Author: Letters To The Editor

As a proud resident of East Kingstown, I’ve always voted NDP, following my family’s long-standing tradition. However, a recent conversation with my young daughter made me confront an uncomfortable truth. She asked me why I seek help from Mr. Browne but don’t vote for him. I found myself unable to provide a satisfactory answer. My grandfather’s voice echoed in my mind, questioning why I would trust someone with my children’s happiness but not their future. This realization has prompted me to take action. I urge the mothers of East Kingstown to truly listen to your children as we fight for…

Grenada’s poultry industry found itself splashed across the headlines this week with sensational claims. But if you look past the noise and the feathers flying, you’ll find something simple. Two of the island’s most important entrepreneurs are working tirelessly to feed us. Yes, the industry needs support. But here’s the kicker, it doesn’t have to cost the government a cent. A modest 40% reduction in imports would give local producers the breathing room they need, while squeezing out subsidised and often poor quality chicken that too easily floods our market. Our banks also have a role to play. Food security…

Dear Little Black Boy – An Emancipation Day Message of Hope, Power & Possibility Dear Little Black Boy, On this Emancipation Day, I write to you not from a place of pity, but from a place of power. I write to you because you are powerful. I write to you because the chains that once shackled your ancestors’ wrists were never strong enough to bind their spirits, and that same unbreakable spirit lives in you. Yes, the world may try to box you in. It may whisper that you’re not enough. It may try to convince you that you’re too…

The Ministry of Education is taking us for some “pappyshows”. Educators need to be emancipated. I write this letter on behalf of myself and many of my colleagues who have been serving as facilitators in the Ministry’s Math After School Programme. It is with deep disappointment and growing concern that we continue to wait now more than six months for payment for services rendered since the beginning of this year. Despite our persistent efforts and professional commitment to delivering quality instruction in mathematics, our compensation remains outstanding. Many of us have incurred personal expenses to fulfil our duties, and some facilitators have continued to work…

Festival Emancipation & Victimization As we approach Emancipation weekend, a time meant to reflect on the struggles and triumphs of our ancestors, to celebrate liberation, and to uplift our people; it’s ironic and disheartening that I find myself needing to speak out about the very opposite: victimization, political interference, and the silent suppression of free enterprise in North Leeward. Just days ago, Minister Carlos James, our area representative and the Minister of Tourism, Civil Aviation, Sustainable Development, and Culture- publicly announced that his ministry will host the biggest cricket festival in the Caribbean over the Emancipation weekend. A grand celebration…

I am writing to express grave concern and rectify a public announcement regarding the payment of teachers involved in the Math After School Programme, introduced by the Ministry of Education in January 2025. This programme was designed to support Grade 5 and 6 students at the primary level and Form 4 and 5 students at the secondary level. During the finals of the 2025 Hachette Learning Math Quiz, Mrs Dyer, the Senior Education Officer for the Curriculum Development Unit, publicly stated that teachers participating in this programme had been paid. I must unequivocally state that this information is false. To date,…

If you were born in the 2000s, there are a few people that we could say we have known for most of our lives—not because we are personally close to them, but because they have held a grip on political power since we were children. The Honourable Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is one such individual. He is a well-known figure in the political landscape of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and across the Caribbean. With over 50 years of political involvement and 24 of those spent consecutively as Prime Minister, he is, without question, one of the most enduring political figures…

What an agency, organization, or even an idea becomes will always resemble to some degree—though it fluctuates across time—the inspiration at its inception. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was born from the US Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and it enshrined for the first time in the short history of international development assistance the concept of people’s “participation” in their own change and growth. Now, generations later, based on evaluations world-wide across cultures, we know that the local beneficiaries need to be integral to the design, management, and evaluation processes in order for initiatives to provide continued…

HISTORIC FIRST: WEST INDIES AS WORLD CHAMPS, MAY 1965 HAIL THE CHAMPIONS OF 1965 At the end of the West Indies vs Australia Cricket Test Series on May 17, 1965, at Queens Park Oval in Trinidad, the West Indies were crowned unofficial world champions, for the first time ever, since their official entry into test cricket in 1928. Led by the legendary Garfield Sobers, the West Indies defeated, also for the first time ever, the mighty Australians in the five-match test series, two matches to one; two matches were drawn. The results of the matches, in summary form, were as follows:…

Students Call for Operational Reforms as 2025/2026 Government Tuition Scholarship Application Period Opens The Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines has officially opened the application period for the 2025/2026 Tuition Scholarship Programme, a continued effort to support young Vincentians in pursuing higher education. While the initiative remains a commendable and vital tool for national development, past recipients have voiced concerns about recurring administrative challenges that risk undermining the programme’s long-term credibility and effectiveness. One former scholarship awardee, speaking from personal experience, praised the government for creating opportunities for youth through education, but emphasized that critical operational shortcomings need urgent…

Given the recent spate of news from nurses and other civil servants, I’d like to add another grievance to the list. As a long-standing service member, it greatly pains me that I have to use this medium to voice my displeasure. However, in support of my other comrades, I must say that enough is enough. There is currently a grave situation playing out at the mental health facility where it appears we are to be turned into the Callliqua Branch of His Majesty’s Prisons. In less than 2 weeks, a highly volatile prisoner and notorious murderer – Mr. Webster Woodley…

In 2018, the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines brought before the nation’s Parliament three bills, a Medical Cannabis bill, an Amnesty bill and a Sacramental bill, to be reviewed by a Parliamentary Select Committee, which comprised of the Opposition, New Democratic Party, the Christian Council of Churches, representatives of Youths, representatives of Rastafarians and Traditional Cultivators, and other stakeholders. Except for the Sacramental bill, which was withheld on the insistence of the representatives of Rastafarians, in disagreement with some aspects of it, the other bills were passed and promulgated into laws. The consensus was that the Sacramental bill…