PARLIAMENT MOVES OUT

for this work, there is a clarion call that the building be preserved in its original style/architecture.

The records show that the building is well over 200 years old and while it would have been blessed with a few modern conveniences (e.g. air condition) through the decades, the building has remained, for all intents and purposes, untouched. It stands as one of the last historic buildings — standing in its original design — in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

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It will take some time, according to one citizen, for Vincentians to get accustomed to the fact that parliament will no longer be sitting in this building.

“IT IS GOING TO TAKE SOME TIME for us to get accustomed to not having the Parliament meet in Kingstown, but it is perhaps for the better that it is removed from Kingstown. It will get it business done with less interference.”

This is but one of the responses that THE VINCENTIAN got to its question, albeit to a handful of readers, about how they felt about the Parliament being removed from Kingstown.

Members of Parliamentelected and nominated — on Thursday, 1st June, met for the final time in the building in Kingstown that housed both the Parliament and the main Courthouse.

Moving through history

It is no secret that the building has been in dire need of repairs for some time now. (Readers of THE VINCENTIAN will recall the late Justice Frederick BruceLyle having to go public with a request that the authorities attend to some repairs (leaks) in his chambers.) And while there is unequivocal support

Right: Parliamentarians will take their deliberations and their ‘piccong’ at a new but temporary million-dollar facility at Calliaqua.