FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
VOLUME 117, No.37
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Vaughan Toney passes Page 13
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Dr. for Short Shirt Page 17
Extension for BL. Sands Page 28
JAMAL ‘CRIBBIT’ FINCH IS DEAD
JAMAL ‘CRIBBIT’ FINCH is dead…dead at 41 years old. He was shot and killed on Friday 8th September 2023 in Mala Village at about 11:55pm, while on his way home. His death was met with very little, if any sympathy by persons at large, given his notoriety as it related to violent crime in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Finch was only 17, June 1999, when he made his presence felt in a most violent manner, almost severing an arm of Otis Shearman during a graduation ceremony of the Intermediate High School (IHS), held
at the St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Cathedral. Finch, himself, attended the Intermediate High School but it is unclear whether or not he completed the expected minimum five years at that institution. The young man was in 2002 sentenced to three years in prison by High Court Judge Odel Adams after he changed his plea to guilty, with the judge describing the crime as “heinous’ and that “it calls for life imprisonment!” But even as he awaited the trial for wounding, Finch, in 2001, received a seven-month suspended prison
sentence for possession of an unlicensed firearm, ammunition and marijuana. In March 2004 Finch was again in trouble with the law, when during a search of his person he was found to be in possession of cocaine and marijuana. By June 2007, during a spate of shootings in capital Kingstown, the aim turned on Finch. He was early in the year shot in the face while walking in Paul’s Avenue where he is said to have been resident at the time. Later in the year, he was at the
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VINCENTIAN ‘DRUG LORD’ SHOT AND KILLED IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG FOR NEWS of the death of Elvis Dexter Chance, a Vincentian national, to flood social media platforms here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. According to the official report from neighbouring Grenada, where, from indications he had remained after a court case that ended in 2022, Chance was shot and killed in a vehicle in Elvis Dexter Chance was killed in a style which Grenadians Police say is Woburn, St. George, Grenada, on Monday, September 11, 2023. not common to Grenada.
On Tuesday, one day after the murder, police said they were not ruling out the possibility of it being a cross-border criminal act. The newly-appointed head of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Grenada Police Force, Superintendent Esau Pierre told a news conference with regards to the murder, that “because Grenada has Continued on Page 3.
Jamal ‘Cribbit’ Finch did not escape death this time around as he might have done on previous occasions.