Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned as the country’s chief law enforcement officer at President Donald Trump’s request. Sessions announced his plan to resign in a letter to the White House on Wednesday. Trump announced in a tweet that Sessions’ chief of staff Matt Whitaker would become the new acting attorney general. The attorney general had endured more than a year of stinging and personal criticism from Trump over his recusal from the investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign. Trump blamed the decision for opening the door to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, who…
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The Gender Affairs Division, in solidarity with the National Commission on Gender-Based Violence, joins the society at large in condemnation of gender-based violence, especially the increasing incidences of violence against women and children in public and private spheres. The Gender Affairs Division strongly condemns the recent incidence of violence against Rodisha Bailey of Sayers, Mesopotamia, and Shania Johnson of Biabou, two (2) young women who were recently killed, amongst other brutal murders that have been taking place across the country lately. The culture of violence must never be condoned! Although the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines has taken…
Earlier this afternoon, around 1:30pm a source close to ANN indicated that they heard gunshots. A few hours after, ANN received a report that a body was found in Lowmans Leeward. It has been confirmed that the deceased is Lennox John of Lowmans Leeward, in his mid 50’s. His body has signs of gunshot wounds. it is alleged that the man, along with some others were in the mountains when some masked men came and started firing gunshots. ANN is following this story and will update accordingly.
ANN has received reports that a body was found in the Lowmans Leeward. Police are currently on scene. ANN is following this story and would update as information becomes available.
The Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force in its quest to combat sexual offenses in SVG, has put together a team of detectives dedicated to investigating sexual crimes such as rape and unlawful sexual intercourse with minors. The goal of the Sexual Offences Unit (SOU) is to provide the best police and social services available to victims of sexual crimes. The Unit seeks to accomplish this task by conducting thorough and detailed investigations of all sexual offenses reported to the Unit. Further, in keeping up-to-date with modern trends, the Police Force has updated its national identification card that…
Police arrested and jointly charged a 15-year-old male and Torano Alexander, 21 years old Unemployed both of Mesopotamia, for the offense of Assault occasioning Actual Bodily Harm and Theft. According investigations, on the 11.10.2018 about 10:00pm at Glenside, Mesopotamia, both accused allegedly (i) assaulted Carl Rodriguez of Glenside, Mesopotamia by striking him about his body with a piece of Board causing actual bodily harm (ii) stole one (1) BLU cellular phone value $300.00ECC, one (1) brown phone case value $10,00ECC and $200.00ECC in Cash, the property of the complainant.
Police arrested and charged Gregory Decaul, 49 years Painter of Mahoe, Campden Park for the offenses of Burglary, Damage to Property and Handling Stolen Goods. According to investigations, Decaul allegedly (i) entered the dwelling house of a Police Officer of Rillan Hill and stole a number of items value $2,177.00ECC and $120USD, (ii) damaged one white metal door value $615.00ECC and other items value $793.00ECC. The suspect was also charged along with Philson King, a 36 years old Labourer of Murrays Village for having in their possession a number of Alcoholic Beverages reasonably suspected to be stolen or unlawfully obtained,…
Police arrested and charged Joel Brown, a 36-year-old Mechanic of Campden Park, for the offenses of Wounding and Possession of an Offensive Weapon. According to investigations, on the 30.10.2018 about 11:30 pm, the accused allegedly, (i) wounded a 30-year-old Domestic of Campden Park by chopping her on her right hand;, (ii) had in his possession an offensive weapon in a public place namely, a cutlass.
Police arrested and charged Sheldon Moses, a 31-year-old Gardener of Vermont, for the offense of Wounding. According to investigations, on the 23.10.2018 about 6:50 pm, Moses allegedly wounded a 53-year-old Farmer of New Montrose by striking him on his head with an unknown object
Police are investigating a report of Aggravated Burglary which occurred at Paul Over between 7:30 am and 8:00 am on the 03.11.2018. Preliminary investigations revealed that three (3) unknown men entered the apartment of a 34 year old Sales Clerk of Paul Over and stole one (1) brown Sony Xperia cellular phone value $947.00ECC, one (1) black DVD player value $500.00ECC, one (1) Cologne value unknown, one (1) Teflon tape value $6.00ECC, one (1) Charger and Adapter value $90.00ECC and one (1) silver quartz wristwatch value unknown; and at the time of committing the offence, had in their possession two…