Crime/Justice

Published 31 August 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source 

Soldier’s bullet reportedly injures female resident in her Conaree home

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, AUGUST 31ST 2017 – A female Conaree resident is nursing a bullet wound to her hand after shots were discharged by law enforcement Wednesday night.

According to a source the bullet, allegedly fired by a soldier, went through a house, missed a head of a male occupant and struck the woman in her hand. It was not immediately known whether the police and soldiers were on a joint operation in the area.
The injured woman was taken to the J. N. France General Hospital for treatment.

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Published 28 August 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source 

Chamber’s Nevis Division breaks silence on murder of Benjamin Joseph, fifth businessman gunned down in 2017

CHARLESTOWN, NEVIS, AUGUST 28TH 2017 – The shooting death of Nevisian businessman, Benjamin Joseph, has awakened a sleeping St. Kitts and Nevis Chamber of Industry and Commerce, at least its Nevis Division.

With 18 murders including seven on Nevis for the year to date, the Chamber, the St. Kitts and Nevis Bar Association, the St. Kitts Business Forum, the St. Kitts Christian Council, the St. Kitts Evangelical Association, the Nevis Christian Council, the Nevis Christian Council, the Nevis Teachers Union and the St. Kitts Teachers Union have all remained silent on the murders, even though four other small businessmen and a teenager were brutally murdered before Joseph’s killing.

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Published 22 August 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source 

Douglas expresses sympathy to Joseph family;
Concern over disturbing trend of businessmen killed

CHARLESTOWN, NEVIS, AUGUST 22ND 2017 – Monday’s death of Nevis businessman, Benjamin Joseph, shot by a lone gunman last Saturday 19th February is the fourth businessman to be killed this year.

A businesswoman was murdered in 2016 and five businessmen were killed in 2016, according to statistics.

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