Monday 12 April 2021 – Kingston, Jamaica. Digital Operator, Digicel Group, today announced its donation of US$500,000 worth of much-needed items to support the urgent relief efforts in St. Vincent & the Grenadines caused by the Le Soufriere volcanic activity. With thousands of people evacuated from the red zone and housed in shelters and significant ash fall […]
April 11, 2021, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) joins with the regional and international community in expressing our solidarity and best wishes to the Government and People of St. Vincent and the Grenadines as they endure the ongoing eruption of the La Soufrière volcano. CDB is greatly concerned about the multitude of […]
NYC – April 11- Brooklyn’s Borough President and mayoral candidate Eric Adams and St. Vincent and the Grenadines Consul General Howie Prince held a press conference on a chilly and rainy Sunday afternoon appealing to all New Yorkers to help the nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines stricken by the eruption of La Soufriere Volcano. More […]
Bridgetown, Barbados January 12, 2021 (CDEMA) – The CDEMA Coordinating Unit has received funding from the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (UK FCDO) in the amount of £51,000 through the Memorandum of Understanding on the ‘UK Support for the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Response Teams programme’. The funds will cover the cost of a rotary helicopter aircraft, […]
The Caribbean Development Bank is supporting St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ push to expand and increase its range of renewable energy options through a planned solar energy project. On Thursday, December 10 the Bank’s Board of Directors approved financing of US$8.6 million to St. Vincent Electricity Services Ltd (VINLEC) for the supply and installation of […]
Students and staff at nine schools across St. Vincent and the Grenadines can look forward to new and improved facilities under a major schools’ improvement project to be supported with US$13.7 million (mn) in funding from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). On Thursday, December 10, the Bank’s Board of Directors approved CDB’s support of the […]
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has mounted a six-person Election Observation Mission to monitor the General Elections in St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Thursday, 5 November 2020. The Mission is headed by Mr Anthonyson King, a member of the Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission. The other members of the Mission include […]
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana, Mon., 26 Oct. 2020) – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has congratulated the Government and People of St. Vincent and the Grenadines on the country’s forty-first anniversary of Independence, which it celebrates on 27 October 2020. Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, in a congratulatory message to Vincentian Prime Minister Dr. Ralph […]
Kingston, Friday, July 24, 2020 – Lottery game lovers should get ready for something hot! Supreme Ventures Group has announced the addition of a great new game to its lottery products, Hot Pick. The new Hot Pick is the latest addition to SVG’s suite of popular number-based games and is expected to amp up the […]
