From the Courts
January 17, 2012
The Preliminary Inquiry into the murder of Ernesto âSpidermanâ Neptune will continue on January 23 at the Serious Offences Court.{{more}} The matt...
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January 17, 2012
Questelles resident Brent Hackshaw was granted $5,000 bail after pleading not guilty to stealing several pieces of audio equipment.{{more}} He appeare...
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January 13, 2012
Greiggs resident Aubrey Wilson will stand before a judge and jury at the next practical sitting of the Criminal Assizes to answer to the murder of his...
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January 10, 2012
Lesroy Samuel has been jailed for one month for providing the police with a false name.{{more}} When police met Samuel and two other men in a car with...
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January 10, 2012
A Vincentian national is among five men charged with possession of 10,000 grams of cured cannabis following a drug bust on Friday, January 6, 2012 in ...
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January 6, 2012
Andre Small, a 48 year-old Carpenter of Glen, has been remanded in custody after being charged with attempted murder.{{more}} Small appeared at the Se...
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January 6, 2012
Chief Magistrate Sonya Young has committed murder accussed Susan Garraway to stand trial at the High Court.{{more}} Garraway, of Fairbaine Pasture, wi...
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January 6, 2012
The St Vincent and the Grenadines Court of Appeal has dismissed a motion brought forward by Kent Andrews, Winston Robinson and Antonio âQue Pasaâ ...
From the Courts
December 30, 2011
Sion Hill resident Albert Edwards will return to court on May 31, 2012, having been charged with two counts of robbery.{{more}} He appeared at the Ser...
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December 30, 2011
St Lucian national Frances Charles was given his marching orders on Wednesday, this week, after pleading guilty to entering these shores illegally.{{m...
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December 30, 2011
Bolivian national, Ivan Allegier told Chief Magistrate Sonya Young that when the police nabbed her in Layou, she forgot she had 192 grams of cannabis ...
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December 30, 2011
Dean for the Richmond Vale Academy Stina Herberg has condemned the act of one of her former students, Bolivian national Ivan Allegier for being in pos...
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December 30, 2011
The preliminary Inquiry into the murder of Kevin âBreadâ Toby got underway at the Serious Offences Court earlier this week.{{more}} Asquith John o...
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December 22, 2011
With the exit of remanded prisoner Lisa Ballantyne, the number of persons housed at Her Majestyâs Prisons at the end of the 2011 criminal assizes dr...
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December 22, 2011
The efforts of the officers, men and women of the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force did not go unnoticed by Justice Frederick Bruce-Ly...
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December 20, 2011
Fri, Dec 20. 2011 A legal move by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) delayed yesterdayâs sentencing of admitted drug trafficker...
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December 20, 2011
The 2011 criminal assizes is expected to come to a close today, one day behind schedule.{{more}} An unforeseen delay pushed the close of the High Cour...
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December 20, 2011
Naphtali Diaz, the young man from Paulâs Avenue, who in a recent interview with SEARCHLIGHT claimed that he had paid his debt to society and that po...
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December 9, 2011
Campden Park resident Gordon Lavia was granted $15,000 bail after pleading not guilty to gun and ammunition possession.{{more}} Lavia appeared before ...
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December 6, 2011
A LIAT pilot has admitted smuggling Bds$130,000 worth of marijuana into Barbados in exchange for a fraction of that amount.{{more}} But, in addition t...
From the Courts
November 29, 2011
A British man was allowed to go free from the Serious Offences Court on Friday, November 25, after it was discovered that Immigration officials brough...
From the Courts
November 29, 2011
Chief Magistrate Sonya Young will rule on a no-case submission, put forward by the defence, when the matter concerning Antonio âQue Pasaâ Gellizea...
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November 29, 2011
Tue, Nov 29. 2011 Careless in applying for status and careless in taking care of her child.{{more}} That was how Barbadian Magistrate Graveney Bannist...
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November 29, 2011
Many persons gathered at the Serious Offences Court on Friday November 25, laughed when Jamaican national, Clyde Shakes, was charged for importing can...
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November 29, 2011
A prisoner who was on remand at Her Majestyâs Prison on a murder charge, died at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital on Friday, November 25, a senior ...
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November 25, 2011
Jeff Toney, a 24 year-old labourer of Belmont, was granted $8,000 bail after pleading not guilty to gun possession.{{more}} He appeared before Chief M...
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November 25, 2011
Campden Park resident Andy Acosta is now out on $13,000 bail after pleading not guilty to gun and ammunition possession charges on Monday, November 21...
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November 25, 2011
Kay Bacchus-Browne, attorney for death row inmate Shorn Samuel, wants to have medical experts for both the crown and defence present in court so that ...
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November 25, 2011
A retrial has been ordered in the case in which Webster Woodley and Sheldon Bain were found guilty of the murder of taxi operator Peter Joseph.{{more}...
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November 25, 2011
Gareth McDowall, one of three Vincentians who were recently found guilty of smuggling 59 kilos of cocaine into Tortola, was, on November 15, 2011, sen...
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November 22, 2011
A 21-year-old labourer of Simon has been charged with causing the death of Seraft âChronicâ Trumpet of Long Wall/ Cane Garden.{{more}} Appearing a...
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November 15, 2011
Ten witnesses are expected to give testimony in the matter in which Godwin Moses and Tameka Sutherland stand accused of the murder of Steveon Springer...
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November 15, 2011
Georgetown resident Glenford Gill was granted $12,000 bail after pleading not guilty to possession of a Smith and Wesson .44 magnum revolver, on Novem...
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November 15, 2011
Petit Bordel resident, David Frederick, was yesterday sentenced to five years imprisonment, after being found guilty of possession of 18 pounds of coc...
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November 15, 2011
For repeatedly hitting his ex-girlfiend in the head with a hammer, then smashing her knees with the same hammer, exposing the bone,{{more}} High Court...
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November 11, 2011
Resident High Court Judge Frederick Bruce-Lyle is baffled as to what is going on with young men in St Vincent and the Grenadines.{{more}} The outspoke...
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November 11, 2011
Three men appeared in court on Friday, November 4, on separate charges of unlawful sex.{{more}} Raffique Ragguette, 31, labourer of Largo Heights, was...
From the Courts
November 11, 2011
Standing calmly in the defendantâs dock, with his hands at his side and a nonchalant look on his face, Edward Taylor looked directly at the judge as...
From the Courts
November 11, 2011
McCarthy âDJâ Patterson was denied bail and remanded in custody when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Sonya Young at the Serious Offences Court...
From the Courts
November 4, 2011
A 26 year-old labourer of St Lucia/Carriere has been remanded in custody after being charged with stealing and carrying away a seven-year-old in Febru...
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November 4, 2011
Omri Enroy Lavia, 32, was on Monday, October 31, jailed for 15 years for having sex with a five year-old girl.{{more}} The man, who hails from Petit B...
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November 4, 2011
Ten witnesses have already given testimony in the case where Lodge Village resident Edward Taylor stands accused of the attempted murder of Cleophus L...
From the Courts
October 28, 2011
For the next 15 years, Her Majestyâs Prison will be the mailing address of Stevenson Moses.{{more}} Moses, 32, of Fair Hall, was slapped with two 15...
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