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KINGSTOWN, St, Vincent – The Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal is scheduled to hand down on Wednesday its ruling in the “Vaccine Mandate Case”.

It is a lawsuit that was brought by labour unions against the Ralph Gonsalves government after hundreds of public sector workers were dismissed in 2021 for refusing to take a Covid-19 vaccine.

The St Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers’ Union (SGVTU), Public Service Union (PSU), and the Police Welfare Association (PWA) funded the lawsuit in which former public sector workers, Shanile Howe, Novita Roberts, Cavet Thomas, Alfonzo Lyttle, Brenton Smith, Sylvorne Oliver, Shefflorn Ballantyne, Travis Cumberbatch, and Rohan Giles are the complainants.