MIDDAY HIGH LIGHTS On the local scene The centenary anniversary celebrations of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Girl Guide Association continued on Friday, with the launch of a Photo Exhibition. The Exhibition is open to the public today and tomorrow at the Girl Guide Headquarters at Level Gardens under the theme: Journey through a maze of memories created through the phenomenal experience that is Girl Guiding Addressing Friday’s launch, President of the Girl Guide Association, Rene Baptiste said the exhibition, which features photographs from the Association over the past one hundred years, is a lesson in History. Meanwhile, Chief Commissioner, Rechanne Browne-Matthias said the Exhibition depicts how the Guide Movement has contributed to the personal development of the nation’s women, over the past 100 years. And The General Employees Cooperative Credit Union will host its 50th anniversary Lecture this week. The lecture on the topic “The Role Of Credit Unions in National Development – Women Stalwarts of GECCU “ will be dedicated to former General Manager Viola John. Former President of GECCU Rene Baptiste will present the lecture on Tuesday April 15th at the Memorial Hall, beginning at 8pm. The 50th anniversary Celebrations of GECCU are being held under the theme “Proud of the Past – Prepared for the Future”. More on the local news Over 300 women attended the 2014 edition of the Phenomenal Women’s Conference which culminated on Saturday afternoon at the Methodist Church Hall in Kingstown. The objective of the one-day Conference was to build a community of women to share experiences, success and life skills. The Conference is the brainchild of Karen Hinds, the CEO of Workplace Success Group, Author of five books and a weekly Columnist in a local newspaper. Mrs. Hinds stated that conference achieved it objective, with all the participants leaving the event more empowered than they arrived. Mrs. Hinds said this year’s conference expanded on last year’s format, with a teen segment added on Friday. On the regional news BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Just six weeks after former Saint Lucia housing minister Richard Frederick filed a $25 million lawsuit against US officials in Bridgetown, the Barbados embassy became embroiled in another potentially embarrassing incident involving Frederick over the weekend. At 1:01 pm on Friday, a Facebook user posted defamatory remarks about Frederick on the Bridgetown embassy’s Facebook page and, despite comments and questions by other users on the same page being responded to by embassy staff with minutes of posting, the comments about Frederick remained online for over 48 hours before being removed. On Sunday afternoon, Yolonda Kerney, public affairs officer at the US embassy in Bridgetown, said both the initial post concerning Frederick and the response had been marked as spam and removed from the embassy’s Facebook page because they violated Facebook’s terms of use. On February 25, attorneys for Frederick filed a civil lawsuit in US District Court in Washington, DC, claiming compensatory and punitive damages of $25 million in relation to the revocation in 2011 of his diplomatic and non-immigrant US visas. In response to the latest incident targeting Frederick, DiGenova said, “The failure of the embassy to immediately remove the libelous material is not only a sign of indifference but evidence of a possible conspiracy to tarnish Mr Frederick in the midst of litigation. During discovery in this matter, we intend to find out who at the embassy failed to take down this material, which may constitute an obstruction of justice.”
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:56:20 +0000
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