The Ministry of Health Wellness and the Environment can boast of having 100 per cent immunization among pre-primary school aged children. However, the need to maintain vaccination vigilance was further highlighted during this week when health practitioners and administrators in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) joined those of other countries in this hemisphere in observing Vaccination Week of the Americas. On Friday, April 28 the Ministry staged a concert …
With three years having passed since the shooting death of Sergeant 209 Philbert Chambers, his family say they are hurt by what they consider to be the neglect of the justice system and the state.
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent – A High Court judge has sentenced 43-year-old Kamara Lampkin to life imprisonment after he was found guilty of murdering a badly beaten man in 2018. His co-accused, Phil Dover, 27, whose testimony helped to secure a murder conviction, will spend a further seven years in prison. He was given a 12-year jail term, one third of the full amount he would have had to serve had it …
A joint release from the organizations provided derelict vehicle removal statistics disclosing that between 2017 and 2022, 638 derelict vehicles were removed.
Senior Magistrate Rickie Burnett is to be appointed a High Court Judge on the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC). Burnett told the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on Friday, March 3 that he is proceeding on leave next week, then after that, he is unlikely to return to his post. Two usually reliable sources told SEARCHLIGHT that Burnett is leaving his post to take up an appointment as judge in a few …