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SVGTU-PSU Joint Press Statement Members of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers’ Union (SVGTU) and the Public Service Union (PSU) will picket the House of Assembly on January 29th and February 4th to coincide with the presentation and debate of the Estimates and Budget on both days. This decision comes due to the need to bring attention to a number of matters affecting public servants and teachers that have gone unresolved for quite some time. The unions’ efforts to meet with the relevant authorities to address these issues have been futile. Correspondence from the unions to the government in…

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Leader of the opposition Dr Godwin Friday has criticized the current government’s approach of appointing graduates to their right positions and employing some through the government’s Support for Education and Training (SET) programme. Launched in March 2014 with 106 graduates from universities and the St Vincent and the Grenadines Community College, The SET programme began with an EC$1.5 million budget funded by Petrocaribe and a number of Caribbean governments. Under the programme, graduates are attached to central government and statutory agencies. Participants who graduated with A’ Level and associate degree qualifications received a stipend of EC$1,100 per month, and those…

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Port of Spain -A WOMAN who allegedly had sexual intercourse with her 15-year-old stepson has been sent to St Ann’s Hospital for evaluation. The 26-year-old woman who is not named to protect the identity of the child, appeared on Thursday before Siparia magistrate Margaret Alert. She was charged with four offences of sexual penetration of the teen between July and August 2018. The indictable charges were laid by constable Myers of the Child Protection Unit.Get caught up with news from the news leader The woman appeared to be incoherent during her time before the court and police prosecutor Sgt Starr Jacob agreed…

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Minister of Education Ruel Reid Jamaica Gleaner – The government of Jamaica has devised a plan to fully fund the educational cost for all students from birth through to their 18th birthday, over a three-year period, Minister of Education Ruel Reid has said. “I am now trying to get us to this bold statement of ‘zero to 18 public free education’ strategy that gets all our students up to the minimum of having an associate degree that will be paid for by the State. That is the policy position that I am articulating,” Reid said. He was addressing the Council…

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“The PSC has defended the conduct of the department heads, permanent secretaries and other supervisors against whom these complaints have been made even though the evidence is crystal clear. This is perhaps not surprising since the PSC would be the body with ultimate culpability. This leads me inexorably to the conclusion that either the members of the PSC are not sufficiently familiar with the Regulations to give effect to them; are not concerned about ensuring that they are suitably complied with or are complicit in their failures.” That is part of the conclusion arrived at by High Court Judge Justice…

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Opposition senator Kay Bacchus-Baptiste has described as hypocritical the government’s granting of citizenship and passport to non-nationals who invest in businesses here while the said government members have criticized the Citizen By Investment (CBI) programme, refusing to implement saying citizenship and passport are not for sale. The opposition senator’s accusation came as she made her contribution to the debate on the International Business Companies (Amendment and Consolidated) Bill 2018 last week Thursday. She said she did not see the IBC as being very different than the Citizen By Investment business and that it is a way that small islands have…

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Police arrested and charged Glenville Harry, 34 years old Bartender of Vermont with the offence of Robbery. Police investigations revealed that on the 14th September, 2018, Harry being armed with a gun robbed a resident of Villa of a quantity of items including $630.00ECC and $115.00USD in cash and at the time of doing so and in order to do so put the said resident in fear. Harry was also charged for the unlawful and malicious wounding of Grafton McDowald, 47 years old Labourer of Brighton to wit “by striking him in his head with a gun on the 14th…

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Police arrested and charged Ulric Hanson, 32 years old Laborer of Roseau, for unlawfully and maliciously wounding a 30-year-old unemployed woman also of Roseau. Police investigations revealed that Hanson on the 10th September, 2018 about 2:40am, wounded the woman by stabbing her on her left hand with an unknown object in Roseau.

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Police are investigating an attempted robbery which occurred in McKies Hill on the 19th September, 2018 about 1:45pm. According to preliminary reports, three (3) unknown masked men armed with guns, attempted to rob a McKies Hill Businessman by pointing guns at him and demanding cash. Police are asking anyone with information that would assist in the investigation to call the ACP i/c of Crimes at 456-1339 or the officer in charge of CID at 1784-456-1810

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