Commissioner of Police- Collin John (left) and Recardo Jackson (right) of C&W Business Social Share
Leading telecommunications provider Flow, continues to stand with the people and government of St. Vincent & the Grenadines.
Recently, this commitment was extended to the men and women of the visiting regional security forces participating in security exercises underway at the now decommissioned runway at Arnos Vale.
Cable & Wireless Business Solutions, the company’s B2B department, has provided free wireless internet service for the visiting teams to stay in touch with loved ones back home during their stint in Kingstown.
“The service provides the police forces with a direct connection to the internet, and the speed is the same for upload and download. It is as if they have their own highway on the internet,” said Recardo Jackson, Business Solutions Lead.
‘Lavaman’ still not charged Social Share DESRON RODRIGUEZ, the local thrill seeker who has split public opinion in relation to his alleged forays up to the summit of the erupting La Soufriere volcano, has still not been charged with a crime.
On Tuesday April 20, at around 4 p.m. Rodriguez’s alleged exploits on to the country’s highest peak earned him an interview with police officers stationed at the Biabou Police Station as the summit is listed as off limits by local authorities.
Rodriguez was detained for 48 hours, released, then asked to return to the Biabou Police Station on Monday April 26 as police were said to still be conducting investigations.
Police brutality on Union island is out of control – Whyte Social Share UNION ISLAND resident, Abdon Whyte, a teacher and social activist, said that police brutality on the Grenadine island is out of control, but said that he was not inciting violence in a letter he published on April 23 this year.
In the letter, Whyte highlighted several incidents of what he considered police brutality on the Southern Grenadine island and referenced the 1979 uprising on the island which was led by Lennox “Bumba” Charles.
He wrote: “the people of Union Island have survived under difficult situations and we continue to do so. There was a volcanic eruption in 1979 and 2021, I don’t need to remind you of what took place here on Union Island in 1979.
Man alleges he was threatened with a gun by senator
The left leg of Cornelius John, a businessman of Brighton, was broken by a gunshot two weeks ago. Social Share
Cornelius John, a businessman of Diamond claims that he was beaten, shot and threatened during an exchange with two high ranking government officials and is now unable to work.
ASHELLE MORGAN, deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly
John told SEARCHLIGHT that the incident took place at his home on Tuesday April 13, 2021 and one of the persons involved was a senator who he alleges pointed a firearm at his head and threatened to shoot him in the mouth.
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