FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 2021 VOLUME 115, No.33 www.thevincentian.com EC$1.50 Prison Officer’s fate Too many NTRC My App Soufrière Trail: in the balance youngsters with workshop No Ground for Page 4 H licenses completed - Trial - Page 14 Page 4 Page 13 KIND-HEARTED BRIGHTON MAN KILLED and was pronounced dead at the scene by the District Medical Officer Shon ‘Sean Paul’ Browne (DMO).” A farmer who tends to FRIEND’S BETRAYAL his animals close to where the deceased was living, said that Samuel RESULTS IN HOMICIDE built a small house many years ago behind the A 33-YEAR-OLD-MAN was killed after park (now the SVGFF confronting a male friend whom he discovered in a facility) and lived by compromising position with his girlfriend. himself. Police confirmed that they are investigating the “He use to pass and go circumstances surrounding the death of Shon by Monique shop. He Browne aka ‘Sean Paul’, a 33 year old don’t drink rum and labourer/auto mechanic of Stubbs. Browne is Samuel’s best friend thing so but he does said to have died on Sunday 22nd August, George O’Garro. smoke e little weed. His sometime around 5pm, in Diamond. mother use to work on According to a press release from the Royal Grenadines Football the estate for ‘Das’ SVG Police Force, preliminary investigations Federation (SVGFF) DaSilva,” the farmer revealed that on the Sunday in question, the facility in Brighton. He shared. deceased and the accused male allegedly got into was also a painter. When THE altercation which resulted in the accused Samuel was a regular VINCENTIAN visited receiving a chop wound to his left hand. During patron of Monique’s Bar Monique’s business the tussle, the accused is said to have stabbed in Brighton, and his place, there was an Browne multiple times in his chests with a knife. fellow patrons recalled atmosphere of sadness. Browne was pronounced dead at the scene of his regular routine of In remembrance of the altercation by the District Medical Officer drinking two Guinness Samuel, two bottles of (DMO). Stouts, watching a movie Guinness, partially Browne was described as easy going and and conversing with his hiding the words ‘RIP willing. Linley Butler, a friend of the deceased, friends until he was Bush’, rested on the seat said that he was the person who had given ready to go home. of the stool Samuel Browne the place to stay in Diamond. The On that fateful usually occupied. property was Wednesday, some The deceased’s best registered in Linley community members friend, a dread lock man aunt’s name. said it was not more that by the name of George He described Samuel in happier times. fifteen minutes after he O’Garro, recalled his last Browne as “easy going left the bar that shots moments with Samuel. and willing,” adding Stories by state of shock. rang out from the He said that about 26 that he and Browne KENVILLE HORNE Samuel was known to direction of his abode. minutes to 10pm on would undertake be a kind-hearted and Checks by residents Wednesday he and his “mechanic jobs” as a THE SHOOTING DEATH of generous man; one who revealed that he was friend left the Bar. team. Edward ‘Bush Man’ had a special kindness shot. Samuel, O’Garro said, Linley, though, Samuel at his home in for the children in the According to a police told him he was going admitted that he had Brighton on Wednesday community. release, “….some home to make tea and warned Browne on 18th, has left many He was employed as a unknown person(s) fry half a breadfruit and several occasions about residents in that East St. member of the armed with a gun, shot fish. the number of George community and maintenance team at St. Samuel multiple times surrounding areas in a Vincent and the about the body. He Continued on Page 3. Continued on Page 3. succumbed to his injuries Friend Linley Butler. 2. FRIDAY, AUGUST 27 2021 . THE VINCENTIAN V News 3 THE VINCENTIAN. FRIDAY, AUGUST 27 2021 . 3. CARPHA introduces online form to report adverse vaccine events by GLORIAH… by a vaccine. Dr Joy St. John, personnel will do Executive Director of CARPHA local follow-up. THE CARIBBEAN PUBLIC HEALTH elaborated, “The reporting of an AEFI CARPHA has AGENCY (CARPHA), through its CARPHA does not mean the event has been expressed the Caribbean Regulatory System (CRS), has caused by the vaccine, or that the belief that this launched an online reporting form to aid person who gave the vaccine made an undertaking will immunization programmes within error, but it is an important part of reduce the need Ministries of Health in the region in helping the national authorities to for a physical collecting of case reports of adverse identify events that may need to be presence at events following immunization. investigated further. The information