FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2025
VOLUME 119, No.08
Clare Valley teen shines Page 2
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No jail for mother Page 4
Boucher gives warning Page 7
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Tributes to Pastor Clarke Page 16
Guyana soldiers attacked Page 28
GHS STUDENTS FLEE FROM FLEAS Students gathered outside the main section of the Girls’ High School in discussion about their plight. The “temporary facility” that houses the Girls High School has become a favourite ‘hang out’ for stray dogs. NOT FOR THE FIRST TIME since they relocated from their Murray Road, Kingstown location to “a temporary facility” at the southern end of the runway of the decommissioned E. T. Joshua Airport, students of the “prestigious” Girls’ High School were forced to hastily vacate the Arnos Vale facility. And, to ‘throw cold water”, so to speak, on the saying that lightning does not strike in the same place twice, the students were made to flee their classrooms, on yet another occasion, because of another flea invasion. By 10.00am on Wednesday morning, the school’s Principal, Mrs. Latoya DeRoche-John, was sending a WhatsApp message to parents, informing them that “… due to unforeseen circumstances… school will be dismissed early
today,” and advised that they make arrangements to have their children picked up early. The message also informed that school will remain closed for the balance of the week and that instructions (classes) will be conducted online, a measure that the school has continued to use especially for assigning homework. No mention was made in the notice to parents of the flea invasion/infestation which, THE VINCENTIAN was made to understand, was brought to the attention of principal and staff at the very beginning of the school day. in fact, parents who are known to THE VINCENTIAN, shared that their daughter managed to telephone them long before 10:00am, urging them to
“pick me up … fleas biting me up… and they
even in my shoes.” As referenced in the opening paragraph, this
is not the first time that fleas have caused the Girls’ High School and the adjacent Thomas
Saunders Secondary School to be evacuated. Continued on Page 3.
NOTHING WRONG WITH AG’S CANDIDACY: OTHER ELECTION NEWS course...public servants will be able to get leave in order to PRIME MINISTER DR. RALPH campaign,” Dr. Gonsalves said. GONSALVES has defended the “Obviously, the selection of selection of Grenville Williams, the candidate cannot be done in this country’s Attorney General, that narrow window, it has to be as the Unity Labour Party’s done sometime before,” he (ULP) candidate to contest the continued. South Leeward seat in the Legislators here passed an upcoming General Election. Amendment to the He said on radio on February Representation of the People Act 16, a day after Williams’s back in October 2024 allowing unanimous endorsement. that public servants to contest there was nothing wrong with the elections and suffer no loss of Attorney General being selected employment or their benefits. as a candidate. “We have a law which we have Continued on Page 3. put in place which in due by DAYLE DASILVA
Grenville Williams copped an unanimous endorsement from the ULP South Leeward Constituency Council on his second effort.