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by Mare Davis
if The Review

Hong Kong investors may bring
their business to the Peninsula, the
chairman of the Sidney economic
development committee said last
week.

After participating in a provin-
cial government-sponsored trade
~ delegation to Hong Kong in May,
Rick Roberts said two large firms
will consider the Peninsula as a

possible location for business ven-

% tures.

He said one Hong Kong com-
pany is interested in building a
recycling plant on Vancouver
Island.

Another firm was looking into
building a hotel complex, as well
as becoming involved in aqua-
culture farming on the Island, he
said.

Roberts was a member of a
14-man party which attended the
Hong Kong Trade and Investment
*90 Exposition to promote British

@ Columbia.

The provincial Ministry of
Regional and Economic Develop-
ment and the B.C. International

4# Business and Immigration minis-
try sponsored the delegation’s trip,
Roberts said.

“I was there specifically to pro-
mote Vancouver Island as a loca-
tion for investment opportunities.”

Killing
planned

The killing of 66-year-old Sid-
ney taxi driver Kenneth Scott Oct.
12, 1988, was planned by three

of youths and an adult as they sat
drinking in a school yard, one of
the youths told police the moming
after the killing, Victoria youth
court was told Monday.
s

According to published reports,
the statement was heard in Victoria
youth court Monday as part of a
voir dire during the trial of three
17-year-old youths charged in
Scott’s death.

At the end of the voir dire, Judge
Robert Metzger will rule on

@. whether the voir dire evidence will
be admitted as part of the tal.

In his statement to police, one

youth said the other accused and

24-year-old Michael Allen came

drinking at about 3:30 a.m. Oct.

_ 12, 1988. The three called a cab,
bought beer in Brentwood and sat
in the Brentwood Elementary
school yard, drinking and planning

the killing, the youth told police.
The group then called a cab and
directed the driver to take them to
Jimmy Road and stop, the youth

@ Said. One of the other youths
| demanded Scott's money and
| began stabbing the taxi driver.

|

Scott’s body was found in his
_cab on Jimmy Road in Central
Saanich shortly after 5 am. Oct.
12. Earlier in the trial a pathologist
testified Scott had been stabbed 17
times.
The youth told police the group
found $29 in Scott’s wallet.

The one adult in the group,
fichael Allen, was convicted of
Manslaughter and sentenced to
seven years in jail.
f Under the young offenders act
_ the youths face a maximum pen-
alty of three years_in jail.

to his home and invited him to go.

+ Foreign business possible for Peninsula

He added that, among other
delegates, he was there to show
that Vancouver was not the only
region in B.C. that is ripe for
economic development.

However, the overall mood
among Hong Kong investors was
one of cautiousness, he added.

“You don’t want to promote the
fact that there’s a lot of vacant land
here because that scares them,” he
said.

“They have an industrial orien-
tation and are not used to big wide
open spaces. And they're not too
much into tourism.”

Enticing Hong Kong money
over to Vancouver Island is a
long-term process that begins with
making the British colony aware of

RICK PORERTS nomic development, Roberts said.

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