Crime/Justice

Published 5 October 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

ST. KITTS AND NEVIS RECORDS A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN HOMICIDES

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, October 4, 2017 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – The men and women of various law enforcement agencies in St. Kitts and Nevis came in for high praise on Tuesday (October 3) by Prime Minister, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, for their unrelenting fight against crime and violence, which has led to an overall reduction in homicides during the first 9 months of the year.

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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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