Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is scheduled to leave the state today to attend the Regional Summit on Climate Change, which takes place in Martinique tomorrow. The summit will be chaired by François Hollande, the President of France, and will bring together states and territories of the Caribbean, including the French Outermost Regions. It aims… Continue Reading →
Two members of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Reparations Committee, attended an International Reparations Summit in New York, last week. The two, Chairman Senator Jomo Thomas and Deputy Chairman Curtis M. King were part of the Caricom Reparations Commission’s delegation that attended the historic event which was organized by the Institute of the Black World… Continue Reading →
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has left the state for the meeting between Regional Heads of Government and the US President Barack Obama in Jamaica tomorrow. He is being accompanied by his wife, Eloise, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senator Camillo Gonsalves. From Jamaica the Prime Minister and his delegation will travel to Panama… Continue Reading →
The Garifuna Heritage Foundation says the First International Garifuna Summit held here last week was a huge success. The Summit and activities associated with it were held from March 8th –15th under the theme “The Garifuna, A Nation Displaced –Cultural Rights, Economic Survival and Reparations”
Delegates from the Garifuna Movement from several Regional and International Countries are here to attend the conference, which is being spearheaded by the Garifuna Heritage Foundation. Delivering remarks at the opening of the Conference, President of the Foundation David Darkie Williams said he hopes the issue of reparations will be examined at the Conference. Meanwhile… Continue Reading →
An exhibition focusing on the recent archaeological excavations and findings at Argyle will be staged here next month as part of the part of the International Garifuna Summit. The Garifuna Heritage Foundation says Dr. Corrine Hofman and Dr. Jimmy Mans of Leiden University will be here to present the Vincentian public with a large-scale model… Continue Reading →
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, has proposed a Caribbean Energy Thematic Fund for CARICOM member states, to address regional energy security. Speaking at the first Caribbean Energy Security Summit, which took place in Washington, DC yesterday, the Prime Minister reaffirmed her government’s commitment to working with the United States and other Caribbean… Continue Reading →