(Jamaica Observer) Olympian Asafa Powell has requested a paternity test for his daughter. This development comes after he was hauled before the courts this morning, on a request from his ex Amita Persaud Webb that he pay a monthly sum of $40,000 in maintenance towards the child. According to a well placed OBSERVER ONLINE source, Powell and Persaud Webb had an informal arrangement where Powell should have been paying $25,000 in maintenance each month, but the former sprinting sensation did not honour that commitment. The source said as a result, Persaud Webb decided to get a formal agreement through the…
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Asafa Powell in court over child-support payments Asafa Powell appeared before the Family Court in Jamaica on Thursday over child support payments. Meantime, Powell has requested that the court order a paternity test. Powel, 37, appeared before the court after the child’s mother Amita Persaud-Webb filed documents seeking financial maintenance of JMD$25,000 a month. Attorney-at-law Michelle Thomas represents Webb while Annaliesa Lindsay is representing the former world record holder. The parties are to return to court on October 9. Source :Spotmax
TRINIDAD EXPRESS – IN what has been the third judgment of its kind, a High Court judge has struck down a policy by the Customs and Excise Division over the importation of adult toys into the country. What may have been seen as indecent and unacceptable in previous years may not necessarily be deemed in such a way presently, Justice Ricky Rahim said. He made the comment as he delivered a ruling in favour of political activist Ravi Balgobin Maharaj on Wednesday evening. Maharaj had filed a hybrid judicial review and constitutional claim seeking to have the court quash a…
CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC)— St Lucia’s National Security Minister, Senator Hermangild Francis, says law enforcement authorities are concerned over revelations that murder for hire has become an active engagement. Speaking on local radio Thursday, Francis, a lawyer, revealed that some of the people up for hire were known to law enforcement and are being constantly monitored. “Crime is now big business in St Lucia, there are people who are known hitmen in Saint Lucia and these guys will not hesitate, if they get the right amount of money, to put a hit on you,” Francis declared. The situation he said,…
Fri, Jul 31, 2020 Introduction Last week, the ULP administration stole a march on the NDP, and persons who are actively opposed to the policies of the ULP, by concluding an agreement with the Jamaica based Sandals Beaches hotel chain, in respect of the failed Buccama Resort. The hotel project, which was once in liquidation, was purchased by the Jamaica based company, from the government of St.Vincent and the Grenadines. Readers will remember that the Buccama Resort had been placed in receivership by the courts of St.Vincent and the Grenadines, with the firm of KPMG being appointed by the court,…
About one month after former police officer Ettian Charles was cleared of the 2018 murder of Security guard Rodney George of Victoria Village, his co-accused Ulric Hanson and Jerome Ollivierre, both of Mayreau and Glenville Harry of Vermont, have been committed to stand trial in the High Court for the murder. At the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, Senior Magistrate Rickie Burnett ruled that a prima facie case was made out for Harry, Ollivierre and Hanson, after overruling no case submissions from Harry’s attorney Vynette Frederick, and Hanson who was unrepresented. Charles, along with Harry, Hanson and Ollivierre were charged…
Nothing stifles an economy like unpaid debt, goods borrowed and not returned, lack of confidence, injustice, unfairness, lack of meritocracy, expenditure with no returns, and dishonesty. The main source of income for financial institutions is interest from loans. It appears that they need to take more interest in helping borrowers make their enterprises successful. The state of the economy should inform these lending agencies of what reasonable rates of interest can be applied. There are too many properties in foreclosure. This is an opportunity for debt collection agencies to make purchases at discounted rates and resurrect these dead properties through…
The Royal St. St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force Training School is better equipped to deliver lectures during training sessions, this is as a result of being the recipient of a portable projector screen compliments Mr. Syd Hazel through Sagicor. In a brief handing over ceremony held at Old Montrose Police Station on Wednesday July 29, 2020, Mr. Syd Hazel, representative of Sagicor handed over the equipment to the Commandant of the Police Training School, Superintendent Benzil Samuel who accepted the donation on behalf of the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Colin John. According to Mr. Hazel, it was indeed…
The Unity Labour Party (ULP) rode to power on the back of the Ottley Hall Marina and Shipyard. One of the first things they did, was to set up the infamous Ottley Hall inquiry, not to find out what went wrong with the financing of the project, but to investigate what the terms of reference said was the ‘failed’ Ottley Hall Project. They had already concluded that the project had failed even before the project was completed or the commission of inquiry had started its deliberations. There has been no serious interest on the part of the government in making…
What is undoubtedly the Caribbean’s largest privately owned airline company, interCaribbean Airways, is set to start servicing the Barbados to St. Vincent air-bridge as early as August 4, 2020. This was according to the airline’s founder and current Chairman Lyndon Gardiner who spoke exclusively with Asbert News Network on Wednesday July 29. The 53 years-old Turks and Caicos islander recounted his company’s progress since he purchased his first plane in 1991 while paying some attention to corporate milestones achieved across the almost 3 decades since he began servicing the industry. “We began scheduled operations in 2001; we did a company…