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...
From the Courts
May 18, 2018
By drifting away to Guadeloupe, an old Montrose resident has landed himself in troubled waters, his bail being revoked for a charge of causing death b...
From the Courts
May 18, 2018
The 33-year-old Biabou man who was charged with burning his ex-girlfriend to death last year is to be sent to the High Court to stand trial.This was d...
From the Courts
May 15, 2018
No one was available to bail a woman who was charged for the second time with burning down her family’s home when she came before the Serious Offences...
From the Courts
May 15, 2018
While the prosecution’s case seeks to place a burglary accused under the lights of a Belair house on December 24 last year, he contends he was under p...
From the Courts
May 10, 2018
The preliminary inquiry into an attempted murder charge laid against a common-law couple will start at the end of this month. Gailene Farrell, 53, and...
From the Courts
May 8, 2018
From mangoes to bananas, and possibly five fingers, one man’s fruit thievery has been halted by the court. Alwin Westfield of Rose Place, was charged ...
From the Courts
May 8, 2018
A verbose young defendant tried his best to use words to get a light penalty for the indecent use of other words towards a prosecutor when he came bef...
From the Courts
May 8, 2018
“Thank you very much for charging me with less,” said a self-proclaimed honest man who claimed to be charged with different weed, and less weed than h...
From the Courts
May 1, 2018
IN AN UNUSUAL turn of events, the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court saw a man being brought before it last Friday, for behaviour caused by his state of com...
From the Courts
May 1, 2018
THE RELATIVES OF a man who was killed by police at Gibson Corner on Tuesday April 17 say they do not believe the story that was given to them by law e...
From the Courts
April 27, 2018
A DEEPER EXAMINATION into the mind of a 48-yearold accused, on Tuesday, revealed something sinister lying in the shadows, prompting the Magistrate to ...
From the Courts
April 27, 2018
ONE MANWAS ORDERED to pay for his animalistic behaviour, in delivering three chops to his longtime friend over a disagreement about his dog, at the en...
From the Courts
April 27, 2018
NEARLY THREE MONTHS after he was shot trespassing on the grounds of the Beachcombers Hotel, ‘King Kong’ limped in to court this Wednesday, alongside h...
From the Courts
April 27, 2018
ONE TEENAGER was saved by the bell last Friday as the court debated whether prison or school was the place to send him this week. Douglas Baptiste was...
From the Courts, Searchlight
April 24, 2018
THE BOND BETWEEN two childhood friends withered last Sunday, after one smashed a flower pot on the head of the other. Kwesi Gurley appeared before the...
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A three-member delegation represented St Vincent and the Grenadines at a recently concluded high-level workshop hosted by the Global Water Partnership...
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July 18, 2025
Ferique Shortte, owner and operator of Union Food Processing, a startup business, captured the first-place prize in the men’s empowerment project Busi...
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July 18, 2025
Prime Minister, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, has called for a renewed regional commitment to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Development Fund (CDF), emphasiz...
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The Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is hoping to hold discussions in relation to sharing the benefits derived from the Piarco Flight...
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July 18, 2025
Early childhood educator and creative, Kishan Rodney, is hoping to bring the crown home to St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), when she competes in t...
