Seventeen residents of Rose Place are now in a better position to render first aid assistance, thanks to a first aid sensitization exercise carried out by the Goodwill Fisherman’s Cooperative in conjunction with the SVG Red Cross Society. The exercise which took place on Thursday, November 8th saw the seventeen participants were awarded certificates, as first responders to an accident or emergency. President of the local Red Cross Society, Bernard Morgan, in his remarks noted that the exercise was demand driven and was geared at boosting the resilience of members of the community in an emergency or disaster. The Red…
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Police arrested and charged Jamerson Black of Calder with a series of Traffic Offences including of Reckless Driving and causing actual bodily harm to a Police Officer and a Female Pedestrian. According to investigations, about 3:23 pm on 8.11.2018, Black who was the driver of motor vehicle PT 67 was driving along Grenville Street in the vicinity of the Kingstown Vegetable Market on the southern lane (going towards Coreas City Store.). The accused was spotted by a Traffic Officer who signaled him to pull aside in the vicinity of Flow. Black complied with the officer’s request and pulled over M/V…
Less than one week after lawyer Grant Connell raised concern that persons charged with marijuana possession are increasing the prison population because they are unable to meet bail conditions set, yet another person was earlier this week added to the list. Sandy Bay resident Israel Baptiste, who was arrested at Belle Isle last Friday and charged with possessing 2,710 grams of marijuana with intent to supply to another, appeared before the Serious Offences Court on Monday. He pleaded not guilty to the charge. When the matter of bail arose, the prosecution did not object. Chief Magistrate Rechanne Browne granted bail…
Thirty-one-year-old Joel Gary Barker, also known as ‘Bodown’ and ‘Platinum,’ of Penniston was remanded into custody at the prison when he appeared before the Serious Offences Court on Monday charged with the murder of 23-year-old Kareem Bowens of Union Island. Bowens received a gunshot to his chest while near a bar in Clifton, Union Island, on October 3rd, 2018. He died shortly after at the hospital on the Southern Grenadine island. Barker, the suspect, had fled to neighboring Grenada and was apprehended there. He was brought back to this country last week. Senior Prosecutor Adolphus Delpesche said Monday that the…
One of the most sought-after lawyers in marijuana cases and a leading advocate for marijuana decriminalization Grant Connell is contending that the local authorities are playing games on the matter of marijuana and the move toward decriminalization. In an interview on Friday, Connell said that local, traditional marijuana farmers still have questions which are yet to be answered about the process of decriminalization and the farming, transportation, and exportation among other things. Connell expressed concern that this country, with three marijuana bills going through the process in the Parliament, is on the verge of enacting legislation to decriminalize marijuana for…
Remand prisoner Gregory De Caul of Campden Park has threatened to consume a poisonous substance because he is fed up of what he claims to be police harassment. De Caul, a person well-known to law enforcement authorities, made the threat when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Rickie Burnett at the Kingstown Magistrate Court last Tuesday. “You know what I would do one of these days?… Nobody ain’t go see me. I go either drink some kind of gramoxone or something. You know why? I’m getting too much unfairness,” De Caul told the Senior Magistrate while in the dock complaining that…
A FLOOD-WATCH remains in effect for ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES until 6:00 pm today and may be upgraded to a Warning if conditions warrant. Residents and motorists in areas prone to flooding and land-slides; near rivers, streams and low-lying areas should take the necessary precautions
Last Tuesday was a sad day for the people of Antigua, Grenada and the rest of the Caribbean. For the 4th time in less than a decade, the political class led our people over a cliff on an issue that is so basic, so vital to our forward development that future generations will look back and scratch their heads at our stupidity. Sometime as elementary as adopting our own court should be as elementary as learning to walk. Sadly, the political class, 6 decades since we started the march towards political independence in the Caribbean has not yet learn to…
The Secretary General of the Caribbean Tourism Organization has declared 2018 as the year of wellness and rejuvenation. Stakeholders within the Tourism and Hospitality Industry in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are not only engaging their mind and body through various activities related to wellness and rejuvenation. However, one of the main objectives of the 2018 tourism month celebration is to promote greater engagement of the tourism sector by providing activities for stakeholders ‘to learn and grow through their own experiences’. The Ministry partners with Island Wide Fitness Gym to twin fitness and tourism education. The first fitness activity was…
Minister of Education, National Reconciliation and Information the Hon. St. Clair Prince has said that a revolution has indeed taken place in education in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Minister Prince was speaking earlier this week at a ceremony where the Taiwanese Ambassador H.E. Calvin Ho, on behalf of his government and people, handed over scholarships to the tune of US$ 200,000 to 286 students of primary, secondary and post secondary institutions here. Minister Prince said that “we have a change of mindset and a change in paradigm entirely when it comes to education in SVG.” The Education Minister said…