KINGSTOWN, St Vincent -- Over 35 fisherfolk leaders from the St Vincent and the Grenadines National Fisherfolk Cooperative Society Limited (SVGNFCSL) and affiliate fisherfolk cooperatives, and representatives from the Fisheries and Cooperatives Divisions, Office of the Prime Minister......
LONDON, England -- A unique exhibition was on display last week at the House of Commons in London, focusing on the testimonies of three generations of people from St Vincent and the Grenadines who have settled in High Wycombe in England. This multicultural town with its history enriched by......
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent -- The ministry of health has confirmed that there are now 39 laboratory-confirmed cases of the chickungunya virus in St Vincent and the Grenadines. The ministry said there are 37 on Bequia and two on the mainland. The ministry said it is continuing......
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent -- Saint James School of Medicine has announced the opening of its third campus located on the Caribbean island of St Vincent. For the past 14 years, the Saint James School of Medicine group of medical schools has provided accessible, affordable and quality education......
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent -- A Commission of the Anti-Corruption Mechanism (MESICIC) of the Organization of American States (OAS) held an “on-site” visit to St Vincent and the Grenadines from April 22 to 24, as part of the analysis that the mechanism carries out in accordance with......
ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad -- The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago in collaboration with the Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), Venice, Italy......
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- The Lord Mayor of Belfast, Cllr Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, hosted a reception in the Lord Mayor’s Parlour at Belfast City Hall on Monday to recognise the work of the Caribbean and African Diaspora. Invited guests included representation from the Consulate for St Vincent....
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent -- St Vincent and the Grenadines is one of two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries that has been explaining the reasons why they abstained in a United Nations General Assembly vote re-affirming Ukraine’s territorial integrity....
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent -- Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has hinted that the next general elections in St Vincent and the Grenadines may be held ahead of the December 2015 constitutional deadline. He raised this possibility as he addressed supporters of his ruling Unity Labour Party....
LONDON, England -- At a sentencing hearing at Isleworth Crown Court in London last Friday, the court was told that convicted fraudster Matthew Ames had been offered a £10,000 (US$16,500)-a-month job managing his father David Ames’s Buccament Bay resort in St Vincent if he avoided prison....
WASHINGTON, USA (World Bank) -- More than 30,000 people affected by the December 2013 flash floods in the islands of St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Saint Lucia will continue recovering and regaining access to markets, water and electricity through an extra US$36 million......
NEWTOWNARDS, Northern Ireland -- The consulate of St Vincent and the Grenadines and the community of Ards in Northern Ireland ‘made history’ on Monday (Commonwealth Day) when it joined 500 other communities across the UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man in raising the Commonwealth flag....
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- During recent missions to Saint Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines, the head of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) operations in the Caribbean formally signed livelihood rehabilitation and resilience building assistance totalling US$630,000....
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent -- A Commission from the OAS Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) will conduct from April 22 to 24, 2014, an on-site visit to St Vincent and the Grenadines with the consent of the host country....
BROOKLYN, USA -- On Saturday, St Vincent and the Grenadines Diaspora Committee of New York, Inc. held the first in a series of Diaspora leadership workshops in Brooklyn, New York. Over 25 persons participated in the workshop. The objectives of the workshop were......
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Fairtrade bananas from St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) were the dish of the day for some very lucky ring-tailed lemurs at Belfast Zoo. The donation, courtesy of the Consulate of St Vincent and the Grenadines to Northern Ireland, brought Caribbean sunshine......
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent -- Residents of St Vincent and the Grenadines may have to pay more for electricity in the coming months, as a result of the damage sustained by the hydro stations of the St Vincent Electricity Services Limited (VINLEC) during last month’s torrential rains....
ST JOHN’S, Antigua -- Regional airline LIAT said it has no aircraft leases with prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves or any shareholder of the airline and categorically denied the suggestion that Gonsalves has anything to do with the leasing of aircraft to LIAT....
LONDON, England -- Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma has written to the prime ministers of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica and Saint Lucia following the tragic loss of life and devastation wrought by the recent storm in the Eastern Caribbean. Sharma, who made contact with......
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent -- Hard on the heels of an apparent meltdown of the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) in Saint Lucia, caused by an invitation extended to and accepted by the leader of the parliamentary opposition to attend an emergency disaster response meeting, the leader of the opposition......