On Sunday, St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves spoke briefly about violence and youths as the country recorded its 29th homicide for 2022.
Gonsalves said he awoke Sunday morning to the usual morning security report from the Commissioner of Police, only to hear two young men were shot and killed.
“It’s just, I mean, we just have to have the restraint. There are so many opportunities for young people. This obsession with guns and following some bad company and all this violence on social media and the like”, Gonsalves said.
On Saturday night gunshots rang out in Ottley Hall and after the dust was settled Mosiah Westfield, 30 and Isiah Carter, 19, both residents of Ottley Hall were dead.
Westfield sustained multiple gunshots to the body, while Carter was shot in the stomach and succumbed to his injuries at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital.
Tommy Grecia, a 39-year-old man from Villa who was also shot on Saturday night in the Bum-Bum/Cane Hall community, is warded at the Milton Cato Memorial hospital.
Homicides for 2022
Saturday 1 January Joseph Michael McKie
Saturday 22 January Joshua Pompey
Saturday 29 January Kevin George
Saturday, 5 February Renaldo Hamilton
Monday 14 February Ella Cordice
Thursday 3 March Owen Stoddard
Sunday 27 March Andy Baptiste
Sunday 10 April Jeremiah Daniel
Friday 29 April Vandyke Duke & Kishroy Duke
Sunday 1 May Luann Roberts
Monday 2 May Keyon Phillips
Thursday 12 May Precious Williams
Monday 16 May Elon Barber & Daniel Skerrit
Wednesday 1 June Calvin Jordan
Saturday 18 June Cassian Stapleton
Monday 27 June Kishorn Jackson
Friday 1 July Roland Baptiste
Thursday 14 July Darius Bynoe
Thursday 14 July Zimron Richards
Thursday 11 August Jeran Deroche
Monday 15 August Rohan Rawlins
Thursday 25 August Veronica “Keisha” Small
Saturday 3 September Mosiah Westfield
Saturday 3 September Isiah Carter
