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From the Courts

Men plead not guilty to burglary of WFP tent at Arnos Vale
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Men plead not guilty to burglary of WFP tent at Arnos Vale
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October 1, 2021
TWO MEN CHARGED in connection with the burglary of one of the tents of the World Food Programme at the decommissioned ET Joshua Airport pleaded not gu...
Farmer jailed on firearm and ammunition charges
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Farmer jailed on firearm and ammunition charges
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October 1, 2021
A 30-year-old farmer nabbed on a public road with a loaded firearm will spend two years and one month in prison for the crime. Jason Richards of Walva...
Dasant gets almost five years jail time for multiple burglaries
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Dasant gets almost five years jail time for multiple burglaries
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September 28, 2021
APPROXIMATELY FOUR and a half years of jail time has been handed down to a Mesopotamia/ Diamond Village man who was nabbed for a series of attempted b...
Barrouallie man 77, charged with obstructing the police
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Barrouallie man 77, charged with obstructing the police
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September 21, 2021
A 77-YEAR-OLD protester has been charged with obstructing a police officer in the execution of his duty. On September 15, Drissey Jeffers of Barrouall...
Police assault charges against Carly John to be heard next year
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Police assault charges against Carly John to be heard next year
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September 17, 2021
Forty-seven-year-old businessman Carly John, the husband of opposition senator Shevern John, has been charged with assaulting police officers and resi...
Cedars resident charged with reckless use of fire
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Cedars resident charged with reckless use of fire
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September 17, 2021
A 49-YEAR-OLD female resident of Cedars has been charged with recklessly using fire at White Chapel road on August 5, 2021. Monique France, a cleaner,...
Teacher charged with preventing PM from going to Parliament
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Teacher charged with preventing PM from going to Parliament
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September 14, 2021
A TEACHER who has been suspended from her job as she goes through the court system on multiple protest related charges,faced another charge last week,...
Court fines fisherman for controlled drugs
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Court fines fisherman for controlled drugs
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September 14, 2021
A 60 YEAR old fisherman of Rose Bank/Grenada was fined after pleading guilty to a controlled drugs charge when he appeared in the Serious Offenses Cou...
Third person jailed for Georgetown police armoury guns
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Third person jailed for Georgetown police armoury guns
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September 10, 2021
WITH A sentence of two years and five months incarceration imposed by the court last week Monday, Meshach Dublin became the third young person to be j...
Annamay Lewis complains of feeling ‘tortured’
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Annamay Lewis complains of feeling ‘tortured’
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September 10, 2021
FIFTY-SIX-year-old Annamay Lewis, who now faces a new charge of throwing missile, said she feels as if she’s being tortured. Lewis, who also has been ...
Court orders fine and deportation of Nigerian/Canadian who was sent to SVG ‘by God Almighty’
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Court orders fine and deportation of Nigerian/Canadian who was sent to SVG ‘by God Almighty’
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September 10, 2021
A NIGERIAN/CANADIAN who overstayed his welcome from the Passport and Immigration Department has been fined and a removal order made against him. Adeku...
Court orders suspended sentence and rehabilitation for mom whose baby perished in fire
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Court orders suspended sentence and rehabilitation for mom whose baby perished in fire
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September 10, 2021
A SINGLE MOTHER of six young girls who has turned her life around since the death of her infant son, has been given a chance at rehabilitation and was...
Prison officer to spend 1-year, 11 months in jail for conspiring to aid a prisoner’s escape
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Prison officer to spend 1-year, 11 months in jail for conspiring to aid a prisoner’s escape
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September 3, 2021
SAID TO BE terminally ill, a 46-year-old prison officer will spend nearly two years incarcerated among those prisoners who he was responsible for guar...
Man to go on trial for allegedly stealing inspector’s cow
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Man to go on trial for allegedly stealing inspector’s cow
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September 3, 2021
A COW FROM the red zone, belonging to an Inspector of Police, was reportedly snatched on Tuesday, August 31. A 28-year-old man of Georgetown by the na...
Cases against Government senator and Assistant DPP adjourned to November
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Cases against Government senator and Assistant DPP adjourned to November
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August 31, 2021
A NOVEMBER adjournment has been announced in the assault and wounding cases against Senator of the Unity Labour Party( ULP) Ashelle Morgan, and Assist...
