After an absence of two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the St Vincent and the Grenadines Indian Heritage Foundation, (SVGIHF), will mark the 161st anniversary of the arrival of 2,474 Indians from India to St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), during the years 1861 to 1880. Each year, the SVG Indian Heritage Foundation (SVGIHF), commemorates Indian Arrival Day on June 1 with a package of activities including a re-enactment …
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The government has given the all-clear for persons in the Soufriere orange zone up to Petit Bordel on the Leeward side and Mt Young on the Windward side to return home.
But, this decision is generating mixed feelings among evacuees.
Some have said they cannot wait to return home; while others are saying they feel as if they were being forced out of the emergency shelters to homes that are not yet liveable.
“Give me a shovel and a wheel barrow,” a woman at the Kingstown Preparatory School (KPS) shelter told SEARCHLIGHT said on Thursday.