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PI begins in Union Island drug bust
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November 10, 2015
The preliminary inquiry into charges brought against Union Island residents Benjamin Harvey and Vincent Dember began at the Serious Offences Court yes...
Men charged with 10,892 grams of cocaine
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November 10, 2015
Junior Gomez, a 26-year-old farmer of Trinidad and Tobago and 41-year-old Gabrielle Hutchins, a chef of Bequia, appeared before the Kingstown Magistra...
Sheldon Bain freed of two murder charges
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October 30, 2015
Convicted murderer Sheldon ‘Dutch’ Bain has been freed of two murder charges here.{{more}} On October 22, 2015, at the High Court’s Criminal Ass...
Lowmans Leeward resident guilty of manslaughter
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October 30, 2015
Lowmans Leeward resident Roderick Alexander will be sentenced on November 30 for causing the death of David “Dave” Williams, 35, cart operator of ...
Richland Park woman acquitted of murder
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October 30, 2015
Joyce Bobb will spend her Christmas holidays a free woman. Unfortunately, she will have to visit her common-law husband in jail.{{more}} The Richland ...
David acquitted of murder charge for second time
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October 30, 2015
For the second time in two years, Collin ‘Cocoa’ David has been cleared of a charge of murder. The most recent instance came on Thursday, October ...
Juveniles hauled before courts
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October 6, 2015
A 15-YEAR-OLD boy was granted bail today when he appeared in the District “C” Magistrates’ Court in Barbados, charged with criminal damage and a...
91 matters set for hearing at Criminal Assizes
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September 25, 2015
A total of 91 matters are set for hearing during the September 2015 Criminal Assizes, at the High Court in Kingstown. Of that figure, the office of th...
Cordice to stand trial for murder of uncle
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September 22, 2015
Harold Cordice will be tried before a judge and jury at the High Court for the murder of his uncle, Grafton Cordice. Harold was committed on Friday, S...
Thomas charged for murder of Caine
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September 18, 2015
A third man has been charged in connection with the murder of Alington Caine. Ekron Thomas, 32, an extension officer of Ashton, Union Island, appeared...
Two charged in SVGCC vault heist
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September 18, 2015
Kamorni Antoine, the man who last Sunday, returned to St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) from Barbados after police issued a wanted notice for him, h...
Football coach nursing severe burns after attack
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September 15, 2015
Up to press time yesterday, former national football defender Wesley ‘Butu’ Charles was still nursing severe burns about his body at the Milton Ca...
John acquitted of gun possession charge
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September 15, 2015
Campden Park resident Tywon John walked away from the Serious Offences Court a free man last Friday, September 11, after a decision by the prosecution...
‘I was set up’- Fisherman of the Year
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September 11, 2015
Senior prosecutor Adolphus Delpesche said the police erred in their investigation in the case where a marijuana possession charge was brought against ...
Chinese national placed on bond for wounding
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September 4, 2015
Ming Ping He, a 21-year-old Chinese national who resides in St Vincent and the Grenadines, was on Tuesday, September 1, placed on a bond at the Kingst...
Green Hill man  jailed for drugs
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September 4, 2015
For the next 12 months, 22-year-old Green Hill resident Kyle Small will call prison his home. Small, who was charged on three separate counts of posse...
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September 1, 2015
A Grenadian national will be sentenced on Thursday, September 3, after pleading guilty on two separate counts of possession of cannabis and entering t...
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September 1, 2015
Amanda Mason has been told to stay out of trouble for the next year, if she wants to avoid going to prison for six months. The 21-year-old fish vendor...
Bequia man fined $4,800 for drug possession
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September 1, 2015
A Bequia resident was fined $4,800 last week Tuesday at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court for having marijuana and cocaine in his possession. Police ...
Jacobs jailed for four months for stealing cognac
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September 1, 2015
A Lowman’s Hill resident will spend the next four months in jail after pleading guilty to stealing a bottle of Hennessy Cognac. Magistrate Carla Jam...
Argyle man involved in car chase with police
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August 25, 2015
Last Friday night, officers of the Rapid Response Unit (RRU) were involved in a car chase and had to fire shots to get a driver to stop so that his ve...
Post office marijuana export case thrown out
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August 25, 2015
Michelle Davis, a 45 year-old resident of Harmony Hall, who had been charged with attempting to export marijuana through the St Vincent and the Grenad...
Police mum on charge against Pastor Daniel
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August 25, 2015
Police remain tight-lipped as to why a charge of driving without a licence, which had been brought against pastor Errol Daniel was withdrawn at the Ma...