FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 2025
VOLUME 119, No. 34
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MALES ‘DJ SWAGGA’ YOUNG DOMINATE SHOT DEAD PRISON POPULATION
by HAYDN HUGGINS
Gasroy “DJ Swagga” Fergusson was once employed with HOT 97.1. FM before he joined BOOM 106.9 PM, where he carved out a listening niche for himself. by KENVILLE HORNE
the wee hours of Saturday 16th August, 2025.
A BLACK CAR took a right turn just Continued on Page 3. above SVG General Services Ltd., commonly referred to as “Fly’s, The floral display at the catching a number of men who frequent that block in Paul’s Avenue entrance to the Paul’s Avenue location of BOOM 106.9 FM, in by surprise. What ensured thereafter, added up to the last time remembrance of and tribute to ‘DJ Swagga’. ‘DJ Swagga’, known for his role on BOOM SVG 106.9, was to be seen alive. Gasroy ‘DJ Swagga’ Fergusson, a 32year-old resident of Largo Height, was shot and killed while he was hanging out with some friends a short distance The area in Paul’ Avenue where “DJ Swagga” from his work was shot dead, has been the scene of other place in Paul’s killings and gun-related incidents. Avenue, during
ALMOST 90 PERCENT of the 209 inmates of the prison system here who had attended a secondary school, dropped out of school in Form 2 and 3. This is according to Acting Superintendent of Prisons Dwayne Bailey, during a recent conversation with THE Acting Superintendent of VINCENTIAN. Prisons Dwayne Bailey gave The prison a detailed report on the population Prison Population at the statistics closing of the Assizes, presented at the close of the High highlighting the number and ages of as large number of Court Criminal repeat offenders. Assizes last week, showed that 209 of the 396 inmates currently housed at His Majesty’s Prisons (HMP) and the Belle Isle Correctional Facility, had attended a secondary school, representing 52.8 percent of the prison population; while 167 representing 42.2 percent of the prison population, attended Primary School and 17 are receiving a tertiary education. Bailey revealed that several inmates had also dropped out of primary school, but he did not have those statistics at hand. He further revealed that many of the inmates with an academic background, whether primary, secondary or tertiary, were in prison for very serious offences, including murder and gunrelated offences. A significant part of the prison population is between the ages of 16 and 35. Eleven males are between the ages of 16 and 21: five having been sentenced by the Magistrate’s Court, four awaiting trial and two on remand. Continued on Page 3.