{"id":71307,"date":"2019-10-08T09:03:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T13:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=71307"},"modified":"2019-10-08T09:03:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T13:03:35","slug":"st-vincent-pm-visits-prisons-after-very-troubling-jail-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/st-vincent-pm-visits-prisons-after-very-troubling-jail-break\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Vincent: PM visits prisons after \u2018very troubling\u2019 jail break"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves made an early morning visit, on Monday, to Her Majesty\u2019s Prisons (HMP) in Kingstown one week after an accused murderer escaped custody there then\u00a0turned himself in hours later<\/a>.<\/p>

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Gonsalves said the escape of Veron Primus, 32, was \u201cvery troubling\u201d and said he visited the prison to see for himself what reports reaching him had described.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not been a break out for quite a while. But this one is very troubling and I must tell you this, while I was overseas, as soon as I heard about it, I was on to the Superintendent of Prisons [Brenton Charles], the Commissioner [of Police, Colin John], the Deputy Commissioner [of Police Frankie Joseph], the Acting Prime Minister [Montgomery Daniel] and there were many, many calls. So it is a range of issues, which are getting my attention,\u201d said Gonsalves who was in the United States when the jailbreak occurred.<\/p>

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\u201cBut I really can\u2019t comment about the status of the investigation. I wanted to go round there myself to see where that person\u2019s cell was and how that person\u00a0coulda\u00a0<\/em>come out. I wanted to eyeball it. I didn\u2019t just want to read it in a document. That\u2019s why I was there this morning,\u201d said Gonsalves, who is also Minister of National Security.<\/p>

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\u201cSeven o\u2019clock, I was \u2018round there this morning, first working day since I came back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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