SVG Coast Guard Service donates to Calliaqua shelter
From Left: Able Seaman (AB) Ainsley Hadaway, Leading Seaman (LS) Sherika Diamond-Dick, Shelter Manager Marlon Joseph, Storeroom Manager Vercil Ballantyne and Coast Guard Auxiliary (CGA) Romari Charles. Social Share
The St Vincent and the Grenadines Coast Guard Service (SVGCG) donated a quantity of relief items to the Calliaqua Anglican School shelter to ease the stress and enrich the quality of life of the occupants residing there. These essential items were handed over to shelter manager, Mr Marlon Joseph at a brief ceremony on Wednesday April 28.
Joseph said the donation is timely, adding that the delivery of the items at this time meets the shelter needs. He thanked the SVGCG service on behalf of the shelter and its occupants. Joseph said that he looks forward to collaborating with the SVGCG to educate the occupants on some aspects and skills associated with the Coast Guard service during their stay at the shel
Penny Bank helps victims displaced by volcano disaster
Rotary Club of St. Vincent’s Club Service Director and Past President, Earl Tash (left),
collects food supplies from Penny Bank’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Ruth Alves. Social Share
The St Vincent Co-operative Bank Limited/Penny Bank has pledged to do all in its power to help persons affected by the eruption of La Soufriere volcano.
And, a donation of supplies to the Rotary Club of St. Vincent is just one of the moves made recently by the bank in its efforts to help those displaced by the natural disaster.
On Friday April 23, Rotary Club of St. Vincent’s Club Service Director and Past President, Earl Tash collected food supplies from Penny Bank’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Ruth Alves, and the bank’s Marketing Consultant Juno DeRoche.
And then came the rains!!
Water the debris meant these vehicles on Bay Street, Kingstown were going nowhere, anytime soon. It is difficulty to be optimistic at this time.”
So said a senior citizen in a telephone conversation with THE VINCENTIAN at around 8:30 on Thursday morning. Dengue fever, the coronavirus, the eruption of La Soufriere and now torrential rains! How much more can we bear?” the elder asked.
And to bear that out, the pictures shared here tell a thousand stories, to modify the old saying of a picture being worth a thousand words.
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The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (UWI-SRC) needs more funding.
The UWI-SRC team predicted the eruption of La Soufriere volcano and as a result Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves was able to issue an evacuation order one day before the volcano began erupting explosively.
“You need to make sure that agencies like the one I work for, that we have the resources to do what we do,” Professor Richard Robertson of the UWI-SRC commented from the patio of the Belmont Volcano Observatory in North Leeward on Saturday, April 24.
Robertson said he has become the face of UWI-SRC in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) “for whatever reason” but his team is made up of many persons and journalists need to investigate what kind of resources they have.
Local students given new dates for CXC exams
EDUCATION MINISTER, Curtis King Social Share
Vincentian students will now sit Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations in July/August instead of June/July, and Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment (CPEA) tests in late July of 2021 instead of late May.
Also, the Caribbean Certificate of Secondary Level Competence (CCSLC) examinations will be done four days after the CSEC examinations, while the audit for the Caribbean Vocational Qualification (CVQ), would now be done in October instead of August.
Minister of Education Curtis King, relayed this information to SEARCHLIGHT on Thursday and noted that the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) had pushed back their examinations in keeping with the challenges that the entire region is facing with COVID-19, but has now done further adjustments for St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), because of explosive eruptions of at La Soufriere.