PEDESTRIAN HIT by CAR WHILE CROSSING ROAD by GLORIAH… to Call for the Ambulance

FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2021 VOLUME 115, No.29 www.thevincentian.com EC$1.50 Jail for G’town Friday urges Remembering Tributes to Bequia woes guns protests Dr. John Soso Page 28 Page 4 Page 5 Page 15 Page 16 FIRSTFIRST ROADROAD FATALITYFATALITY FORFOR 20212021 Chavel Cain was the only fatality in last Sunday’s accident along the Mandela The Toyota Marino rested on its hood after running off the road. Highway. stop after the accident Highway (Leeward remove someone from the A police transport happen.” Highway) just outside vehicle. rushed him to the Milton This was one of the the Windsor Primary A utility pole could be Cato Memorial Hospital comments overheard school, left the male seen bent out of its where he was coming from among the driver of a Toyota original position pronounced dead. number of persons who Marino dead, and two indicatingthat the Police confirmed that had gathered at the females injured and vehicle might have the dead man as 27-year- scene of a vehicular hospitalised. crashed into it. old Chavel Cain of Belair accident, last Sunday, When this reporter got Inquires revealed that and listed him as the July 18. to the scene, the car was the persons were trying first road fatality for The accident, which ‘sitting’ on its hood and to remove the driver, 2021. The vehicle, by KENVILLE HORNE “THEY WERE RACING and occurred along the persons could be seen which they did, after the other vehicle did not Nelson Mandela frantically trying to some effort. Continue on Page 3. PEDESTRIAN HIT BY CAR WHILE CROSSING ROAD by GLORIAH… to call for the ambulance. When asked if anyone had Those who had assembled ever cautioned him about it, ON WEDNESDAY 21ST lamented the fate of the nurse the vendor said, “No. Well he JULY at around 3:35 in the who laid prone on the ground, go learn now because he afternoon, a female pedestrian having been “knocked off the bounce the nurse!” wearing a nurse’s white crossing” as several persons When questioned if he uniform, was hit by motor reported. actually saw what had vehicle, PP 831, driven by a A particular group was happened, he said “I see when male. quite irate, accusing the he lick she back. He come The accident occurred on person they identified as the down here and turn and lick Bay Street between Ace driver of being known for his she off the crossing.” He Hardware and Corea’s Heavy reckless driving. reiterated that the accident Hardware. A seasoned vendor, pedaling should provide a good lesson A large crowd quickly items on Melville Street, was for the driver. assembled. Some encircled the downright angry. He told Another onlooker stood victim while others hastened THE VINCENTIAN, “He all- quietly but a mark of being time speed down here! This is upset about her. Accident victim readied for his street, every time he does transporting to the hospital. come and speed down here!” Continue on Page 5. 2. FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2021 . THE VINCENTIAN V News 3 THE VINCENTIAN. FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2021. 3. Vaccination hesitancy: A matter of concern ACCORDING TO A DASHBOARD REPORT 10 doctors being vaccinated — that is released by the Ministry of Health last not safe for anybody.” No COVID-19 variants in Monday, 25,506 COVID-19 vaccines have Dr. Keizer-Beache disclosed that SVG been administered here. Of these, they are looking at small groups where 15,673 are first doses and 9,983 second they can have one on one interaction As for the concern about doses. “to try and address some of these COVID-19 variants in And while these national figures do complaints.” SVG, the CMO stated not come close to the expectations of And on the issue of adverse reaction emphatically on Sunday, government, of even greater concern is to the vaccine, the CMO reported zero that there was no evidence the vaccine hesitancy among staff in incidents/reports of any such reactions, of any COVID-19 variants the Ministry of Health. especially clots. in St Vincent and the During a call to last Sunday’s WE She insisted, “We haven’t had any Grenadines. FM Issue on Hand programme, Chief deaths associated with the vaccine, as She supported that by Medical Officer (CMO) Dr. Simone in direct cause of death,” and in sharing that, “we are Keizer-Beache said, “We are engaging response to a social media post that constantly sending them — doing more sessions with them cited four deaths after persons were [samples] to CARPHA to try and address their concerns in vaccinated, she said, “Upon and, as you know, we test terms of the hesitancy... we are not investigation, the Ministry of Health here.” seeing the numbers that we would can now say that those claims were She