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St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves participating in round table discussion on violent crime in the region in Trinidad on Monday, April 17, 2023.

PM Gonsalves wants death penalty carried out despite European position

By Peter Richards PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves Monday urged CARICOM countries to use the death penalty as a deterrent…

17 Apr 2023 8:28PM

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Opposition Leader Godwin Friday in a Jan. 10, 2023 photo.

Opposition Leader urges push back against ban of fetes on hard courts

16 Apr 2023 9:27PM

MP for Central Kingstown, St. Clair Leacock, a vice-president of the New Democratic Party. (File photo)

Gov’t hides Taiwan when ULP’s ideological friends visit — Leacock

16 Apr 2023 6:00PM

The deceased, Michael "Super Cat" Richards, right, and at the scene of his killing Friday night, April 14, 2023.

‘SVG streets running red with crime,’ NDP says as SVG records homicide #12

16 Apr 2023 5:41PM

A composite image of Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, right, and MP for Central Kingstown, St. Clair Leacock in Parliament on Jan. 11, 2023.

Leacock questions Gonsalves’ ‘genius’ for allowing Taiwan to ‘put a hook in the gill’ of SVG

14 Apr 2023 10:17PM

Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves reads in Kingstown, on April 5, 2023, from what he said is the loan agreement with Taiwan.

$577m in loans from Taiwan ‘put a hook in the gill,’ PM says

St. Vincent and the Grenadines now owes Taiwan EC$577.9 million, up from EC$100 million last September. Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said the loans “put a hook in the gill of…

11 Apr 2023 2:08PM

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