Parties in Cornelius John matter to appear in Mesopotamia Magistrate’s Court today
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Parties in Cornelius John matter to appear in Mesopotamia Magistrate’s Court today
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August 27, 2021
THE PARTIES involved in what has become known as the Cornelius John matter will appear in the Mesopotamia Magistrate’s Court today after the sitting m...
Court orders jail time and sex therapy for man who raped 12-year-old
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Court orders jail time and sex therapy for man who raped 12-year-old
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August 27, 2021
A MAN WHO was 22 years old when he had sexual intercourse with a minor aged 12, must serve a sentence of four years imprisonment for this crime, and e...
Man who kidnapped and buggered child jailed for six years
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Man who kidnapped and buggered child jailed for six years
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August 24, 2021
A man found guilty of kidnapping and buggering a nine-year-old boy, has been ordered to spend six years in prison, and enrol in a psychotherapy progra...
Prosecution drops charges against teen mother – state steps in to help
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Prosecution drops charges against teen mother – state steps in to help
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August 24, 2021
A 16-year-old mother of two is no longer facing a charge of possession of a home-made firearm, and it appears she will in the future have a support ne...
Court fines Rose Hall man on cocaine and marijuana charges
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Court fines Rose Hall man on cocaine and marijuana charges
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August 24, 2021
After claiming ownership of cocaine and marijuana that had been ferried between the islands of St Vincent and the Grenadines, a 43-year-old man must r...
Three young men of Sandy Bay on multiple charges
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Three young men of Sandy Bay on multiple charges
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August 24, 2021
Police have arrested and charged three young men of Sandy Bay for a number of alleged offences including burglary. The police said in a release that 2...
Men on charges for possession of 98 pounds of weed
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Men on charges for possession of 98 pounds of weed
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August 20, 2021
Two men from the Leeward end of St Vincent nabbed allegedly with 98 pounds of cannabis have appeared before the Serious Offences Court(SOC). Calroy Br...
Teen mom on home-made firearm charge
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Teen mom on home-made firearm charge
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August 20, 2021
A 16-year-old mother of two has been charged for possession of a home-made firearm. The young domestic, who hails from a Leeward town, was taken befor...
Former national footballer sentenced to 18 months in prison
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Former national footballer sentenced to 18 months in prison
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August 17, 2021
A former national footballer who pleaded guilty to possession of a Glock pistol that was stolen from the police armoury at Georgetown, will spend 18 m...
Venezuelan illegal immigrant fined and deported
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Venezuelan illegal immigrant fined and deported
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August 17, 2021
A 30-YEAR-old Venezuelan who landed in the Grenadines illegally via boat earlier this month, has said he came to St Vincent and the Grenadines(SVG) to...
Court to sentence former national footballer on August 16
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Court to sentence former national footballer on August 16
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August 13, 2021
A FORMER national footballer who is charged in connection with the burglary of firearms from the armoury at the Georgetown police station will be sent...
Woman beater gets 16 months jail time
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Woman beater gets 16 months jail time
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August 10, 2021
A 31-year-old man has been sent to prison for 16 months for beating his 43-year-old lover about her body with a piece of board on May 22, 2021. Shorn ...
Barber charged in death of insurance broker
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Barber charged in death of insurance broker
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August 10, 2021
An incident at a barber shop in Kingstown that left one man dead has resulted in a murder charge being laid against a 45-year-old barber. Barrington C...
“Tombstone” to answer deception charges in October
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“Tombstone” to answer deception charges in October
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August 6, 2021
During a trial set for October, ’Tombstone’ will attempt to lay to rest a charge that he deceived the St Vincent Brewery out of 66 cases of drinks. A ...
Cemetery Hill resident charged with burglary at Salvation Army Headquarters while under curfew
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Cemetery Hill resident charged with burglary at Salvation Army Headquarters while under curfew
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August 6, 2021
A SECOND man has been charged for the recent burglary of the Salvation Army headquarters, and he is alleged to have committed the crime during the tim...
Xavier “Bounty” Lynch fetches 11 years in jail for manslaughter
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Xavier “Bounty” Lynch fetches 11 years in jail for manslaughter
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July 30, 2021
CAMERAS IN Middle Street did not catch the full encounter between two young men said to be from rival groups, but they caught enough to implicate a 20...
Man charged in vehicular death of 74 year old woman
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Man charged in vehicular death of 74 year old woman
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July 30, 2021
A CHARGE HAS been laid against an Old Montrose resident for causing the death of an elderly woman by allegedly driving dangerously. Cordell Roberts wa...
