Sir Godfrey GreggFor those who follow the Royals and the news Prince Phillip will be stepping back from active duties but knowing him the work continues in the background. Queen Elizabeth 11 at ninety-one (91) has scaled back from public duties and has placed Prince William more in the spot light with…
Sir Godfrey GreggInfluence The UNIA flag uses three colors: red, black and green. Schools, colleges, highways, and buildings in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States have been named in his honor. The UNIA red, black, and green flag has been adopted as the Black Liberation Flag. Since 1980, Garvey’s bust has been housed…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBajan distress at investment citizenship The recent arrival in Barbados of two persons who exercised their CARICOM rights to a prolonged stay on the island, obtained through a member state’s Citizenship by Investment program has Prime Minister Freundel Stuart uneasy. The Barbadian leader has reported that the persons, who…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggRemembering LIAT Flight 319 Please note: It’s now 31 years. It is now thirty- one (31) years since Vincentians at home and abroad were plunged into their most horrifically tragic air disaster in the history of commercial air flight in St Vincent and the Grenadines. It was on August 3, 1986,…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggDeath Garvey died in London on 10 June 1940, at the age of 52, having suffered two strokes, putatively after reading a mistaken, and negative, obituary of himself in the Chicago Defender in January earlier that same year, which stated, in part, that Garvey died “broke, alone and unpopular”. Due to travel…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggAir Canada Launching First-Ever Flights to St. Vincent Re-Post St. Vincent’s new international airport just get a major boost. Air Canada has announced the planned launch of the first-ever scheduled flights from North America to St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ new Argyle International Airport. The new flights will operate…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggCouple caught in ‘financial spiral’ jump to their deaths By Shawn Cohen, Tamar Lapin and Natalie Musumeci July 28, 2017 A couple jumped to their death in Murray Hill early Friday.Seth Gottfried Manhattan parents struggling to pay their doctors’ bills jumped to their deaths early Friday — leaving double suicide notes pleading that their…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggLater years In 1928, Garvey travelled to Geneva to present the Petition of the Negro Race. This petition outlined the worldwide abuse of Africans to the League of Nations. In September 1929, he founded the People’s Political Party (PPP), Jamaica’s first modern political party, which focused on workers’ rights, education, and aid to the poor. Also…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThe uncertainty of life comes and goes and so with pregnancy to the point of giving birth. Man will never understand what it is even to seeing the natural birth in progress. I saw one and was amazed, but the real father lost consciousness and fell on the floor while he…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggPM DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF LACK OF SUPPLIES AT HOSPITAL Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves said that the recent complaint that there was no plaster of Paris at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital is baffling. “I don’t know how they can’t have plaster of Paris. I don’t know if there…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggCharge of mail fraud In a memorandum dated 11 October 1919,[36] J. Edgar Hoover, special assistant to the Attorney General and head of the General Intelligence Division (or “anti-radical division”)[37] of The Bureau of Investigation or BOI (after 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation),[38] wrote to Special Agent Ridgely regarding Garvey: “Unfortunately, however, he [Garvey]…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggSt Vincent, Trinidad sign trade agreement JULY 26TH, 2017 GIS: –The OECS Agri-Export Initiative Aims to Help Lower the Region’s Food Import Bill. A new EC$20,000 a week trade agreement has been signed to export produce from St Vincent and the Grenadines to Trinidad and Tobago as part of…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggFirst flight finally lands at world’s most ‘useless’ airport The airport officially opened in June 2016, but with a major proviso: large jets cannot land there due to dangerous winds CREDIT: CREDIT: SIMON BENJAMIN / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO/SIMON BENJAMIN / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO  Oliver Smith, digital travel editor 8 MAY 2017 •…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggDEPARTMENT OF HEALTH APOLOGISES AFTER ACCIDENTALLY DONATING 2300 DILDOS TO ORPHANAGE ON MANDELA DAY The department of Health in Mpumalanga has issued an apology to South Africans after it was reported that it mistakenly donated 2300 dildos to an orphanage in Kanyamazane in Nelspruit. The department had an event…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggIt was a nail biting day when her mom was in the hospital waiting for delivery. Being hundred of miles away, and my only child I was waiting to hear the good news or that she was OK. After hours of waiting for the phone beep and the good…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggROAD ACCIDENTS ARE CAUSED BY GHOSTS- REVEALS MINISTER OF TRANSPORT JOSEPH MASWANGANYI Saying that he is very concerned about the ever increasing number of accidents on South African roads, especially at night, Minister of Transport Joseph Maswanganyi requested pastors and traditional healers on Monday afternoon to come together and fight against…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggSOUTH AFRICAN CHILD ‘VIRTUALLY CURED’ OF HIV A nine-year-old infected with HIV at birth has spent most of their life without needing any treatment, say doctors in South Africa. The child, whose identity is being protected, was given a burst of treatment shortly after birth. They have since been…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggConflicts with Du Bois and others On 4 October 1916, the Daily Gleaner in Kingston published a letter written by Raphael Morgan, a Jamaican-American priest of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, together with over a dozen other like-minded Jamaican-Americans, who wrote in to protest against Garvey’s lectures.[25] Garvey’s views on Jamaica, they felt, were damaging to…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggMOST PEOPLE STOP GROWING WHEN THEY DIE- REVEALS NEW MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS Telecommunications Deputy Minister Hlengiwe Mkhize speaking about the e-progRamme the government plans to roll out. Photo: Oupa Mokoena Saying that her department (Home Affairs) is working around the clock to ensure that data concerning South Africans…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggMOST WOMEN BECOME PREGNANT AS A RESULT OF SEXUAL INTERCOURSE’, REVEALS MINISTER OF HEALTH  Minister of Health in South Africa Mr. Aaron Motsoaledi revealed on Monday afternoon that the reason why most South African women fall pregnant is that they engage in sexual intercourse. “I have just learned…
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