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Bajan Newscap 1/29/2017

Good Morning #realdreamchasers! Here is your daily newscap for Sunday 29th January 2017. Remember you can read full articles via Barbados Today (BT) or by purchasing a Sunday Sun Newspaper (SS).

THREE PEOPLE DEAD IN ACCIDENT ON ABC HIGHWAY - Police are on the scene of a two-car smash-up along the Graeme Hall section of the ABC Highway. At least seven people are estimated to be involved in the collision which occurred around 3 a.m. Their status was unknown but Barbados Fire Service officers were seen using the Jaws of Life to remove some of them. Ambulance personnel and other emergency workers are at the scene. VOB Starcom Network has now been confirmed that three people are dead and three injured. (SS)

DEADLY DOG ATTACK - Before the sun had even risen yesterday in the close-knit community of Monroe Road, Haggatt Hall, St Michael, death was already in the air. During a routine walk to her beloved church, 74-year-old Verona Gibson was killed by a pack of vicious dogs. Police launched a full investigation into the woman’s death, taking a dog owner into custody for questioning. “In this circumstance we are investigating and trying to get to the bottom of it. We will try to establish if there are any criminal charges that can come out of the investigation,” Acting Assistant Commissioner with responsibility for crime, Lybron Sobers, told the SUNDAY SUN. (SS)

NEIGHBOUR RISKED LIFE & LIMB - The bandages on Damien McCollin’s legs, arms, hands, fingers, ankles and toes tell a gruesome story. Those injuries are a direct reminder of the chilling events that transpired in Monroe Road, Haggatt Hall, early yesterday morning, when his attempt to save an elderly woman’s life proved futile. Around 5:30 a.m., the 30-year-old braved life and limb in an attempt to rescue 74-year-old Verona Gibson from a pack of vicious dogs. Today, the bravery McCollin showed is of no consolation to him, he said, because he could not save the woman whose land he once tilled. Standing between the spot of her death and her nearby home, McCollin explained that around midnight Saturday morning, he heard a commotion near the road. (SS)

DOGS WERE NOT FIGHTERS –The dogs which mauled and killed an elderly woman yesterday were not fighting dogs and only one was a pure-bred pit bull. In fact, said the RSPCA’s Chief Inspector Wayne Norville, it was a female Akita/ridgeback dog, that was in heat, which attacked 74-year-old Verona Lolita Gibson early yesterday morning on her way to the St Barnabas Church. Norville, who was called to help with the removal of three of the four dogs which belonged to owner Chris Rock, immediately dismissed speculation that they were fighting dogs. All three were well kept, he said, but had managed to escape through a hole in the fence of the Monroe Road, Haggatt Hall property. (SS)

MPS WILL GET THOUSANDS - The treasury could be paying out up to $359 460 more next month for parliamentarians. That’s the amount it is liable to pay if all the parliamentarians are reimbursed the ten per cent cut from their salaries for the last ten months, though one official said there would be no retroactive payments. The list includes Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, his 16 ministers and three parliamentary secretaries, the Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Chairman of Committees, President of the Senate, Leader of the Opposition and 12 MPs. It does not include Owen Arthur as it is not known whether he is receiving a salary as an Independent parliamentarian or taking his pension as a former prime minister as he can opt to do. (SS)

PAY ISSUE NO BIG DEAL –THE BARBADOS LABOUR PARTY should be “training their guns” on important issues such as election spending rather than the restoration of the ten per cent salary cut for MPs, a political scientist said yesterday. Dr Don Marshall said he did not consider the pay issue a “smoking gun” or a contentious matter. He was speaking to the SUNDAY SUN about the controversy that has erupted since it was announced in Parliament last Tuesday that the MPs’ full pay would be reinstated. Calling the reduction a voluntary sacrifice, he said: “Lawmakers in the legislature do put a great emphasis on private property and their salary constitutes private property, and if one is going to forego one’s private property voluntarily then to pursue its restoration is again an act that is quite legitimate and appropriate.” (SS)

WARNING TO NIS –Barbados’ National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is financially sound but it must pay careful attention to how much of its funds it continues to invest in Government activities and securities. That reassurance about NIS finances and the plea for prudence have come from Tony Marshall, a former chairman of directors of the National Insurance Board, who is now Barbados’ top diplomat at the United Nations. “Yes, it is sound and I see no reason for immediate alarm. But respect should be paid on a continuing basis to a prudential limit of investment with the Government,” Marshall stressed during an interview with the SUNDAY SUN. “[The NIS] has to pay careful attention to the prudential level of support for Government.” In short, the Government couldn’t routinely borrow NIS funds. (SS)

