From the Courts
November 15, 2019
The High Court has been preoccupied this week with a trial involving two men of Clare Valley who are charged with thrice raping, once buggering, and o...
From the Courts
November 15, 2019
Two Vincentians awaiting an extradition hearing to determine whether they should be deported to Grenada to be charged with the robbery of a credit uni...
From the Courts
November 8, 2019
The charge of murder laid against a Diamond resident in relation to last December’s shooting of a 38-year-old labourer has been withdrawn. Last Wednes...
From the Courts
November 5, 2019
Eight years after 73-year-old business man Grafton Hutchinson was killed in a robbery “gone wrong”, the person responsible has been sentenced to 15 ye...
From the Courts
November 5, 2019
Last year a man waiting in his car for his girlfriend was robbed of his cash at what he thought was gun point, and last Friday, a Lodge Village youth ...
From the Courts
November 5, 2019
A disc jockey who claims he was physically abused by a police officer is hoping that he receives justice. Rayparker “DJ Maff” Rogers told SEARCHLIGHT ...
From the Courts
November 5, 2019
A 23-year-old is now facing three charges alleging she tried to export 36 pounds of cannabis through the Argyle International Airport(AIA) last week W...
From the Courts
November 1, 2019
One slap is all that her lover says he did to cause the death of 18-year-old Katisha Bess before he dumped her at Kings Hill Forest; a slap which he h...
From the Courts
November 1, 2019
by Chanolde Munroe in Taiwan The announcement by the New Democratic Party (NDP), while in Opposition, that they intend to adopt the One China Policy i...
From the Courts
October 25, 2019
A 33-year-old has been charged with last Saturday’s murder of Rockies resident Zimroy ‘Junior’ Brackin, and, arising from the same incident, the attem...
From the Courts
October 25, 2019
A man who has been charged with trespassing onto a female secondary school student’s property allegedly to intimidate her, has claimed that he was doi...
From the Courts
October 25, 2019
Sums of EC$12,960.28, US$239, and CDN $50 found at a Colonarie bar were forfeited to the state last Friday, the court finding them to be derived from ...
From the Courts
October 25, 2019
Although three jurors were absent without excuse at the beginning of the High Court session on Monday, only one ended up with a fine. A trial was supp...
From the Courts
October 25, 2019
by Katherine Renton A nine-member jury has delivered a guilty veridct for the two men accused of breaking into the yacht ‘Rainbow’ in 2013 and severly...
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October 25, 2019
Facing a damning statement he made in 2013 admitting to being one of the assailants that boarded a yacht with intent to “eat a food”, an accused claim...
From the Courts
October 18, 2019
A farmer’s entire ewe goat population was stuffed into one man’s trunk and stolen last weekend, a crime for which the perpetrator has ended up with a ...
From the Courts
October 18, 2019
A double amputee who was sentenced to four years in prison last year for stabbing his wife in her chest, was sentenced to time served by the Court of ...
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October 18, 2019
A 24 year old police officer on marijuana possession and drug trafficking charges hid his face as he emerged from the Serious Offences Court this Tues...
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October 18, 2019
A disagreement between two Georgetown residents has allegedly resulted in one of them chopping the other in the head with a cutlass. The alleged victi...
From the Courts
October 15, 2019
The prison officer alleged to have aided in the escape of murder accused Veron Primus has been allowed bail in the amount of $15,000. However, Louie C...
From the Courts
October 15, 2019
A disruptive drunk who stabbed a police officer in the neck with a screwdriver must remain as a sober as a judge for the next three months or he risks...
From the Courts
October 15, 2019
A prisoner who has been paralyzed because of injuries from a fall he took while in prison, has failed to argue that, because of his condition, he shou...
From the Courts
October 15, 2019
A security guard has been charged with entering the home of another, carrying with him a cutlass and unlawfully and maliciously wounding the homeowner...
From the Courts
October 11, 2019
The Byera man charged with slicing through another man’s abdomen so that his innards were revealed, has been granted bail following the victim’s disch...
From the Courts
October 11, 2019
Although the victim in a domestic violence case did not want her knife wielding former boyfriend to go to jail, the court decided that his bully tacti...
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October 11, 2019
A home owner on Bequia drew his licensed firearm before calling the police for a young man who admitted to trespassing into his house and hiding under...
From the Courts
October 11, 2019
A Queensbury youth on a charge of theft claimed that drunkeness made him take the long rope attached to a goat and walk away with it. This “explanatio...
From the Courts
October 11, 2019
A coast guard officer fainted, falling sideways from of an elevated witness box while under cross examination at the Serious Offences Court Tuesday. C...
From the Courts
October 8, 2019
A 49-year-old who worked as the driver of an ice cream van for six years was convicted yesterday for stealing a two litre tub of Frisko ice cream from...
From the Courts
October 8, 2019
In order for the police to turn over “every stone, every Ju-C cork, every nail” in the widespread investigations following last week’s prison break, a...
From the Courts
October 4, 2019
There are rats in the police exhibit room, a fact which came to light this Monday after an officer under cross examination admitted that an envelope c...
From the Courts
October 4, 2019
The court ordered a Dubois man to pay compensation of $60 for a Breda fowl after he cooked it without his family member’s permission and didn’t save h...
From the Courts
October 1, 2019
A 54-year-old has been sentenced to a suspended prison sentence for his actions in falling asleep at the wheel, and causing fatal injuries to a man sl...
From the Courts
October 1, 2019
A teenager may never have known who snatched his phone two Saturdays ago had a concerned citizen not stepped in and apprehended the fleeing figure. Th...
From the Courts
September 27, 2019
Thousands of grams of cocaine have allegedly been discovered in the possession of a Canadian and two Vincentians. Jomodean Alexander, 21 years old of ...
From the Courts
September 27, 2019
A man has been convicted in three separate cases in which he landed blows on his former girlfriend using different sharp instruments. Between last wee...
From the Courts
September 27, 2019
A Mesopotamia man known to be a serial burglar has been convicted for two recent burglaries including one in which the homeowner was hospitalized at t...
From the Courts
September 27, 2019
A man slapped his ex-girlfriend, a traffic cop, in a public road while she was on duty, because, he alleges, she wrote a letter which made him unable ...
From the Courts
September 24, 2019
After chasing strong rum with strong rum, a Choppins resident took the law, and a heavy silver knife in his own hands, almost becoming a 54-year-old s...
From the Courts
September 24, 2019
A 22-year-old has been charged with beating his 79-year-old grandmother about her body with a metal pipe. The incident is said to have happened on Sep...
From the Courts
September 20, 2019
A 16-year-old has landed himself in hot water after choosing to drive a vehicle without consent, and then getting into an accident with the said vehic...
From the Courts
September 17, 2019
“What you preparing for – war?” the Senior Prosecutor asked a 31-year-old charged with having a long, pointed, and holey kitchen knife in his possessi...
From the Courts
September 17, 2019
A 40-year-old man has been imprisoned after he destroyed a 25-year-old man’s ewe goat, and then threatened to kill this man and his father while insid...
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