FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
16, 2022
VOLUME 116, No.37
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FIVE DIE IN SANDY BAY ACCIDENT by KENVILLE HORNE
Khalil Robin
Ishmel Bruce
Kenroy Haywood
ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES now has its own 9/11 and no other community recognises that like Clare Valley. On September 11, 2022, the 11th day of the ninth month, the residents of the communities above the Rabacca River, those communities nestled on the north-eastern coast of mainland St. Vincent, were thrown into disarray akin to that which followed the death of seven students in January 2015, when the bus in which they were travelling ran off the road and ended up in a raging Atlantic sea. Last Sunday, sometime between noon and mid-afternoon, mini bus, registration number H-8190, a Toyota van, owned and driven by Napata ‘Tumba’ Louis of Clare Valley, with passengers from the South leeward community of Clare Valley destined for Owia, careened off the road and down a steep embankment in an area known as Boney River, Sandy Bay. What was left of the mini bus came to rest at a location estimated to be, according to one source, about 30 minutes
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Giovanni Barker
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Elvis Harold
Right: The mini bus as it stopped after careening over an embankment.
away from its destination. Residents of the immediate community who made their way to the site of the mangled vehicle, spoke of seeing persons strewed about the wreckage, some without limbs, many unable to move and the majority bloodied all Continued on Page 3.
PRISON INMATES TO ATTEND FUNERAL
Not for the first time persons incarcerated at HM Prisons will be allowed to attend the funeral of relatives.
by DAYLE DA SILVA PERMISSION HAS BEEN GRANTED and arrangements made for three inmates of Her Majesty’s Prisons to attend the funeral of relatives who died in the road fatality on September 11 in Sandy Bay. Five persons — Giovanni Barker, Elvis Harold, Khalil Robin, Ishmel Bruce and Kenroy
Haywood - all residents of Clare Valley were confirmed dead after the mini-bus in which they were traveling overturned in the Sandy Bay area.
They were making their way to Owia, to attend the funeral of Rohan ‘Charla’ Rawlins at Owia when the incident occurred. Continued on Page 3.