Talking security

Posted in News and Sports on 24. Mar, 2012

PRIME MINISTER Freundel Stuart attended a Regional Security System (RSS) Council Meeting in St Vincent and the Grenadines yesterday.

Other leaders attending included Tillman Thomas of Grenada and host Ralph Gonsalves.

At press time, details on the nature of the talks held at Grenadine House in Kingstown Park were not forthcoming.

Here, moments before the opening ceremony, Stuart (second left) is smiling after being greeted by Gonsalves, who is immediately behind him greeting Grenadian colleague Tillman Thomas. At left is permanent secretary Edison Alleyne, while Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin is behind Gonsalves. Standing (at right) is Barbados Defence Force Chief of Staff Colonel Alvin Quintyne.

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LIAT pilot and admitted drug trafficker Keith Richard Otway Allen escaped a long prison term and should be back home in St Vincent and the Grenadines today after paying fines totalling $1/4 million yesterday.

Posted in News and Sports on 27. Jan, 2012

LIAT pilot and admitted drug trafficker Keith Richard Otway Allen escaped a long prison term and should be back home in St Vincent and the Grenadines today after paying fines totalling $1/4 million yesterday.

The fines were about twice the value of the 65 pounds of cannabis which Allen was arrested for smuggling into Barbados on November 23.

The sentence, handed down by Magistrate Laurie-Ann Smith-Bovell in the District “F” Magistrates’ Court, brought an end to a matter that featured two Methodist preachers appearing as character witnesses for the pilot, and several adjournments after Allen’s guilty plea.

Through his attorney Sir Richard Cheltenham, Allen (pictured here leaving the court) paid the fines as is evidenced by the receipt from the court.

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