From the Courts
February 26, 2019
For a rape which resulted in the hospitalization of a 12-year-old virgin, a former van conductor has been jailed for 13 years and four months. Josiaah...
From the Courts
February 26, 2019
While pursuing a fugitive last Tuesday, two police officers ended up in the line of fire. Yesterday, Ottley Hall resident, 26-year-old Attiba Best, wa...
From the Courts
February 26, 2019
Police are estimating 644 pounds of marijuana allegedly found in the possession of three men at Fancy Point, to be worth 1.73 million dollars in stree...
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February 16, 2019
On Friday, the respondents in the elections petitions case survived an application by the petitioners, which would have cut their witness list down si...
From the Courts
February 15, 2019
A summons had to be issued yesterday for the final chief witness in petitioner Lauron Baptiste’s case to appear in court. On the fourth day of the pet...
From the Courts
February 14, 2019
Wednesday saw polling agents from the Central Leeward constituency giving testimony on behalf of petitioner Benjamin Exeter, following which the case ...
From the Courts
February 13, 2019
Day two of the election petitions case saw the 2015 New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for Central Leeward, Benjamin Exeter, as well as lawyer Shirl...
From the Courts
February 12, 2019
Maia Eustace, daughter of the former Leader of the Opposition, took the stand on the first day of the trial looking into the elections petitions yeste...
From the Courts
February 8, 2019
Three men who worked as employees of the Brewery were convicted and fined last Thursday for stealing six cases of Hairoun beer from their workplace. S...
From the Courts
February 8, 2019
A former magistrate thinks that Magistrate Bertie Pompey was well within his right when he went to the Questelles Police Station to lift a bench warra...
From the Courts
February 5, 2019
Allan Wilson was convicted at the High Court last week for robbing a C K Greaves employee of $42,000, which belonged to the company,He was unanimously...
From the Courts
February 5, 2019
A labourer on the ‘Gem Star’ ferry became the third person to be charged within a month for possession of over 1000g of cocaine. Godwin Mitchell, a re...
From the Courts
February 5, 2019
Cellphone credit of nearly $14,500 is alleged to have been stolen from Digicel by a Walvaroo resident. Andy Baptiste, who, at the time of the crime, w...
From the Courts
February 5, 2019
Yesterday at the High Court, a 37-year-old was found guilty of four charges, including the abduction and rape of his common law wife. The defendant, o...
From the Courts
February 1, 2019
Two St Vincent and the Grenadines natives have been charged in Antigua in connection with the recent seizure of more than $1 million worth of compress...
From the Courts
February 1, 2019
Patrons of the music festival in Bequia have been denied some prime Vincentian ganja, if the defendant in a matter before the court is to be believed....
From the Courts
January 29, 2019
After being given the gift of freedom last week Monday, a Redemption Sharpes resident repeated the same crime for which he had been pardoned that very...
From the Courts
January 29, 2019
A Lowmans Windward woman was arrested over the weekend, and charged three times in relation to over 1000 g of cocaine. Suranie Graham of Lowmans Windw...
From the Courts
January 29, 2019
A 39-year-old was brought before the court yesterday for trespassing on his ex-girlfriend’s property with the intent to annoy. After four years in a r...
From the Courts
January 25, 2019
FOR HANDLING some of $110,000, stolen from the Georgetown branch of GECCU in 2013, a male and female defendant were found guilty by a jury this Wednes...
From the Courts
January 22, 2019
Two defendants, each accused of murdering a woman, in circumstances which are both particularly cold, were arraigned at the High Court last week Tuesd...
From the Courts
January 22, 2019
For her attack on a 61-year-old woman, a 54-year-old woman from Barrouallie will feel the consequences through her pocket. Arlene Gaymes pleaded guilt...
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January 22, 2019
After ‘borrowing’ a bicycle without permission, a Bridgetown resident said he “stooled himself” when the police were ‘brought’ for him. Arnell Liverpo...
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January 18, 2019
A 61-YEAR-old woman was attacked with both words and a stone last Friday, when she was called “Knock-ah-koo” and hit in the head with a concrete block...
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January 18, 2019
For the second time in three months, one Paul’s Avenue resident is nursing gunshot wounds at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH). The man, Farax ...
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January 15, 2019
After gallons of paint were stolen from ACE Hardware last week, the police followed the trail to residents of Sion Hill and Vermont, who were charged ...
From the Courts
January 15, 2019
The Chief Magistrate will not preside over the case of a woman who is charged with stealing over $43,600 from the Government of St Vincent and the Gre...
From the Courts
January 15, 2019
A brazen defendant used a shopkeeper’s bathroom visit as an opening to pounce on his cash drawer. Tyson Woods of Dauphine was convicted last week for ...
From the Courts
January 11, 2019
A KINGSTOWN man started his year off on the wrong foot by being imprisoned for six months on Old Year’s Day. Alison Gibson was charged before the King...
From the Courts
January 11, 2019
JUST OVER 20 per cent of the 472 prisoners housed at correctional facilities around the island are being housed there in relation to murder offences. ...
From the Courts
January 8, 2019
A 42-year-old man dug up the skeletons in his closet, or rather the 300 pounds of cannabis under a fishing net for the police in Union Island, and eff...
From the Courts
January 8, 2019
Police have arrested and charged Nicholas Daniel, a 34-year old unemployed resident of Lowmans Hill with the offence of possession of a controlled dru...
From the Courts
January 8, 2019
Police have arrested and charged Iron Stapleton, a 35-year old Labourer of Redemption Sharpes with the offence of Robbery. Stapleton is alleged to hav...
From the Courts
January 8, 2019
Police have arrested and charged Alex Nicholls, a 19-year old Labourer of Barrouallie with the offence of possession of a controlled drug. Nicholls al...
From the Courts
January 8, 2019
Police have arrested and charged Markroy Solomon, a 26-year old Labourer with six counts of unlawful sexual intercourse. Solomon allegedly had unlawfu...
From the Courts
January 8, 2019
Police have arrested and charge Gregory Greaves, a 24-year-old mechanic of Arnos Vale with the offence of possession of an unlicensed firearm. Greaves...
From the Courts
January 4, 2019
AFTER BEING SENT to the Mental Health Centre (MHC) for over a month, Hezekiah Naphtali, who identifies as a Moor, has been found to be of sound mind a...
From the Courts
January 4, 2019
A GUILTY VERDICT was returned on two charges of showing disrespect in speech to the Chief Magistrate Rechanne Browne-Matthias, and three months impris...
From the Courts
December 28, 2018
SOME OF THE Hooper family were resentenced last Monday for offences committed on October 30, 2010, including paralyzing for life student Sweet-I Rober...
From the Courts
December 28, 2018
DEFENDANT, who claims to be a ‘Ralph boy’ was not arrested on Christmas Eve as he ought to have been, in execution of the bench warrant which was in e...
From the Courts
December 28, 2018
TWO YOUNG MEN will be further incarcerated for three years and 11 months for their hand in a 2013 killing in Canouan. Donrick Richards and Imo Miller,...
From the Courts
December 28, 2018
THE VICTIM IN an unlawful sex crime case, who was only 12 years in 2014 when she was raped by two men, one after the other, has forgiven the two perpe...
From the Courts
December 21, 2018
For twice raping his pre-school age niece, a 17-year-old has been sentenced to six years, five months behind bars. The Bequia resident had pleaded gui...
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