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...
From the Courts
July 6, 2018
A cheerful defendant has proven the truth of the expression “honesty is the best policy”, after getting out of the trouble he landed in when he was sp...
From the Courts
July 6, 2018
“I could never understand the young men of 2018,” Senior Magistrate Rickie Burnett stated, when a 24-year-old appeared before him on a charge of illeg...
From the Courts
July 3, 2018
A 20-year-old woman caught at the wharf carrying marijuana and cocaine to Canouan barely escaped prison yesterday. Britney Williams of Choppins was br...
From the Courts
July 3, 2018
It is said that you should choose your friends wisely, a lesson one Rosebank resident learnt the hard way after narrowly dodging a four-year prison se...
From the Courts
July 3, 2018
The state must not prostitute itself where it concerns cocaine, pleaded the Prosecution last week, right before a man was fined and confined for posse...
From the Courts
June 29, 2018
The decision in the case where a woman is charged with threatening the life of a journalist has been pushed back. Not yet ready to give his decision o...
From the Courts
June 29, 2018
The gavel was brought down on a schizophrenic man convicted of killing his friend by hammer this week, along with a sentence of five years imprisonmen...
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December 19, 2025
PRIME MINISTER of St Vincent and the Grenadines (VG), Dr. Godwin Friday, has encouraged youth to participate in the festivities. Dr. Friday was the fe...
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December 19, 2025
MEMBERS of the Traffic department won the Police Carolling Contest for the third consecutive year on Friday, December 12, 2025, at the Central Police ...
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December 19, 2025
WHENYOU DONATE blood, you not only help to save a life, you are given a full medical check-up that is beneficial. Nurse Rachael Greaves, who draws blo...
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December 19, 2025
VICE PRESIDENT OF the National Society for Persons with Disabilities (NSPD),Terrance Davis has expressed gratitude for all the donations that the orga...
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December 19, 2025
MINISTER OF FAMILY, Gender Affairs, Persons with Disabilities, Occupational Safety and Labour Laverne Gibson-Velox, is urging people to report cases o...
