SVG: Opposition leader says NDP will end appeal of vaccine mandate lawsuit

The opposition New Democratic Party in St Vincent & the Grenadines says it will discontinue any appeal in the COVID-19 vaccine mandate lawsuit if it is elected to office at the next general elections, constitutionally due in February 2026 but likely to be held by November 2025.

Opposition Leader Dr. Godwin Friday spoke soon after the High Court ruled against the government in a lawsuit that public sector unions brought challenging the mandate, which led to hundreds of public sector workers losing their jobs in December 2021.

High Court judge Esco Henry ruled that the special measures rules made under Statutory Rules and Orders 28 of 2021 — the vaccine mandate law — are unlawful, unconstitutional, and void.