculated…
Hopeful news about a Covid-19 vaccine developed by US government researchers and Moderna Inc has buoyed expectations – and markets – on the potential for a preventive measure against a global pandemic that has killed more than half a million people and upended daily life. Moderna first announced its vaccine, backed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, prompted an immune response in 45 adults in May.Advertisementhttps://tpc.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html On Tuesday, it published a fuller look at the data in a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. But experts cautioned against heightened expectations about the Moderna vaccine, one…
Prime Minister Gaston Browne has rejected as “inequitable” talk that Antigua & Barbuda alone should bear the cost of severance payments of all of the workers based here. The majority of LIAT employees are based in Antigua & Barbuda, in excess of 300 of them. Prime Minister Browne told parliament over the weekend that this could see the country paying close to $80 million dollars in severance. St. Vincent Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves said one suggestion is for each shareholder government to bear the cost of its employees. This would mean that St. Vincent would be just about $2…
“Yesterday [July 8], my friends, in Central Leeward they were at it again.” So started the somber virtual address in which Ben Exeter, that constituency’s New Democratic Party 2020 elections candidate, presented an update of an incident that was, to his mind, tantamount to another election offence. “They want to make sure that we do not change this government. They want to make sure that your lives do not improve. Yesterday in Central Leeward I did something I’ve been doing for the last 5 years by attending the registration process of which you go and register to vote. “Only to…