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Breach at Bordelais Correctional Facility

On Sunday August 8^th, 2010 at about 4:50 pm three inmates escaped from the Bordelais Correctional Facility with assistance from three or four individuals who entered the compound through the south west perimeter of the facility.As a result of this action three inmates are now on the run. These include: two Venezuelans and one Saint Lucian. The escaped inmates are as follows

 Mohammed Duncan

Alias:  Tookey

Date of Birth: October 2, 1987

Place of Birth:  St. Lucia

Convicted of Possession of Firearm, Possession of Ammunition and Wounding

Serving 7 years and 7 years for Firearm and Ammunition respectively and 6 months

for wounding concurrently.

Authorities are currently engaged in an aggressive and wide-spread effort to return the escaped inmates to lawful custody. A special appeal goes out to all members of the public with any information on this breach and the where-about of the escaped inmates to contact prison or police officials as a matter of urgency. The escaped inmates and their accomplices are considered to be armed and dangerous. Further information will be provided as necessary on developments pertaining to this situation. 

 BREAKING NEWS! Masked gunmen spring Bordelais inmates!

It unfolds like a Hollywood prison break starring Nicholas Cage or George Clooney. Only this time around the principals were not actors but determined criminals out to spring their colleagues incarcerated at Bordelais, locally famous as impregnable.

                                 The Bordelais Correctional Facility

By early accounts, the very real break occurred shortly after five yesterday afternoon (Sunday). A short time earlier, prison officers had reported seeing an inmate cutting through one of the three fences around Bordelais. The same observer reportedly saw four masked and armed men, one of them hiding in the thick bush outside the Bravo and Charlie residential areas of the prison. Bordelais’ special response team was at the time patrolling around the prison farm. Upon being notified about the disturbing occurrence they quickly turned their attention to the area where the masked men were spotted, at which point the intruders opened fire with automatic weapons.

Outgunned, the prison patrol backed off. While details remain at this time scant, it has been reported that four prisoners, three from Venezuela and one local, all serving drug-related sentences, escaped. It would appear that at least one of them was badly cut by the razor-sharp wire fencing around the prison.

             Director of Bordelais Hilary Herman.

The Bordelais officers involved were “too traumatized” to give reliable details at this point, according to prison sources. Curiously, two officers who were supposed to relieve those in yesterday’s fracas called in sick early in the morning. The only casualties in yesterday’s prison breakout were two snakes that were apparently attracted by blood near the prisoners’ escape route. They were gunned down by the prison patrol!

  St. Lucia P.M. addresses nation on government’s crime response 

                  MY FELLOW SAINT LUCIANS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, GOOD EVENING

         I address you tonight at a time of unprecedented challenges for our small country.  Some of these      challenges are obviously beyond our control, but too many, I fear, are of our own making. Read More.....                           

Checkout The Prime Minister of St.lucia Hon. Stephenson King Whilst He addresses the Nation Tonight At 8 p.m Sun/30/2010 

 
ST LUCIA: Government critical of behavior of Opposition Leader

CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The St Lucia government Monday criticised Opposition Leader Dr. Kenny Anthony for his disparaging remarks made against a minister during the closing session of the budget debate on Friday.

A statement from the Office of Prime Minister said that the country was shocked at the remarks by Anthony in which he referred to Minister of Communications, Works, Transport and Public Utilities Guy Joseph as a “poodle”.

“The reference to parliamentarian as a poodle was tantamount to equating the minister to the status of a dog, as a poodle is a well known ‘curly-haired’ dog species,” the statement noted.

“The Government of St. Lucia condemns this latest televised demonstration by the Leader of the Opposition which was sadly reminiscent of an earlier time when Labour MPs rioted in the House, threatened to shoot colleagues and tossed the Mace to each other.”

It said that the “outburst’ by the former prime minister “amounted to a display of the lowest degree which denigrated the stature of Her Majesty’s Parliament” and that Anthony’s “arrogant and disrespectful display” was even more distasteful when he refused to apologise when given an opportunity to do so by the Speaker.

“The shocking behavior of the Leader of the Opposition during the 2010-2011 budget debate underscored an increasingly disturbing trend that the government most strongly denounces, especially at a time when right thinking St. Lucians are desperately seeking solutions to the pressing problems of crime and other anti-social behaviour within our society.”

Meanwhile, parliament has approved the EC$1.2 billion (US$444 million) budget with Prime Minister Stephenson King calling on St. Lucians to unite behind his administration in a bid to improve the socio-economic conditions in the country.

 ST. LUCIA: Former government official makes a case for introduction of VAT

 CASTRIES, ST.LUCIA CMC- The former head of the disbanded National Economic Commission (NEC) Richard Peterkin, says the decision of the St. Lucia government not to implement the Value Added Tax (VAT) during the 2010/11 fiscal year will place a heavy burden on its ability to raise sufficient revenue.

