FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2025
VOLUME 119, No.13
ULP nears filling slate Page 4
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Standing with Cuba Page 6
Letter to Mr. Exeter Page 10
A brigade of Cuban doctors arrives in SVG to support the country’s efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Women in the Arts Page 15
Repeat Track/Field Champs Page 24
Daniel Lugay (r), former MP, in conversation with a police officer while being taken into custody. (Credit: DNO)
ARRESTS ABOUT CUBAN CONTINUE IN WORKERS IN SVG: DOMINICA
IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, YOU KNOW NOW SOME OF THE CUBANS who have been resident and working in St. Vincent and the Grenadines for five years get permanent residency. Those who
marry Vincentians or were here for seven years or more have citizenship. Continued on Page 3.
Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister, has made it his business on every convenient occasion, to highlight the work of Cubans in SVG.
DR. THOMSON FONTAINE, the political leader of the main opposition party - United Workers Party (UWP) — in Dominica, has expressed his concerns regarding the arrest of former Parliamentary representative for Roseau North, Danny Lugay, as police continue to take suspects into custody in the wake of a protest in capital Roseau, against the government’s controversial electoral reform legislation. Continued on Page 3.
Protestors clashed with police in Dominica last week Wednesday and police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.