Category: Moncton

An emergency shelter in Moncton has seen a jump in the number of people being released from hospital with nowhere to go.

The House of Nazareth’s Joe Leger told CBC the release of people, with psychiatric issues is tricky because they need to find a group home or special care or peer-supported housing which takes time. He agreed there was a 7% drop in overall shelter use last year as stated by the Greater Moncton Homeless Steering Committee this week…but he said the length of the stays was increasing. He also said they are seeing more seniors using their services.

The lawyer for a man accussed of murder has been given more time to go over the evidence.

25 year old Jesse James Perry-Belliveau was in court yesterday on a second degree murder charge but his lawyer told the judge he had just received disclosure of evidence from the Crown and needed more time to go over it…so the  judge gave him a month.

Perry-Belliveu is charged, along with Kimberley Sue Cormier of Memramcook, in the stabbing death of 47 year old Rodney James Perry who was found at the wheel of a crashed car on Stone Avenue in January.