FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2024
VOLUME 118, No.42
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WORLD CUP SECURITY BILL UNREASONABLE was going to be borne by Cricket West Indies,” Gonsalves said. According to the Minister of National Security, some persons indicated that they worked 20 hours a day, expecting to be paid between EC$200/hr., for higher ranking officers, to EC$100. “So, I asked the question while these persons were performing these [duties], somebody working 20 hours a day, were they not being paid for that month?” he
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Stories by DAYLE DASILVA Below: Enville Williams, Acting Commissioner of Police has been advised to “wheel and come again” with the security bill he presented.
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Gonsalves said and questioned “.. how Request for a can I take 20 reasonable assessment something thousand dollars to pay a Dr. Gonsalves made it senior office for clear that he was not example?” saying that the police “If you work 20 ought not to get paid for hours a day on West providing security at the Indies Cricket in international sporting security, surely you event. cannot give an hourly “I told him (CoP) to rate as if you are a give me an assessment, lawyer when you you know. He says that have your salary it is a ticklish one...and I say well, it may be Continued on ticklish, but you have to Page 3. advise me,” Dr.
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Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, PM and Minister of National Security, has been assertive about having a problem with security (police) bill for services related to the ICC World Cup. PRIME MINISTER and Minister of National Security Dr. Ralph Gonsalves said that he finds it difficult to accept the amount that has been submitted to him for payment of members of the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force, for security duties during the ICC’s T20 Cricket World Cup in June. Speaking on radio on October 13, Gonsalves said that he had asked
the Commissioner of Police (Ag,), Enville Williams for a realistic document in terms of payment because the number he received amounted close to EC$800,000. “Apparently what happens, there are some persons who, when the LOC (Local Organizing Committee) were discussing the issue security, I don’t know if they felt all this thing
The independence anniversary military parade will be shifted from the early.mid morning hours to the early evening hours.