FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2024
VOLUME 118, No.21
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PSU, GOVÊT CLASH
The NDP-sponsored billboard that was said to be erected without appropriate permission.
NDP TOLD TO REMOVE BILLBOARD
Stories by DAYLE DASILVA
THE PHYSICAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD (PPDB) has given the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) notice to remove a billboard situated at Gibson Corner. According to a letter dated May 21, from the PPDB to the NDP, the billboard was erected without the appropriate permission thereby contravening the Town and Country Planning Act of 1992 which states that ‘no person shall carry out, or
cause to be carried out, any development except under and in accordance with the conditions of a grant permission for development given in writing by the Board’. The NDP was instructed to remove the structure within one day of receiving the
Continued on Page 3. Dr. Godwin Friday. Leader of the NDP said the billboard was erected to show how flippant the government has been on the issue of crime.
ELROY BOUCHER was recently reelected President of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Public Service Union (PSU), but it has not taken him long into his new tenure to have his first encounter with government officials. According to Montgomery Montgomery Daniel, acting PM Daniel, Prime at the time, said that a day and Minister (Ag) time had been agreed for the and Minister of PSU-printery workers meeting. Transport and Works, during a radio address on May 22, he had received a telephone call during which he was informed that Elroy Boucher — President of the Public Service Union (PSU. had ‘stormed’ the premises of the Government Printery located at Campden Park. When he inquired further, Daniel said he was told that Boucher had requested a meeting with the authorities becausehe had interest in the workers at the printery. That meeting, Daniel reported, was set for May 16 Elroy Boucher President/ PSU admitted the action of between 12 noon he and his colleagues was and 1pm, in reaction to the Continued on uncooperative attitude of Page 3. the Cabinet Secretary.