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Moore walks free, Bess to stand trial
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October 9, 2009
One man walked free, while another was committed to stand trial earlier this week for causing the death of Sherene Clouden on December 8, 2008.{{more}...
‘Tombstone’ sentenced to 7 years
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October 9, 2009
Alister “Tombstone” Smith will not be able to deceive anyone in the very near future. On Friday, October 2, at the High Court in Kingstown, Presid...
Deptor Culzac’s case  dismissed from court
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October 2, 2009
Murray Village resident Deptor Culzac, who claimed that he was beaten by police, had the charges against him dismissed when he appeared at the Kingsto...
Convict sentenced  to 67 years in prison
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October 2, 2009
Her Majesty’s Prison is so familiar to Kentish Campbell that when he was sentenced to 67 years by the High Court, he showed no emotions. He’s alre...
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October 2, 2009
Malcolm Pollin did not want to go back to prison. His numerous pleas, however, did not stop Chief Magistrate Sonya Young from sentencing him to five m...
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October 2, 2009
A Calder resident has been charged with wounding Nigel “Third World” Regisford. Wynard Mapp, 24, a labourer, appeared in the Serious Offences Cour...
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September 25, 2009
Prosecutors in the High court are bracing themselves for what looks like a lengthy Criminal Assizes with a total of fifty-nine matters down for hearin...
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September 25, 2009
The young man who was charged with the death of West St. George student David Glenn will face trial at the High Court.{{more}} Romano Hunte, a 21-year...
Layou man pleads not guilty to 10 charges
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September 25, 2009
A Layou resident is facing charges of creating and using false cheques worth over $6,000.{{more}} Udorick Watson faced a total of ten charges when he ...
Green on murder charge
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September 25, 2009
Shuni Greene was charged with murder when he appeared at the Serious Offences Court on Tuesday.{{more}} Greene, 28 of Mount Grenan was previously char...
Naptali Diaz goes all legal at High Court
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September 25, 2009
The fluency with which prisoner Naptali Diaz used legal jargon left lawyers and fellow prisoners with gaping jaws and broad smiles earlier this week.{...
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September 18, 2009
A 15-year-old student was remanded into custody when he pleaded guilty to two charges of burglary.{{more}} The boy appeared at the Kingstown Magistrat...
Remanded for gunfire
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September 18, 2009
Alvin Antrobus was remanded into custody when he appeared at the Serious Offences Court on Monday 14, 2009.{{more}} Antrobus, 23, a resident of Redemp...
Suspended for gun and ammo
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September 18, 2009
A 17-year-old, who had been charged with ammunition possession was given a suspended sentence, but placed on a dusk-til-dawn curfew and ordered to per...
Man on bail for theft of cheques
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September 18, 2009
Two men charged with the theft of US $2,100 worth of traveller’s cheques and over US $400 in cash were released on $10,000 bail last Thursday.{{more...
Training for investigators
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September 18, 2009
Attorney General Judith Jones-Morgan believes more has to be done to develop the skills, knowledge, and techniques of police investigators in the gath...
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September 11, 2009
Two men accused of stealing five 50 watt street lamps from the St Vincent Electrical Services Ltd (VINLEC) valued at $2949.79 were hauled before the K...
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September 11, 2009
Michael Bobb, a labourer of Canouan, was granted $8,000 bail when he appeared at the Serious Offences Court on Tuesday.{{more}} Bobb, 27, also of Park...
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September 11, 2009
When Natellia Muckett appeared at the Serious Offences Court on Monday, she was charged with marijuana possession, but Chief Magistrate Sonya Young wi...
Bullock  on drug charge
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September 11, 2009
Fifty-nine-year-old Annis Bullock was described by her lawyer as being an “old, sick, diabetic, crazy woman” when drug possession charges were bro...
Otis Shearman to pay for cocaine
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September 11, 2009
Otis Shearman will have to come up with $1,200 in one month if he is to avoid spending time in jail. Shearman, of Calliaqua, was jointly charged with ...
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September 4, 2009
Ottley Hall resident Enrico Johnny will re-appear in court today in a second attempt to obtain bail.{{more}} The 19-year-old labourer first appeared a...
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September 4, 2009
Evesham resident Richard Durrant will re-appear in court on October 29 to answer gun and ammunition charges.{{more}} On Monday August 31, Durrant, 22,...
Bowens sentenced to 3 years in prison
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September 4, 2009
Karon Bowens’ address for the next three years, will read - Her Majesty’s Prison.{{more}} Bowens, 18, a labourer of Ottley Hall, pleaded guilty on...
Patricia Marks  called to bar
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September 4, 2009
Patricia Perlitha Marks, daughter of Patrick and Pearline Marks of La Croix, was called as a Barrister at Law and Solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean S...
Police officer’s licence suspended
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September 4, 2009
The officer who was driving a police vehicle that struck eight year-old Myesha Williams while she was on a pedestrian crossing had his driver’s lice...
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August 28, 2009
A man who said he only gave his five-year-old son three lashes for disobeying him, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and bodily harm on Tuesday, A...
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August 28, 2009
The Republic of China on Taiwan has been of tremendous help to St Vincent and the Grenadines over the years, and one man set out to jeopardize all tha...
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August 21, 2009
For the next year, two Glamorgan residents will have to steer clear of the law if they are to avoid going to prison.{{more}} Steven Williams, a mini-b...
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August 21, 2009
Persons employed at Randy’s Supermarket were extra vigilant over the last weekend, and as a result caught two men in the act of shoplifting.{{more}}...
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August 21, 2009
Ezekiel Crook surely lived up to his surname at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on Monday, August 17.{{more}} The dishonest man of Arnos Vale plead...
Prison for repeated theft
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August 21, 2009
Raphael Hutchins can hardly control his demons, and it is quite evident from his laundry list of criminal convictions.{{more}} Little over a week afte...
Remand given for wounding
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August 21, 2009
A Kingstown Park man is now on remand at Her Majesty’s Prison after being hauled before the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on a wounding charge.{{mo...
Claxton deported back to St. Lucia
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August 21, 2009
Senior Magistrate Donald Browne believes that most illegal immigrants come to St. Vincent and the Grenadines for one thing only, and that is for marij...
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August 14, 2009
As part of the bail conditions set out by Senior Magistrate Donald Browne, a young man accused of stealing a quantity of items must find himself in ch...
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August 14, 2009
Criminals continue to find ingenious ways to conceal controlled substances. This time, Rapid Response Unit officers discovered 12.5 pounds (5,675 gram...
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August 14, 2009
Persons caught with marijuana continue to give Chief Magistrate Sonya Young the same excuse. “It is for asthma”.{{more}} Clint Miller only added t...
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August 14, 2009
All sorts of bizarre reasons have been given in court for the use of marijuana, not so much for cocaine. All that changed on Monday at the Serious Off...
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August 7, 2009
Superintendent of Police, Horace Williams, only managed to recover a bottle of cologne and some After Shave lotion, after a 14-year-old boy burglarize...