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August 20, 2010
Senior Magistrate Donald Browne says he is concerned by the number of foreigners coming to St Vincent illegally.{{more}} Browne made his feelings know...
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August 20, 2010
An office attendant at KELECTRIC Co. Ltd has been released on $20,000 bail after being charged with fraud.{{more}} Fransilma Durrant, who is still bei...
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August 20, 2010
A 14-year-old boy of Paul’s Avenue got so angry after a woman called him a homosexual that he attacked her with a pair of scissors.{{more}} The boy ...
Grenadian gets three months custodial sentence
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August 20, 2010
Before Grenadian Devon Chitan is deported to his homeland, he will first have to serve a three-month custodial sentence at Her Majesty’s Prison.{{mo...
Roberts  sentenced to five years in prison
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August 20, 2010
Bernard Roberts is now into the fourth day of his five-year prison sentence, following conviction on felony gun and ammunition charges.{{more}} Senior...
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August 13, 2010
As the curtains came down on the Criminal Assizes of the High Court last Friday July 30, the prison count at Her Majesty’s Prison stood at 399, an i...
Magistrate  warns men not to hit women
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August 13, 2010
Senior Magistrate Donald Browne has once more made it clear that any man appearing before him charged with “beating” women will be sent to jail.{{...
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August 6, 2010
New Grounds labourer, Othneil Joseph is currently out on $55,000 bail after pleading not guilty to possession of a controlled substance.{{more}} Josep...
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August 6, 2010
Mayjulia Browne has three months to come up with $15,000 or he will go to prison for 12 months.{{more}} Browne, 32, a fisherman of Chateaubelair, appe...
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August 6, 2010
Two Bequia residents were spared a jail sentence after they pleaded guilty to stealing over $6,797.92 worth of items from a Boutique belonging to Ange...
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July 30, 2010
Lawyers who filed an injunction in a bid to prevent publication of the Constituency Boundaries Report signed on July 9, 2010,{{more}} yesterday respon...
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July 23, 2010
Zuri Reid and Lesroy Sergeant will return to the Serious Offences Court on Monday, July 26, 2010, for bail review.{{more}} Reid, 28, Shipping Agent, o...
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July 23, 2010
By the time Damien Bristol is released from prison, he will be almost 36 years old.{{more}} High Court Judge, Frederick Bruce-Lyle on Tuesday this wee...
Dominican Republic national deported
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July 23, 2010
A Dominican Republic national was deported on Tuesday at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court after he pleaded guilty to entering these shores illegally...
Trinidadians nabbed in major drug bust
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July 23, 2010
Two Trinidadians are said to be warded at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital nursing gunshot wounds,{{more}} two more are on remand at Her Majesty’s ...
Cocaine confiscated at E.T. Joshua Airport
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July 20, 2010
Green Hill resident, Bernard Andrew Morris will reappear at the Serious Offences Court on Monday{{more}} July 26, 2010 to answer cocaine possession ch...
Mapp gets three years for gun, ammo possession
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July 16, 2010
David Mapp was sentenced to three and a half years in prison this week after he pleaded guilty {{more}} to gun and ammunition possession at the Seriou...
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July 13, 2010
Lowmans resident Carlos Shepherd will have his day in Court on September 23, 2010 to answer a number of drug charges against him.{{more}} Shepherd app...
Georgetown man caught with firearm
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July 13, 2010
David Mapp will learn his fate today when he reappears at the Serious Offences Court to answer gun and ammunition charges.{{more}} Mapp, a resident of...
Bacchus – ‘Que Pasa’ to take the stand
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July 13, 2010
Defense lawyer Kay Bacchus-Browne has signalled her intentions to call Anthony “Que Pasa” Gellizeau and Commissioner of Police Keith Miller to tes...
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July 9, 2010
Dennis Niles told Chief Magistrate Sonya Young he was only walking around Kingstown on Carnival Tuesday with a knife in his waist because he wanted to...
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July 9, 2010
One would have thought that the Serious Offences Court would be bursting at its seams with offenders on Wednesday morning, the day after Carnival. Thi...
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July 9, 2010
Acting Police Commissioner of Trinidad and Tobago, James Philbert, is showering high praises on the Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force f...
Nichols gets 12 years in prison
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July 9, 2010
A Kingstown Park man was sentenced to 12 years in prison last week at the High Court’s Criminal Assizes.{{more}} Swann Nichols pleaded guilty to wou...
DeRoche remanded for death of common law husband
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July 2, 2010
Nicole DeRoche, 29, a supervisor, is now on remand at this country’s female penitentiary charged with the stabbing death of her common law husband, ...
Scott charged with gun, ammo possession
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July 2, 2010
A Trinidadian national who came to these shores illegaly will appear before the Serious Offences Court today, Friday, on gun and ammunition possesion ...
Vincentians nabbed in Montserrat drug bust
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July 2, 2010
Five Vincentian nationals are currently detained in Brades, Montserrat, after they were arrested in connection with a large seizure of drugs on Friday...
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June 25, 2010
Counterfeit Eastern Caribbean dollars as well as Barbadian dollars are being circulated on the market.{{more}} On Saturday, June 19, 2010, the son of ...
Three Sharpes men on murder charge
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June 25, 2010
Three young men from Redemption Sharpes are now on remand at Her Majesty’s Prison for causing the death of Esron “Banks” Ells. The men{{more}}: ...
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June 18, 2010
Eleven witnesses have already given testimony at the Preliminary Inquest into the shooting deaths of three men at Vermont, which happened on May 21, 2...
Trio loses extradition appeal
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June 11, 2010
Following a decision by OECS Court of Appeal earlier this week, lawyers for Dexter Chance, Gareth McDowall and Carlos Sutherland have given notice tha...
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June 4, 2010
Jason Lawrence was earlier this week released on $70,000 composite bail after pleading not guilty to the possession of over 143 grams of cannabis, amo...
Franklyn’s sentence stands
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June 4, 2010
Alwill “Will” Franklyn’s hopes of having time shaved off his six-year sentence for robbery and assault were dashed when he appeared before the j...