From the Courts
May 17, 2019
A thirty-one-year-old man who was brought to court after he wounded a man during a fight over chicken, must now fork out hundreds of dollars to the st...
From the Courts
May 17, 2019
A young man was given the chance to turn over a new leaf last week, the Court of Appeal effectively freeing him from the shackles he was supposed to b...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
May 7, 2019
The Rapid Response Unit (RRU) hauled a Rose Hall resident and the 169 pounds of marijuana which he was alleged to have had in his possession before th...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts, Front Page
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 ...
From the Courts
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 ...
From the Courts
April 18, 2019
A prisoner who beat a fellow inmate, causing him to become paralysed from the chest down, has been sentenced to eight years incarceration. Yesterday, ...
From the Courts
April 18, 2019
Two men, who committed the same crime of stabbing a man with switch blades will both be incarcerated, but the sentence of one will more than double th...
From the Courts
April 12, 2019
FOUR MEN have been convicted for having in their possession over 2000 pounds of cannabis. Last Friday, Danile Baptiste, 39 of Petit Bordel; Denzil Sam...
From the Courts
April 12, 2019
TWO OTTLEY HALL residents, including one recently charged with unlawfully discharging a gun at policemen, have been brought to court charged for posse...
From the Courts
April 12, 2019
A MAN claiming to be in process of securing a traditional cultivator’s licence was given bail in relation to 5,054 g of cannabis, while his story is b...
From the Courts
April 9, 2019
Bail has been set at $15,000 for two men from Ottley Hall who are facing numerous cocaine related charges. Junior ‘South’ James, a dock worker and Jos...
From the Courts
April 5, 2019
PERSONS WHO DID not take up the government’s tax amnesty offer in 2018 may soon find themselves before the local courts on tax evasion charges. Speaki...
From the Courts
April 5, 2019
A “HOT TEMPERED” “braggadocious” resident of Layou who stabbed someone three times because he looked at him, was given a 13-year prison sentence last ...
From the Courts
April 5, 2019
A MOTHER accused of locking her children in the house, after which an inferno blazed through taking the life of her youngest, will stand trial at the ...
From the Courts
April 5, 2019
FOR PERMANENTLY disabling a bus conductor in their attempt to take his life, two brothers will be incarcerated for close to 13 years. Kevin Chance and...
From the Courts
April 2, 2019
The court has found that there are no rules prohibiting persons from taking a photograph of their ballot in the voting booth. Voter Deryck Smart has f...
From the Courts
April 2, 2019
In 2012, at Layou, Andy ‘Ginger’ Quashie walked up to the man who had called him a “pussy” as he lay wounded on the ground, and, using a shotgun, he e...
From the Courts
April 2, 2019
The court has found that there was no breach of secrecy at the polls in 2015, but noted that even if there had been, this breach could not invalidate ...
From the Courts
April 2, 2019
Last year, MASSY Supermarket’s “No vending no loitering sign” was plucked by a protesting 17-year-old vendor; an action costing the teenager a crimina...
From the Courts
April 2, 2019
Love has been lost between two relatives, and the police called in, after one stole $600 from the other. On March 20, Tracey McKenzie of Fitzhughes ga...
From the Courts
March 29, 2019
It is not every breach that results in an election being invalidated. This was the ruling of Justice Stanley John on the concerns raised surrounding t...
From the Courts
March 29, 2019
The court has found that the claim that ballots used in the 2015 general elections were pre-printed with the official mark and issued by the Superviso...
From the Courts
March 29, 2019
A man who was on remand for nearly 11 years for the vicious murder of a 73-year-old retired librarian, will spend another 13 years imprisoned. Junior ...
From the Courts
March 29, 2019
The Ottley Hall teenager shot dead by police earlier this month has been laid to rest, but his family’s questions surrounding his death have not. Alwy...
From the Courts
March 26, 2019
The cost that the petitioners are to pay to the respondents in the recently completed Election Petitions case will be substantial. Last Thursday, Just...
From the Courts
March 26, 2019
A Barrouallie van driver has been made to pay over $700 for making a river in Layou his trash can. Gideon Nash, the managing director of Nature Care S...
From the Courts
March 22, 2019
The court can find no evidence to support the major issues raised by the petitioners and canvassed during the trial, Justice Stanley John declared bef...
From the Courts
March 22, 2019
A man with 27 previous convictions is set to spend another stint in prison, probably the longest yet, at 24 years, after he attempted to murder his ex...
From the Courts
March 22, 2019
Last Monday, police arrested and jointly charged Curlene Fraser, a 38-year-old manager of South Rivers and Raphika Burnette, a 40-year-old senior cler...
From the Courts
March 22, 2019
A case in which a man killed his common law wife by reckless driving, leaving their three children motherless has been described by the judge as “trag...
From the Courts
March 22, 2019
Three men will no longer have to answer to a charge of stealing $320,000 worth of items from Kendra’s Aluminum, but instead, a reduced sum of $85,722....
From the Courts
March 19, 2019
For displaying “very bad judgment” in concealing $110,000 of stolen cash, a duo could not escape jail time. Kenetta James, a mother of Chateaubelair, ...
From the Courts
March 15, 2019
For robbing a supermarket of $42,000, a Questelles resident has lost his freedom for the next 23 years. Allan Wilson was sentenced last Friday at the ...
From the Courts
March 15, 2019
For the abduction of his common law wife and forcing her to go to a mountain where he raped her, a Questelles man will spend two decades behind bars. ...
From the Courts
March 15, 2019
Bail in the sum of $40,000 with one surety has been allowed at the High Court for Eunice Dowers (née Armachi) with reporting conditions on Mondays and...
From the Courts
March 15, 2019
The investigation launched into an incident in which a police officer is seen in a video hitting a man on the head with a police baton is still ongoin...
From the Courts
March 15, 2019
A 22-year-old resident of Diamond has been charged with the shooting murder of a Victoria Village resident. Alison Soleyn was brought before Chief Mag...
From the Courts
March 8, 2019
The Respondents have asked the judge to reject the evidence of a witness which the lead counsel for New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Lauron Baptis...
From the Courts
March 8, 2019
Evidence submitted on the issue of breach of secrecy must be accepted by the court, as the respondents have not responded to the claim. This is the po...
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THE MOTHER of Shamarie ‘Boy Boy’ Baptiste, a 22-year-old Vincentian footballer who was shot dead earlier t his week in the Federation of St Kitts and ...
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April 24, 2026
VINCYMAS 2026 will be graced with a presentation of seven holidays that are currently observed by Vincentians. This is the focus of the production of ...
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April 24, 2026
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