A country's legacy is built on the struggles and triumphs of its people and here in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), we have overcome insurmountable challenges to advance toward social and economic progress. March 17, 1797: End of the Carib Wars and banishment of the Garifuna [caption id="attachment 159985" align="aligncenter" width="610"] "Painting by Agostino Brunias (commissioned by Sir William Young), depicting negotiations between British soldiers and Black Caribs, 1773" …
Police brutality on Union island is out of control – Whyte Social Share UNION ISLAND resident, Abdon Whyte, a teacher and social activist, said that police brutality on the Grenadine island is out of control, but said that he was not inciting violence in a letter he published on April 23 this year.
In the letter, Whyte highlighted several incidents of what he considered police brutality on the Southern Grenadine island and referenced the 1979 uprising on the island which was led by Lennox “Bumba” Charles.
He wrote: “the people of Union Island have survived under difficult situations and we continue to do so. There was a volcanic eruption in 1979 and 2021, I don’t need to remind you of what took place here on Union Island in 1979.