It’s now official. The ‘Big Walk’ of the ‘Million Dollar Walk’ initiative is on. After many months of extensive planning and training, the partnership between the Rotary Club of St. Vincent South and Vincentian walking legends, Earl “Ole George” Daniel and Joel Butcher, will be showcased to the world.

St. Vincent and the Grenadines will be represented at CARIFESTA X – th Caribbean Festival of Arts - to be held in Guyana, August 22nd to September 1st 2008.

The media and interested members of the public from across the Grenadines are being given the exciting opportunity to spend a day on a research cruise that is mapping the rich underwater bounty of these islands. The cruise expedition, is being led by members of the the Sustainable Grenadines Project and Kim Baldwin, a PhD student with the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES) at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill in Barbados. It is a major collaboration effort between multiple organisations across the two countries of Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

In the not too distant future, persons wishing to tour the Botanic Gardens will have to pay to do so. This was word coming from this country’s Minister of Tourism, Glen Beache, during a tour Monday of work being done at the site, all part of the Tourism Development Project.

The Ministry of Tourism is pleased to announce that Storm Halbich of the Windsor Primary School has copped the second place in the Junior Division of the Florida Caribbean Cruise Association’s 2008 FCCA Foundation for Children’s Essay Contest.

The Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is in the process of implementing the Rabacca Park Development Project.

NATIONAL PARKS, RIVERS AND BEACHES AUTHORITY ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES STAFF VACANCIES

A local hotelier is calling for more Vincentians to take an active part in promoting tourism in this multi island state. “Vincentians need to take a more active role in tourism as a whole,” says Walter Ashley.

Dear Visitor, Greetings from the people and Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines. We are the premiere destination in the Caribbean comprising of some 32 islands and cays stretching well over 40 miles. We never tire in providing new “secrets” and unexplored “discoveries.” To the repeat visitor it is regeneration.

“The equipment has landed!!” The moment the government and people of this country have been waiting for has arrived. Years of environmental studies, wind testing, topographical work and criticisms are now behind us, and it is time for the work to be begin in earnest.