The National Insurance Services, NIS is taking steps to safeguard the welfare of its Pensioners, amidst the ongoing Covid 19 Pandemic. The NIS has embarked on a Financial Inclusion Drive for Pensioners, and is encouraging its Pensioners who receive payment via cheque, to submit their Banking and Credit Union information, to facilitate direct payment to… Continue Reading →

Health Officials have welcomed the stance taken by the World Health Organization, to change the status of this country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Health Organization had initially said that St. Vincent and the Grenadines can be classified as having community transmission in respect of COVID-19. Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Simone Keizer-Beache says… Continue Reading →

Forty-six new cases have been recorded here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines taking the number of active cases to four hundred and nineteen (419). Forty-four (44) of the cases are nationals with no history of recent travel. One case is a non-national who traveled from Germany and another from Brazil. Both adults arrived with… Continue Reading →

This country’s restrictions and regulations are being tightened to curb the growing spread of COVID-19 cases in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves announced the measures in a National Address last night which had as its theme “No one is truly safe until everyone is safe”. He said the raw data… Continue Reading →

The National Emergency Management Organisation, NEMO, has given the assurance that it will continue to provide timely and accurate information to Vincentians on the activity at La Soufriere volcano. The assurance came from Director of NEMO, Michelle Forbes, during NBC’s Face to Face programme this morning. Miss Forbes was responding to concerns expressed by residents… Continue Reading →

Visual observations of La Soufriere Volcano on Sunday were limited due to low cloud cover and frequent periods of rain throughout the day. This also did not allow for the completion of the monitoring station on the upper flank of the volcano. According to the latest bulletin from NEMO, visual observations of the dome late… Continue Reading →