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REFERENDUM FAILS – WHAT NEXT?

REFERENDUM FAILS – WHAT NEXT?

It’s all over – for now. Elizabeth Windsor remains queen of St Vincent and the Grenadines, The Privy Council in England is still our final appellate court, we shall retain our hybridized version of the first past the post electoral system et cetera et cetera…and tragedy of tragedies, we are still saddled with the Constitution [...]

Democracy is the greatest gift that any country can bestow on its people

Democracy is the greatest gift that any country can bestow on its people

Mourine De Freitas-Ramjeet The owner of Caribbean Net News and its Editor must be congratulated for giving the public in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and beyond the opportunity to air their views on the upcoming referendum to be voted on November 25th. A CANA report quoted the Supervisor of Elections, Sylvia Findlay-Scrubb as saying [...]

Politics make very strange bedfellows

Politics make very strange bedfellows

Mourine de Freitas-Ramjeet When Ralph Gonsalves was in Opposition he went out of his way to make sure Parnell Campbell begs his bread, well PR you are doing a very good job at it. Ralph went to Parliament to try to impeach Parnell when he was Attorney General. Parnell is now putting his hand in [...]

“The vicious way in which the Government is taking the campaign is making people very nervous”

“The vicious way in which the Government is taking the campaign is making  people very nervous”

By Mourine De Freitas-Ramjeet At a time in our history when the world is still reeling from a financial crisis, the catastrophic economies facing Caricom countries after the collapse of British American and Clico, the tiny multi island state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines has money flowing like water through the streets from what [...]

A Court Ruling – Justice Denied

A Court Ruling – Justice Denied

BY FRANK DA SILVA Mr Ivan O’neal of the SVG Green Party is contending that in the upcoming referendum the ballot paper ought to use symbols to indicate the “No/Yes” preference. Through his attorney Emery Robertson of Robertson and Robertson, he took the matter to The Court where they were given a November 12 date. [...]

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