Digicel customers and resellers of the brand can look forward to benefits for their loyalty through the launch of our newest consumer campaign, “Ease the Squeeze”. The “Ease the Squeeze” campaign rewards all Digicel customers and brand resellers with practical, life-enhancing prizes to offset socio-economic burdens. Participation in this promotion has been made easy for all. To secure great offers, one could simply top up; activate plans; download the MyDigicel App; activate a new home internet account; pay their bill; or become a new customer through activation or Ditch and Switch to Digicel. Winners are awarded daily via the Digicel…
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On Saturday, 11th July 2020, President Natalie Cummings and the executive members of the Imperial Champions Toastmasters Club hosted a handover ceremony and planning retreat to retain President’s Distinguished status for the year 2020-2021. The retreat was held at the Board Room of the Beachcombers Hotel in Villa, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) Dr. Kenneth Onu was the featured presenter and highlighted the importance of executive members understanding their roles and performing their roles to the best of their abilities. DTM Ken highlighted that it is through the excellent performance of our roles, members in turn will…
Several of the recently severed Hot 97 employees have indicated their resolve to legally exhaust all options in pursuit of severance payments they claimed are owed to them. The populist media house was one of the most noticeably impacted by the COVID-19 occasioned economic fallout, here. To stem the supposed burgeoning losses, managing director Luke Boyea told social media audiences that his company offered its staff the choice between a 60% pay cut and a temporary layoff, without prejudice. Last May, it became apparent that the offered and initially accepted pay cut was not feasible even for the two month…
A police officer who attempted to smuggle 234 grams of marijuana during an excursion to Canouan nine months ago, was jailed on Monday. Constable 474 Ian Jacobs was sentenced to eleven months in prison ‘for corruptly obtaining property for himself on account of a transaction done by him in discharge of the duties of his office, while being employed in the Public Service as a member of the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force, and being charged with the performance of his duties’. The 24-year-old Chateaubelair man was also sentenced to three months for possession of 234 grams…
Delroy Frazer, an assistant Pastor who was found guilty of having sexual intercourse with a girl from the time she was about 4 or 5 years old, will know his fate at a sentencing hearing at the High Court Criminal Assizes, next week Thursday. On Tuesday, following a trial, a 9-member mixed jury found Frazer guilty on three counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13. He is represent by attorney Israel Bruce. Frazer committed the offences during the course of 2014, 2015 and 2016. He was slapped with one count for each year. The…
The “silly season” is fast approaching as St. Vincent and the Grenadines prepares itself for the next general election. Given the amount of talk on radio these days, and the conversations on Face book, it is clear that Vincentians are gearing up themselves for that date when Comrade Ralph will ring the proverbial election bell. Indeed, among the many ULP supporters in the country, there is a sort of impatience that maybe the Comrade Leader is taking too long to ring the bell. There is a sort of feeling that it is time to put the opposition NDP, out of…
The CSEC and CAPE exams have begun and the New Democratic Party (NDP) extends best wishes and good luck to all students who are sitting the exams. Although COVID- 19 pandemic has disrupted the teaching/learning process, we believe that the teachers have done their best and students are well prepared for the exams. However, we continue to highlight the challenges that are confronting the education system in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and how we will solve them. The much-vaunted ‘Education Revolution’ by the Unity Labour Party (ULP) is simply an empty slogan. The ULP government has failed to implement…
Preliminary Results of the Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment (CPEA) 2020Grade 6 students registered for the 2020 Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment (CPEA) concluded their final examination on Friday June 26th, 2020. Of the 1920 students registered, 1915 wrote the final examination: 959 males and 956 females. Students’ final scores were derived from the aggregate scores of both components of the CPEA. That is, the External Assessment which consisted of Multiple Choice Tests in Mathematics, Science , Language Arts and Social Studies and from the School-Based Assessment which comprised a Project, a Writing Portfolio, a Book Report as well as Teacher Tests, Pupil…
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Tourism Minister Kerrie Symmonds says that Vincentian carrier, One Caribbean Limited, will be establishing its base here, starting with at least four daily flights. Symmonds made the announcement in an address at the recent annual general meeting of the Intimate Hotels of Barbados where he sought to assure hoteliers that despite the current dismal situation following the liquidation of cash-strapped carrier, LIAT, the outlook was optimistic. The tourism minister disclosed that other airlines have expressed an interest in filling the void left by LIAT, adding that roughly 250,000 people would come to Barbados annually using the…
Government finalised agreement with interCaribbean Airways One Caribbean, SVG Air about to include Grenada to their routes Prime Minister, Dr Keith Mitchell, has disclosed that Grenada will soon be reducing taxes on airline tickets as part of measures aimed at encouraging intra-regional travel within Caricom, as governments implement various strategies to encourage travel within the region. Speaking on the pending liquidation of LIAT, Dr Mitchell said that there are other airlines which will be filling in the void left by LIAT which suspended its service in April after most regional states shut down airports as part of measures aimed at…