Red Zone poses security challenges
An aerial view of Chateubelair where many homes/houses were vacated as a result of the eruption. This one area poses a great security challenge.
By: Dayle Da Silva•
Police have confirmed that there have been a few incidents of properties in the Red Zone being burglarized since the La Soufriere volcano began erupting on April 9.
Commissioner of Police, Colin John told THE VINCENTIAN that police had received five reports from the Northwestern and two from on the Northeastern sides of the Red Zone.
Minister of National Security and Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves had earlier (April 14) provided insight into the two events on the Northwestern section. He reported then that the police had intercepted two individuals who had arrived on the Leeward side of the island by boat, with the intention of breaking and entering persons’ homes.
A HUSBAND WHO beat his wife, and was previously remanded in jail for a few weeks to be taught a lesson, has been bonded in the sum of $2500, and ordered to undergo counselling. Thirty-eight-year-old Francis Williams had appeared at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on March 24. On this date, after his wife of seven years Maurice Williams, gave evidence at trial detailing how he had hit her several times, …
A HUSBAND WHO beat his wife, and was previously remanded in jail for a few weeks to be taught a lesson, has been bonded in the sum of $2500, and ordered to undergo counselling. Thirty-eight-year-old Francis Williams had appeared at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on March 24. On this date, after his wife of seven years Maurice Williams, gave evidence at trial detailing how he had hit her several times, …
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Thieves awaiting sentencing after stealing from retired soldier
OMARIE SCRUBB (left) and Antonio Alleyne (right) Social Share TWO EMPLOYEES of a security company sent to install a security system at the home of an elderly retired soldier are in prison awaiting sentencing for stealing a quantity of items from this soldier’s home.
The most hurtful part of the whole ordeal for 74-year-old Norris Fraser, was that the young men were supposed to be taking steps to protect his home, but it turns out “they end up to be the thieves, the culprits.”
“…and I trusted them! And not in my wildest dreams would I have thought that they would have done something like that,” he commented at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on March 24.