PM Gonsalves marked for death
Published:Thursday | May 1, 2008 | 8:30 AM
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has claimed that local drug lords have hired an overseas assassin to kill him as a direct reprisal for work being done by his government to combat drugs and money laundering.
Prime Minister Gonsalves said work being done by the Financial Intelligence Unit and the police has angered those in the illegal drug trade.
He said that police intelligence suggested that seven hit men had travelled to St. Vincent and the Grenadines in recent times.
The St. Vincent Prime Minister vowed to continue to work assiduously to combat the scourge of the drug trade and money laundering.