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An unprecedented crisis now confronts the justice system in SVG. The Commissioner of Police has acknowledged that the Deputy Speaker, Ashelle Morgan, and an Assistant Director of Public Prosecutor, Karim Nelson, are persons of interest in the investigation of allegations made by Cornelius John that an assailant beat and shot him at his home on April 13, 2021. Graphic in the description of the violence directed against Mr John and frightening in the implications that a man’s home provides no sanctuary from such barbarism, the allegations have punctured Vincentians’ confidence in the rule of law.
This arises from two interlocking features. First, our country simply has no record of misconduct in the Office of the Speaker or the Office of the Director of Prosecution that rises to the level of the violence alleged by Mr Cornelius John. Certainly, St Vincent and the Grenadines has seen too many shooting crimes. And certainly, people
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When Vincentians flip an electrical switch in their houses today, it is taken for granted that light will automatically fill the room they are in.
Switchboard at the South Rivers power station
But in 1931, and for a long time after, families like those that 99-year-old Victoria Moses grew up in had no electrical switches to flip; in many cases, nature provided their light.
“Well in those days, there was no electricity. It was kerosene oil that people were using to get light at night. Some people would buy a lamp and up to now, I have a lamp from my parents in those days. You put the kerosene oil in the lamp and you light it with the matches and you get the light at night,” Moses told SEARCHLIGHT this week, just days after the St Electricity Services Limited (VINLEC) commemorated the 90th anniversary of electrification in the country.
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Kingstown – Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says his government expects that most evacuees from the volcano Orange Zone and people whose houses were damaged by the La Soufriere eruption are to leave emergency shelters by next Tuesday.
He said only those from Fitz Hughes and Chateaubelair – where there is still a lot of ash would not be allowed to go.
“But everywhere else in the Orange Zone, as I speak, persons should be leaving the shelters to go back home,” the prime minister said, speaking on NBC Radio from Cuba where he has gone to accompany his wife for therapy after spinal surgery in the United States earlier this year.
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James Davis, a resident of Prospect who celebrated his 102nd birthday on May 22, 2021 says one of the keys to living a long life is taking care of your body.
“I can’t really give advice but I would say, try to take care of your body, treat the body very nice. Don’t ill-treat the body, treat the body as you should,” Davis told SEARCHLIGHT from his Prospect home on Thursday.
“Eat and drink when you can get because when you can’t get, you can’t get,” he said.