Rock Gutter News Today

By Dr. The Hon. Ralph E. Gonsalves – Prime Minister INTRODUCTION On January 12, 2015, at Rock Gutter (located between Fancy and Owia) seven students died when the school bus in which they were being driven, ran-off the road into the Atlantic Ocean. This year is the ninth anniversary of this awful tragedy. We remember them and their families with a sadness and pain enveloped in an abiding love. We …

The village of Fancy has been plunged into mourning yet another time since the Rock Gutter tragedy of January 12, 2015.

Rock Gutter Tragedy -St Vincent. On January 12, 2015, the horrific Rock Gutter disaster happened. On the northeast side of St. Vincent, Rock Gutter is about midway between Fancy and Owia. A minibus carrying twenty-one persons, eighteen of whom were students on their way to secondary schools in Georgetown, North Union, and Kingstown, veered off the road and plunged into the surging water.

Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says the Government will introduce two new university scholarships from next September in honour of the Rock Gutter seven and the Clare Valley five. The Prime Minister was speaking during the funeral service for the Clare Valley five, Khalil Robin, Govanni Barker, Kenroy Phillips, Elvis Logie Harold and Ishmael Dorrel Bruce. All five died when the passenger van they were traveling in crashed on September …

On June 11, 2021, my newspaper column was captioned “Evil Stalks this Land”. I was then focusing on natural disasters and ones that were man made. At that time six months into the year, we had a total of 16 homicides. Now nine months into 2022 our homicide count appears to be 32. Before one was able to come to grips with those sour statistics, the nation was startled by …

The five persons who have been confirmed dead following an accident in the Bony River area of Sandy Bay today, September 11 are all young males. In an exclusive interview with SEARCHLIGHT on Sunday evening, Area Representative, Nigel "Nature" Stephenson said the Community of Clare Valley is in shock and mourning. While not divulging the identity of the accident victims, Stephenson said "they are all males, under the age of …