Recalls His Ordeal

FRIDAY MAY 15, 2020 VOLUME 114, No.20 www.thevincentian.com EC$1.50 Accident victim Sailors are Sagicor’s PM warns No LIAT for remembered home special plan absconders VINSAJA Page 3 Page 5 Page 12 Page 13 Page 24 SHOOTING VICTIM RECALLS HIS ORDEAL hours’ of Good Friday, the Good Friday profanities by the bicycle to the spot from where ordered to accompany them to voice of a woman pierced woman. he had removed it, but instead the police station so that he the reverence of the According to Young, on Holy had lodged it in his yard. could clarify the matter. He atmosphere with a Thursday he was repairing a Sometime elapsed and he objected to the order, offered bellowing of, “(Expletive) jeep in front of his home. He was approached by three men some resistance, all the while policeman fuh dead!” took a break, left on a bicycle who turned out to be Police insisting that he did not steal Later that day, news belonging to Rodney Francis Officers in plain clothes. He the bicycle. spread that Cosmos and which he was accustomed was questioned about the Realising there was no Young, a well-known auto- using, to run a quick errand. bicycle, during which the sense in prolonging his mechanic and long- He did so and returned to officers accused him of objection/resistance, he standing resident of working on the jeep. He stealing tit. Layou, had been shot by admitted to not returning the Young said he was Continued on Page 3. police. THE VINCENTIAN first sought ANOTHER ROAD clarification from the Police Public Relations FATALITY FOR 2020 Department, but was met by KENVILLE HORNE Comos Young alleges that he with a “no was shot by a police officer. comment” FIDEL DAVIS, a 34-year-old resident of Cedars, is this response. country’s third road fatality for 2020. by CARLYLE DOUGLAS However, a Davis died on the spot after he lost control of the recent interview motorcycle he was riding, and crashed into a public utility SOME LIGHT has been shed on a with Young shed pole along the main road in Biabou, last Monday, May 11. 2020 Easter incident in Layou. some light on the He was reportedly riding his black and white Ninja bike Around 2pm in the ‘holy reason for the and travelling towards Georgetown. One of Davis’ aunts (who requested not to be named) Continued on Page 3. Fidel Davis enjoyed, like so many young Cosmos Young displays the externally affixed men his age, a different sense of freedom on metal splint that now supports the bones in his The remains of Fidel’s Ninja motorcycle, as it came to his Ninja motorbike, on which, unfortunately left thigh. rest after crashing into a utility pole. (Facebook photo) he would meet his demise. (Facebook photo) 2. FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2020 . THE VINCENTIAN V News 3 THE VINCENTIAN. FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2020. 3. Close friend remembers accident victim “HE WAS MY FRIEND before friend, she saw her friend anything else. I’ll remember him twice on Monday, “once when every night.. reminding me to he stopped Calliaqua to see me say my prayers and read my after picking up the bike. ..a lil bible.” later in the morning when he So says Sasha Joseph about was driving the work van. I her close friend Fidel Davis. called him while driving Davis, a 34-year-old behind him in front ‘barracks’ chauffeur of Cedars, died on (Central Police Station) and the spot when he lost control when I switched lanes he of the motorcycle he was smiled at me and blew a kiss. riding, and crashed into a We talked during the day, but public utility pole along the I just happened to be asleep main road through Biabou. when he messaged me just The incident occurred on before he was about to leave Monday, May 11. from work.” Joseph told THE Sasha learned of her dear VINCENTIAN that Davis was friend’s death from her aunt an excellent father figure to around 5 o’clock that her son, and that his world afternoon. revolved around his children She was in a state of and his mother. disbelief, but managed to “He put everybody else’s check her phone and realized wants and needs before his. he had messaged her Often times I’ll have to argue sometime around 3pm. with him because he’ll refuse Still in a state of disbelief, to do something simple as she dialed his number but the eating, just because he just phone rang out. had to complete whatever for “ I was shattered by the everyone else. That was just news. … I just wish I wasn’t who he was … caring and sleeping when he messaged loving, and loved by me. Maybe it would make a Fidel