FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2024
VOLUME 118, No.22
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SAGA CONTINUES: BOUCHER REFUTES DANIEL’S CLAIMS requested a meeting with the authorities because he had ELROY BOUCHER, PRESIDENT of interest in the workers at the the St. Vincent and the printery.” Grenadines Public Service Union He added that a date and (PSU) has denied allegations time had been set, between 12 that he and other members of and 1 p.m. — when it was the executive ‘stormed’ the customary for the workers to compound of the Government be on their lunch break. Printery. But, according to Daniel, The PSU President made the PSU President showed up the comment at a press at 1:30 p.m. briefing on May 28 during “And my understanding is which he sought to clear the that instead of apologizing for air on comments made by his lateness, he went on to the Montgomery Daniel on May compound, into the building 22, in his (Daniel’s) capacity and disrupted work at the as Prime Minister (Ag). printery,” Daniel contended. Daniel said then that he However, Boucher denied had received a call on May 16 all the allegations made in the that the President of the PSU statement by Daniel. “basically stormed the Firstly, he refuted the claim government printery…. So, I that he and the other inquired and was informed executive members stormed that he (Boucher) had the building. by DAYLE DASILVA
Elroy Boucher, President/PSU has strongly refuted allegations by Minister Montgomery Daniel that he (Boucher) and other PSU officials stormed the government printer compound.
“I am not sure Montgomery Daniel understands what is the meaning of storming a building,” Boucher told members of the media. He described Daniel as being “dramatic” because storming a building referred to many individuals forcefully and violently entering a building or compound, “but there were about seven executive members and himself, he said. “It’s not 100, it’s not 50 and the workers were waiting,” Boucher continued. Further, he refuted the comment made by Daniel which suggested that a time and date had been agreed to by the PSU and officials at the printery. “That is untrue...we did not request a meeting, so there
Montgomery Daniel, wearing the prime ministerial (Ag) cap at the time, pointed to an arranged time and date for a meeting which he said was ignored by the Union. Continued on Page 3.
SPIRITUAL BAPTIST HOLIDAY BEING CONSIDERED ‘CABINET WILL REVIEW a decision on whether May 21 will be named a public holiday, officially recognizing the Spiritual Baptist Religion and its
journey to religious liberation.’
The Spiritual Baptist Church has moved from not being recognized as a bona fide religion, to become one of the largest Christian denominations in Continued on Page 3. SVG.