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We are already more than a week into National Heroes Month and will commemorate its high point next Monday, the anniversary of the date on which our sole National Hero, the Right Excellent Joseph Chatoyer, was reputedly killed. During this month of March, we also honour the memory of two of the nominees for National Hero status, George Augustus McIntosh, born March 6, 1886, and Ebeneezer Theodore Joshua who transited …
Today marks the beginning of one of the three most important months on our country’s national calendar. The month of March has been officially designated as National Heroes Month with particular focus on March 14, the date of the death of our only National hero, Paramount Chief Chatoyer, as a public holiday – National Heroes Day. The other most significant months in our calendar are August, in commemoration of Emancipation …
Fort Duvernette ‘aka’ Rock Fort, affords one of the best views of St. Vincent and the northern Grenadines, and it is safe to conclude that this was Paramount Chief Chatoyer’s favourite spot to smoke his ‘peace pipe’, having been the former owner of a larger nearby islet, that is today called ‘Young island’, after a British governor bearing that surname. Some history books say Young Island was exchanged by Chatoyer …
January 22nd passed uneventfully in St Vincent and the Grenadines as many others before it, with many Vincentians praying for the “end ah month” to come to relieve them of their hardships occasioned by excess Christmas spending. But up until just over two decades ago, we had the experience of the most penniless holiday of the year. January 22 in those times was a public holiday. For what reason? the …
National honours call for a national approach Social Share The effects of COVID or not, it is expected that National Heroes Day will be observed this year, albeit in scaled-down circumstances. Pride of place will be the annual tribute to our National Hero, Paramount Chief Chatoyer, at the obelisk at Dorsetshire Hill, believed to be his place of death. This year the tribute to our National hero has far wider-reaching connotations, for in the context of the COVID pandemic, there are many persons worthy of national appreciation for the selfless and heroic role that they are playing. ...