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FRIDAY,

MARCH 11, 2016

VOLUME 110, No.11

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The tranquillity of the Wallilabou Bay was ruptured by a gruesome and fatal attack on persons aboard a yacht moored there.

VINCENTIANS AWOKE on Friday, March 4, to the news that a German national had been killed and another injured, after two masked men attacked them on aboard their yacht, anchored at Wallilabou, on the sheltered North Western coast of mainland St. Vincent. Wallilabou is famous as a major location in the first of the four ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ films to date. The police here confirmed that the German national, Martin Griff, 49 years old, died from gunshot wounds to his throat. Also wounded in the attack was Reinhold Zeller, the 63-year-old captain of the yacht. Zeller was shot in the arm, police say, and was treated and warded up to Monday, March 7, at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, Kingstown, this country’s main hospital. Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves took to the radio waves in a nationwide address on Friday, March 4, and described the incident as

a “terrible stain” on St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He assured the nation that he had visited with Captain Zeller and other occupants of the yacht and expressed profound sorrow on behalf of the government and people of St. Vincent. Dr. Gonsalves said, inter alia, that the two masked men had disturbed the peace and tranquillity of persons on the yacht and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and that the crime will “cost millions of dollars becasuse we sell peace, security, tranquillity.. .” He said further that he will be contacting the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to express deep regret for the incident. Information disclosed here Tuesday, March 8, said that the Prime Minister had received correspondence from the German Ambassador in Trinidad and Tobago, H.E. Dr. Lutz Gorgen, who is also credited to St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The Ambassador described

the incident as “tragic and gruesome” and “difficult to bear for Germans as well as Vincentians.” He thanked the Prime

Minister for reaching out personally to the family of the deceased, and wished “the police force in St. Vincent and the Grenadines success in

bringing the perpetrators of this heinous crime to justice.” Up to Wednesday, March 9, the report of a post mortem on the

deceased was not yet available, and no arrest had been made in connection with the incident. Continued on Page 3.

CONCERN OVER YACHT VIOLENCE (Leeward) section of the country. “On the Atlantic side there is no anchorage, but clearly on the sheltered Caribbean Sea side, clearly something needs to be done,” Horne said. He, however, acknowledged the difficulty in

by DAYLE DA SILVA A FORMER PARLIAMENTARIAN has weighed in on the recent killing of a German tourist, murdered on a yacht while it was anchored on the Leeward Coast last week, saying that something needs to be done to deal with the problem. John Horne, former Minister of Culture and Education in the Sir James Mitchell-led New Democratic Party (NDP) Administration, said on Monday, when he called in to the ‘New Times’ radio programme, that the police/coast guard should consider putting a station along the North Western

John Horne, former NDP Minister of Government, has called for a coast guard station on the Leeward coast of mainland St. Vincent. Right: Dr. Godwin Friday traced a picture of decreasing visitors by yachts to SVG.

patrolling the area, adding that there was a similar situation in the Grenadines, with yachts being broken into; but stressed that the authorities needed to come up with creative ways of dealing with the issue. “Because it is bad publicity, one is bad, furthermore a history,” the former minister said, referring to other similar incidents which occurred previously. “It is a very serious matter, and I am not hearing any suggestions,” Horne continued. He was reacting to the most recent incident where a tourist was killed by two armed assailants who boarded a yacht anchored in the vicinity of Wallilabou Bay, around 1:35 last Friday morning, killing a 40 year-old German national and injuring the captain of the vessel in the process. Continued on Page 3.


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