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- Top Travel Agents InC’da Get Awards
- S+T Fair Underway Tomorrow
- NWU Shop Stewards Off To Guadeloupe
- New CEO For LIAT
- King, Frederick No Show at Micoud
- Dam at Half Capacity, WASCO’s GM Tells Media
- CHASTANET DEFENDS U.W.P.
- AA Hit for $50, 000
- Young Golfers Get Gear Gift
- Tenderoni Transforms, Expands
- Mannee’s New Bread Line
- Haiti’s Problems Continue
- Some Unsafe Port Practices
- Police Unfairly Castigated
- Economic Decline Only Under Labour
- An Oligarchy, Not a Government
- Same Foreign Policy Questions
- Bold Move By Gov’t
- Street Lighting Bill To Be Halved, Says Fletcher
- SLNT To Develop Walcotts’ Neighbourhood
- SLASPA Upgrades Ports Pass
- Sandals Turns Out 56 More for Tourism Sector
- New Deal for Tapion Workers
- L.E.D. LIGHTS FOR ALL
- ‘Freedom Bay’ Gets Go Ahead
- Axcel Sets Up In South
- Stakes Rising In Venezuela
- Junior Tennis At George V. Park
- Boxing ‘Tourney’ Still On
- 50 Over Cricket Underway Islandwide
- TRAGEDY!
- Teddyson John In Spotlight
- Soufriere Girl Is Top French Speller
- Constitution Reform Report for Debate May 20
- Child Sex Offenders Should Account, Says ASP Desir
- Calypso Sector Prepares
- Police Credit Union Doing Its Share
- The Matter of Unemployment
- SLASPA to Ensure Yachting Safety
- GOV’T TRACKS ITS VEHICLES
- Fond d’Or Jazz
- Amateur Filmmakers Rise to the Occasion
- An Epic Moment for Sculptor
- D’can Pitches For Art
- The Anti-Democratic Stance by CARICOM
- High Stakes In Pistorius, Kartel Trial
- An Unexamined Embarassment
- Mon Repos Capture NLA 40-Over Title
- Massive Crowd At Schools Sports
- Welcome Move By U.K.
- SSDF’s New Home Cost $3.1m.
- Laborie Credit Union, testimony of true Independence
- Dead Guyana Seaman’s Brother Cries Foul
- ‘CRAZY’ A.P.D. TAX TO BE CHANGED
- A Ph.D In Geotechnical Engineering
- This WPC Is Making A Difference
- Former M.P. Supports Antigua Women
- SCHOOLS SPORTS UNDERWAY
- Queen’s Baton Stops Here
- RUSSIANS ARE COMING
- ‘Nurses for T’dad’ Raises Debate
- Gommier Crossing Boosts Ties
- Coconut Bay Upgrades St. Jude Pre-School
- Club GAR To Raise $10,000 For Cadets
- Chastanet Calls For St.Kitts Peace
- Tandi Flood -Dreaming and Achieving
- Developing V-Fort’s Tourism
- Under-15 Cricketers Prepare For Windwards Tournament
- Penalty Shootouts Decide Matches In Dennery
- Oh Dam It!
- Guyana leads on Regional Integration
- All This Yachting For Nothing?
- A tale of two Conditions
- Mother, Son held for Gun
- MORE FUNDS FROM TAIWAN
- LPM Leader Has Jobs Plan for Gros Islet
- Local PALIG Agency on Top
- CUSTODY SUITES UNSANITARY
- Big Edge For local Internet Users
- 50-Over Tourney Underway Today
- The Uniqueness of Vieux Fort
- Conversation With Former A.G. Rudolph Francis
- Unacceptable and Inexcusable
- The ALBA Brouhaha
- Oh My, How Time Flies!
- Consistency, Please
- YACHT ROBBERY MENACE
- Robbery Underscores Hospitals’ Lack of Security
- Ellis Back at the VOICE
- Banana Opportunity — P.M.
- What’s The Cost of Mental Slavery?
- Pardon Marijuana Convicts
- P.M. Says 2014 Year of Growth
- EYES ON ‘LADY ZAI’
- Anglican Infant gets A Computer Lab
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12 comments:
new warehouse?
4 the simple minded the hat-hangers! 20ft. away from their hand's reaches.
Kenny needs a new suit, he looks like MC Hammer.
Chastanet has more style.
But Lorne always be da ladies man.
Whatever for - to housed more crappy, sub standard and inferior goods at highway robbery prices at broad day light...NOT IMPRESSED!!
Lorne. is a senator's man!!!
He eats in the female's senate dish.
KENNY WHAT DID YOU HAVE TO DO WITH FREDERICK'S VISA REVOCATION?? TIME TO START TALKING!
'Perfect political crime' in St Lucia could mean US criminal charges
Published on March 1, 2014 Email To Friend Print Version
By Caribbean News Now contributor
WASHINGTON, USA -- What was described as “the perfect political crime” in a civil complaint filed on Tuesday in US District Court in Washington, DC, by attorneys acting for former Saint Lucia housing minister Richard Frederick is likely to become the subject of a criminal investigation in the US.
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Richard Frederick
According to informed sources in Washington, a criminal report may have already been made in the matter to the Justice Department, which was not, however, prepared to comment on the case.
“As a matter of policy, we generally neither confirm nor deny whether a matter is under investigation,” said Peter Carr, public affairs specialist at the Department of Justice.
In the meantime, in a surprise turn of events, Janice Jacobs, Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs, was reported to have resigned abruptly on Friday morning.