Edinboro resident back behind bars in under one month
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Edinboro resident back behind bars in under one month
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July 27, 2021
LESS THAN A week after he was released from prison, one Edinboro resident returned to a prison compound with the intention of covertly passing on cann...
Suspect charged with the Salvation Army burglary
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Suspect charged with the Salvation Army burglary
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July 27, 2021
THE POLICE HAVE charged one young man in connection with the recent burglary of the Salvation Army’s offices/ church/day-care in Kingstown. Kyjuan Pri...
Farmer convicted for marijuana begs court not to send him to jail
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Farmer convicted for marijuana begs court not to send him to jail
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July 27, 2021
WHILE CONDUCTING investigations into stolen Marijuana plants from Green Lava Labs in Vermont, the police were led to a specific resident of Queensbury...
Court fines woman who breached quarantine
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Court fines woman who breached quarantine
Webmaster 
July 23, 2021
After breaching quarantine at a hotel in Kingstown, a woman was revealed to have made her way to a relative’s home in Paget Farm, Bequia. While intera...
Police looking into ‘Copperhead’s’ allegation of assault by senator
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Police looking into ‘Copperhead’s’ allegation of assault by senator
Webmaster 
July 23, 2021
Commissioner of Police Colin John has confirmed that police are looking into a complaint made by a Kingstown man that he was assaulted by Opposition S...
Man who broke hospital door slapped with a fine
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Man who broke hospital door slapped with a fine
Webmaster 
July 23, 2021
The glass pane of a door at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH) was broken by the actions of an aggressive patient last Sunday. Twenty-eight-year...
Penniston men sentenced on firearm and controlled drugs charges
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Penniston men sentenced on firearm and controlled drugs charges
Webmaster 
July 23, 2021
Two men, both 32 years of Penniston, were sentenced in the Serious Offences Court (SOC) yesterday on charges relating to prohibited firearm and contro...
Dublin changes his pleas in firearms and ammunition charges
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Dublin changes his pleas in firearms and ammunition charges
Webmaster 
July 23, 2021
 Twenty-six-year-old Diamonds resident Meshach Dublin, has retracted all of his previous guilty pleas related to possession and sale of various guns a...
Cutlass wielding father gets jail time
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Cutlass wielding father gets jail time
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July 20, 2021
A MAN WILL have the next 19 months in prison to contemplate putting down the drink that caused him to kick and beat his estranged wife, slap his child...
Union Island man accused of theft from mini-mart pleads not guilty
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Union Island man accused of theft from mini-mart pleads not guilty
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July 20, 2021
A MAN FROM Union Island will stand trial on charges of stealing a cordless security camera, alcohol and cigarettes from a minimart on that Grenadine i...
Woman accused of blocking traffic during protest pleads not guilty
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Woman accused of blocking traffic during protest pleads not guilty
Webmaster 
July 16, 2021
A WOMAN who was said to be protesting on the picket line in Kingstown before she allegedly wilfully obstructed the traffic and failed to remove the ve...
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St. Joseph’s Convent T&T wins Inaugural UWI International Reparation Debate
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St. Joseph’s Convent T&T wins Inaugural UWI International Reparation Debate
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May 13, 2025
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO has clinched victory over Jamaica in the inaugural International Reparation Debate, hosted by the Centre for Reparations Research ...
District Stairs spruces up Police Public Relations and Complaints Office
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District Stairs spruces up Police Public Relations and Complaints Office
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May 13, 2025
DISTRICT STAIRS SVG Ltd., a company with operations in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Canada, has demonstrated its commitment to corporate social ...
Government launches GYVE programme targetting Youths
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Government launches GYVE programme targetting Youths
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May 13, 2025
A NEW PROGRAMME in which the government is targetting youth volunteerism across St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), was launched on Monday, May 12, 2...
Man with 46 convictions to be sentenced for stealing from church
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Man with 46 convictions to be sentenced for stealing from church
Webmaster 
May 13, 2025
A 45 YEAR OLD man who has been convicted 46 times, is awaiting sentencing after he confessed to six more offences, including stealing a transformer an...
Thousands on temporary electricity connections after expiration date
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Thousands on temporary electricity connections after expiration date
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May 13, 2025
MINISTER OFTRANSPORT and Works, Montgomery Daniel, has praised the “excellent work” being done by the Electrical Inspectorate Unit, but expressed conc...

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