The Renwick Rose’s three-part article entitled, “Our Approach to Independence”, has given me cause to reflect on the leadership of SVG’s first Prime Minister – Robert Milton Cato, at the time of achieving full statehood in October 1979. Aloof and Elitist? The Milton Cato of whom I heard talk, was portrayed as an aloof leader, more aligned to the planter and mercantile classes, rather than to the working people of …
EDITOR: When Vincentians reflect on the last twenty one and a half years of their lives and soberly examine the issues and factors which have fashioned their present circumstances, they will have difficulty avoiding the conclusion that life in St Vincent today is far away from the quality which at the end of the last century,we seemed to have been working towards. What seemed to have happened is that our …
For the first time in over two generations, Vincentians have stepped into a new year without the towering presence of James Fitz-Allen Mitchell on the local political landscape. He was a most dominant figure in the politics of the country, even after he retired from active politics in 2001. Sir James was a titan in electoral politics in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), both in terms of political longevity …
For the first time in over two generations, Vincentians have stepped into a new year without the towering presence of James Fitz-Allen Mitchell on the local political landscape. He was a most dominant figure in the politics of the country, even after he retired from active politics in 2001. Sir James was a titan in electoral politics in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), both in terms of political longevity …