It is not certain at this time whether or not Jacobs had any oversight responsibility for the State Department employees named as defendants in the Frederick law suit filed on Tuesday or whether her resignation is connected in any way to the Frederick law suit.
While saying earlier in the week that they do not “comment on cases that are pending litigation,” the State Department has not so far responded to a follow up request for comment on Jacobs’ resignation
The civil complaint filed on Tuesday contains details of an alleged conspiracy between George Deterville and other unnamed co-conspirators within the St Lucia Labour Party (SLP), and certain named and unnamed US State Department employees to violate US law, namely, the willful neglect or omission by any consular officer to perform seasonably any duty imposed upon him or her by law, or by any order or instruction made or given in pursuance of law, or any willful malfeasance or abuse of power, or of any corrupt conduct in his or her office.
In particular, the complaint alleges that Deterville, a former police superintendent, who presently works in Prime Minister Kenny Anthony’s office, and is described as “an SLP operative who conspired to have Frederick’s visas revoked”, was involved in an improper personal relationship with another defendant Susan Chainer, a former United States Embassy official, who had worked in the Bridgetown Embassy, where she is said to maintain contacts and influence.
Chainer, at Deterville’s urging, allegedly conspired with US embassy officials to create a false and improper basis for revoking Frederick’s visas, and then to revoke those visas to cause political embarrassment to Frederick for the political gain of the SLP and Deterville.
Since the complaint was filed on Tuesday, additional evidence has reportedly come to light that may indicate an ongoing criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice between SLP operatives and one or more of the State Department employees named in the civil complaint.
Neither the Saint Lucia government nor the SLP have responded to a request for comment on the allegations.
Further, Frederick’s own party, the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) is also blamed in the complaint for conspiring against him.
Immediately after the December 2006 election, then Prime Minister Sir John Compton, who “perceive[d] Frederick as a threat to his control” assured US embassy personnel that he had “taken steps to ensure Frederick would never take a leadership role in the UWP.”
Frederick’s political enemies -- including Compton’s daughter, Jeannine Compton of the UWP, and others -- continued to contact the Bridgetown Embassy through emissaries and personally, seeking information to harm Frederick politically and offering false statements about him.
Frederick’s visa revocations should have been confidential, but the news was publicised in the Saint Lucia media by Jeannine Compton, who stated on local television in September 2011, “The United States has obviously made a decision, and it is a matter of concern... because as a minister of government, you are to go to the United States or to go to other countries to represent Saint Lucia, and if you are not entitled to do this, how best are you going to represent Saint Lucia? And there must have been something grave to have your diplomatic visa revoked.”
It is not known at this time if current political leader of the UWP Allen Chastanet, previously described separately by US officials as “a long-time contact of the Embassy”, was involved in the UWP campaign against Frederick.
Again, a request for comment on the matter sent to the UWP earlier this week thus far remains unanswered.
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Timothy Poleon
However, local broadcaster Timothy Poleon weighed in on the issue this week.
“In the aftermath of that particular incident and particularly in the run-up to the 2011 general election airwaves were buzzing with a lot of talk about this and certainly it had a lot of implications not only for the individual at the centre of the matter but also for Saint Lucia as well in terms of the nation’s reputation. We were not talking about the revocation of an ordinary individual’s visa; we were talking about a government minister,” Poleon said on local radio.
He pointed out that, in a case where such an action has been taken against a key political figure, in this case against a government minister, the US authorities should be providing at least the government of the day with an explanation and clarification as to why the action was taken.
Everything is a PR exersize to mamaguay the suffering people and turn their minds from the SLP's governance.
A warehouse to hold foreign goods that cost foreign exchange using financial arrangements (hire purchase) that place people more and more in debt. This just helps in the economic slavery of our taxed citizens.
The lack of vision of this administration as they big up a foreign exchange bleeder instead of promoting local agriculture and value added production.
Everything for their leader is now PR and politricks but the die is cast.
The SLP lose at least by 12 -5 in the next elections. The people will vote for a broomstick to get rid of these clowns.
When Barbados went through a crisis a number of years ago they stopped companies like Courts from offering hire purchase on electronics to stop the foreign exchange bleeding. That king of pro active action worked.
They are now forced to face reality and lay off govt workers.
The SLP and Kenny have used govt as a dumping ground for employment and hired thousands of people over the years and bankrupted St Lucia in the process. $2,000,000,000 IN DEBT.
They offer no prospects for job creation except the fake jobs of step nice etc at a borrowed cost of tens of millions of dollars.
They are incapable of attracting sustainable foreign investment.
They are incapable of nurturing or setting the framework for local production possibilities.
All hired gold diggers like Fletcher can do is talk liberal unscientific unproven rubbish about climate change to get another job when the SLP are kicked out in 2016.
Cap in hand all Kenny has as a solution is more borrowing and a little begging here and there.
When will comatose St Lucians wake up?
St Lucian society produces the kind of politicians we have. There is a production line of these incompetents ready to replace these emperors without any clothes.
If they really had any idea of what was happening St Lucians should be taking to the streets in their thousands to protest. Only this kind of actions would make unsuccessful and destructive clowns like Kenny and Phillip at least try a ting to make a difference.
We should be striking and protesting.
There should be a Day of Rage to show we cay teck any more !
Russia is back!...how about a hundred million dollars for a pro Russia UN vote?...You know who caused the economic crisis, and they aren't helping anyway. Forget about China and Taiwan( peanuts), Russia is where the money is. Vote for Vladimir Putin!
some of u-all fellers can blog shit......we!
Google:KETCHUM.
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