repeated that the expect to have... in the emergency false and that this country still stands latest reports have shown room, where we only have about two of at twelve COVID-19 deaths.” that “we still don’t have any variants of concern.” The New York Times has advised that the variants about which the Caribbean and the Americas There is no want of vaccines here and the PM should be concerned are: has alluded to 50,000 doses of the Sputnik Vaccine having already arrived here. (See story Alpha — which emerged in on 13) Britain and is now dominant in the USA; Beta — which emerged in South Africa; Gamma — emerged and remains prevalent in first appeared in Brazil; and Delta — India. First road fatality for 2021 Continued from Frontpage.PM214, a to the Botanical Gardens. blue Toyota Marino, is said to be In related news, reports reaching owned by Jerome Cain also of Belair. THE VINCENTIAN said that a Police also disclosed that the BRAGSA water truck overturned in vehicle was travelling in the direction the Rabacca area on Wednesday. of Kingstown when the driver lost While photographs indicated control and ran off the road. extensive damage to the vehicles, The condition of the two females THE VINCENTIAN can confirm that was unknown up to press time. no one received any major injuries. Health and Tourism personnel are working diligently to prepare for the In the last month or so, there have Those concerned were taken to the return of cruise ship visitors. been at least three vehicular Modern Medical and Diagnostic accidents — last Sunday’s inclusive — Centre, Georgetown, where they were along the stretch of the Leeward treated and discharged. Getting ready for the Highway between the two entrances cruise ships THE CRUISE will greet and meet those cruise ship have already INDUSTRY is set to persons,” Keizer-Beache been mounted. resume with some level explained. Health officials met of normalcy and local According to the CMO, with taxi drivers a few health officials are said that means that persons weeks ago, and although to be working on offering products for sale the CMO said that the protocols in anticipation to those visitors will turn out was of the arrival of cruise have to make up their disappointing, the plan liners and passengers to mind to get vaccinated. was to continue with the Port Kingstown. “That is the sort of interactions in order to Dr Simone Keizer- bubble which extends encourage them to Beache, Chief Medical from the cruise ship on become fully vaccinated, Officer confirmed this land,” she said. as the numbers of taxi while speaking on radio For persons who operators presently on July 19. cannot take the vaccine, vaccinated was not “The emphasis is on they will be subjected to satisfactory, especially as vaccinated passengers tests Keizer-Beache it related to taxi and just as they are further noted. operators assigned to the looking at vaccinated Efforts towards Argyle International passengers, you have to readying all stakeholders Airport. (DD) look at the persons who for the return of the The BRAGSA water truck lay on its side. 4. FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2021 . THE VINCENTIAN V Court Youth jailed in firearms disappearance Stories by HAYDN HUGGINS Photos courtesy: Kenton Chance AVI KING, one of four men, including a police officer, slapped with multiple charges in connection with the disappearance of guns and ammunition from the armory of the Georgetown Police Station, will serve two years and eight months behind bars after being handed a series of sentences to run concurrently. The 26-year-old Diamond/Villa resident received that sentence for possession of an M-4 rifle, serial number W877775, which is categorized as a prohibited weapon. Such weapons are used mainly in the military, and members of the public are not allowed to have them. (left) Firearms expert, Station Sergeant Maxian Myron Samuel, Zackrie Latham, and Meshack Dublin await Richardson of the Special Services Unit (SSU), told Nationally acclaimed their day in court. the Court that the gun had a maximum firing range footballer also awaits was the father of three children and is expecting of 2,652 meters and an effective range of 460 meters Avi King may have his day in court. more babies by January. King’s father was which can cause serious damage. He estimated the benefitted from a expecting surgery on Wednesday, and his mother maximum firing range as the distance from the reduced sentence but their matters, to was unemployed. She noted that he was employed Serious Offences Court building at Pauls’ Avenue to because of his early which they have pleaded in the electrical field, but he like many others, was the sea on Lower Bay Street, Kingstown. It can be guilty plea.

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