health facilities. The World Health Organization from investigations and data analyses Any person describes an ‘adverse event following will assist Member States in wishing to report immunization’ (AEFI) is “any identifying the types of reactions that an AEFI untoward medical occurrence which persons are experiencing, and any experience may follows immunization and which does additional monitoring or regulatory speak with a not necessarily have a causal actions that may be needed.” health relationship with the usage of the Additionally, neither is it confined professional for advice on the medical as a regulatory unit within vaccine. The adverse event may be any to COVID-19 vaccines as, according to aspects, and/or assistance in CARICOM’s regional public health body, the Caribbean Public Health unfavourable or unintended sign, CARPHA, the “form may be used for completing the online form: VigiCarib Agency (CARPHA), with support from abnormal laboratory finding, symptom any vaccine, including COVID-19 Vaccine AEFI Form. the Pan American Health or disease.” vaccines”. All reports will be received Questions about use of the form This reporting therefore, is not may be sent via [email protected] Organization and the Bill and by CARPHA-CRS and then sent on to Melinda Gates Foundation. About the confined to only events directly caused the respective Ministries The CRS is an initiative of the Caribbean Community and Common CRS https://www.carpha.org/What-We- of Health where Do/CRS/Caribbean-Regulatory-System Ministry of immunization programme Market (CARICOM) and is managed Education Kind-hearted Brighton man killed Continued from Frontpage. that she would miss Samuel. She too attested to the type of person He knew nothing about what Samuel was. She said that he launches transpired that night until would give the children his last Thursday morning when his dollar and stay without. neighbours told him that his “It just senseless… you try to education friend was killed. make sense of it and you can’t and According to O’Garro, “That the sad thing in this whole man dey don’t trouble nobody. He situation they are not going to recovery efforts don’t get involve with no drugs lock up anybody,” said the because he nar support coke grieving woman. (cocaine) and them thing dey. Monique’s daughter, Trachelle, When he come in the shop ah two also expressed that she would by GLORIAH… The house where Samuel was Guinness he ah drink and he will miss the deceased. killed. A TWO-YEAR RECOVERY PROGRAMME buy more than two Guinness give “He use to call me Beyonce or intended to assist students in catching-up on anybody else.” Chiney or Japanese,” said learning lost as a result of the limitations presented He said that nothing was too Trachelle. person or persons, who apparently by the COVID-19 pandemic and the explosive much for Samuel to give and that Reports are that Samuel was thought he would have already eruption of the La Soufrière volcano, was almost every child in the supposed to collect some money received the money. undertaken by the Ministry of Education, community can give testimony of that day and some residents have Samuel’s death was recorded as beginning on Monday 23rd August with Recovery of how nice his friend was. speculated his death might have this country’s 26th homicide for Learning and Emotional and Psychological Support Business woman Monique said been the result of a robbery by a 2021. (ROLES). According to the Ministry of Education and National Reconciliation, the ROLES initiative Friend’s betrayal results in homicide which is funded by UNICEF, seeks to “help with the knowledge and skills that students have Continued from with a number of tell me he staying at compromising position. missed, but it also takes into consideration the Frontpage. females, would often home to clean up the The rest is now history. social, emotional and mental well-being of the meet at Browne’s place yard,” Butler recalled. “‘Sean Paul’ is a good students”. It is expected that educators, families persons he was inviting to have some drinks. “When me dey pon de man. If you send him and school communities would function as critical to his residence, and Butler said he was work now, all after 5pm, America three times he players in this endeavour. with whom he would even detained for a while them say ‘Sean Paul’ go walk go and come The ROLES programme began with vacation indulge in “drinking last week Thursday after dead. Me watch it pon a back. He is a man now session for students needing remedial work and rum.” he had to remove one of man phone…, see ‘Sean he go make his little those entering exit levels in the upcoming school He also said that he the girls from the Paul’ lie down in a minor trouble but he year.