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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...
Man found not guilty on charge of assault
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August 18, 2015
After four adjournments and the seizure of his travel documents, Michael Dabreo was found not guilty of an assault charge that had been brought agains...
Belmont resident fined $294 for avocado theft
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August 14, 2015
It was only after Ranzo Lee realized that he was about to be arrested for stealing 147 avocados that he did what he should have done in the first plac...
Businessman sues client for damage to rental
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August 11, 2015
Ex-police officer George Fraser left the Kingstown Magistrate’s court content last Thursday, after successfully suing a client of his rental car bus...
Edinboro man pleads not guilty to burglary
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August 11, 2015
An Edinboro resident will return to court this Friday to answer the charge of burglary with intent to commit the offence of theft. Dexter Richardson, ...
Cart man jailed for theft
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August 7, 2015
“This is a case where the defendant bit the hand that feeds him.” This remark was made by prosecutor at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court, police...
Kingstown resident begs to go to jail
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August 7, 2015
Kingstown resident Joel Garrick seemed in quite a hurry to be taken to prison after he was sentenced earlier this week. “I war go jail, I war go jai...
Man, 60, reprimanded,  discharged for drugs
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July 21, 2015
A 60-year-old man yesterday got off with a slap on the wrist after pleading guilty to possession of 700 grams of marijuana.{{more}} The Campden Park r...