WESTERN BUREAU:
Commanding Officer for Hanover Superintendent Sharon Beeput has given a commitment to the residents of the parish that the police will be stepping up their crime-fighting activities over the Christmas season with a view to keeping them safe by blunting criminal activities.
“We will continue to focus on some areas within the parish that are deemed as ‘hotspots’, and areas that we have a lot of activities,” said Beeput, while speaking at the recent monthly meeting of the Hanover Municipal Corporation. “We are looking at our town centres, transportation centres, the business establishments, cash centres and individuals that will be transporting money, and vehicle theft.
Shernet Haughton, former mayor of Lucea.
The Integrity Commission has found that the then Hanover Parish Council which was chaired by Shernet Haughton deliberately splintered contracts which led to three being issued to a person identified as Mr ‘BB’, his son, and his girlfriend.
However, the commission was unable to find sufficient evidence to substantiate claims that Haughton, then the mayor of Lucea, demanded $200,000 in exchange for the signing of cheques in 2014.
The cheques were allegedly in the amount of approximately $1 million for a project implemented by the Hanover Parish Council for the construction of a U-drain adjacent to the Lucea Transportation Centre. The council has since been renamed the Hanover Municipal Corporation.