Peterkin, an accountant by profession, who headed the commission that was set up by the former Kenny Anthony administration to advise government on the way forward, said the VAT was the biggest omission from the EC$1.2 billion (US$444 million) budget that Prime Minister Stephenson King presented to Parliament earlier this week.

“If you look at the way the budget is funded there seem to be a lot of money available in grants, and we hope those funds do come through channels such as the European Union and Taiwan. The challenge government is going to have is in respect of its current revenues from taxation, last year they fell short and this year government has not introduced many new measures.

“As I see it the biggest omission is VAT. It seems to me that government does not wish to implement VAT at this point and the reason for that may be more political than economic,” Peterkin told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC).

There was no mention of the VAT even though the government had been promoting the idea over the last few months and had referred to the tax measure in the last two budgets.

The government during the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is reported to have agreed to an October 2010 implementation date for VAT as one of the conditions for the loans.

Peterkin said the VAT was one sure avenue for sustainable revenue if properly implemented.

“I am a realist, I understand how governments work and why they need to consider these things, but if it means that you are going to squeeze additional taxes out of existing tax payers, or increasing property tax  in order to make up your revenue shortfalls, then I think that perhaps it could have been done other ways,”  he said.

Peterkin also expressed his disappointment with the priority given by government to tackling crime. He said while there was a lot of talk on the subject, he remains unsure what measures were being recommended and implemented.

“It should have been heading the list and from listening to the talk shows, many agree that is the biggest issue troubling them and while the Prime Minister admitted that, nobody seems to know what can be done and admittedly I myself don’t.”

Describing the fiscal package as a “holding budget”, Peterkin said it was clear that from both the Throne and Budget addresses, there were not many options for the government in light of the global economic crisis.

“Governments are essentially doing the same thing, they started off with stimuli and now are going more into a recovery mode, but they have to continue with whatever stimulus measures they can provide in order to nurture the recovery until we get back to full growth.”

ST LUCIA: Opposition Leader blasts fiscal package

CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC – Opposition Leader Dr. Kenny Anthony says St. Lucia is facing “the worst debacle since independence” which was achieved more than three decades ago.

Responding to the EC$1.2 billion (US$444 million) budget presented to Parliament on Monday night by Prime Minister Stephenson King, the Opposition Leader cited uncontrollable levels of debt, crime and unemployment as serious issues, which he said the government and people must make a collective effort to address.

Anthony quoted from an April report by the International Monetary Fund to show that the public debt stood at 79 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) GDP as against the 71 per cent the Prime Minister told the nation during his budget presentation.

He said this rate of debt to GDP did not include the more than EC$200 million (US$74.7 million) that the government intended to borrow this year.

ST. LUCIA: Foreign minister says St. Lucia is getting a bad rap in the UK

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Foreign Minister Rufus Bousquet believes the illegal use of St. Lucian passports by persons with criminal intent, including nationals from other parts of the Caribbean, is giving the island a bad name in the United Kingdom.

The British government recently announced that it was re-considering whether to allow St. Lucians and Dominicans to continue to enter the UK without visas.

Bousquet pointed out that as an independent country, Britain reserved the right to implement a visa review, even as he admitted that St. Lucia’s image has been somewhat tarnished.

“St. Lucia has become something of a poster child for those who are out there entering the country with illegal drugs. There have been a number of fairly high incidents that have taken place and certainly the British government has for quite sometime indicated to the authorities here particular concern.

“As you know this has encouraged the perception that St. Lucia has quite a number of people who come into the UK illegally and with drugs.

‘That might not necessarily be the reality but that certainly is a perception,” Bousquet added.

 ST LUCIA: Prime Minister says local economy contracted by more than fiveper cent

CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia economy contracted by more than five per cent last year despite the implementation of a stimulus package as the island dealt with the adverse effects of a global economic and financial crisis.

Prime Minister King told legislators on Monday night, as he delivered the EC$1.2 billion (US$444 million) national budget, that preliminary estimates suggest, that real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted by 5.2 per cent in 2009, compared with positive growth of 0.7 per cent the previous year.

“The contraction in economic activity was mainly associated with declines in the tourism industry, and the construction and agriculture sectors, which had spillover effects on the other sectors of the economy, such as wholesale and retail trade, transport, and banking and insurance.

“The softening in economic activity, resulted in a higher rate of unemployment of 20.5 per cent at the end of 2009, reflecting job losses in construction, tourism and other sectors,” King said.

He told Parliament that the stimulus package implemented towards the end of 2009, coupled with other job creation initiatives of his administration mitigated the severity of the impact of the crisis, on the labour market.

Saturday April 3rd The PM Honourable Stephenson King Visited Vybzstudio Wishing Us All The best For The Easter Holidays

Vybz kartel banned from st lucia

CASTRIES, St Lucia — ST LUCIA has become the latest Caribbean Community (Caricom) country to place a ban on Jamaican dancehall singer, Vybz Kartel, who had been scheduled to perform here at the end of the month. 

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