EDITOR: Emancipation Day is generally a day of reflection on the historical, social and cultural development of the nation. This year it is easy to put things in perspective, because of The University of the West Indies Open Campus (UWIOP) St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) which held a two-day Country Conference on July 19 and 20, entitled History, Ancestry and Heritage. The Conference was informative, educational and left us …
We are already more than a week into National Heroes Month and will commemorate its high point next Monday, the anniversary of the date on which our sole National Hero, the Right Excellent Joseph Chatoyer, was reputedly killed. During this month of March, we also honour the memory of two of the nominees for National Hero status, George Augustus McIntosh, born March 6, 1886, and Ebeneezer Theodore Joshua who transited …