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...
From the Courts
June 29, 2018
Someone stole alcohol and more than $6,000 worth of items from a church, but the two men brought before court said it wasn’t them. Jamello Williams an...
From the Courts
June 26, 2018
Defendant Jovika Gaymes
From the Courts
June 22, 2018
THE COURT WILL rule next week if a young woman is guilty of threatening a journalist’s life. Shanet Williams of Layou is charged that on October 20, 2...
From the Courts
June 22, 2018
Roommate troubles found their way into the court this week, having reached criminal levels. Nimrod Walters, the defendant, a 52-year-old man, had been...
From the Courts
June 19, 2018
A van conductor who was found guilty of assaulting a fifth form student of the Girls’ High School has been warned to leave people’s children alone. Th...
From the Courts
June 19, 2018
After a stern warning from the Chief Magistrate on the deadly effects of cocaine, a Langley Park man barely survived the possibility of jail last week...
From the Courts
June 12, 2018
Uroy Lewis
From the Courts
June 12, 2018
Jamaire ‘Shabba’ Lowmans
From the Courts
June 5, 2018
The prosecutor, defence and Chief Magistrate, in a rare turn of events, all came together in support of a matter raised at the Serious Offences Court ...
From the Courts
May 29, 2018
Two men walked out of court yesterday, for the first time in seven months not handcuffed to each other, after 10 charges of attempted murder and a mur...
From the Courts
May 29, 2018
Petit Bordel is now a smaller place for Margaret ‘Old Girl’ Smith, who has been ordered to have no contact with a fellow villager, whom she allegedly ...
From the Courts
May 25, 2018
For committing acts of gross indecency and indecent assault against a child that is about one sixth his age, a Canouan man will be locked away for 18 ...
From the Courts
May 22, 2018
Bail will not be available to the alleged cutlass wielding attacker of a young woman living in Petit Bordel, until the young woman successfully underg...
From the Courts
May 22, 2018
A man charged with possession of ammunition and a pistol now has a female co-accused, who is far from happy about her situation. Tambu Patrick, 35 yea...
From the Courts
May 22, 2018
Ahkino Rhynd, a 32-year-old labourer of Canouan was arrested and charged last Friday with Gross Indecency and Indecent Assault. According to a police ...
From the Courts
May 22, 2018
One of the men present at a mass shooting incident at Diamond last October has told the court that he does not want to proceed with the case surroundi...
From the Courts
May 22, 2018
The Vincentian-Canadian whose stay, with no pay, at the Mariners Inn was cut short and resulted in a conviction, has been forgiven of two other charge...
From the Courts
May 22, 2018
A farmer of Campden Park and a fisherman of Clare Valley have been arrested and charged with drug trafficking and drug possession. According to a poli...
From the Courts
May 22, 2018
Alarmed at a police officer finding marijuana in his crotch, a Barrouallie man chose to follow his flight instinct, which unfortunately took his charg...
From the Courts
May 18, 2018
A short preliminary inquiry into an alleged attack at Campden Park, involving a cutlass wound to the back of the head, ended in the defendant being se...
News
October 10, 2025
Gabriel ‘Webb’ Smart informed the Cabinet on Wednesday, October, 1 2025, that he does not want a full time job with the Ministry of Agriculture. He re...
News
October 10, 2025
Criminals attempting to move between the four Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries that from this month began allowing the unrestricted movement of...
News
October 10, 2025
For the first time, the Division of Technical and Vocational Education (DTVE) of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Community College (SVGC), has recor...
From the Courts, News
October 10, 2025
A Largo Height man was ordered to compensate his sister $2,500 after he smashed her washing machine because the noise bothered him. Kenton Harris appe...
News
October 10, 2025
Seventy-five young Vincentian farmers are receiving training courses in smart agricultural techniques through the Embassy of the Republic of China on ...
