Minister of Finance Camillo Gonsalves, Thursday night, urged the assailant who threw an object resulting in Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves being injured in the head, to turn himself in.
The finance minister, who is also the prime minister’s son, said that there is video footage of the incident.
He further said that he believes it would go better for assailant if they turn themselves in to law enforcement.
“I want to ask the assailant — the assailant isn’t listening to me but I hope the Honourable Leader of the Opposition repeats my request because the assailant would listen to him. I’m going to ask the assailant to go to a lawyer and to turn yourself in,” the finance minister said in an update on the prime minister’s condition after the injury.
“There is video footage of your making your attempt on the prime minister. I sincerely believe it will go better for you, if you go and get a lawyer and turn yourself in,” the finance minister further said, noting that Leader of the Opposition, Godwin Friday, and opposition senator Israel Bruce are lawyers.
“I am sure they would be happy to guide you,” the finance minister said.
“I would like the assailant, with great respect, to try to put this episode behind us.”
He further called on supporters of the ruling Unity Labour Party, which the prime minister heads, “to act with restraint and not to take the bait and respond to this act of provocation.
“We are standing on a precipice and we are looking into an abyss and this thing can go sideways very quickly, very easily and I want to call on the supporters of the Unity Labour Party to refrain from any retaliatory act and that we return to the peaceable, loving people that we are in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, notwithstanding this aberration.”
The finance minister told Parliament that the prime minister will be flown to Barbados for magnetic resonance imaging to help to determine the extent of his injuries.
Liar! You have no video. How come you are asking for persons to come forward now, when you didn’t do the same thing when your ULP supporters shot a man in his own yard.
Let’s face it: A stone is much different that a gun. A gun would have taken out Ralph by any means necessary. Let’s hope this is just a warning, so you and the rest of the ULP know if you mess with Vincentians’ lives, the would do the same with yours.
He spend so much of our taxpayers money on security, and cannot protect him self no one should have sympathy for him HE is his worst enemy, HE HAVE NO RIGHT TO LEAVE HIS VEHICLE
This is like beating your drum and dancing at your own calamity, the ears hearing but what beyond the noise, as the heritage’s Drum talks. But who can understand the theory to emancipation? Truly, it would appear that no one wishes to listen so let’s echo:- “We are standing on a precipice and we are looking into an abyss and this thing can go sideways very quickly, very easily and I want to call on the supporters of the Unity Labour Party to refrain from any retaliatory act and that we return to the peaceable, loving people that we are in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, notwithstanding this aberration.”
The security detail should be fired
Carolyn dear lady, remember the security detail are also Vincentians and have family, perhaps there are dissenters to the dynastical regime among them. In some cases you cannot pay anyone enough blood money to remain loyal. There is now a rapid dynastical rush to try and create political sympathy for the comrade. They cannot allow the opportunity to pass without making political mileage from it.
Having said that, I condemn the throwing of missiles at the comrade.
Soooo there are no MRI in St Vincent?
So are we saying that the medical system in St Vincent and the Grenadines is not good enough to look at a head injury of the prime minister? Are we saying that our local health officials does not have the expertise and ability to see the well being of our leader, that he has to fly to another country for medical attention?
If this is the case, why don’t we use the tax payers money that is spent on these useless flights to build new hospitals and more well equipped health centers rather that having to fly people of high profile status to other countries for medical attention?
And by the way who is paying those medical bills?