A special sitting of the House of Assembly was held on Thursday to mark the last time Parliament will sit at the over 200-year-old building in Kingstown.
I made the point last week that following the emancipation of enslaved Africans the issue of immigration was the focus of attention for planters and colonial officials. They were of the view that the future of the colony’s economy was tied up with the continuing cultivation of sugar under a plantation/estate system. With their expectation of a movement away from the estates they fixed their minds on immigration. They made this …
Before I get to the topic, I intend to raise today I want to congratulate the SVG Teachers Credit Union on its 45th anniversary. I do so because I was Treasurer of the Union when we began the process of starting the Credit Union following discussions about ways to relieve the stress felt by Striking Teachers in 1975. Having agreed on establishing the Credit Union, Julian Jack one of the teachers …