FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
09, 2022
VOLUME 116, No.36
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TWO KILLED, TWO INJURED stomach. He was taken to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital for medical TWO KILLINGS over the weekend have attention where he later died. pushed the homicide number in St. Also on Saturday, in a separate Vincent and the Grenadines to 30. incident in Cane Hall, Tommy Grecia, Two males died as the result of 39, of Villa was the target of gunfire. gunshots during three separate He sustained multiple gunshots about shootings on Saturday and Sunday, in his body and was taken to the MCMH Ottley Hall and Cane Hall for medical attention. Up to press time respectively. In addition, one man is he was warded at the MCMH warded at the Milton Cato Memorial reportedly in stable condition, police Hospital (MCMH) reportedly in stable said. condition, and another was treated The shooting returned to Ottley and discharged. Hall on Sunday 4, and on the It all began on Saturday 3rd as discharge of gunshots, Dwayne Mosiah ‘Siah’ Westfield of Ottley Hall ‘Robbery’ Davy, 32, unemployed, of was on his way home. Reports are that Ottley Hall, sustained a wound to his he was ambushed and attacked by two body. He was taken to the MCMH gunmen. He sustained multiple where he was treated and discharged. gunshot wounds about his body and Tension mounted among the was pronounced dead at the scene by citizenry when on Wednesday a threethe District Medical Officer. minute recording was making the According to reliable reports, after rounds on social media. Westfield was shot and fell, laying The recording featured what could motionless on the ground, one of the only be described as a conversation gunmen stood over him and pumped between warring gangs, with one side more bullets into his body. committing to avenge the death of Moments later, Isiah Carter, a 19‘Siah’ before he was buried. year-old labourer, also of Ottley Hall, “We telling you straight what sustained a gunshot wound to his happening and what coming because Stories by: KENVILLE HORNE
Mosiah ‘Siah’ Westfield – Homicide victim #29.
to office, they said they will be tough on crime and the causes of crime. It seems like crime is tough on us and it has beaten them into submission because they don’t seem to have no solution or any stomach to even think of a solution nowadays.” Friday described a situation of much unease and fear in the country, created he said, by the homicide situation that ON THE HEELS OF A while speaking on currently stalks the land. WEEKEND of shooting Monday’s New Times He singled out the deaths and injuries, radio programme on Nice police as having an Leader of the Opposition, Radio, declared: Dr. Godwin Friday, “When the ULP came obligation to deal with the matter of crime, i.e.,
‘CRIME IS TOUGH ON US’, FRIDAY
Isiah Carter – Homicide victim #30. we ain’t talking (expletive) just so. You feel is any media war? I go show you something. Before ‘Siah” bury (expletive), all ah you. Bet you!” one of the male voices promised in the recording. In fact, one of the sides of the conversation threatened to continue killing the members of the other side, promising that there will be “no white Continued on Page 3.
“to find the causes and the perpetrators and look for solutions as to how we are going to address this question.” But even as Friday addressed the crime situation on Monday, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves had addressed the issue during WE FM’s Sunday Continued on Page 3. Left: Opposition leader Dr. Godwin Friday has called out the government as having been overcome by the crime situation in SVG. Right: Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, as a step towards combating crime, beckoned, especially the young people, to explore and make more use of the opportunities that are available to them.