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Issue #1118 Bank Official predicts steady economy for SKN in 2016, recovery continues .. Pg9 Friday , April 1st, 2016 $2 No Police Officer from Nevis Division implicated in Sex Tape Scandal ...pg3 Prison inmate dies in hospital following psychotic behaviour ...Pg 7 Dr. Douglas makes another pitch for office of Leader of the Opposition ...pg6 e r o D y n n a L y s e t r u o C o t o h P Nevis participants ST. THOMAS win seven medals in Page 12 Caribbean Archery Championships ..pg13 CAsENLewEIBnteRr-APrTimEarS y Champions C M Y K Page 2 The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer. Friday April 1, 2016 LOCAL NEWS LOCAL NEWS The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer. Friday April 1, 2016 Page 3 No Police Officer from Nevis Division implicated in Sex Tape Scandal By LR Liburd card from the phone and According to their legal what he was trying to St. Kitts-Nevis Observer with the use of one of the counsel, the female was prevent eventually sur - station’s computers mainly featured in the faced and damaged the On Monday (Mar. 21), accessed its contents, video, including her face, Force’s image. Resident Judge, Justice among which was a while it was only the Lorraine Williams had video recording of the lower part of the male’s Giving his account of the awarded EC$500,000 to young man and his girl - body was visible. She Sex Tape Scandal, a couple who filed a friend engaged in sexual also stated that the Brandy said that on the motion against the State activities. amount awarded did not day in question the for the breach of their include their lawyer’s young man was in cus - privacy by two members The video recording was fee. tody assisting officers at of the Royal St. downloaded on one of the Charlestown Police Christopher and Nevis the officer’s cellular In his account of the Sex Station with their investi - Police Force. phone and later dissemi - Tape Scandal, DCP gations into a robbery on Hilroy Brandy nated to a number of per - Brandy acknowledged the island. Deputy Commissioner of Police According to the cou - sons in the public knowing of the incident ple’s legal counsel, domain, which was sub - and confirmed that it did He claimed that members Angelina Gracy Sookoo sequently posted on occur in 2013. He how - of the Delta Squad, of the Law Offices of including a Recruit, went ple’s phone. They your pleasure.’ I then Facebook and spread ever pointed out that at informed the said to him, ‘Fine, we Sylvester Anthony, the across the Federation via that time the Division over to Nevis on the motion was filed for instruction of Commissioner of what I will see.’” various cellular phone was under the command said and his reply was: breach of their constitu - apps. of Assistant Commissioner Walwyn Brandy said the two per - tional rights, not to be and they had searched ‘Oh…is a long time you Commissioner of Police don’t like Delta Squad. sons involved in the arbitrarily searched, for The couple became Robert Liburd and he some people. scandal were a Constable having their property aware of its circulation They trying to do their was the Superintendent work and they come to and a Recruit and that he taken from them without and file a motion against with responsibility for “They found them with a phone that was locked serve at my pleasure and had charged both of their consent, and the the State (the Attorney Operations. them. breaching of their priva - General and the and they took it. One of not at your pleasure.’ I cy by distribution of a Commissioner of Brandy explained that my officers told them told him, ‘Sir, this thing that is going on is not at “I preferred charges sex tape without their Police). The matter was the Commissioner was that they could not take against the Constable consent. heard in the Nevis Celvin ‘CG’ Walwyn the people’s phone and my pleasure, rules are there and they must fol - from Delta Squad and the Circuit Court before who, on weekends, was one of them said the Recruit. When the However, while it is Justice Williams in sending members of the Commissioner gave them lowed. If they do not fol - being touted that the offi - December 2015 and Delta Squad over to permission to do so. low the rules I will have to take action.’ He Commissioner saw it in cers who leaked the sex judgment was deferred to Nevis to conduct opera - the Morning Report he tape to the public were last week Monday. tions without informing “One of them then called responded: ‘You heard what I said? They serve came across to Nevis and from the Nevis Division, him and he had com - me and I told him not to called me. I told him that Deputy Commissioner of In handing down her interfere with the peo - at my pleasure and not at plained to ACP Liburd Continued on page 22 Police (DCP) Hilroy judgment, Justice about the situation. Brandy is adamant that Williams condemned the the act was perpetrated act, describing the offi - The DCP further by members of the then cers’ conduct as deliber - explained that he told famous Delta Squad sta - ate and “an unspeakable Liburd he would not be tioned in St. Kitts. wrong and shameful mis - party to such exercises as use of the Crown’s Walwyn was making The facts of the case are power. decisions arbitrarily, that sometime in 2013, a pointing out that should young man was taken She also indicated that anything go wrong dur - into custody at the the officers had no legal ing an operation he NOTICE Charlestown Police authority to search the would be blamed as the Any next of kin of the late MRS. HOSSELLA Station on suspicion of a young man’ phone with - Operations Officer. BROWNE , of Boyds, St. Kitts who died on the robbery, and while there out a warrant and that it officers took away his was an infringement of His statement was con - 27th February, 2012, are requested to contact the cellular phone in an his constitutional right to veyed to the attempt to search for evi - privacy. Commissioner, who he Attorney General’s Chambers, Government dence that may have tied said went over to Nevis him to the crime. The court awarded to admonish him, but he Headquarters, Church Street, Basseterre, St. EC$350,000 to the held his ground. Reportedly, the officers female and EC$150,000 Kitts on or before June 14th , 2016. removed the memory to the male in damages. Brandy stressed that Page 4 The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer. Friday April 1, 2016 LOCAL NEWS Editorial Minister Phipps, New Much Too Much Nursing Documents, It made headlines: a couple was awarded $500,000.00 because the police messed up. “Significant” This is not the first time in the recent past that the public has had to pay for incompetence; sadly, those in the know say that there will be many more settlements in the near future. The troubling thing about these settlements is that it’s we the gen - eral public who are paying, and we are paying many times over: we pay for unsolved crimes, we pay through fear, we pay salaries to rogue cops, we are paying to the bad boys (thereby making crime pay) and we pay to the victims (like those who got the half million dollars). When the Courts found persons guilty of misfeasance and malfeasance in public office, we, the people through our govern - ment, took on the payment. We have paid for high profile public servants, some who didn’t want to leave office (and some who bolted) but who did nothing while in office except use the trim - mings and trappings of the office for their personal gain and that of close friends. We are paying the price for people with strange names who went to foreign lands to do strange things. For this we are paying a Hon. Wendy Phipps high price: a devalued passport and the need to get entry visa for Min of State with responsibility for Health, delivering remarks at Annual Nurses Reporting Meeting a hitherto friendly country. We paid huge legal fees on both sides of a “galloping dictator - ship”; something that should never have happened in the first When the Community based nursing services as as where they are coming place, and which had the whole world looking on in amazement. Based Health Services well.” from, or even better, if it (Nurses) Orientation is possible.” Add up all these payments and divide it by our monthly GDP and Manual and the Phipps elaborated that you will likely get a figure close to a whole number. In other Prevention and Control she would commence Phipps added that she of Tuberculosis discussions in order to expected the documents words, the whole country probably could have been run for at Guidelines were have the documents to have a major emphasis least a month with this money. Can you imagine how many chil - launched at the Annual become part of E- on health information dren could have been educated, how much health equipment Nurses Reporting Government platform, and health promotion could have been bought, how much infrastructural development Meeting last week, thus enabling them to be which includes the edu - could have taken place? Those of us who suffered losses under Minister of State with accessed digitally via the cation advocacy compo - BAICO may even have been granted some relief! Interest rates responsibility for Health Ministry of Health’s sec - nent of the sector.