By Casey Alexander Rodney King was placed on a year’s bond and ordered to pay EC$1500.00 forthwith if the bond is broken within three months. He was also ordered to pay Allison John EC1500.00 by October 30, 2020 as compensation having been found guilty of assaulting and wounding her. The 30 years old sailor, a resident of Arnos Vale, had a previous conviction stemming eight years back. Senior Magistrate Rickie Burnett concluded the evidence brought against the accused assailant was quite strong and that it was plain that King was guilty of the charges brought against him by John. King…
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One man is in police custody assisting with the investigations of a shooting incident which claimed the life of Kimron Hannaway, 28 years of Block 2000 (Old Montrose). The incident occurred on Sunday August 2, 2020 about 8:45 am in Block 2000. A postmortem examination will be carried out on the deceased to ascertain the cause of death. Person(s) with information that can assist with the investigation of this homicide are asked to contact the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) in charge of Crime at 1-784-456-1339; the Major Crime Unit at 1-784-457-1211 or any police officer or police station you…
Prime Minister Browne says the Government of Antigua & Barbuda will make available $2.8 million dollars for LIAT. “$1.4 million will go to the [Administrator] and $1.4 million will go towards paying the staff who have been working for the past month and have not received a red cent,” Prime Minister Browne said on Pointe FM. “Antigua and Barbuda has agreed to step up and make those payments in full. And inasmuch as we are only responsible for about 36 per cent of the $1.4 million, there was a previous payment that we did not participate in earlier in the…
Prime Minister Gaston Browne is trying to avoid a possible road block in the reorganization of LIAT by obtaining a loan from the Caribbean Development Bank to purchase two LIAT ATR Planes. “The Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley and Prime Minister [Ralph] Gonsalves [of St. Vincent and the Grenadines], they would have written to the Caribbean Development Bank requesting that they sell the three planes and to apply the proceeds, on a proportional basis, in reducing their re-fleeting loan with the Caribbean Development Bank,” Prime Minister Browne told Pointe FM yesterday. He said that plan is now faced with…
Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, retired Justice Claudette Singh has declared Mohamed Irfaan Ali of the People’s Progressive Party Civic as the next President of Guyana. The declaration was made just after 2:30 on Sunday afternoon after Justice Singh received the final elections report from the Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield. That final report was based on the numbers from the recount and will result in the PPP going back into government with 33 seats while the APNU+AFC will walk away with 31 seats and the Joinder parties (ANUG, JFAP, TNM) will slide into Parliament with 1 seat. In…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today confirmed one (1) new COVID-19 case. This case arrived on Monday July 27, 2020, from the US Virgin Islands. The visitor has been isolated since the receipt of their preliminary positive results, and is doing well with no symptoms typical of coronavirus. All of the one hundred and four (104) Air Canada 980 passengers who arrived from Toronto on Thursday July 30, 2020, have been released from mandatory quarantine, having all arrived with negative PCR tests or being found to be negative for the SARS-CoV-2 virus on entry screening. One hundred and three (103)…
On Saturday August 1, 2020, between 2:00 am and 3:00 am, a group of Police Officers were returning from a function when they saw the deceased, Juń Abbott who is known to the Police, walking along the Langley Park Public Road. He had what appeared to be a gun in his right hand. The Police alighted the vehicle, identified themselves to the deceased and shouted “Stop and drop your weapon”. The deceased did not obey the Police command, but instead – turned around and open fire at the Police. The Police returned fire and the deceased began to run. The…
Tinidad and Tobago is now experiencing clusters of the Covid 19 coronavirus, and some of the recent victims were infected at bars and schools. As a result, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced this afternoon that gatherings would be restricted to ten, and public servants would be asked to report to work on rotation or by alphabetical order, which would reduce the number of public servants out on a daily basis by 50 per cent. The restrictions would not affect the August 10 election day where social distancing spacing protocols would be enforced. People would be expected to sanitise before…
Did Finance Minister Camillo Gonsalves misstate the law when he said neither Sandals Resort International nor the government owes the workers who were employed at Buccament Resort? The law as outlined in the Protection of Employment Act and the National Insurance Service Act contradicts what a smiling Camillo Gonsalves told a nation last week. However, Gonsalves correctly stated the law when he declared that the government could properly acquire private land for a stated public purpose and turn it over to a private developer. As early as 1969 in a case Williams v Gov’t of St Lucia, the Privy Council…
The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment has noted an increase in the incidence of dengue fever cases in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) in the months of June and July 2020 (as compared to the same period in previous years). This was picked up by routine surveillance activities which revealed an overall total of 23 cases of dengue so far for the year. Over the last 7 years, the annual average number of dengue fever cases has been 15. In 2010 and again in 2012 there were outbreaks of Dengue Fever when 218 and 248 cases were…