Suspects alleged to have committed the heinous act at Campus Trendz location are in police custody.
NOW Confirmed!
BU listened to the Press Conference delivered by Commissioner Darwin Dottin today (7/09/2010) with heightened interest. Needless to say the recent robbery and torching of a business located on Tudor Street has placed the Royal Barbados Police Force under the microscope.
Commissioner Darwin Dottin would have been under pressure to quell a rising public perception that crime has been trending upwards in recent times. BU expected Dottin to use the tired comparison of comparing Barbados’ criminal statistics to those of the neighbouring Caribbean islands. We were not disappointed. To be expected Barbados continues to stack up well in the regional comparison. Why is it BU senses that Barbadians on the ground don’t share Commissioner Dottin’s enthusiasm?
Many would have been surprise to hear Dottin take a swipe at the social media. BU suspects he meant the blogs because social media includes Facebook, Twitter etc. He protested with all the indignation he could muster. He referred to a story of a rape of a tourist which is currently being reported on another blog. He confirmed that police investigations could not confirm the story to be true yet it was being reported by social media.
BU should clarify that we received information about the alleged rape of a tourist in the Maxwell area but decided to cross check the information given the national import. To date we have not been able to substantiate the story published elsewhere. In fact the person who started the story has since issued a retraction which was circulated today. BU posted the retraction below to provide balance to this matter.
BU joins with Barbadians everywhere to wish the Royal Barbados Police Force success in quickly apprehending two suspects linked to the heinous criminal act committed last Friday. Frankly we are surprised that local business houses have not collaborated to place an attractive bounty on the heads of the two suspects.
We hope the current tension which exist within the hierarchy of the local constabulary gets resolved very soon. The local criminal chapter must be grinning from ear to ear at the apparent rift between the Commissioner and his Deputy. BU is aware that the rife goes even deeper. We urge the Attorney General to move quickly to resolve this matter. If he is not averse to multitasking he should also resolve the issues in Probyn Street as well.
From: “Gordon Seale”
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:45:32 -0400
To: policetourism@rbpf.gov.bbr
Subject: Horrendous Crime
I had been told a few days before that an awful crime had occurred. I was incensed and tracked down the person to verify. I have known her for about 50 years. She told me that it was true and that she had spoken to her daughter who had been in touch with the family who did not want their information known, so no names etc.
I sent out an email to some influential people and some friends and this e mail has been widely – I mean very widely circulated.
Yesterday I was in touch with the Police at a senior level and they put detectives to investigate the matter. No one has been able to confirm any aspect of this having taken place. I had contacts with the Air Ambulance people etc. They have no record. Nothing was reported to the Police and they had heard nothing, so obviously had not been able to investigate. The QEH which one would expect would have been called have no record according to Peter Gilkes.
I can also say that the Senator Peter Gilkes was on this immediately and has been inundated with e mails and phone calls.
The long and short of this is that this rumored incident cannot be verified and seems to be inaccurate at best.
I should have carried out further investigations prior to sending this e mail out, one fails to realize the speed at which e mails can mushroom, it is truly astounding.
It is a relief to report that unless further verifiable evidence is presented then we must assume this matter was at best an exaggeration.
It would be quite important that you take the trouble to circulate this e mail to all those who you sent the original e mail to and ask them to do likewise.
Gordon Seale
PS No one has asked me to write this nor applied ANY pressure for me to do so.
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