The shoot­ing is said to have tak­en place around 5 am to­day, Fri­day 9 April 2021.  Richards re­port­ed­ly was shot sev­er­al times and tak­en to the Point Fortin hos­pi­tal by the po­lice, where at­tempts were made to re­sus­ci­tate him.

The Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) is call­ing out the To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA), run by Health Sec­re­tary Tra­cy David­son-Ce­les­tine, for its COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tion roll-out pol­i­cy, say­ing it is in­con­sis­tent with the na­tion­al vac­ci­na­tion plan.

A 25-year-old res­i­dent of Kingstown has de­scribed this morn­ing's dawn across SVG as calm and qui­et so far.

LON­DON (AP) — Prince Philip, the iras­ci­ble and tough-mind­ed hus­band of Queen Eliz­a­beth II who spent more than sev­en decades sup­port­ing his wife in a role that both de­fined and con­strict­ed his life, has died, Buck­ing­ham Palace said Fri­day. He was 99.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent—Prime Min­is­ter Dr. Ralph Gon­salves is­sued an evac­u­a­tion or­der as the sit­u­a­tion at La Soufriere vol­cano de­te­ri­o­rat­ed fur­ther on Thurs­day af­ter­noon and an­nounced that sev­er­al cruise ships would be ar­riv­ing from Fri­day to help get res­i­dents out.

Be­sides be­ing trau­ma­tised, Mara­bel­la res­i­dents liv­ing near the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery are now in­censed that more than a day has passed with­out Ni­quan En­er­gy meet­ing with them over Wednes­day’s ex­plo­sion.As Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) leader David Ab­du­lah met with res­i­dents of Silk Cot­ton Dri­ve yes­ter­day, he said not even the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Au­thor­i­ty, En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty, or the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries of­fi­cials had found it fit to vis­it.

The Min­istry of En­er­gy has of­fi­cial­ly launched its in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to Wednes­day’s ex­plo­sion and sub­se­quent fire at the Ni­quan En­er­gy Gas-To-Liq­uids plant in Pointe-a-Pierre.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith’s daugh­ter T’Shau­na and her hus­band Da Vvian Bain have threat­ened to sue the State over the con­duct of a group of po­lice of­fi­cers, who stopped their ve­hi­cle and searched it dur­ing a road­block in Cou­va on Mon­day.

For the past two weeks, res­i­dents of the re­mote vil­lage of Rin­con in Las Cuevas have been with­out a pipe-borne sup­ply of wa­ter.

De­spite at­tempts by the po­lice and road users to stop their protest, de­fi­ant res­i­dents blocked the main road at Roberts Vil­lage, Table­land with burn­ing tyres yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Four po­lice of­fi­cers at­tached to the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tion Re­sponse Team (SORT) are now in po­lice cus­tody to as­sist in in­quiries in­to the death of An­dre Mor­ris and Joel Bal­con, who were sus­pects in the kid­nap­ping and mur­der of An­drea Bharatt on Jan­u­ary 29.

The woman who re­port­ed­ly left the Scar­bor­ough Hos­pi­tal on Wednes­day af­ter test­ing pos­i­tive for COVID-19 claims she was not told about her sta­tus nor was she in­formed that she could not leave the hos­pi­tal.