MWANSA GETS NEW BWA JOB –Dr. John Mwansa, the outgoing acting general manager of the Barbados Water Authority (BWA), is set to take up another senior position within the statutory corporation. SUNDAY SUN investigations revealed that Mwansa will be in charge of the new Non-Revenue Water Unit which is being merged with the Desalination Water Quality Unit. According to informed sources, Mwansa, who has acted as general manager for five years, will be answerable directly to the board of management, and not to the new head of the agency, Keithroy Halliday, who will assume duties on Wednesday. When contacted, BWA chairman Dr Atlee Brathwaite declined to address staff changes. (SS)

KELLMAN HOUSES NOT FOR VOTES –Unoccupied state-owned houses will not be used to solicit votes for the upcoming elections. That assurance is coming from Minister of Housing and Lands Denis Kellman, who said there was no room for party politics in Government’s bid to provide Barbadians with affordable housing. But as elections must be held by June next year and many National Housing Corporation (NHC) units are still uninhabited, some Barbadians are accusing Government of waiting to allocate the houses closer to the elections to gain party support. Some of the houses under suspicion were built as part of Government’s Housing Every Last Person (HELP) programme, which was supposed to provide houses for low-income earners. (SS)

CCJ – The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) last week determined that a case had been stuck in Barbados’ legal system for too long, and took matters into its own hands, facilitating the matter after a single hearing in order to reach a quick resolution. President of the CCJ, Sir Dennis Byron, along with judges Jason Wit, David Hayton, Winston Anderson and Rajnauth Lee heard the three-year-old eviction matter, a civil case involving appellant Eugene Leacock and respondent Lorna Griffith. In outlining the reasons for his decision last Wednesday, Sir Dennis again chided Barbados for how slow the wheels of justice spin here. “This matter has been in the system for too long and we have decided to manage the case to facilitate a quick resolution. The order appealed against was made by the magistrate in August 2013,” Sir Dennis explained. (SS)

THIRD PERSON CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY TO IMPORT FIREARMS - A third person has been arrested and charged with the offence of conspiracy to import firearms. Twenty-five-year-old Akem Marvon Waithe of Greens, St George appeared before Magistrate Wayne Clarke in the District A Magistrate Court, where he was remanded to prison. Police previously charged Skye Yasmin Lecreta Murray, 29, of Perry Gap, Roebuck Street, St Michael, and Colin Alfonso Wooding, 50, of Green Hill Drive, Silver Hill, Christ Church, for the offence which was committed sometime between November 1 and December 5, 2016. Murray and Wooding are currently on remand at Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds in relation to the offence. The trio will reappear in court on February 9. (BT)

ROMANIANS REMANDED – Romanian national Constantin Ursu and Romanian/Jamaican national Andre Harvey have been remanded to prison after being denied bail when they appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court this morning. Ursu and Harvey were charged with a number of fraud-related offences, which police say were committed on January 25. Ursu was charged with one count of money laundering, while Harvey was accused of one count of going equipped for criminal deception and two counts of money laundering. Harvey is due to appear in the District ‘E’ Magistrates’ Court in Holetown on January 31, while Harvey and Ursu are expected to appear at the District ‘C’ Magistrates’ Court on February 2. (BT)

MISSING TEEN – Police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating missing teen, Nathan Nathaniel Dicoda Bryant of Vaucluse Tenantry, St Thomas. The 15-year-old student of the Grantley Adams Memorial School was last seen by his mother Tammy Bryant around 7:30 yesterday morning when he left home wearing his school uniform and carrying a blue ‘North Face’ haversack. Bryant is five feet tall, slim, dark, with a round head, low haircut. He has brown eyes, a flat forehead, large nose, broad mouth, a long neck and square shoulders. He also has a pleasant manner and an erect appearance, and frequents the Lodge Hill, St Michael area. Anyone with information relating to the whereabouts of Nathan Nathaniel Dicoda Bryant is asked to contact the District ‘D’ Police Station at 419-1726 or 419-1729, police emergency number 211 or the nearest police station. (BT)

