FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
04, 2020
VOLUME 114, No.36
Can you keep a secret? Page 2
www.thevincentian.com
Praedial Larceny Law Page 4
EC$1.50
Teachers Union quiet Page 5
Vincy makes history Page 16
Traffic flow changes Page 17
STRAY DOGS KILLING ANIMALS IN CANOUAN
Armed police converged on the scene of the robbery, cordoned off the area and questioned employees of the gas station.
SOCIAL ACTIVIST TERRENCE BYNOE has once again highlighted an issue facing the people of his native Canouan. This time, according to Mr. Bynoe, the concern is an ongoing threat by stray dogs. The stray dogs, according to Bynoe, have been attacking and killing the livestock of ordinary residents. Last Sunday, he reported via a Facebook video posting, the loss of at least five dead animals, Continued on Page 3. Inset: Terrence ‘Terry’ Bynoe has, not for the first time, highlighted a concern of residents of Canouan.
repeating the information on the men, even though the men were not charged with any offence. PERSONS WHO FOLLOW LEGAL The police release had also MATTERS keenly have raised stated that the robbers escaped questions with respect to the with EC$1,626, the property of naming of three persons, who were Wilson Enterprises; EC$1,500, said to be assisting the police with from a resident of Arnos Vale, investigations into a report of three along with EC$180 and a bag robberies at Wilson Enterprises Inc. valued $80, the property of a (Sol Gas Station) at Arnos Vale on resident of South Wood. Friday, August 28. Commissioner of Police Colin The naming of the men held for John, confirmed, while speaking questioning first appeared in a to THE VINCENTIAN on release, dated August 30, 2020, Wednesday, that no charges were from the Public Relations and laid, and the persons whose Complaints Department of the names were stated in the release RSVG Police Force. as being detained in connection Those persons were identified, with the matter, were released in the release, by their names, pending further investigations. addresses and ages, and a number According to persons who were of media houses carried the story in the area at the time of the by HAYDN HUGGINS and KENVILLE HORNE
Commissioner of Police Colin John did not address the naming of three men before they were charged, but confirmed they were eventually released.
incident, the robberies were effected without any real commotion. “The thing happen in broad day light, around minutes to five. But nobody really knew anything until the police start arriving,” one person told THE VINCENTIAN. Another person said that there was no discharge of firearms, and it appeared that no one was hurt. That person added that while he did not see what took place, he became suspicious after a car sped away from the gas station, about Continued on Page 3.
The remains of one of the goats belonging to Rev Frank Garraway, that was killed by stray dogs.