As a precautionary measure, the Ministry of Education has made a decision to keep the Questelles Government School closed until Tuesday November 12 as a result of a potential health hazard. On Wednesday November 6, 2019; the Ministry of Education was informed of a rodent problem by the management of the Questelles Government School. Fully aware of the magnitude of this situation, an immediate decision was made to suspend classes at the school for the remainder of that week, in order to guard against the potential hazard and to allow the relevant authorities to intervene. The Environmental Health Unit was…
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Last Thursday, a letter was given to all students indicating that the school would be closed until further notice.On Monday, November 10th 2019, the issue was brought to the attention of the Teachers Union as teachers refused to work in the affected classrooms.When ANN visited the school on Monday November 10th, the head teacher and a representative from Ministry of Education were conducting an assembly with the students. During the assembly, the students were told that the classrooms would be cleaned so they can return to the classrooms as soon as possible .A Representative from BRAGSA who was at the school…
Head of the Traffic Department, Superintendent Kenneth John and rank and file officers of the Traffic Department within the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force received a lecture on the topic “Quality Customer Service for the Traffic Department” on Thursday November 07, 2019. The lecture was presented by Mrs. Desrie J.K. Richards, Senior Education Officer, attach to the Adult Education and Continuing Studies Division of the Ministry of Education. Delivering on the topic Mrs. Richards reminded the officers to be professional at all times. She went on to say there are two types of customers; the internal and…
The Police Cooperative Credit Union (PCCU has once again partnered with the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) in sponsoring the annual Police Christmas Caroling Contest. Since 2012, the Police Credit Union has been the major sponsor of this very important event on the calendar of activities of the organization and the citizens of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. On Monday November 11, 2019, Mrs. Ayanna Samuel, manager of the PCCU handed over a sponsorship cheque in the sum of $3900 to Commissioner of Police, Mr. Colin John to offset expenses for this year’s contest. During the…
The Lives to live programme, an initiative of the government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines continues to transform the lives of Vincentians. This was evident as representatives of the Housing and Land Development Corporation and the Ministry of Housing, Informal Human Settlement, Land, Surveys and Physical Planning handed over the keys to a brand new house to (Paget Farm) Bequia resident, Yvonne Ollivierre on Thursday 7th November, 2019. The house which is the first to be done under the programme on the island of Bequia was designed to accommodate her physically challenged relatives who will be living there.…
Kingstown, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, November 11, 2019: Republic Bank (EC) Limitedhas introduced Mr. Sterl Lyons as its Country Manager for banking operations here in St. Vincentand the Grenadines.Mr. Lyons has more than 22 years of experience in the banking profession, and has aspired towardsand achieved excellence. He has held numerous senior-level positions at Scotiabank, includingBranch Manager, Business Banking Manager, Manager of Collections, Assistant Manager of SalesSupport and Accounting Officer.His most recently appointed role was as Branch Manager and he has served in this capacity in various Caribbean islands, including Grenada, St. Lucia and, most recently, Barbados. Prior to…
In politics, it will do us no good to replace the arrogant with the ignorant, the overconfident with the incompetent. We need intelligent leaders with a sense of their own limits, experienced people whose lives have taught them caution. We need the best and brightest who have learned some humility along the way.These are serious times. After 40 years of Independence, real and meaningful development has eluded us. What we have is really progress on the margins. The British Colonialists left us a broken down education system where few had the chance to advance or excel, and a large percent of…
The RSVG Police Youth club are the 2019 French Verandah National Lotteries SVG Community College Invitational Football champions. This after, for the third consecutive year, the Finals had to be decided on penalty kicks, which the youthful lawmen won three goals to one. The game was locked one goal apiece after regulation time. Daniel Patrick who scored the most goals in the tournament, six, and was also adjudged the Best Striker and MVP of the Tournament, had netted in the 16th minute to put the RSVG Police Youth club ahead. Garrett Leigertwood however restored parity from the penalty spot in…
This is such an applaudable initiative by Barbados! First the Virgin buses, now this in the last few weeks. I will love to learn of similar outputs from SVG. Maybe they exist, maybe they don’t. If they do, congratulations to the hardworking persons in the various ministries and entities involved. I daresay though that there seems to be an opportunity to improve publicity of more tangible outputs. If such outputs do not exist, then time to step up the game SVG and I’ve got some suggestions (gratis)! Barbados has quite a mature tourism market but low hanging cherries of success…
Small axe does cut down big tree; we can apply this expression with mosquitoes. The length of an adult mosquito is between 3mm and 6mm, sometimes it is hard to envision that an insect so small has already send a lot of people in their grave around the world. According to a World Health Organization article, the article states that mosquito’s ability to carry and spread diseases to humans causes millions of deaths every year. (https://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/vector_ecology/mosquito-borne-diseases/en/). Some of the diseases that mosquito spread are: Zika, Dengue, West Nile virus, Malaria, yellow fever, Eastern Equine Encephalitis, Chikungunya. Zika virus is caused…