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.
The anniversary of Independence is not usually a pleasant time for me. For many Vincentians it is a fashion parade as they create outfits with the colours of the national flag and proudly display them. Others declare themselves Vincy to the core, some reasserting their ‘Vincentian-ness”. Others identify with anything that is positively Vincentian. Unfortunately, to a large extent this is short lived because the country soon resorts to its …
During his address to the recent national Convention of the Unity Labour Party (ULP), Party leader and current Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves solicited the cooperation of the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) in a joint effort to change the constitutional status of our country by removing the British monarch as our Head of State and replacing that monarch by a home-grown Republican President. Our country would then be following …
by Afi Martin Ivy Inez Joshua and Ebenezer Theodore Joshua should be named jointly as national heroine and hero of St Vincent and the Grenadines. Ivy has the distinction of being the first woman to be elected to the Legislative Council in 1957 and became opposition Leader in 1979. She was also a primary organiser in the formation of the Federated Industrial and Agricultural Workers Union (FIAWU) in 1952. [caption …
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