From the Courts
October 12, 2012
Up to press time, no one had been charged in connection with a quantity of guns found in the Ottley Hall area on Wednesday.{{more}} Acting on informat...
From the Courts
October 12, 2012
President of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF) Venold Coombs will testify in the Burton Williams court case, on Monday, at...
From the Courts
October 9, 2012
Attorney representing embattled politician Burton Wiliams wants Crown Counsel Colin John to allow his client time to answer questions asked during cro...
From the Courts
October 5, 2012
A St Lucian man who told Senior Magistrate Donald Browne that he came here illegally to see his girlfriend, was on Monday deported back to his country...
From the Courts
October 5, 2012
Sixty-one criminal matters and seven sentencing hearings are set to be heard at the High Courtâs Criminal Assizes.{{more}} The Assizes, which will b...
From the Courts
October 5, 2012
Former health minister and New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate, Burton Williams will return to the Kingstown Magistrateâs Court on Thursday, Octobe...
From the Courts
October 2, 2012
Embattled politician Burton Williams has told the court that in photographs suggesting he used a barricade to ram the main gate to the High Court buil...
From the Courts
September 28, 2012
Calder Ridge resident, Benjamin Hackshaw will have to tread cautiously for the next six months, if he is to avoid going to prison.{{more}} Hackshaw, w...
From the Courts
September 28, 2012
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) is moving quickly to implement an electronic case filing system to deal with the pile up of paper at court ...
From the Courts
September 28, 2012
New Montrose labourer, Devon Ashton will re-appear at the Kingstown Magistrateâs Court on Tuesday to answer drug possession charges.{{more}} On Sept...
From the Courts
September 28, 2012
Four more witnesses are expected to testify today, in a case in which former parliamentarian Burton Williams is being tried at the Kingstown Magistrat...
From the Courts
September 21, 2012
The young man whom a police officer caught attempting to throw a bag filled with marijuana over the prison wall on Monday, was jailed on Wednesday, af...
From the Courts
September 21, 2012
Lawyers, prisoners, police officers and other persons who come before Magistrates in the Magistratesâ Court, will now have to address them as âYou...
From the Courts
September 21, 2012
Barbadians Joel Erad Payne, 50, Shawn Boucher, 36 Ryan Corbin, 35, and Devon Hurdle, 38, will have to wait a while longer before their case is heard a...
From the Courts
September 21, 2012
Despite the worldâs economic challenges being felt by the judiciary across the region, new Chief Justice (Ag) of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court...
From the Courts
September 21, 2012
The increase in the number of criminal matters filed in the courts has propelled the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court to pursue implementing a speciali...
From the Courts
September 21, 2012
Senior Magistrate Donald Browne is calling on the authorities to beef up security for magistrates.{{more}} Browneâs call came earlier this week, whi...
From the Courts
September 21, 2012
Five witnesses are expected to testify against 16-year-old Tywon John, who was allegedly caught with a .38 firearm and six rounds of ammunition on Sep...
From the Courts
September 21, 2012
Newly appointed Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Janice Perreira believes that the time has come for the Bar Association to re-int...
From the Courts
September 21, 2012
Kenny Lewisâ legal woes continue to worsen. Lewis, 20, who is on remand, having been charged with the murder of Uroy âLaybayâ Robertson, appeare...
From the Courts
September 18, 2012
Tue, Sept 18, 2012 A Vincentian man in St Lucia had gun possession and illegal drug charges against him dropped last week Monday, after police there a...
From the Courts
September 18, 2012
New Democratic Party (NDP) Senator and lawyer Vynnette Frederick could spend up to six years behind bars, if found guilty of the perjury charges broug...
From the Courts
September 14, 2012
A Jamaican man has been remanded in custody after police officers nabbed him at the E.T. Joshua Airport on suspicion of possession of cannabis.{{more}...
From the Courts
September 11, 2012
âWhat is going on in SVG?â Magistrate asks The proliferation of illegal firearms in this country has prompted one magistrate to ask the question â...
From the Courts
September 7, 2012
There has been a further delay to the start of the Preliminary Inquiry in the case involving the death of Desmond Jackson.{{more}} Yansen Charles, Jac...
From the Courts
September 7, 2012
Chief Magistrate Sonya Young has upheld a no case submission brought forward by Counsel Andreas Coombs in the case of the death of a former member of ...
From the Courts
September 7, 2012
Calhiff Williams, a 23-year-old resident of New Montrose, should be safe from harm after he was on Tuesday sentenced to a four-year term behind bars f...
From the Courts
September 7, 2012
Three men have been jointly charged with the murder of Joseph âEvansâ Lynch, a 38-year-old fisherman of Layou, who was gunned down last Saturday, ...
From the Courts
September 7, 2012
Getting persons on remand to court on time, particularly those being held at the new Belle Isle correctional facility, is proving problematic.{{more}}...
From the Courts
September 7, 2012
Fri, Sept 7, 2012 Three members of the Barbados Coastguard have been charged with manslaughter in relation to the death of Percival Louie, a 47-year-o...
From the Courts
September 4, 2012
Twenty-year-old Ishmael Jack pleaded with senior magistrate Donald Browne not to send him to prison, saying that he was fed up with the treatment he r...
From the Courts
September 4, 2012
Some changes have been made in the proceedings of all Magistrateâs Courts in the jurisdiction of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in which magist...
From the Courts
September 4, 2012
Philip Bradshaw was reprimanded and discharged from the Kingstown Magistrateâs Court with a stern warning from Senior Magistrate Donald Browne yeste...
From the Courts
September 4, 2012
Police have taken into custody two men that they said fled to the mountains with a shotgun after the shooting death of Evans Lynch, 33, in Layou on Sa...
From the Courts
August 31, 2012
Reynold Young and Mario Davis will have to wait a bit longer to know their fate.{{more}} On Tuesday, Chief Magistrate Sonya Young referred the matter ...
From the Courts
August 31, 2012
Colin Blake, labourer of Georgetown, will spend the next two years behind bars for handling an illegal firearm.{{more}} Chief Magistrate Sonya Young h...
From the Courts
August 28, 2012
Chief Magistrate Sonya Young has said that she intends to look into allegations that the rights of persons on remand at Her Majestyâs Prisons in Kin...
From the Courts
August 24, 2012
A Vincentian man and three St Lucian men were caught in possession of an estimated EC$80,000 worth of marijuana last week in St Lucia, during a random...
From the Courts
August 24, 2012
Ellsworth Williams, a 48-year-old labourer of Campden Park, made his first appearance at the Serious Offences Court on Wednesday, after being charged ...
From the Courts
August 24, 2012
Two women from the Grenadine island of Mayreau have been jailed for their involvement in the theft of a quantity of cash from a yacht moored off the T...
From the Courts
August 24, 2012
Jordon Forde, 18, and Jason Alexander, 25, both labourers of Mayreau, received jail sentences of 11 and six months respectively on Wednesday,{{more}} ...
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