The apparent killing of 72-year-old Simion Carlisle Legall at his Spring Farm, St Thomas home has left his neighbours in shock and in a state of fear.A concerned elderly resident told the media she was struggling to come to grips with the death of the well-known pool builder whose body was discovered by his sister Gothlene Hinds, around 6:30 p.m. on Thursday.Reports indicate that Legall was shot.The resident, who lives alone, said she is now living in fear in the usually quiet community where neighbours are known to look out for one another.“It hurt everybody. It got me frightened, and that is the truth…. I just got this kind of fright. I’m really frightened because sometimes the children don’t be here and I does be in here myself, you understand. So I would got to get frightened when them ain’t here,” she said.
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The past few days were intriguing, to say the least. First, we heard that a Cabinet decision was made to replace Independence Day with Barbados National Day.After a huge uproar on social media, the call-in programmes and elsewhere, the day after we heard that the decision would be carried back to Cabinet. Today, we were told Cabinet reversed the decision and Independence Day, as we know it, remains, for now.Amusing, though, is that Government spokesman Wilfred Abrahams said: “I am a member of the Government that listens and as we have done in the past we have listened to the voice of the people.”If that were totally true there would have been a forum for the people to speak and maybe vote on becoming a Republic and on which day to celebrate that occasion. Both of those decisions were made without the input of the people.But there were two things that happened that were heartening for democracy.
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Hopes for an end to the impasse between striking nurses and Government by Christmas have been dashed. Head of the Unity Workers’ Union, Senator Caswell Franklyn, the man who has led the three-week-long industrial action, told the Sunday Sun that plans for an intermediary to broker a peace have fallen through. Franklyn said a meeting was scheduled for 9.30 a.m. on Christmas Eve, but half an hour before the scheduled …