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February 12, 2010
A major embarrassment was averted when the quick action of members of the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force prevented a prisoner from ...
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February 12, 2010
The Preliminary Inquiry into the stabbing death of Komer ‘Crampy’ Cyrus got off to a shaky start this week with a number of witnesses for the pros...
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February 12, 2010
If you enjoy smoking weed in public, the Bay View Car Park is not the place to be.{{more}} A number of drug related cases heard at the Serious Offence...
That does get me vex
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February 12, 2010
What gets Chief Magistrate Sonya Young ‘vex’ is when a defendant comes to her court and says that he or she is committing a crime to support his o...
Morris gets twelve years for manslaughter
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February 12, 2010
ANSHANNA MORRIS may now be able to overcome the demons that haunted her when she was a free woman.{{more}} The self-professed drug addict and prostitu...
Man gets 20 years for the death of his mother
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February 12, 2010
When Carlysle Collis could not get his cutlass, he broke into the house of his wheelchair bound mother and savagely beat her to death.{{more}} For his...
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February 12, 2010
Romano Hunte will be sentenced on a count of manslaughter the next time he appears at the High Court.{{more}} Hunte, 21, of Ashburton, was charged wit...
Judge worried about maddening use of guns
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February 12, 2010
High Court judge Justice Frederick Bruce-Lyle is concerned about the use of firearms in this country. “My worry is about the maddening use of firear...
Lovelace stalls sentencing
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February 12, 2010
Whether or not Patrick Lovelace undergoes a psychiatric evaluation, he will be sentenced come February 19, 2010.{{more}} At the scheduled sentencing f...
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February 5, 2010
Uroy Robertson was warned by Chief Magistrate Sonya Young not to come back to court. He, however, returned to the Serious Offences Court on Wednesday,...
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January 29, 2010
Uroy Robertson will re-appear at the Serious Offences Court on February 2 to answer to a gun possession charge. The 21-year-old Ottley Hall/Evesham la...
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January 29, 2010
Jemark Jackson and Kemron McDowall were wrongfully arrested. During cross examination in the matter of the alleged police assault on Jemark Jackson, D...
Who hit ‘Parch Nuts’?
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January 29, 2010
No one, least of all the three police officers charged with assaulting him, seems to know how Jemark ‘Parch Nuts’ Jackson sustained injuries on No...
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January 22, 2010
Grenadian Errol Carion migrated to St. Vincent in search of a better life, if not necessarily a law abiding one.{{more}} After pleading guilty to poss...
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January 22, 2010
January 19, 2010, marked the official start of the Criminal Assizes at the High Court. Included among the 55 cases down for hearing are 21 murder tria...
Henry pleads not guilty to discharging firearm
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January 22, 2010
Mwata Kambuai Henry is expected to reappear at the Serious Offences Court today for bail review.{{more}} Henry, 17, was brought before the court on Mo...
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January 22, 2010
Come February 5, Patrick Lovelace will be sentenced for Lokisha Nanton’s murder. {{more}} Justice Frederick Bruce-Lyle made the announcement on Tues...
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January 22, 2010
Nigel “Third World” Regisford will spend the next two and a half years at her Majesty’s Prison after being convicted on gun and ammunition charg...
Man blames drug possession on unemployment
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January 15, 2010
Dennis Benn’s excuse for transporting marijuana for someone is that he can’t find a legitimate job. His excuse, however, did not do any good. It o...
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January 15, 2010
Time is of the essence for Dickson Village resident Anthony Joseph.{{more}} Joseph, who pleaded guilty on Monday at the Serious Offences Court to poss...
Drug certificate is enough, says Magistrate
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January 15, 2010
Even though the marijuana samples which were to be tendered into evidence have yet to be found, Chief Magistrate Sonya Young found that the certificat...
Alexander to stand trial for John’s murder
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January 8, 2010
Murder accused Michael Alexander has been committed to stand trial before judge and jury at the High Court.{{more}} Alexander, a fifty-five year old r...
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January 8, 2010
A Sandy Bay man was remanded after he was charged with the theft of over sixty thousand pounds worth of cash and jewelry.{{more}} Twenty-seven year ol...
Grant gets three months for stealing from yacht
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January 8, 2010
A man whose actions have been detrimental to the Tourism industry of St. Vincent and the Grenadines has been sent to jail.{{more}} Chief Magistrate So...
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December 30, 2009
Jerry Lewis was granted $10,000 composite bail for wounding and other charges when he appeared at the Serious Offences Court on Monday.{{more}} Lewis,...
Prison sentences for ganja possesion
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December 30, 2009
Devorn Jacobs will have to spend the New Year behind bars as he was sentenced to one year in prison for marijuana possession.{{more}} Magistrate Zoila...
Criminal Assizes on a Christmas break
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December 23, 2009
What may be considered a grueling Criminal Assizes came to a close on Friday, December 18, at the High Court in Kingstown.{{more}} Although the length...
Woodley, Bain await sentencing
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December 23, 2009
Murder convicts Webster Woodley and Grenadian Sheldon Bain will have to wait until the January Criminal Assizes to be sentenced.{{more}} The two, who ...
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December 18, 2009
Perhaps Lamont Lescott didn’t get the memo that lightening does not strike twice in the same place.{{more}} Lescott, 26, of Old Montrose stole one s...
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December 18, 2009
Denver Oliver told Chief Magistrate Sonya Young that the only reason he took Walter Saunders’ cellular phone was because he did not return with the ...
Man vacations behind bars
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December 18, 2009
American national, Jarod Arbritton only intended to spend two days of his vacation here. Unfortunately, he ended up spending his entire holiday in pol...
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December 18, 2009
Since October 5, 2009, four accused persons were freed of murder charges, owing to insufficient evidence against them, or technicalities.{{more}} Juni...
David to stand trial for Ashley Warren’s murder
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December 18, 2009
Colin David will appear at the High Court before a judge and jury to answer to the charge of murdering Ashley “Semore” Warren.{{more}} The Long Wa...
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December 11, 2009
Junior David, who had been charged with the murder of Ashley “Semore” Warren, was discharged when he appeared at the Serious Offences Court on Mon...
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December 11, 2009
11.DEC.09 A forty-five-year-old Vincentian man has been sentenced to serve six years at the Bordelais Correctional Facility in St. Lucia, starting on ...
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December 11, 2009
Peter Lee Frederick told Chief Magistrate Sonya Young that it was his drunken stupor that made him break the law. Frederick, 25, labourer of Barrouall...
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November 27, 2009
Two men appeared in court this week on charges related to the appearance of two women, Keishell Patterson and Latoya Fredericks, who were charged with...