Entertainment, Events

Prize giving ceremony for 2018 # 7 Domino League to be held on Saturday January 12

Published 12 January 2019

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

Prize giving ceremony for 2018 # 7 Domino League to be held on Saturday January 12

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, January 11, 2019 (PLP PR Media Inc.) — After a hotly contested season, history was made in 2018 when a team from outside Constituency Number Seven was declared winner of the 23rd edition of the annual Constituency Number Seven Dr the Hon Timothy Harris Domino League competition.

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LEGAL EXPERT WITNESSES TESTIFY BEFORE HIGH COURT IN DR. DENZIL DOUGLAS’ PARLIAMENTARY DISQUALIFICATION TRIAL

Published 11 January 2018

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LEGAL EXPERT WITNESSES TESTIFY BEFORE HIGH COURT IN DR. DENZIL DOUGLAS’ PARLIAMENTARY DISQUALIFICATION TRIAL

 

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, January 10, 2019 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – The case brought against the Leader of the Opposition, Dr. Denzil Douglas, continued in the High Court today (Thursday, January 10, 2019) with three expert witnesses on Dominican law making presentations before His Lordship Justice Trevor Ward QC to help him determine whether Dr. Douglas, through his use of a diplomatic passport issued by the Commonwealth of Dominica, is under allegiance to a foreign power.

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Crime/Justice, News, Regional News

Anguilla records is first Murder for 2019

‏Published 10 January 2019

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Breaking News!!!!!

Anguilla records is first Murder for 2019

Police Investigate 1st homicide for 2019
The Royal Anguilla Police Force reports that at 7:35 pm on Thursday 10th January, 2019 police responded to a call of a shooting incident in the South Hill area.

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Local news, News

Experts evidence agreed Dr. Denzil Douglas does not have Dominica citizenship; Judge to set date for decision

Published 10 January 2019

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Breaking News!!!

Experts evidence agreed Dr. Denzil Douglas does not have Dominica citizenship; Judge to set date for decision

Basseterre, St. Kitts, January 10, 2019 – Anthony Astaphan, SC, Lead Counsel for Leader of the Opposition the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas in the Dominica Diplomatic Passport case said Thursday the legal matter brought by the Attorney General, Hon. Vincent Byron Jr. “is a simple one.”

“This Diplomatic Passport was given to Dr. Douglas as a matter of professionalism and personal courtesy (by the Prime Minister of Dominica, Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit). He applied for it as required under the regulations. He did not declare a citizenship of Dominica at no time, even when he travelled on his regular passport or on the Diplomatic Passport. His nationality was always declared as that of St. Kitts and Nevis or a Kittitian,” said Astaphan to newsmen after the trial ended at the Sir Lee Llewellyn Moore Judicial and Legal Services Complex.

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International news, News

Norwegian billionaire’s wife abducted, kidnappers demand $10M ransom for her life

Published 10 January 2018

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Lukas Mikelionis
The wife of a Norwegian real estate tycoon was abducted back in October, police only revealed on Wednesday, and the kidnappers are demanding $10 million ransom money in exchange for her life and freedom.

Anne-Elisabeth Falkevik Hagen, 68, has been missing since Oct. 31, chief investigator Tommy Broeske revealed on Wednesday, with police saying she was abducted “against her will.”

Her husband Tom Hagen, a real estate investor and owner of power facilities, is among the wealthiest people in Norway, boasting a total wealth of about $2 billion.

Authorities said the suspected kidnappers left a note in the couple’s house, near the capital Oslo, detailing the fatal consequences if he refused to pay the demanded money in the form of the cryptocurrencies.

It remains unclear what the exact figure of the demanded ransom is, but local Norwegian media claim the kidnappers asked for more than $10 million.

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“A ransom demand and serious threats have been issued,” Broeske told a news conference. “Our main theory is that the victim was kidnapped by unidentified perpetrators at her home,” he said, adding that police investigated several possible theories of the disappearance.

The note reportedly said the wife would be killed if police gets involved, according to Norway’s VG newspaper.

The investigator said “the threats (in the note) were of a very serious character” and the police have no evidence that she’s alive “but we haven’t received any indication that she isn’t alive either.”

The reason the authorities went public with the case is to encourage anyone with any information about the kidnapping to come forward.

“Despite a broad and extensive investigation, we need more information,” he continued. “We have no suspects in this case,” Broeske said, noting police have been “on the case for several weeks. That is all I’d say.”

He urged the family not to pay the ransom money and said that the people behind the kidnapping “have chosen to communicate digitally and we have had no other type of contact.”

Norwegian authorities are working together with Europol and Interpol on the case. Police said the woman disappeared about 31 miles from the Swedish border.

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