The National Newspaper of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
THURSDAY,
APRIL 13, 2017
VOLUME 111, No.15
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The gap that leads (left) to the Chester Cottage community a short distance from Georgetown. Georgetown Hospital by ambulance, where he was given emergency treatment and then rushed to Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, Kingstown, where he remains warded. He has already undergone a series of procedures to remove the bullets and extract excessive fluid from his cheat area. Many persons in the community are of the opinion that the incident is in retaliation for an altercation that occurred a few years ago. The incident resulted in the death of a young man, also from Chester Cottage, and a relative of Mack’s was implicated in the stabbing death. However, a few months Istah Mack, pictured with his daughter, was not ago, the case was known to be involved in any acts of a violent discontinued, and the nature. Mack family in the community has been the By KENVILLE HORNE Thursday 6th April, subject of a number of while making his way threats from persons A FAMILY in Chester home, Istah Mack, a 30- close to the deceased. Cottage, a community in year-old labourer of Istah’s sister - Inesha the North Central Chester Cottage, was Mack, told THE Windward constituency, is shot in the left side of his VINCENTIAN that, living in fear after a male chest and lower back by based on the information member was shot. unknown assailants. from her brother’s doctor, At about 10pm on Mack was taken to the
“He will pull through. He walk and talking better now,” said Mack, “My brother don’t trouble people,” she added. Inesha said that after her brother was shot, the family did not venture outside because a number of males were at the gate leading to the house that she , her mom and other siblings share. According to Inesha, there was at least one man armed with a with cutlass. They were heard to say that anybody from the family that they get hold of will be killed. “Dem ah kill children, man, woman. I am not going to work , I am scared,” said the grieving sister. The group of men eventually left, on noticing the police presence. Inesha said she would like to see the arrest of the man or men responsible for shooting her brother,and those whio have made threats against her family. “Take them in, talk to them. Let them know the lives they want to take is
Inesha Mack, at the MCMH bedside of her brother Istah, said that she has had to leave the Chester Cottage since the shooting incident. innocent lives,” she said. Inesha has since left the community, fearing for her life. “I have to stay somewhere else because I am afraid, my family is worried,” she said, adding that her brother was not known to be involved in any “violence,”, a sentiment
that other persons in the community echoed. Meanwhile, the situation in Chester Cottage remains tense as reports indicate that gunshots have been heard repeatedly in the area since the incident involving Istah. There have also been reports of skirmishes.