There may be employment waiting at VINLEC for three electrical engineers who have the attitude, aptitude and schooling for the job. The electricity company commemorated the 90th anniversary of electrification in St Vincent and the Grenadines on May 25. That date marked the first time that lights were switched on in Kingstown in 1931 when power was only provided to 31 customers at night time in the initial phase. Thornley …
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When Vincentians flip an electrical switch in their houses today, it is taken for granted that light will automatically fill the room they are in.
Switchboard at the South Rivers power station
But in 1931, and for a long time after, families like those that 99-year-old Victoria Moses grew up in had no electrical switches to flip; in many cases, nature provided their light.
“Well in those days, there was no electricity. It was kerosene oil that people were using to get light at night. Some people would buy a lamp and up to now, I have a lamp from my parents in those days. You put the kerosene oil in the lamp and you light it with the matches and you get the light at night,” Moses told SEARCHLIGHT this week, just days after the St Electricity Services Limited (VINLEC) commemorated the 90th anniversary of electrification in the country.
Port project set for April launch
The modern cargo port, to include the lower portion of the Kingstown Bay, is expected to bring significant changes to Kingstown.
By: Dayle Da Silva•
Activity as it relates to the construction of the modern cargo port at Rose Place, Kingstown, is expected to pick up beginning in the middle of April, this after a launch of the project in the said month.
According to Senator Julian Francis, Minister of Urban Development, Energy, Airports, Seaports, Grenadines Affairs and Local Government, as he spoke on radio on March 28, the project is expected to be launched by the middle of April 2021.
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47 Rose Place families to be relocated
Some of the duplexes nearing completion at the Lowmans Bay site to which the Rose Place families will be located. (Photo Credit: API SVG)
By: Kenville Horne•
Forty-Seven families who will be affected by the Port Project in Rose Place are expected to move into their new homes at Lowmans Bay, later this year.
The port modernization project, estimated to cost US$ 185 million, is funded by the Caribbean Development Bank through the United Kingdom Caribbean Infrastructure Fund, and will take place in two phases.
The first phase involves the construction of a new cargo port that will also allocate land for expansion of the current cruise facility. The second phase will include construction of an inter-island and regional port.