Dr. Keith Mondesir: ‘I Have No Gun!’

Former Saint Lucia Government Minister Dr. Keith Mondesir, on Tuesday declared that he has never owned a gun, amid reports police arrested him after complaints regarding a firearm. He disclosed that the police searched his home and did not find a weapon. Mondesir, a former Anse La Raye-Canaries MP in a United Workers Party (UWP) administration, said he owns a property in Beausejour, Gros Islet. He said Rayneau Gajadhar’s construction company washes vehicles that carry cement, and the water flows into the drain on his property, settles, and becomes a concrete mass. “It blocks the drain and blocks the pipe that runs onto my property,” Mondesir told St. Lucia Times. He said he went to Rayneau Construction and Industrial Products Limited to report the matter, the company cleaned the drain and invited him to contact them should the problem occur again. According to the former MP, when the problem persisted, he contacted a company employee and received a reprimand and an order to leave. “I left, went to my vehicle, then they reported I went in my vehicle to take a gun,” Mondesir told St. Lucia Times. However, he declared that he had never owned a gun and had never...