St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Colonial Awards

In the absence of a British Empire, do titles like OBE, MBE etc, really have meaning? Abeni raises these and other questions on the occasion of knighting of St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ Deputy Prime Minister. “Isn't it time that countries like mine come up with their own national awards for citizens they deem worthy of recoginition?” she writes.

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