The summer programmes put on by the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force will commence next week. The Coast Guard Annual Youth Development Programme will commence on Monday 17th July, with an official opening ceremony at the Calliaqua Town Hall from 8:30 a.m. Remarks will be delivered by the Commissioner of Police or…
COMMISSIONER OF Police, Colin John will lead a 12 member delegation to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Regional Security System (RSS) in Grenada.The milestone will be celebrated with several events over the period October 9-13, 2022, a release from the police states. The delegation will also include the Commander of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) Coast Service, Lieutenant Commander Deon Henry, and 10 officers, five each from the …
Captain Mulzac remembered
The presentation party at last Monday’s ceremony, with Andre Liverpool and Rupert Mulzac (front 2nd and 3rd from left respectively.)
Sunday 31st January, 2021 marked the 50th Anniversary of the death of Captain Hugh Nathaniel Mulzac, the Vincentian national who became the first black man to have gained a Shipping Master’s Certificate in the United States of America, and to later captain the ‘SS Booker T. Washington’.
The ‘SS Booker T. Washington’ was a United States Maritime Commission (MC) Liberty ship, first of 17 Liberty ships that were named after African-Americans, and which, under Capt. Mulzac’s watch, made 22 round trip voyages ferrying troops and supplies to Europe and the Pacific theatre between 1942 and 1947.