Petit Bordel resident Vashica Pereira, a first year culinary arts student at the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Community College, became the first recipient of Generation Next Inc’s Support for Technology in Schools initiative. On Monday, 10th February 2020, the student benefited from a HP laptop and a mobile phone courtesy of Brisha Enterprises, a New York based Vincentian-owned Company. Youth-based charity, Generation Next Inc., known for its Access to College Education Programme (ACEP), says this new initiative will strengthen its existing educational programmes by affording students the opportunity to have greater access to technology while learning. According to Carlos…
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The library of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Community College now has an additional 1,000 books on its shelves; thanks to Canada-based Vincentian Dr. David Joyette. The books, which the college intends to share with the National Public Library, were hande over to the institution on Tuesday 11th February 2020 by Mr. Cyp Nehall andMr. Bassy Alexander, longtime friends of Joyette. Director of the SVGCC, Nigel Scott, lauded Joyette’s donation and expressed that it is citizens like him who help to make the task of educating the nation’s youth easier. Joyette, who did not attend secondary school due to…
Police are investigating a report of Attempted Murder made by a 29-year-old Labourer of Glen against some unknown person(s) on 12.02.2020. According to investigations, the assailant(s) allegedly with the intent to commit the offence of Murder on him did an act which is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the offence “by shooting him about his body with a gun”. The incident occurred at Glen on 12.02.2020. The police are soliciting information that will aid with the arrest and prosecution of the offender(s). Persons are asked to contact the Assistant Commissioner in charge Crime at 1784-456-1339 or the…
Antiguanewsroom- A coming together of the region’s Citizenship by Investment programmes is needed. This was the plea by the Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), Timothy Antoine at a recent press briefing here. Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Lucia all operate CBI programmes. There are, however, many differences separating the countries. For instance, the minimum investment required for one applicant in Saint Lucia, Antigua and Dominica is US$100,000, while in Grenada and St. Kitts, it’s US$150,000. Under the real estate option, Antigua’s minimum investment is US$400,000; Grenada, $350,000; Saint Lucia, $300,000; Dominica and…
Staff Nurse Roxann Ashton-Allen has opted to break the silence about conditions that has led her to file domestic abuse charges against her soon to be divorced husband Edwin Allen , in the wake of colleague Staff Nurse Arianna Taylor-Israel’s murder, allegedly at the hands of her estranged husband. Allen is also attached to wards at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital in Kingstown. According to her “maybe if I had acted years before, or as recent as December and make [these abuse allegations] public, it would have impacted on my colleague’s life because to know or to acknowledge that it’s…
The climate change, that is, the change of the global climate and in particular the changes in meteorological conditions that extend on a large time scale, is a major global existential threat. The greenhouse effect causes the increase of temperature of the planet primarily due to the tremendous increase in carbon dioxide, which has increased by 35% since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And of course the lion’s share in pollution of the atmosphere with 50% of all carbon dioxide have Europe and North America. All other countries together are responsible for the other half, while the poorest countries…
A delegation led by Honourable Sir Louis Straker; Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister met with senior officials from the Government of the Republic of Ghana for the 5th preparatory meeting towards the First Session of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines-Ghana Permanent Joint Commission for Cooperation (PJCC) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration in Accra, Ghana. Honourable Saboto Caesar, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Industry and Labour presented on issues and areas for cooperation in root crop production, fisheries, cocoa technology, breadfruit and ackee. The Honourable Minister explained that with St. Vincent and the…
School closure because of rat infestation and the general untidiness across some areas of our country indicate that we are not teaching and modeling values of cleanliness that we should esteem. The persons best suited for keeping an area clean are those who use or occupy the area. This means that owners of businesses and lands adjoining roadways should be responsible for keeping them clean. Athletes would also keep playing fields clean and students would keep their school clean. Children deserve to learn in a safe, clean and orderly environment. They have a right to a clean classroom and a…
New Democratic Party’s Senator Israel Bruce voiced concerns during the 2020 Budget Debates relating to the financing of some government policies particularly the mandates delegated to the Ministry of National Mobilization, Social Development, Family, Gender Affairs, Persons with Disabilities and Youth. Although he expressed his delight at reading of some proposed initiatives the lack, in some cases, or the insufficient provision of, in other cases, necessary resources to execute those plans was the central theme of his 45 minutes presentation. Bruce, in his characteristic courtroom style, sought to dismantle the government’s claim that Budget 2020 was people centred. Amongst the…
Although much of his allotted 45 minutes was taken up with fingering the government’s apparent lack of financial allocations and policy framework support for its purported social obligations, Senator Israel Bruce spared some time to present the health care concerns of residents of the South Central Windward constituency. “Mr Speaker I was really hoping that as he addressed the issues of clinics, for example, that requires the attention of his Ministry that certain clinics would have come in for attention and mentioning at least.” Bruce acknowledged that “the Doreen John Health Centre in Greiggs has been identified” by Health Minister…