KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves stated this yr’s Independence Parade will happen as customary within the morning, regardless of a request by the parade commander to shift it to early night due to the continued heatwave affecting St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
“I simply wish to say we now have determined to maintain the time for the parade at 8.00 a.m. (native time) on Independence Day. Whereas the police made a believable case for altering the time given the extreme warmth during the last couple of weeks and would even be as predicted for the twenty seventh, it’s simply too late to make the change for this yr,” Prime Minister Gonsalves stated.
On October 11, Gonsalves introduced the proposed time change recommended by Superintendent of Police Benzil Samuel, including that he would really like folks to present their opinions.
“We must take into account individuals to debate it somewhat extra totally, and it is probably not modified in any respect however to present time for a fuller dialogue, and as I say, it got here by too late.
“Folks have already mounted up … have a program up within the North Windward space, the matter of the Madungo Pageant, different folks have actions which they’ve already organized, diplomats approaching the night of the twenty sixth and wish to go away on the night of the twenty seventh in order that they will do the parade within the morning, diplomats from different international locations,” Gonsalves instructed radio listeners.
“There are too many issues for it to have been executed on this hurried manner. So, it’s 8 a.m. as common at Victoria Park for the parade,” he stated, including there could also be consideration given by the police for the precise parade to be somewhat shorter.
“And I actually, in my speech, need to make it as concise as potential in all of the circumstances and to be aware that folks will likely be standing up very a lot within the warmth and folks on the parade floor.
“That’s all the time a consideration, however as a lot because the police have raised it given the additional warmth in the meanwhile with the climate, we have to pay even larger consideration to these issues,” Gonsalves added.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines gained political independence from Britain on October 27, 1979.
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