FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2023
VOLUME 117, No.25
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CARDI REP FOUND DEAD
Gregory Linton had endeared himself to the farming community in SVG, according to one farmer.
GREGORY LINTON, a Dominican who was the representative of Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, is dead. Linton was found dead in his vehicle in the early hours of Monday, June 19, when police
from the Central Police State, Kingstown, responded to a report that there was a dead man in a vehicle - a blue Toyota Hilux parked in the vicinity of the Kingstown Preparatory School. Later on Monday, on confirming the discovery, the RSVG Police Force said that the
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SPEECH IMPAIRED MAN KILLED
intended target of the gunmen. Many Rillan Hill residents are A RILLAN HILL MAN who had a speculating that the shooting incident speech impediment was shot and is related to the May 6th killing of killed in that South Leeward Jamarlo ‘Ice’ Dunbar, a Rillan Hill community on Monday 19. resident who was shot and killed in Nigel ‘Urk’ Louie died at the Milton Arnos Vale, in the vicinity of Randy’s Cato Memorial Hospital where he had Supermarket, around 4:00pm. been taken to after being shot around Four days after Dunbar was killed, 10:30pm. He is said to have died there was a shootout in Rillan Hill some two or so hours after he arrived that resulted in the damage of a at the hospital. vehicle. Louie was among a group of friends “Dem had a shootout last month ‘hanging out’ when, according to after ‘Ice’ death. Man dey firing shots reports, two gunmen approached the and anudda man fire back. Yo know, group and opened fire. He was shot it have one of ‘Ice’ relative who want multiple times about his body. revenge and dat I think is de reason Residents in the community are for all this. Urk na bin foe get killed,” adamant that Louie was not the one resident speculated. by KENVILLE HORNE
Louie’s shooting death followed that of Joel ‘Nappy’ John, a 32-yearold mechanic of La Croix, who was shot and killed while he worked on a truck outside his home in La Croix on June 8. The mechanic who lived not too far from a SDA Church in La Croix, was found dead between two trucks. John originally hailed from Caruth in the Marriaqua Valley. Louie’s death brings the total number of homicides committed by civilians to 19, with an additional three shooting deaths during police actions. Nigel ‘Urk’ Louie might just have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.