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The Technical and Vocational Industry in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines will be getting another boost with the training of Cohort 4 under the Youth and Adult Training for Employment (YATE) Programme.
The registration period for children entering Government owned pre-schools and primary schools for new academic year will commence in earnest on Tuesday, June 1st, 2021.
Eight (8) new COVID-19 positive cases were reported from two hundred and eight (208) samples processed on Saturday, May 29th, 2021, resulting in a positivity rate of 3.9%.
The SVG Indian Heritage Foundation will celebrate the 160th anniversary of the arrival of Indians to SVG on June 1st, 2021. The first ship, the TRAVANCORE, departed India with persons who made the journey to a country unknown, but which was to become their home. Between 1861 and 1880 eight (8) ships brought 2,474 Indians to SVG to work and live on 23 estates. Just over half of these Indians remained in SVG, while about 1,100 returned to India.