From the Courts
September 11, 2018
‘Fish’ and another were snagged on charges involving a gun last weekend, and were ordered to be incarcerated until the end of the week. Kimron ‘Fish’ ...
From the Courts
September 11, 2018
Yesterday, the court tipped its hat in recognition to the officer who discovered cocaine buried in a Bequia man’s cap. Kevon Stowe, 31 years, came und...
From the Courts
September 7, 2018
A 21-year-old will return to court on September 24 to answer two charges for which he has pleaded not guilty. Jervany Baptiste appeared at the Serious...
From the Courts
September 4, 2018
The Traffic Department is asking that heavy fines be imposed to mark the seriousness of the offence of playing unauthorized loud music in vehicles. On...
From the Courts
September 4, 2018
One man’s belief that “police stop lock up man for small spliff” landed him at the Serious Offences Court to answer to the charge of possession of a c...
From the Courts
August 31, 2018
Various measures should be put in place to veer persons away from a life of crime and rehabilitate those already in the prison system. This is the vie...
From the Courts
August 31, 2018
Seventeen-year-old Timothy Nickie has been charged in relation to a series of serious crimes committed over the past month. On August 28, police arres...
From the Courts
August 31, 2018
After spending two weeks in prison, a reportedly abusive husband was sure that he didn’t want to go back. David Bascombe pleaded guilty two weeks ago ...
From the Courts
August 28, 2018
For the two 16 year olds charged with ‘stealing and carrying away’ four women, more charges were piled on last Friday. As five further charges were ha...
From the Courts
August 28, 2018
A man who was brought to court to be charged with wounding a Barrouallie man last Thursday has been sent to the Mental Health Centre (MHC). Leonard Bu...
From the Courts
August 24, 2018
Two teenage boys were brought to court on Thursday charged with stealing and carrying away four women on August 17. Dale Hooper and Ozem Oliver, both ...
From the Courts
August 24, 2018
For stealing items that belong to the governments of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), and the Republic of China (ROC), a 19-year-old must spend th...
From the Courts
August 24, 2018
A young man of Georgetown has been charged with the murder of Ian Garfield Enoch. Anwar Jack, 24, was brought to the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court unde...
From the Courts
August 21, 2018
After revealing everything to the police, an ‘honest’ Barbadian was charged with conspiracy to traffick drugs last week. Timothy Bancroft pleaded guil...
From the Courts
August 21, 2018
A hard headed young defendant went back for round two, securing his second conviction within a year for stealing liquor from supermarkets last Friday....
From the Courts
August 21, 2018
Teen girls escape armed abductors The bravery of one young woman and the actions of a man may have saved the life of four teenagers who were robbed an...
From the Courts
August 21, 2018
According to one accused, it was Satan and not he who had an appetite for avocadoes and breadfruit that do not belong to him. Winston ‘Uncle Duck’ Hor...
From the Courts
August 17, 2018
A man who assaulted his wife of 15 years will spend the next two weeks in prison while the magistrate reflects on what would be an appropriate sentenc...
From the Courts
August 17, 2018
The court battled on how to sentence cases of domestic abuse this Monday, as a defendant pleaded guilty to harming his long-time spouse. He need warni...
From the Courts
August 14, 2018
One defendant made more of an impression in court yesterday than others, especially as he was charged with mouthing off to the Commissioner of Police....
From the Courts
August 14, 2018
In order to keep a 54-year-old defendant away from the property of a 94-year-old woman, the court has built a barrier of a ninth month prison sentence...
From the Courts
August 14, 2018
A Trinidadian man says that his mother paid $15,000 to send him to St Vincent, after he was unwillingly dragged into the middle of a gang war back hom...
From the Courts
August 10, 2018
A Prosecutor lost his temper with a defendant with over 90 charges of fraud to his name, during court last week, telling him that he was a “wicked and...
From the Courts
August 10, 2018
For a Grenadian national, trouble grew out of his ‘hasty’ packing, and he was brought from the airport to the court for possessing marijuana. Lucas Cr...
From the Courts
August 10, 2018
After spending a day in jail, one defendant decided he would rather not, but failure to remain free has resulted in another conviction. Colin Blake wa...
From the Courts
August 3, 2018
Nearly 50 years into his life, a 48-year-old fell back into thievery after abstaining for over a decade, and now he will spend nine months atoning for...
From the Courts
August 3, 2018
After a long conversation with the law, Grenadian defendant Ronel Redhead jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire, with the result being his de...
From the Courts
July 27, 2018
The four in a joint enterprise to rob the Russell’s Cineplex felt the sting of their operation on July 12, 2018, with the highest jail sentence handed...
From the Courts
July 24, 2018
A defendant, known as ‘Yam Head’, objected to going to the Mental Health Centre (MHC) again, due to, according to him, a lack of quality provisions th...
From the Courts
July 24, 2018
A Vincentian/Canadian woman who was earlier last week charged with damaging the property of the Argyle International Airport(AIA), was freed of all ch...
From the Courts
July 24, 2018
After going into a supermarket at mid-afternoon to buy bread, a 23-year-old had no excuse in court, not even a half-baked one, for stealing a bottle o...
From the Courts
July 20, 2018
A man’s lack of remorse before the court inspired no sympathy in return, the judge increasing the sentence from the norm. Matthew Quashie was sentence...
From the Courts
July 20, 2018
A lawyer arguing his client’s poor choice of friends and a 10-year hiatus in crime, was able to knock jailtime out of the equation for cocaine possess...
From the Courts
July 17, 2018
Damaging a door at the Argyle International Airport(AIA) certainly put a dent in one Vincentian/Canadian’s plans to leave, as she was hauled before th...
From the Courts
July 17, 2018
A man who told Senior Magistrate Rickie Burnett that it was because he was “seriously” hungry that he grabbed a woman’s bag and ran was told that he w...
From the Courts
July 17, 2018
A broken kitchen knife lying in evidence, and a former college student alleging that it was used by the young woman opposite her to cut open her lip. ...
From the Courts
July 13, 2018
Police are seeking clues in relation to the death of a man who was gunned down at Lower Bay Street on J’Ouvert morning. Akeem ‘Tallman’ Bess of Ottley...
From the Courts
July 13, 2018
Shanet Williams of Layou was reprimanded and discharged after being found guilty of threatening the life of journalist, Lyf Compton. Williams was char...
From the Courts
July 13, 2018
A 40-year-old man who apparently found a firearm but did not hand it in, now finds himself having to spend the next four years in prison. While many w...
From the Courts
July 13, 2018
A Rose Place man has an alibi of being on the beach during the night time burglary of C D Veira Ltd (Singer), but he has no other witness but the ocea...
From the Courts
July 13, 2018
It is a serious offence to give contradictory statements as a witness in a court matter, but Zarri Layne was never asked why he changed his story befo...
From the Courts
July 6, 2018
A police officer was on Wednesday charged before the court with assault. Clive Francois was charged with on November 17, 2017, in Campden Park, assaul...
From the Courts
July 6, 2018
A Campden Park teen on an attempted murder charge has been granted bail in the sum of $30,000. Keithon James, 19 years, was charged before the Serious...
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