Two young men from the community of Grand Bay have been arrested and charged for the murder of 23-year old Damien Ernest of Kings Hill.
The two, who appeared before magistrate Michael Laudat where the charge of murder was read to them, are 19-year-old Marvin Marlon Albert of Grand Coulibrie and 20-year old Samron Thomas of Montin, Grand Bay
Police reported that the body of Ernest was found at about 11 am on Saturday, June 27th, 2020 on the road close to the Boeri Lake lying face down with multiple gunshot wounds to his body.
He was taken to the Casualty Department of the Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) where the body was pronounced dead.
Since the charge is a capital offense and must be tried before a judge and jury, the men were not required to enter a plea. Thomas is represented by attorney-at-law, Wayne Norde while Albert is so far unrepresented.
The matter has been adjourned to September 10th, 2020.
In the meantime, both young men are on remand at the Stock Farm Prison.
Marlon and Samron ages 19 & 20. What is going on in your heads? Look at how young? Sad yes I say sadly. I do not know the circumstances but to kill Damian another young one. It hurts both ways. Young men why do you kill even with guns? Why? can’t you love one another? Sigh! Why? The gold chains, the scooter, bikes, guns, etc. u cannot go anywhere with it when you dead, dead. Why the hype? Can’t u young men respect your lives? You were born for a purpose but dying before your time. Why? Both families are hurting the deceased & the accused. Please refocus your minds. Stop being a follower of fashion u must have a bike, scooters, etc. make those things become your gods. There is only one God who gave us the breath of life. We are on a journey. Pass we passing. Do something good during your journey. Remember your loved ones before u indulge in those illegal activities. Sad. black lives matter but u young blacks killing your own.
Young men reading this -Think about your life &…
This is rubbish and ridiculous to discriminate against grand Bay-people in the way you so-called Workers clowns trying to say other parts of Dominica is crime free grand Bay is bad rubbish! I have never been to grand Bay in my life but I know some criminal in Roseau today now asking for money to fight his losing stupidity battle he is the worst criminal in Dominica, I makes no apology but would be happy to see that idiot out of our lives in Dominica.
Here’s the timetable: 1. They’ll be out on bail before this year ends, 2. You’ll hear nothing about this case until about 2025 or beyond. 3. One or both of them will walk free. The Police investigation and arrest side of it runs quick and smooth (hats off to them)….its the Judicial System that fails us. I’ve been hearing about a ‘Bail Act’ for almost 10years. I also think it is time to set aside the ‘Preliminary Inquiry’ phase in the Magistrates Court in Capital Offenses. All the ‘P.I.’ does is to establish if there is enough evidence and basis to proceed to a High Court trial. The process is just to long. Witness go away……… they get fed up……. they can’t get paid ‘time-off’ (from work)……or even get paid NOT to testify. Long and short of it, our Justice System needs an overhaul.
“He was taken to the Casualty Department of the Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) where the body was pronounced dead.”
What do you mean “where the body was pronounced dead”? As opposed to what? A car? Battery? What type of body are we talking about here? I’ve seen you write lots of stupid …. on here before but that’s definitely near the top of the list. You say “where HE was pronounced dead”, NOT where “the body was”, what does that even mean???
Fix up you’re writing skills. If you’re going to run you’re own news website, at least come correct with your vocabulary & know what you’re actually talking about. I don’t know if you studied at school, went to college or university or whatever, but if you didn’t…I suggest you do so because you seriously need it
While you are at it, please learn the difference between YOUR and YOU’RE. I thank you.
@jean Gwa Bay: They are thugs, absolute thugs and killers with a don’t care attitude. Just look at them!!
And you are apparently supporting something like that, to kill someone like that. Man you all are worst than the Idi Amin Dada!
Foolish.
This is just so sad for the young men involved and for our country. Something has to be done about the root of the problem of young men killing each other in this place.
People at Laudat are extremely upset that this heinous crime had to happen so near the community.
A warning: Please do not come to Laudat to commit you all’s crimes.
