Tonight, Carmen Gamboa from Concepcion Village in the Corozal District has an the kind of problem most of us would love to have: she has to figure out what to do with half a million dollars. She won the money in a Fantasy Five Draw. The jackpot was 494 thousand dollars and after taxes she takes home 15% less, about 420 thousand dollars. It was a double stroke of luck since she cashed in on a jackpot that had been abandoned and put back into the pool :…
After taxes, she walks away with 419 thousand, 9 hundred dollars.
Mas Camps, Come Een!
Carnival season is underway – and last night four of the Mas Camps invited in the public and the media to see what themes and designs they have put together. It's an event for the media, but also for the neighbourhoods where the camps are based to come out and see what months of late night toiling has produced. 7News was there for the flesh and the flash:…
The Mas Camp visits continued tonight and our team is out there right now. Tune in for more tomorrow.
September, Chester's Least Favourite Month
And while the revelers and the onlookers have a fine time celebrating September, for the police it’s just more work – in fact, the most work they do in any given month. And that’s why for the Southside Commander, September is stress month:..
Jules Vasquez "Is September your least favourite month as in so far as it's the perfect storm of alcoholic excess, celebratory excess, excess of sexiness because you know where ever scantily clad women are men will follow. Men with alcohol, sometimes men with gang affiliations they will encounter other men with gang affiliations in pursuit of this sexiness. Is September a big policing problem because of this?"
ACP Chester Williams - Commander, Southside "My brother Jules you always come with some bwai I no know (laugh).. But yes Jules September is indeed our most challenging policing month, September then December and again it's because of the festiveness of the city; December is the unital season you know people preparing for Christmas and lot of shopping and so forth but September is celebration month and we know celebration come with alcohol and with alcohol comes violence right. So the police have to be extra vigilant in the month of September."
"We have 4 major events that we are looking at. We have the 10th parade, we have the 21st parade, we have carnival and we have the concerts. When you look at the J’ouvert, the night of the J’ouvert will be a concert then the concert goes into J’ouvert then the J’ouvert goes into carnival then the carnival goes into another concert. So that's like a good 36 hours of constant activities. Now these activities are very challenging for us to police but at the end of the day we have to police it. So carnival itself we have over 300 police officers who will be deployed to work the carnival parade; that does not include the officers who will be working the ordinary 12 duties at their respective precincts and the reason being that we want to ensure that we have adequate security at these events."
ACP Chester Williams - Commander, Southside "While you can drink in public you must do so in paper, foam or plastic container. You cannot use glass, you cannot use bottle and you cannot use can. So if anyone is found along the route of any parade consuming alcohol out of any of the exempted containers we will take away. We're not going to arrest people because it will be too much people to arrest right and we do not want to take people away from enjoying themselves but we will surely take away the alcohol. Last year we took away a truck back full of beers in cans and in bottles and we'll be doing the same this year."
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