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Editor: We are one Vincy family! One Caribbean family! One Global family! When La Soufriere Volcano started erupting explosively, the response to our SOS from the local, regional and International community has been nothing else but overwhelming! Receiving regular updates on social media, I experienced the anxiety, the frustration and the disruption to people’s lives even as I am thousands of miles away. As the days followed, people from all walks of life responded in a way that brought much joy in the midst of this epic natural disaster. Apart from my wife Julie and I deciding to facilitate the evacuees of St.Josephs Convent, Kingstown, with their necessities, I knew I had to go further and put pen to paper and tell the story in what I refer to as poetry in music and release this track…We Are One Family. Eruptions of our volcano historically are few and far between but felt I had to document the experience in audio and video. This will be released on ra
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The Covid19 pandemic and the resulting restrictions placed on how business is conducted have forced us to re-imagine many aspects of our economy and fast track our adoption of business models that depend heavily on e-commerce.
One unintended consequence of this increased demand for e-services is that the deficiencies that exist in terms of local support systems needed for such projects to thrive, have been highlighted.
Key among these deficiencies are the limited means by which individuals and businesses are able to interact digitally with Government, and the limited availability of digital payment systems that are affordable, allow for safe money transfer across borders, and are accessible to all consumers, even those without bank accounts.
The staging of the Vincy Premier League (VPL) 3.0 T/10 cricket tournament over the past two weeks, has paved the way for the return of sports here in St Vincent and the Grenadines in the very near future. Set to culminate this Sunday at the Arnos Vale Playing Field, the fast-paced action has been able to attract relatively large crowds in comparison to what normally obtains at local and regional …
Normally in this week which marks the anniversary of African Liberation Day, my topic for this column would have been pre-chosen. This year, in addition to Africa Day, as it has been renamed, May 25 marked the 90th year since our country first received electricity; it was also one year since the police murder of George Floyd in the USA which continues to have huge repercussions; and was also an …