The St Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers Union (SVGTU) believes that victory is certain stating that the Court of Appeal will uphold the ruling that the government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate violated the constitutional rights of hundreds of public servants who refused to take the jab. The SVGTU is represented by a legal team which includes local lawyers Jomo Thomas, Zita Barnwell and is led by Dominican lawyer, Cara Shillingford; and.
A 24 year old man, whose initials are S.G was sentenced to nine years in prison after a jury found him guilty of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl who was under the age of 13. S.G, who was 19 at the time of the offence, appeared at High Court #2 before Justice Rickie Burnett on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, where he was sentenced to prison for having unlawful.
The Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal has set May 2, 2024 as the date for hearing the appeal in the COVID-19 vaccine mandate case. The case was initially scheduled to be heard on February 1. The hearing was adjourned after a member of the three-judge panel was unavailable to hear the matter. Since then, public sector workers who were dismissed under the government’s 2021 COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which the High.
KINGSTOWN, Apr 20, CMC – The Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal has set May 2 as the date for hearing the appeal in the COVID-19 vaccine mandate case. The case was initially scheduled to be heard on February 1. The hearing was adjourned.
An independent umbrella of human rights organisations operating in the small islands of the eastern Caribbean has concluded that LGBTQ Vincentians face greater vulnerability following the High Court ruling on a same sex case last week Friday February, 16,2024. The Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality (ECADE) said in a statement issued from Saint Lucia, that the High Court’s extraordinary ruling undermines the rights of LGBTQ+ people in St …