Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a report of attempted murder on a 46-year-old man of Greiggs. According to investigations, on 23.05.2020 about 3:30am a known male assailant with the intent to commit the act of murder on the virtual complainant shot him to the right side of his neck with a gun. The incident occurred at Greiggs. Police are therefore seeking the assistance of the public in obtaining any information that will lead to the apprehension and prosecution of the offender(s) in this matter. Persons with information are asked to contact the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of…
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St. George’s: May 24, 2020 – Grenada is offering assistance to residents of Union Island, following a fire that destroyed the island’s only gas station. The Government’s offer of refueling assistance has been communicated directly to the Director of Grenadines Affairs in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The Grenada Government recognises the importance of being our brother’s keeper which it considers to be even more important during this period. However, it also recognises that due process must be followed. Additionally, being still in the midst of the war on COVID-19, public health and safety remain a priority; therefore, all recommended…
Approximately 32 hours after his arrest, Park Hill resident Kenson King walked away from the Royal SVG Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department holding cells without any charges brought against him. King is an active social media based critic of the Dr. Gonsalves-led Vincentian government. On May 15, he supposedly took to Facebook to vent about a domestic situation that has been plaguing his family. In that post King allegedly said, “see when I speak about Ralph allyo does vex. Now, I have an uncle named Mohammed King. Some know him as Hanniffe. He has two licensed firearms. He keeps on…
The fourteen CARICOM Embassies in Havana Cuba are getting ready to distribute protective masks and personal hygiene products to over 700 CARICOM students located in various provinces across Havana, Cuba. On March 19th, 2020, shortly after the first case was discovered in Cuba, the caucus of CARICOM Ambassadors, through its then Chairman Ambassador Ellsworth John of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cuba that they had taken the initiative and responded to the call for the citizens to practice good hygiene by ordering masks, sanitizers, wipes and antibacterial soap for their students and the…
Police are investigating a shooting in Arnos Vale, West st George. Dead is Denisha Corridon, alias ‘Gaza Den and her boyfriend Lionel “Gobler” George. A reliable source told ANN that both Corridon and George were liming when a vehicle drove up to them and two persons exited the said vehicle and opened fire on them. Corridon, who received several shots about her body died on the spot, while George was pronounced dead at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital in Kingstown, St Vincent . A security guard who works in the area of the incident was also shot in his leg.…
Washington D.C., May 22, 2020 (PAHO)—The United Kingdom has agreed to contribute 3 million Pounds (USD $3.8 m) to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to help eight countries of the Caribbean – Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – contain the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and mitigate its impact. The financial contribution from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) is in addition to the USD $9.9m already provided by the UK Government via the World Health Organization (WHO) allocations to support PAHO’s response strategy to…
ARNOS VALE, ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES – No spectators will be allowed in the Vincy Premier League. The T10 tournament bowls off tomorrow at Arnos Vale playing field and will be played behind the closed stadium. The tournament, which will feature three matches daily, starting from 8:30AM is set to be the first competitive cricket league in the world since the COVID-19 pandemic. VPL will be broadcasted globally, with an anticipated viewership of over 100 million. Locally, the six-franchise competition will be televised on Sportsmax and VC3. The advice to not have spectators at the venue was given to…
A Pakistan International Airlines plane with 107 people on board has crashed near a residential area in the country’s largest city of Karachi, an airline spokesman has said. It is feared there may be more casualties as the plane came down on houses in Model Colony in the city. Footage from the scene shows huge clouds of black smoke billowing above the buildings. Reports state that the Airbus A320 was travelling from Lahore and had 99 passengers an eight crew members on board.
Fri, May 22, 2020 The Story of SVG and the ULP leadership – Part 2 Airport Development Having examined Saint Vincent and the Grenadines’ first success story of exceptional leadership conquering what hitherto was a seemingly intractable problem, through the implementation of the education revolution, this week’s focus is the innovative model created by this country to conquer another exceptional challenge, that of building an International Airport. With this country being one of two in the region to not have inherited an airport before political independence, the ULP recognized, while still in opposition, that it had to take on this…
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.’ -Friedrich Nietzsche ‘I won’t tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world’s voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely?—?or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its…