The overall pass rate for St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) in the 2022 May/June Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC)has plunged a whopping 16.93 per cent compared with 2021. The Ministry of Education, in a release issued September 15 said the preliminary results indicate a 66.55 per cent pass rate. In 2021, the pass rate was 83.48 per cent. The pass rate this year is the lowest the country has …
A modern, state of the art community centre is being constructed at Hopewell in the constituency of Marriaqua. When completed, the facility would contain an administrative office, computer room, auditorium, classrooms and stage area, among other amenities. Parliamentary Representative for Marriaqua, St. Clair Prince and Minister of Housing, Orando Brewster recently visited the site at Hopewell, close to an area referred to as dry river, to get a view of …
New common place to house the United Nations (UN) operations in St.Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) was officially inaugurated on Friday, September 9, 2022 in line with the United Nations Secretary General’s efficiency agenda. Located on the first floor of the National Insurance Services Building in Kingstown, the office will now coordinate all UN interventions and projects with greater efficiency, while also reducing the overall carbon footprint as noted by Resident …
St Vincent and the Grenadines and Dominica will benefit from a United Nation’s initiative on strengthening climate change resilience and food security. The “Resilient Livelihoods and Food Security Through Data” project was launched last Thursday, September 8 at the Foreign Affairs Conference Room. The launch was spearheaded by the Ministry of National Mobilization and assisted by the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), a release from the Agency for …
The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment has launched a month of activities as it continues to address the problems associated with Chronic Non-communicable Diseases (NCD’s). The Agency for Public Information (API) said in a release that the launch of the activities, which are also in commemoration of Caribbean Wellness Day, was done at the Beachcombers Hotel on Tuesday, September 6. Speaking at the ceremony Minister of Health, Wellness …