UK COUPLE BLAST QEH –Management of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) on Saturday said they had not received an official complaint from a UK couple who claimed that the husband nearly died during a ten-day stay at the state-run QEH. The visitors, David Ramsey and his wife Elizabeth, from Blyth, Northumberland, were on a two-week cruise to the Caribbean when David fell ill. The Newcastle Chronicle reported that he was treated by medics aboard the ship before being taken to the QEH where he was treated for double pneumonia. According to the newspaper, 48-year-old David spent ten days at the QEH, which his wife claimed was “dirty” and “looked like something from the 1920s”. “The beds were all dirty and the hospital looked run down. It was just filthy. I’ve never been so scared,” the paper quoted Elizabeth as saying. She also reported that her husband was tied to a bed for three days to stop him from falling out and that he had developed sores on his hand, foot and the bottom of his back. David was discharged on November 30 and returned to the UK four days later. However, the paper said he was still receiving treatment for his injuries, which he claims he sustained at the QEH. The couple also queried a £19,000 (Bds$47, 686) medical bill for treatment received at the hospital and aboard the ship. In response to the couple’s claims, state-owned CBC on Saturday quoted that the hospital’s CEO Dr. Dexter James as saying the QEH had not yet received a formal complaint on the matter.(BT)

BETS IN ALL RACES DESPITE HITCH –There are no problems with the new betting machines at the Garrison Savannah, and there is no expectation that there will be. This was the declaration made by Barbados Turf Club (BTC) chief executive officer Rosette Peirce after some punters claimed there were significant challenges last race day. One punter, who requested anonymity, told SUNSPORT he was present at the Garrison Savannah when the system failed. “The BTC installed a new system last (week) Thursday, which the cashiers were unfamiliar with, as the old system was not running parallel as it should have been,” he said. The punter added that no bets were placed for the first race and cashiers were observed frantically reading operation manuals after the gates had opened. (SS)

SERENA BEATS VENUS – Serena Williams reigned supreme in tennis’s great sibling rivalry, edging an emotion-charged clash with sister Venus to claim her seventh Australian Open on Saturday and a record 23rd grand slam title in the professional era. Beset by nerves early in the tense family affair, the American needed all her firepower and famed mental strength to fend off Venus, who scrapped hard to the end before going down 6-4 6-4 at Rod Laver Arena. Fourteen years after beating Venus for her maiden title at Melbourne Park, Serena’s seventh crown was sealed with a heady charge to the net that forced a desperate backhand from Venus to float wide. Eyes ablaze in joyous disbelief, Serena slumped to the court and threw her hands in the air, the world number one ranking also re-captured from Angelique Kerber. She paid tribute to Venus, her long-time doubles partner and enduring inspiration. “She’s an amazing person, there’s no way I would be at 23 without her,” said Serena, cradling the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup. “There’s no way I would have anything without her. “My first grand slam started here, and getting to 23 here, but playing Venus, it’s stuff that legends are made of. I couldn’t have written a better story.” (BT)

JAZZY TRIBUTE TO ELLA - The mood was relaxed, the atmosphere intimate, and the singing and musical selections on point. The event Wednesday night, part of the Honey Jazz Barbados Festival, was a tribute to the woman dubbed the First Lady of Song, popular American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, who died in 1996. Opening the show at Hilton Barbados, the KC Quartet set the tone for the evening before songstress Betty Payne took the stage with soothing, yet stirring vocals. Like the other artistes who would follow, she was happy to pay tribute to Fitzgerald, performing Cheek To Cheek and Can’t Take That Away From Me. Opening with the signature song of the evening, A Tisket, A Tasket, special guest Kellie Cadogan commanded the attention of the audience from the time she belted her first notes to when she brought the curtains down on the first half of the show. “This year Ella would have been 100 years old and it’s a nice time to reflect and share her music – music I would have studied for a long time and to know how she has impacted on my life,” she told the audience. “This evening is very special for me and I want to take you on a journey of Ella’s music and a bit of my interpretation of her music.” And she did. Betty Payne gave a strong opening performance Her selections, How High The Moon, Summertime and Sunshine Of Your Love, had the combined audience of locals and visitors tapping their feet and bobbing their heads. When the second segment opened, the song Blue Skies, performed by Nicovia, was quite apt, given the cloudless skies under which the show was held and relatively cool evening. Then, Kellie returned, performing Sunny, Hey Jude, Cry Me A River, All Of Me/Smash Up before rounding off her performance much like she started it – with A Tisket, A Tasket. (SS)

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