From the Courts
March 5, 2021
by Katherine Renton The Kingstown Magistrate’s Court will be applying certain changes to the operations of the court in 2021 to increase efficiency. I...
From the Courts
March 5, 2021
A 29-year-old convicted for hitting his former 16-year-old lover, will have to pay money to the state by the end of May for this offence. At the end o...
From the Courts
March 2, 2021
A GUN WIELDER who led an armed trio, tried to rob a Barrouallie man, and chopped him twice in an ensuing struggle; will spend over 18 years in prison....
From the Courts
March 2, 2021
A MAN who recently completed a prison sentence for causing grievous bodily harm to a woman, is alleged to have targeted this woman again after his rel...
From the Courts
February 26, 2021
For kicking and firing missiles at a lone police officer at a New Year’s Day fete, two Layou men have been bonded, and ordered to pay compensation to ...
From the Courts
February 26, 2021
A Questelles labourer who escaped from a police station while he was being detained has been acquitted of a charge of escaping unlawful custody. This ...
From the Courts
February 26, 2021
A 20–year-old who stole a wig from a cosmetics store in Kingstown will have to compensate the store $120 for the item, and undergo counselling. Jason ...
From the Courts
February 26, 2021
A 29-year-old man is being tried for allegedly assaulting his former 16-year-old lover. The 16-year-old gave evidence at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Co...
From the Courts
February 23, 2021
A 50-year-old will be sentenced this Friday after being found guilty of luring a man out of his home in Barrouallie, attempting to rob him at gunpoint...
From the Courts
February 19, 2021
Shawhiel Moore has been sentenced to five years and two months in jail for possession of an unlawful firearm and three rounds of ammunition, respectiv...
From the Courts
February 19, 2021
A man who has 33 previous convictions to his name, added another theft to the list last week, for which he will have to spend two months in prison. Cu...
From the Courts
February 19, 2021
The court will deliver its decision today, on whether a Questelles resident is guilty of escaping lawful custody after climbing out of the bathroom wi...
From the Courts
February 19, 2021
A produce thief from Mesopotamia has struck again, stealing 16 holes of dasheen and one bunch of bananas from a 75-year-old farmer. Reynold ‘Barp’ Led...
From the Courts
February 16, 2021
A Jamaican national must complete five years’ imprisonment for possession of a semi-automatic prohibited rifle stored underneath the bed of his rented...
From the Courts
February 16, 2021
A “gullible” taxi/ambulance driver who apparently thought he was transporting cannabis instead of the cocaine he was found with, has escaped immediate...
From the Courts
February 12, 2021
An 18-year-old has been ordered to undergo counselling and pay compensation after lighting another man on fire, because the said man referred to him b...
From the Courts
February 12, 2021
A 29-year-old who beat up another man, causing him lasting difficulty in moving his limbs, has been sentenced to an 18-month prison term suspended for...
From the Courts
February 12, 2021
A defendant convicted for possessing a stolen phone, who also has other convictions to his name, surprised the court this week by revealing that his d...
From the Courts
February 9, 2021
A popular minivan conductor must serve eight months in prison for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old who could not consent to the a...
From the Courts
February 9, 2021
A REDEMPTION SHARPES resident who sent suggestive messages to the female contacts in a phone that he stole, is set to be sentenced for his theft after...
From the Courts
February 5, 2021
Two men who were part of an armed group that broke into the apartment of two medical students, stole from them, and forced them to perform sexual acts...
From the Courts
February 5, 2021
A YOUNG man who targeted the same individual’s property on two different occasions has been sent to prison for 18 months. Twenty-nine-year-old Kevin P...
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February 5, 2021
A 38-YEAR-old self-employed mother living in Canouan now has a criminal record after stealing over $200 worth of items from Massy Supermarket in Kings...
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February 5, 2021
A PREDATOR who told authorities he sexually molested his daughter as a joke, but who in fact raped her on multiple occasions, will now be serving 23 y...
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February 2, 2021
A 57-year-old man has been charged for, being armed with a cutlass, breaking and entering the house of a Brighton resident, and wounding the said resi...
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February 2, 2021
A 26-YEAR-OLD man who lost his temper, and assaulted the 21-year-old mother of his infant son, is now ordered to walk the straight and narrow for one ...
From the Courts
January 29, 2021
A 29-year-old is to be sentenced for beating a 56-year-old man, causing the older man to be partially paralyzed and continuously hospitalized. This we...
From the Courts
January 29, 2021
This weekend saw one man being chased by the police across town, after having been caught attempting to throw a bag into the prison compound. On Tuesd...
From the Courts
January 29, 2021
After stealing nearly $700 worth of deodorant from Massy Supermarket, a 51-year-old put an end to years of keeping his hands clean. Clint Lockhart of ...
From the Courts
January 29, 2021
A Campden Park resident who broke into a gas station last week, claiming that he didn’t know what got into his head, has expressed thanks that he was ...
From the Courts
January 21, 2021
A young man will face a trial by jury to determine whether he is guilty of murdering his father in 2019. Clinton Cambridge was arraigned, like many ot...
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January 21, 2021
Three men were arraigned on separate indictments of rape at the High Court this Tuesday, January 18. Twenty-six-year-old Jason Adams of Stubbs is char...
From the Courts
January 12, 2021
A self-professed ‘end time prophet’ who allegedly skipped out on his quarantine just one day after arriving in the state, will be facing a trial to de...
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January 12, 2021
After being caught with marijuana in a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) box, a Bequia mother gave unemployment and a high electricity bill as the reasons ...
From the Courts
January 8, 2021
Video footage from the prisons purporting to have been filmed before and during the 2019 escape of inmate Veron Primus was admitted into evidence this...
From the Courts
January 8, 2021
THE FIRST BREACH of quarantine trial has ended with the discharge of the defendant, and a reminder that in order to prosecute for breaching an Order o...
From the Courts
January 8, 2021
Two Layou men have been discharged for multiple armed robberies because of case files not being fully prepared six months after the charges were laid....
From the Courts
January 5, 2021
Although a woman decided that she didn’t want to continue with the charge against a former lover who maliciously wounded her, she was too late in expr...
From the Courts
January 5, 2021
A farmer who stole two ewe goats on Christmas Eve, allegedly in a drunken state, will have to compensate his fellow villager for the theft in the New ...
From the Courts
January 5, 2021
A trio on charges of possession of 45 pounds of Marijuana will return to court next Monday. Ralph LaBorde, a 52-year-old farmer of Troumaca, Augustine...
From the Courts
December 23, 2020
For their armed robberies of several individuals in different establishments, as well as the gratuitous shooting of a victim; one young man must serve...
From the Courts
December 18, 2020
The lawyer for a woman who allegedly broke quarantine to attend a political rally is attempting to poke holes in the prosecution’s case by pointing ou...
From the Courts
December 15, 2020
by Katherine Renton Shadene Farrell, a mother of two, in admitting that she harboured two very dangerous prisoners, also noted that her relationship w...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
