Like most Vincentians, I believe, I welcome the emergence of the New Year 2024. 2023 had been one of our worst years for a long time. The 55 murders recorded for the year, the last just shortly before midnight, tell its own story. We have for two consecutive years broken records for murder rates. In passing I note that Jamaica has had a reduction in murders and rapes. In fact, …
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Security concerns for journalists performing duties at court have once again come to the fore following an incident outside the Serious Offences Court this week. On Monday, July 3, Romaul Benn, a resident of Green Hill, and Martin Alonzo Velez Velasquez, a national of Colombia, both appeared at the Serious Offences Court jointly charged with possession of and intent to supply 31,099 grammes of cannabis to which they both pleaded not guilty.
The heads of two media entities in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), and some reporters have written to the Commissioner of Police Commissioner, Colin John to draw attention to what they describe as “ the escalating issue of threats by members of the public against and aggression towards journalists covering the Serious Offences Court (SOC) and the Kingstown Magistrates Court (KMC).”