Published 25 April 2017
HAPPENING NOW !!! SKN Prime Minister Dr. the Hon Timothy Harris addressing the Regional Workshop on Preserving your Memories in a digital World at UWI Open Campus, St Kitts
Double Homicide In Cotton Ground Nevis
Published 25 April 2017
Sheriff Wiliams 25 years
Elvis Lawrence 21 years
Police have confirmed a double homicide in Cotton Ground, Nevis Tuesday afternoon.
Senior police officer in Nevis said that police were at the scene of a shooting incident which occurred between 4:30 – 5:00 pm Tuesday (Apr 25) where one young man Elvis lawrence was confirmed dead and one Sheriff Wiliams rushed to the Alexandra Hospital.
Police subsequently confirmed that Sharif Wiliams succumbed to his wounds.
Information received is that armed assailants exited a vehicle and opened fire on the men who were at a shop in the area.
This shooting comes eight days after 28-year-old Morella Webbe was killed in that village (Apr 17) when the car she was driving was fired upon by unknown assailants. A female passenger in the vehicle was hospitalized for gunshot injuries.
On Sunday, March 26, Rondell Chapman of Rawlins Village was gunned down on the cricket field in Cotton Ground during an afternoon match between two cricket clubs.
To date no one has been charged with her murder, or the shooting.
Tuesday’s double killing brings to five the number of homicides recorded for Nevis so far this year and the 8th for the federation.
The Thought of the Day
Publish 25 April 2017
Buckie Got It…..Good morning my dear families and friends I hope that we all had a good night’s rest.
The thought for today reminds us that “The less you talk, the more you are listened to. ”
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future. Proverbs 19:20 . Have a blessed Wednesday.
Today’s Tip
Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, magical person you are.
Trinidad and Tobago president disappointed CCJ is not final court for all CARICOM states
Published 25 April 2017
By Ken Richards
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (WINN) — The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) states of St Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia and Grenada are among Caribbean states being criticized by a regional head of state for not having replaced the London-based Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice as their final appellate court.
Four countries: Guyana, Barbados, Belize and Dominica are the only ones to have so far acceded to the CCJ’s appellate jurisdiction.
The rest of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is being accused by Trinidad and Tobago president Anthony Carmona of dragging their feet on a matter he considers at the heart of Caribbean pride.
The former judge has expressed disappointment with that state of affairs, and is questioning the delay by most CARICOM nations in moving away from the British Privy Council.
Carmona is quoted as saying, “Perhaps the day will finally come when we can all take pride in, and responsibility for, defining, shaping, writing and ultimately, rewriting our own jurisprudence and laws in the context of our own peculiarities and the relationships among our own member states.”
The Trinidad and Tobago’s head of state articulated his concern about an apparent lack of confidence in the CCJ’s appellate jurisdiction by several Caribbean states during a lecture at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus last week.
Public support in Grenada for the Caribbean court failed to materialize in a recent referendum in the Spice Isle.
Antigua and Barbuda is expected to hold a public vote on the CCJ in the near future.
St Kitts-Nevis joins Antigua-Barbuda in rejecting Illinois tax haven label
Published 25 April 2017
By Ken Richards
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (WINN) — Efforts by one American state to officially label St Kitts and Nevis a foreign tax haven are being strongly objected to by the federation’s foreign affairs minister, Mark Brantley, thus joining Antigua and Barbuda in a similar protest.
A proposed House Bill 3419 in the state of Illinois has listed St Kitts and Nevis and 17 other Caribbean countries as a “foreign tax haven” and, if passed, would impact negatively on them.