Davis everybody,” Joseph said. difference,” said Joseph, and Sasha Shooting victim recalls his ordeal Joseph also recalled that he adding that just two days Joseph in encouraged her to be a better before, he spoke of selling his happier Continued from Front The bullet, he said, including meals. version of herself. bike. (KH) times. Page. reportedly shattered the The fact that he According to the grieving bone and he has had to occupies the top story of mustered the courage to have an externally his house, adds to his ask the officers if he affixed metal splint to isolation. could finish the repair hold it together. Young has been Sea wall vendors being job on the jeep, before he Young is now partially charged with stealing the went to the police disabled, unable to walk bicycle, and assaulting station. and move about unaided, (cuffing) a police officer compensated It was then, according and when THE while in the process of to Young, that he was VINCENTIAN visited executing his duty. THE shot in the thigh of his Sea Wall vendors are known to carry on a with him recently, he The matter was down GOVERNMENT left leg by an officer he thriving trade. (Photo Credit: 784 News) grimaced in pain as he for hearing last OF ST. VINCENT described as “fair - used his hands to move Wednesday at the Layou and the skinned and tall,” who his injured leg. Court, but was Grenadines then picked up a As a result of the postponed until next continues to hammer he, Young, was injury, Young is unable week Wednesday. undertake using, as if to indicate to ply his trade, and is preparatory that he had used his dependent on others for works in firearm to avert a threat. his daily upkeep, anticipation of the construction of new port facilities Another road fatality for 2020 in Kingstown. In December Continued from Front Page. confirmed her nephew’s death that she 2019, the Board of accepted the reality. Directors of the told THE VINCENTIAN that the Davis was the father of two Caribbean family was saddened by his tragic children. He attended the Stubbs Development Bank (CDB) approved As of May 12th, 2020, eleven (11) death. Primary School and the St. Clair financing for this project. The first vendors have complied with the She clarified that his family is Dacon Secondary School. phase will include: the construction of requirements to remove their originally from the village of Stubbs, A post-mortem examination is new cargo port facilities; the rerouting structure, and they will accordingly but Davis was born in Trinidad and expected to be conducted on the body of an existing sewer line and; receive their compensation package of Tobago. His family recently moved to ascertain the cause of death. associated road works. EC$4,500 each. from Stubbs to Cedars. The other road fatalities for the Beginning on Wednesday 13th May, The compensation makes provision The aunt said that Davis had plans year are: Lucinda Brackin, 46, who 2020, vendors on the sea wall who are for three (3) months income support of to ‘trade in’ his bike for either a jeep died on the spot when the vehicle in being permanently impacted will begin EC$715/per month, in addition to or a car. which she was travelling overturned to receive compensation. amounts for the value of their “I thought he had already gotten rid along the main road in Sandy Bay, Earlier this year, Cabinet approved structure, removal allowance and of the bike, until the accident,” she Sunday 8th March; and Shannel John, a sum of EC$275,000 to compensate timely removal bonus. (Source: stated. 33, who died on the spot along the the sixty vendors who were plying Ministry of National Security, Air and She said that when she first main road in Rillan Hill, after being their trade on the sea wall, prior to Sea Port Development) received the news, she did not believe hit by a pick-up on Wednesday 18th March 31st 2019. it. It was after a second call that March. 4. FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2020 . THE VINCENTIAN V Court ‘Jah Son’ fed up being a target Stories by police raid at his Villa home on May 8. think putting me in jail go get the Lee and the attempted murder of the HAYDN HUGGINS “Twice these people put me in jail guns dem off the street? All you don’t baby’s parents, Mozart Lee and Shelly for a murder I don’t commit. They understand you all self-much less to Ann Durham. MARTIN ‘JAH trying to disarm me so that they go understand the situation. All you The charges had stemmed from an SON’ JAMES, who murder me.

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