The bloodletting continued in Layou over the weekend with the shooting of Joveka Gaymes, a 28-year-old labourer of the Central Leeward town. According to a police report, at about 10:50 am on Saturday December 2, Joveka was walking through the old cemetery in “Cashville” when he was accosted by an assailant and shot multiple times about his body. Gaymes was transported to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCHM) where he …
Layou, Belmont and Edinboro were in the news over the weekend as those communities recorded shootings that took the homicide count in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) to 52 for 2023. The first community to hear explosions that resulted in gunshot wounds was Edinboro where Olando Guy, 36, and Dee-jay Howard, 29, were shot on Saturday morning. Guy and Howard were taken to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH) …
Police have, at last, found Tambu Patrick’s passport and other personal documents, two weeks after he was shot and killed and 11 months after he requested them.
The Central Leeward town of Layou had not recorded a murder since 2018 and within the span of six weeks, four men have been gunned down. The most recent shooting death occurred on the night before the November 24th ‘Love is the Answer’ peace march and rally, organized by police, was scheduled to take place. [caption id="attachment 172218" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Levi Gaymes, son of the second shooting victim in Layou with …