From the Courts
December 23, 2019
A 35-year-old was remanded in custody yesterday because a woman he allegedly beat about the body last weekend continues to be warded at the Intensive ...
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December 20, 2019
After a retrial, Aubrey Wilson was sentenced last Friday, after being convicted for the second time of the 2011 cold-blooded murder of his ex-girlfrie...
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December 17, 2019
Thanks to the vigilance of Corporal 403 Nigel John, two sheep and one goat will be returning to their Central Leeward homes for Christmas after they w...
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December 13, 2019
Another corporal in the Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) has been charged in relation to sexual misconduct, the third in two ...
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December 13, 2019
Accused Desron Roberts has been committed to stand trial at the High Court on the charge that he did, on the eve of Independence, in 2018, murder a 30...
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December 13, 2019
Yesterday, two men were sentenced to spend 20 and 14 years respectively in prison for raping a 15-year-old girl repeatedly, buggering and indecently a...
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December 10, 2019
A Paul’s Avenue resident caught with Marijuana was reprimanded and discharged last Friday, after he was given a chance because of police error. “That ...
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December 10, 2019
A fisherman shot twice in an alleged robbery in Canouan two weeks ago, is now paralyzed from the shoulder down, and his medical condition is said to b...
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December 10, 2019
A 22-year-old who played the wrong game when he decided to conceal cocaine in his X-box console, as well as more cocaine and cannabis elsewhere in his...
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December 6, 2019
Viv Simon, previously accused of the 2016 shooting murder of a 75-year-old man, walked away from the High Court this Wednesday a free man, following t...
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December 3, 2019
A 23-year-old charged for a recent robbery and shooting in Canouan was refused bail yesterday as the condition of the victim is worsening. Prosecutor ...
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December 3, 2019
A 47-year-old man has been sentenced to three months in prison after stealing speakers from a bar he frequents, and a cellphone from a co-worker’s loc...
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December 3, 2019
A 30-year-old who is alleged to have shot an auxiliary policeman and two other males at Heritage Square two Fridays ago, was denied bail yesterday aft...
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December 3, 2019
History is repeating itself for 19-year-old Raheem DaSilva, who was taken away by the state when he was a child, and now he is being taken away again,...
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November 29, 2019
A corporal in the Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) was yesterday, Thursday granted bail in relation to the alleged rape of a ...
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November 29, 2019
There was discontent expressed inside as well as outside the court Tuesday morning when 57-year-old Sealy Matthias was given 10 sentences for ammuniti...
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November 29, 2019
Andrew Ryan Speedwell, a 36-year-old man from a rural town was last Friday sentenced to a total of 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to two cou...
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November 26, 2019
Twenty-one-year-old Enard Douglas and 23-year-old Jerome “JJ” Jordan, both of Union Island, received three prison sentences last Friday for their vici...
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November 22, 2019
After two hours of deliberation on Monday afternoon, a nine-member jury comprising seven females and two males failed to reach unanimous verdicts on a...
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November 19, 2019
Although a first time offender of the law, a Belvedere man was sentenced to prison time last Friday, for abducting and humiliating his ex-girlfriend b...
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November 19, 2019
For fracturing the skull, and dislocating the shoulder of a 53-year-old security guard, a 22-year-old will spend the next three years incarcerated. Je...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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