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FRIDAY,

JANUARY 09, 2015

VOLUME 109, No.02

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SON SURVIVES WITH PAINFUL MEMORY

by HAYDN HUGGINS

in his 50s, originally from Chateaubelair, was killed moments after his son was shot. An autopsy revealed he died as a result of multiple bullet wounds. Police reports are that James sustained gunshot wounds by an unknown assailant, while Moore was shot in the right side of the neck during the same incident, which occurred around 11 pm, December 31. “It was so sad to see my father die right in front my eyes. I didn’t mind if I did go if I did go instead of him, but I leave everything in God’s hands,” Moore told THE VINCENTIAN on Monday at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, where he was warded in stable condition. Moore, along with his SHAWPHIEL MOORE would shooting at his father’s neck; but he would have grandmother, an uncle, sister and his father not have minded if his life shop at Monkey Hill, New to live with the painful lived together at Monkey was taken instead of that Montrose. memory of seeing his Hill in a house located in of his father, Elcas James, The 22-year-old Moore father shot to death. during an Old Year’s night survived a bullet to the James, a businessman the same yard in which Shawphiel Moore, pictured with his aunt, Clothilda Browne, denied he had gang connections.

James operated a shop. Moore said that around 8 p.m. on December 31, he was in the area, a few yards from his home, ‘hanging out’ with villagers. “Me and them don’t usually lime together, but as villagers we were there. They were going to cook, but I didn’t want to get involved in the cooking business, so I left the bloc and go by a neighbour,” Moore recalled, as he related how the drama unfolded. He played games on laptop (computer) for a while at that neighbour’s premises, then left for home. On arrival, Moore asked his father, who was in the shop, to lend him his mobile phone, and his father told him to “hold on a while.” Moore recalled that he was standing at the entrance to the shop when a masked man approached from the side of the building, and shot

KING BLASTS ULP FOR ‘BIGGER BIGS’ DEBACLE HOST OF THE GLOBAL HIGHLIGHTS radio programme, Luzette King, has accorded blame to the Unity Labour Party (ULP) and its leader for Leon ‘Bigger Bigs’ Samuel’s current dilemma, and has charged that there is a deliberate effort afoot to undermine black entrepreneurs. She made the assertion during the New Democratic Party sponsored New Times

radio programme earlier this week. King pointed to the Cabinet’s decision to revoke Samuel’s licence to mine at Rabacca as a deliberate political and economic lynching of black-owned businesses and black people in SVG. “Stalky John, Margret London, Vynette Frederick, Arnhim Eustace and his wife, ‘Nature’ (Nigel Stephenson) and Lauren Baptiste are persons

who have suffered from the lynching process,” according to King. She said while the lynching is taking place, a political dynasty is striving. “And the persons instigating these things know what they are doing,” she said. King took aim at a select group of persons in the ULP explaining, in the process, that she would not chastise her own. “The force of the problem is not them, it’s

the top,” she emphasised. King said that she understood what is happening to Samuel, and promised, if he takes the matter to court, to help him name all those who went beyond the law to bring him down. Samuel, at the time his mining licence was revoked, was providing employment for 60 persons. The licence has since been re-issued, but

Luzette King was the feature speaker at the NDP Convention of November 2013. Samuel’s has complained that his mining equipment has been vandalized, his resources almost depleted, making it difficult to resume operations. (KH)

Elcas James was shot to death by a masked assailant. him in the neck. “My father got up and he say, ‘Man whey you doing the youth?’, and after I drop, he (assailant) went pass me and start to pelt off bullets in the shop and I see my daddy drop,” Moore related. The attacker fled the scene following the shooting. Moore was taken to the hospital by friends, but his father died on the spot. “He didn’t deserve that,” the youngster sighed, adding, “I feeling very uncomfortable, I can’t sleep but I leave everything in God’s hands.” Moore described the relationship between him and his father as very close. “We had a little misunderstanding sometimes, but that never brought enmity between us. We worked together, we did everything together, we lived like brothers,” the youngster explained. He has dispelled rumours that he is a gangster. Continued on Page 3.


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