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FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 02, 2015
VOLUME 109, No.40
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Arnhim Eustate, Leader of the Opposition, posed a question in the House about the status of the associate degree courses.
tell the truth about the status, because people had to bear the cost of sending THE RELEVANT AUTHORITIES ought to their children there. apologise to the students, parents and “And when they expect that their the nation as a whole, for deliberately children can receive a degree and misleading the public on the issue of therefore, not have to spend the accreditation of the associate degrees expected number of years at offered at the St Vincent and the university, they are now finding out Grenadines Community College. that this is not so,” Eustace said. The call was made by Leader of the The opposition leader said openly, Opposition, Arnhim Eustace on he was calling on the authorities to Monday. apologise for what he termed as Eustace said then that he hoped the “deception,’ adding, “People may not authorities at the institution will now by DAYLE DA SILVA
like what I say, but I speak frankly on this matter.” Eustace first raised the issue of accreditation in September 2014. It was not until the September 21, 2015 sitting of Parliament that the Minister of Education, Girlyn Miguel, admitted that none of the 22 associate degree courses offered at the SVG Community College was accredited. According to Miguel, in response to a question put by Eustace, the institution was in the process of
Girlyn Miguel, Minister of Education, after some insistence from Eustace, admitted to the nonaccreditation.
becoming accredited, but since the SVGCC is not currently accredited, the associate degrees were also not accredited. “That is our highest level institution in St Vincent and the Grenadines, and I expect from them, the highest standards, that’s what they are there for - to bring the highest levels for a college of that type,” Eustace insisted last Monday.
‘A DISTORTION,’ CLAIMS DR. FERDINAND
Dr. Jules Ferdinand, displaying his fork, his guide, at an NDP meeting in Campden Park, September 12.
DR. JULIAN ‘JULES’ FERDINAND, the New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for West St George constituency in the upcoming general election, has refuted claims that his intent was to instil fear and violence, when he brandished a gardening fork at a public meeting. Ferdinand, during a political meeting at Campden Park on September 12 - while holding the fork - said that he had brought the tool to signify that the NDP was going to dig the Unity Labour Party (ULP) administration out of office.
He continued: “We will dig them out with this,” (raising the fork). Ferdinand added that the garden fork signalled another important message to the people, i.e. that the fork had four prongs, that the ULP had already spent three terms in office, and they were now looking for a fourth. “But hear this, they must look at this, because this has four prongs,” the West St George hopeful said. Ferdinand explained that the fork originally had a wooden handle, and like the ULP who
had ‘bad spent’ the money in the treasury, a stronger handle was put on and this symbolized that when the NDP got into office, it will be unbreakable just like the new handle. However, at an NDP meeting in Chateaubelair last Saturday, he referred to an article which appeared in one of the local newspapers - a letter written by Dr Richard Byron-Cox in which he (Cox) responded to the actions of Ferdinand and the garden fork. Continued on Page 3.