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A motorcar detained by Georgetown police during the commission of a crime and that should be an exhibit according to law, was delivered to a person claiming ownership before the matter was heard in court. Georgetown police last week Wednesday took into custody motor vehicle PR613 along with a sack of stolen oranges and 6 empty sacks found in the trunk. The driver and custodian of the motor vehicle at the time was Richland Park resident Roneil Bobb who had trespassed on lawyer Grant Connell’s farm at Congo Valley and stolen 150 oranges which he placed in a sack and…

Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith has given instructions for random testing for dangerous drugs, to be conducted on both Regular and Special Reserve Police Officers of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS), in accordance with Section 93 (3) of the Police Service Regulations, 2007. Section 93 (3) of the Regulations states, “The Commissioner shall have the power to order random drug testing for abuse of dangerous drugs by any officer.” Where random testing is done, any officer found to be under the influence of any Dangerous Drugs whilst on duty, will be disciplined. Section 150 (1) of the Regulations…

(SNO) — Health officials in Saint Lucia have issued an alert in light of reported deaths due to the mosquito-borne disease, dengue, in the neighboring French island of Martinique. They fear that since a big portion of the population has not been exposed to the disease before and they have not developed antibodies to combat it, there is a possibility of a large outbreak. “We are asking persons to be on guard, be on the alert,” Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Merlene Frederick-James, said. “At this point in time we are not seeing an increase in dengue cases, but as we said…

RT- An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet to Nairobi crashed early on Sunday with 149 passengers and eight crew members aboard, the airline said. Flight ET 302 crashed near the town of Bishoftu, 62 kilometres southeast of the capital Addis Ababa, the airline said, confirming the plane was a Boeing 737-800 MAX, registration number ET-AVJ. The flight left Bole airport in Addis Ababa at 8.38 am local time, before losing contact with the control tower just a few minutes later at 8.44 am. “Search and rescue operations are in progress and we have no confirmed information about survivors or…

(CNC3)The 32-year-old mother of a newborn girl found in a shallow grave on Friday morning is insisting that she did not kill her baby but had a stillbirth. The woman, who was expected to undergo psychiatric evaluation yesterday, remains in police custody. She has again told police she did not harm her baby. On Friday, at about 8 am, a resident of Gonzales Village, Point Fortin, was tending to his crops when he came across what appeared to be a mound of dirt. The man dug up the mound to find the decomposing body of the baby wrapped in a…

After years of being just below, the St Vincent and the Grenadines budget estimates have gone over $1 billion. Minister of Finance Camillo Gonsalves on Tuesday afternoon presented to parliament the 2019 estimates of revenue and expenditure for 2019 which amount to $1,067,343,283.00 – an increase of 7.4 percent on the 2018 estimates of $993,535,449.00 The finance minister said the increase is accounted for on both the recurrent and capital sides of the budget. Gonsalves told parliament that the 2019 budget comprise recurrent expenditure, inclusive of amortization and sinking fund contributions, amount to $844,763,703 and that capital expenditure amount to…

Ca­lyp­son­ian We­st­on Rawl­ins, bet­ter known as Cro Cro, has been sus­pend­ed from the State-run Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (Cepep) af­ter an ob­scene out­burst while dri­ving a com­pa­ny ve­hi­cle. Rawl­ins served as the Cepep South­ern Re­gion­al Co­or­di­na­tor and was sus­pend­ed with im­me­di­ate ef­fect ear­li­er to­day af­ter a video was shared on so­cial me­dia of Rawl­ins dri­ving a Cepep pick-up and curs­ing an­oth­er dri­ver. In an in­ter­view yes­ter­day Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Kaz­im Ho­sein con­firmed that Rawl­ins had been sus­pend­ed and his Cepep-as­signed ve­hi­cle was tak­en away. “I was in Sen­ate (yes­ter­day) when I was alert­ed to the…

The Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal on Tuesday ruled that Article 16 of the Collective Agreement signed in 2005 by the Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines and the St Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers Union (SVGTU) does not contravene the Constitution. The Court of Appeal upheld an appeal brought by lawyers representing former SVGTU President Oswald Robinson and union members Kenroy Johnson, Addison Thomas and Elvis Daniel who claimed that Article 16 of the Collective Agreement does not contravene the constitution as ruled by High Court Judge Justice Brian Cottle in his judgement in February 2016. The three…

(Excerpts of Dr. Friday’s Press Statement) NDP VIEW The New Democratic Party (NDP), on Thursday 17th January 2019, held a meeting with the Executive of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers Union (SVGTU). The meeting took place here at my Office at Democrat House. I believe it is the first time we have had such a meeting with the Union during my time in politics. Most of the members of the Union executive were present, including the President and the 2nd Vice President. I invited the Union leaders to meet with me and other members of the party and Opposition so…

Police Commissioner Gary Griffith has lambasted the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) for disrespecting the Police Service. He said without even having the “common courtesy” to reach out to him about their concerns about his “shoot-to-kill” policy, the Law Association penned a letter criticising it. “Shame on you the Law Association. You should know better. Then you actually have the audacity to make a comment without speaking to other members of the Law Association. There are many attorneys that are fully supportive of this,” said. Saying the crime industry was a multi-billion dollar industry, Griffith said his job…