Walters knocks “temporary solutions”

Prices have risen by 23.9 per cent over the last five years, claims former Democratic Labour Party (DLP) candidate for St Michael North West, Ryan Walters.

And while the average Barbadian is grappling with permanent problems resulting from these rising costs, Government has been largely unsuccessful in providing temporary solutions.

“It is no secret that in Barbados, consumers are facing the permanent problem of rising costs almost every day. If it isn’t food, it is utilities, transportation, supplies, you name it, the price of it has risen. For those who have to monitor closely what they buy, they can tell you their countless stories of how prices increase in a matter of weeks and sometimes days.

“The past year has been interesting as I watched the Government put measures in place to combat the rising cost of food and goods. Interestingly enough, the favourite word used by Government officials was ‘temporary’. In other words, this Government was unable to deliver permanent solutions to a permanent problem,” he said in a post on his Facebook page.

And he said Government could not continue to blame external factors “especially when the same Government benefits from more duty revenue, more tax revenue and more value added tax (VAT) revenue because the prices of goods have increased and taxes, duties and VAT are applied to the cost of the same good”. (Nation News)

3 gunned down within 2 hours in T&T’s Southern Division

The shooting deaths of three people in the Southern Division on Saturday night within two hours have pushed Trinidad’s murder toll to 93.

Owin Danzell, 47, of Cocoyea Village San Fernando and Terrence Rawlins, 43, of Mc Norton Trace, Plaisance Park, Pointe-a-Pierre, died at around 20:40h at Mt Stewart Village, Princes Town, in the Ste Madeleine Police District.

Danzell worked as a labourer, and Rawlins as a vendor/salesman.

Less than two hours earlier, around 19:00h at Embacadere, San Fernando,

Sherlon Cooper of Block P was gunned down. He died shortly after at the San Fernando General Hospital.

The double murder happened outside Red Chief Restaurant and Bar at Mt Stewart Village at Naparima Mayaro Road.

Danzell, Rawlins, and a member of the TT Defence Force, a Lance Corporal, were liming at the front of the bar, and a car pulled up nearby. The Police said two gunmen got out and began shooting at them.

The three ran in different directions and the shooters returned to the car, which sped off.

At around 20:45h, the first responders were on mobile patrol and received a wireless transmission of the shooting.

They arrived at the scene within five minutes and saw Danzell’s body lying on the roadside.

The body of Rawlins was found in a seated and crouched position down a precipice off the roadside.

Investigators retrieved 11 spent shells – three 9mm and eight 5.56mm – and two cellphones at the scene.

No one else was injured.

No one has been arrested in the murders, and investigations are ongoing.

(Excerpt from Trinidad Newsday)