Laudat is a small close-knit community of peaceful and gentle people.
According to Laudat’s folkloric history, in the early part of the last century there was a famous ‘gate’ at the entrance of the village where strangers were screened on entrance. We may just have to reinstate it!
Please tell them, laudat is private land, but soon goverment moving you’ll with that geothermal and you first.
The deserve it when you want to set ppl up to die you get killed Grand bay Ppl always the worst Dominican eye KMA free my youngins samrun and Malone you’ll wanna plot on the south but we don’t get ppl noise we Lonely defend
100%. Free dem!
Illustrate too? There is a high school right there in grandbay you could have simply spent a day or two there wi pal. Smh
would u rather make your loved ones to see you in a coffin or in court house?
when you don’t know the case don’t just assume
So you mean we must choose between coffin or courthouse then, no alternative. Some lucky people choose a villa in Morne Daniel, also paid for by the state. Lucky them.
Exactly! It’s better to be in prison than to be six feet in the dirt!
Rihanna said one man down tell the judge to give her minimal now she is a criminal. She got to run out of town. Brother Bob said you keep running and running away but you can never run away from yourself…. Can’t run away from yourself. Face it real.
Where dem man getting gun? I dat law-abiding can’t even get a gun license without knowing the police chief but dem man can get gun ?
We don’t make guns in DA and once too often, shooting dead. Every body quote the Holy Bible when it suit them. ANY HUMAN BEING,WHOSOEVER,KILL ANOTHER HUMAN BEING,MUST BE PUT TO DEATH. When you plan to kill someone knowing that you yourself are going, you should think twice.
A whole lost generation of unemployed delinquent young men under this Labour Party 20 years in Government! Dominica’s future now looks so bleak! Where is the promise of a brighter tomorrow for the next generation? What have we built for them? no industry, no development, no legacy! Instead all we have been doing and interested in is to take, take, take! Every Dominican who supports the Labour Party is for what is in it for themselves and not what is best for Dominica! Every member of the Labour Party Government can show you what they gained or what they became under Labour, but please show me where Dominica developed and gained? A Shameful state of affairs!
These young people are frustrated but they need to pass their anger and frustration on those that put them in that hopeless situation and not on fellow young people that are in the same predicament and struggle
This passage by Eric Fromm from his book “Escape from Freedom” is relevant:
“It would seem that the amount of destructiveness to be found in individuals is proportionate to the amount to which the expansiveness of life is curtailed. By this we do not refer to individual frustrations of this or that instinctive desire but to the thwarting of the whole of life, the blockage of spontaneity of the growth and expression of man’s sensuous, emotional and intellectual capacities. Life has an inner dynamism of its own; it tends to grow, to be expressed, to be lived. It seems that if this tendency is thwarted, the energy directed towards life undergoes a process of decomposition and changes into energies directed towards destruction…The more the drive for life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive towards destruction; the more life is realised, the less is the strength of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.”
Meals,it is people like you who ENCOURAGE young people to commit crimes.I bet you support UWP.LAZY and LYING.
frustrated start digging holes for plantains and fig
But Grandbay is getting bad again man. What Skerrit and the DLP neglecting their Jarden patat (potato garden) man? Now a days when we hear of these crimes we can easily guess the alleged criminals are either from Grandbay or Portsmouth, both of which are Skerrit and DLP potato garden.
But who more voles than Jean Roseau you need to shut your mouth And how you to bout grand bay ppl you could be next 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Compare the killings for the past 10 years islandwide, and see how many were from Grand Bay.
‘He was taken to casualty department of the Dominica China Friendship Hospital where the body was pronounced dead.”
DNO show some respect! What you trying?
Most profound condolences to the family of the deceased. Kudos to the police in making such quick arrest. Hope that you have the real perpetrators and that you will build an air-tight case. For taking the life of a fellow human being, your life should be forfeited also.
We should never become desensitized to murder no matter how often it happens.
jail them and cremate the key .