FREED reggae artiste Buju Banton has been given a resounding vote of confidence by retired Jamaica Prime Minister PJ Patterson. In a wide-ranging interview with the Jamaica Observer last week, Patterson, who launched the book My Political Journey, which chronicles his life up to when he retired as Jamaica’s sixth prime minister in 2006 following a 13-year unbroken stretch as Jamaica’s number one policymaker, said that Buju Banton had committed the crime, served the time, and should now be encouraged to prepare for life afterwards. Buju (registered name Mark Anthony Myrie) returned to Jamaica last December 7 after serving almost…
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By Jomo Thomas The Bolivarian Republic is not being pressured because it is a threat to democracy. The Bolivarian Revolution of Chavez and Maduro poses a democratic revolutionary threat to the old order of domination and exploitation. This is why there is an extensive plan to turn back the process. The United States and its allies will do anything, included an armed invasion, to prevent a people’s centred alternative to succeed. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is going through its most dangerous and delicate period. The revolution that brought so much benefit to the people is under siege. There is…
Leader of the Opposition Dr Godwin Friday says that people ought not to view with any suspicion a meeting of the Opposition and the trade unions as the Opposition is a legitimate part of the system of government and it is of tremendous importance that the channels of communication are open for the exchange of important information. Dr. Friday raised the issue at a press conference at the office of the Leader of the Opposition on Monday, days after he met with the Public Service Union (PSU) and the St Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers Union (SVGTU). “It is very…
As members of the Public Service Union (PSU) discuss matters of remedy and compensation consequent upon last December’s judgement against the Public Service Commission (PSC), Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has raised the matter of the possibility of appealing that judgement. Prime MInister Gonsalves raise the issue recently while a guest on Xtreme 104.3 Radio as the matter of the judgement was being discussed. “I’d been advised on the ruling, which is part of advice which I receive on many things. There is even advice that I’ve received from certain quarters that this ruling should be appealed because there are…
The following Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) – Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago; Foreign Ministers of Grenada and Suriname;, meeting by video-conference on 24 January 2019, issued the following statement. “Heads of Government are following closely the current unsatisfactory situation in Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, a neighbouring Caribbean country. They expressed grave concern about the plight of the people of Venezuela and the increasing volatility of the situation brought about by recent developments which could lead to further violence, confrontation,…
DAILYMAIL NewYork- Four months in a harsh Hungarian prison was enough punishment for the former CEO of an offshore bank who was caught in a federal string operation. Adrian Baron, 63, the former CEO of Loyal Bank — which was based in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and had an office in Hungary — was the first person convicted under the 2010 Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act when he pleaded guilty in September. Baron was one of several defendants caught in a government sting operation. In June 2017, he met with an undercover agent posing as a stock promoter from…
Former national table tennis champion and president of the SVG Table Tennis Association (SVGTTA) Sean Stanley has won a defamation suit he filed 10 years ago against BDS Limited’s NICE Radio, Carlos Maloney and Company Limited’s Cross Country Radio, sports commentator Justin Douglas and former secretary of the SVG Table Tennis Association (SVGTTA) Julian Sutherland. The lawsuit arose out the content of a letter penned by Sutherland, dated August 28th, 2006, and addressed to the president of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) Trevor Bailey. Stanley contended that, as president of the SVGTTA, the letter referred to him and that it…
C The Ministry of Education has announced the results of the 2019 Grade 6 Writing Competition hosted by the Ministry, in collaboration with Hodder Education. Amara Adams of the Cane End Government School took the top stop with her imaginative piece on how she spent a day as an invisible person. Second was Sylique Frederick of the Brighton Methodist School and Jevon McCoy of the Pamelus Burke Primary School placed third. The other students who competed in the final leg of the competition were: Jediah Seymour Dickson Methodist Dejana Jeffers Layou Government Lennesha Williams Troumaca Government Zohanna Ollivierre Paget Farm…
“Seeing that I have my period, that wasn’t nice. Who would want to pull down their panty and have somebody else search you?” A distraught Hadasa Murray of Akers made the comment Wednesday evening, hours after she was taken to the Criminal Investigations Department at the Central Police Station and strip-searched despite protesting that she was having her period. Murray said she arrived from Bequia by ferry around 2 p.m Wednesday with her boyfriend. As they walked towards the main gate located near Massy Stores at the ferry berth in Kingstown, they were stopped by police officers on duty there…
Customers would be asked to pay more on their electricity bills come the end of January 2019 . A release from the sole supplier of electricity the St. Vincent Electricity Services Limited (Vinlec) wishes to advise it’s customers that the fuel Surcharge Rate applicable on bills for the month of January is 39.21 cents per unit. This figure represents a slight increase from the December 2018 rate, which was 38.50 cents per unit. Vinlec recorded an average fuel surcharge rate of 37.31 cents per unit in 2018 this was reflective of the price trends over the period the release states…