As St. Vincent and the Grenadines celebrates its 43rd anniversary of independence on Thursday, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves highlighted the resilience of residents and the progress made by the nation regardless of seemingly insurmountable odds.
In a recorded message performed at a digital flag-raising ceremony held by the Organisation of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS) Fee to commemorate the anniversary, he stated the federal government and persons are embracing contemporary hope after a interval of immense difficulties for the nation.
“This contemporary hope is conjoined with an abiding religion made manifest in works and an unbreakable love for our nation — a love that appears on tempests and is rarely shaken. In all this, the next will see us to victory: our resilience, our existential spirit to conquer seemingly unimaginable odds; our laborious and good work; our power of dedication to bedrock values of upliftment; and our reaffirmation that this nation is based on the assumption within the supremacy of God and the liberty and dignity of man and girl,” Prime Minister Gonsalves stated.
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Director Normal of the OECS Dr. Didacus Jules, in extending congratulations on the 43rd independence anniversary, stated St. Vincent and the Grenadines had proven distinguished and lively management in a number of spheres.
‘’The Fee appears ahead to the continued lively participation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines within the work of the Group and specifically, engagement on the already permitted OECS Improvement Technique to additional advance in a phased and structured method, implementation of the OECS Financial Union,” he stated.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines attained political independence from Britain on October 27, 1979.
From 1763 till its independence in 1979, St. Vincent and the Grenadines handed via numerous phases of colonial standing below the British. A consultant meeting was licensed in 1776, Crown Colony authorities was put in in 1877, a legislative council was created in 1925, and common grownup suffrage was granted in 1951.
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