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Man ordered to pay $10,000 to victim
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July 16, 2019
Swayed by the request of a cutlass chop victim for compensation, the High Court suspended a jail sentence of eight years on the condition that the per...
Couple airs dirty linen in Court
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July 12, 2019
A couple has aired their dirty laundry in court after an argument of theirs landed the boyfriend in court facing two charges. Accusations flew, when A...
Man ordered to pay cart pusher $750
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July 12, 2019
A 43-year-old defendant will have to pay for losing his temper and striking a cart pusher with a bottle simply because the cart pusher’s flute blowing...
Accused murderer walks free
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July 12, 2019
The man who was charged with shooting to death a 23-year-old resident of Clifton Union Island last year was freed for want of evidence last week. Last...
Woman to be sentenced for death of businessman
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July 5, 2019
This Tuesday the prosecution accepted a guilty plea for manslaughter from the woman charged in relation to the death of businessman “Dot Com” who was ...
Man with kidney failure escapes prison sentence
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June 28, 2019
The man whose vehicle crashed into a New Democratic Party (NDP) rally in 2014, could not be sentenced to prison time because of his kidney failure, wh...
Woman who spoke to juror arrested and charged
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June 28, 2019
Police have arrested and charged Jemima Woods, a 33-year-old Cashier of Layou with Conspiracy to Defeat the Course of Justice. According to investigat...
42-year-old man blames his criminal ways on obeah
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June 25, 2019
After being cursed by a market vendor that he would not stop “making jail” in his lifetime, Desmond ‘Joey’ Browne, convicted of robbery, says obeah is...
Hit and Run killer to be sentenced next month
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June 14, 2019
A family has been left without a father because of the actions of Branson George who did a hit and run, knocking down all members of the family with a...
Women fined and bonded for bad behavior
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May 31, 2019
The Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH) may have had two more patients last Wednesday, if two women poised to fight with cutlass and icepick weren’t ...
Man guilty of robbery, discharging firearm
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May 28, 2019
Desmond ‘Shortman’ ‘Joey’ Browne, has been found guilty on four charges related to an incident where he shot at someone to acquire a 14 karat gold cha...
Sandy Bay man shaves a year off his sentence
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May 17, 2019
A man sentenced for possession of twenty-five 12-gauge bullets took a shot at reducing his sentence last week, managing to shave a year off his four y...
Absentee Juror fined
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May 17, 2019
A juror has been fined $40 for not being present for jury duty. Although the High Court assizes began on April 30, the presence of the Court of Appeal...
Too many woman beaters in SVG – Judge
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May 10, 2019
An Appeal Court Justice has commented that there are too many men coming before the court for beating women in St Vincent and the Grenadines(SVG). Cou...
Woman bonded for slapping child’s father
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May 3, 2019
A defendant was bonded this Monday for slapping her child’s father outside the Family Court after losing custody of her child. This display of aggress...
Young man on  attempted murder charge
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April 30, 2019
A 23-year-old was charged with attempted murder yesterday, in connection with an incident in which more than 20 shots were said to have been fired at ...
Woman who slapped student escapes jail time
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April 18, 2019
This Monday, the court refused to endorse the actions of a 42-year-old mother who believed she was right in slapping a 16-year-old at the entrance to ...