FRIDAY, MARCH 07, 2025
VOLUME 119, No.10
Vaccine case not over Page 5
www.thevincentian.com
Teacher arrested Page 7
NDP mourns Allan Page 14
EC$1.50
Peggy Antrobus feature Page 18
Shallow returned Page 28
DEFREITAS:
‘GOVERNMENT STILL OWES ME’
had made payments totaling MARCUS DEFREITAS, Managing EC$4.7 million Director of DeFreitas Investment towards the Holdings Limited (DIHL), and a acquisition. former New Democratic Party (NDP) DeFreitas Parliamentarian and Minister of countered the Government, Marcus has challenged Prime Minister’s the Government to provide evidence claim saying in a of all payments made to his public broadcast company. that in fact, only Right: Marcus DeFreitas, Managing The payment is in relation to EC$3.7 million was paid. Director of DIHL, from whom the the (government’s) acquisition of In a press release dated properties were acquired, contends three properties along Murray’s February 28, 2025, DeFreitas, that the government still owes his Road, owned by DeFreitas Managing Director of DIHL, company approx. $2.7 million. Investment Holdings Limited stated that since the Prime (DIHL), trading at the time as Minister’s claim was widely Trans Caribbean Traders Ltd. reported in local media, it was his far from the truth in material DeFreitas’s challenge to duty to refute the statement made aspects. I further state that the government came after a claim by by Dr. Gonsalves in Parliament Prime Minister Dr. Ralph DeFreitas stated in the release: Government only paid EC$3,743,785.” Gonsalves made in Parliament on “I, categorically state that the January 8, 2025, that government Prime Minister’s utterance is very Continued on Page 3. by DAYLE DASILVA
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves’ presentation in Parliament on the matter, amounted to an understanding that the bill had been paid in full.
GONSALVES SLAMS EC$22M ECCB GOVERNOR’S PALACE The construction of the $22m residence for the Governor of the ECCB continues unabated and when completed will rival any residence in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis.
THE EASTERN to spend EC$22 million CARIBBEAN CENTRAL on building an BANK’S (ECCB) decision extravagant official
residence for its Governor, currently
Timothy Antoine, has not escaped the ire of at
least one OECS Prime Minister.
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