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Plans for the $8-10 million complex tentatively call for 300 to 350 public parking spaces and about 15,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor, Vincent J. Panico, one of 13 investors in the project, said yesterday...
...Tommy" of that popular calypso song is Barbados Prime Minister Tom Adams, 53, whose 1979 decision to dispatch friendly troops to the nearby island-nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines moved one local songwriter to tuneful protest. Adams' aid to his neighbor enabled St. Vincent to send its own security force to suppress an uprising on outlying Union Island. Now, almost five years later, that Barbadian intervention still upsets many in the usually placid eastern Caribbean. Adams is sensitive about the matter too. Boots has been banned in Barbados...
...raised questions, and some tempers, in a region that may be richer in protest songs than ready cash. "Our banana and grapefruit economies can't maintain a gun state," declares Egerton M. Richards, publisher of the staid weekly Vincentian. Other pleas have been Seven more plangent. The St. Vincent opposition paper New Times greeted the arrival of a U.S. training team on the island with an impassioned editorial: "We want roads, and an international airport. We want university scholarships abroad. We want food, technology and cash, not guns, please." Some islanders fear that the presence of American visitors...
...worse. Last December, only two weeks after he arrived on St. Vincent, U.S. Master Sergeant Willie Washington was sitting in a bar when an islander named Keith Walker began taunting him about the U.S. presence. Tempers flared; Washington threw Walker to the floor, and another local retaliated by flinging a barstool at the American. At that point, Washington allegedly drew his gun and beat the second islander about the head with it. After arriving on the scene, police arrested only the two Vincentians. The incident merely intensified misgivings about the presence of arms...
Organizations and individuals within the state can petition the governor for acknowledgement of an accomplishment or anniversary. The governor's proclamation office then rules on whether the event deserves recognition, said Vincent Loporchio, a spokesman for Dukakis...