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‘Dinky’ walks free
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August 7, 2009
The remaining charge of possession of ammunition without a licence brought against Cameron “Dinky” Balcombe, New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate ...
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July 31, 2009
An Ottley Hall man will spend the next year and a half within the confines of Her Majesty’s Prisons, after being found guilty of gun possession.{{mo...
Ex-Sergeant pleads for psychological help
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July 31, 2009
An ex-Sergeant of the Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force is claiming that he resigned from the local Constabulary because of lack of sup...
Bajan pleads guilty to cannabis possession
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July 31, 2009
Barbadian national, Kevin Williams, was lucky to be freed of an ammunition charge at the Serious Offences Court. However, fellow countryman Edward Gib...
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July 31, 2009
Five men are now out on bail after being brought before the Serious Offences Court on Wednesday this week, charged with relieving a St Lucian man of E...
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July 31, 2009
At the close of the Criminal Assizes earlier this week, the count at Her Majesty’s Prisons stood at 395.{{more}} The figures presented by Chief Pris...
‘Dinky’ awaits his fate
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July 31, 2009
Declared candidate for the New Democratic Party (NDP) in the next general elections, Cameron “Dinky” Balcombe, has to wait until August 5, 2009, t...
Barbadian sentenced to 25-years for murder
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July 31, 2009
Anderson Williams’s track record certainly did not help him at his sentencing hearing at the High Court. As a teenager, the Barbadian was already a ...
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July 24, 2009
Senior Magistrate Donald Browne is impressed with the attire of several minibus drivers and complimented them on being “fairly well dressed.” Thes...
Barbadian to learn his fate
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July 24, 2009
Next Tuesday, July 28, is the date when Barbadian, Anderson Williams will learn his fate. Williams, 28, was convicted on March 9, 2009, for the murder...
Teenager guilty of gun and ammo possession
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July 24, 2009
Leonist Sam has become the poster child for what is going wrong in society. This was expressed by lawyer Vynette Frederick mitigating on Sam’s behal...
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July 17, 2009
Members of the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines have again been commended for their hard work during the carnival season.{{more}} Addressing the m...
Life imprisonment for killing wife
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July 17, 2009
Rudolph Lewis will have a lifetime to reflect on the fact that he killed his common law wife.{{more}} Lewis, who was convicted on May 18, 2009 for the...
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July 3, 2009
A 25-year-old Redemption Sharpes man is lucky to be alive, following a shooting which took place in that area over the weekend. {{more}} Elson Richard...
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July 3, 2009
Friends and family of the late Pasty Bowman will have to wait until Tuesday, September 1, 2009, for a possible conclusion of the Coroner’s Inquest i...
Dyer sentenced to eight years
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July 3, 2009
On two different occasions, jurors failed to decide the fate of murder accused Jamal Dyer. And having already spent several years on remand, Dyer coul...
DPP upset over Privy Council’s ruling
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July 3, 2009
No one may ever pay the ultimate price for committing a murder in St. Vincent and the Grenadines once the Privy Council remains this country’s highe...
Frederick: Shut up!
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June 26, 2009
As the Patrick Lovelace murder trial continues at the High Court, emotions were vented last Thursday, June 18, 2009. Lawyer for Lovelace, Bayliss Fred...
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June 26, 2009
The next time the Court of Appeal sits in St Vincent, 67-year-old Cyril DaSilva will appeal his 12-year prison sentence. The South Rivers man was impr...
PI into Clouden’s death begins
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June 26, 2009
The Preliminary Inquiry into the death of Shereen “Tiny” Clouden of Edinboro began last Friday at the Serious Offences Court.{{more}} The Prosecut...
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June 26, 2009
As Lokeisha Nanton took her last breaths while she hanged helplessly from a mango tree, Romona Caruth was there to hear her last request.{{more}} “R...
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June 19, 2009
One of the men named on St Vincent’s list of most wanted criminals was granted bail on Wednesday, June 17, at the High Court in Kingstown.{{more}} J...
Who is representing Patrick Lovelace?
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June 19, 2009
After much debate at the High Court earlier this week between defence and prosecution as to who represents murder accused Patrick Lovelace in his re-t...
Henry charged with indecent assault
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June 19, 2009
Frances Henry, a 46-year-old resident of New Chapmans has been charged with indecently assaulting a 15-year-old girl. Henry pleaded not guilty when he...
Ambris gets 8 years for ‘Poison’ killing
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June 19, 2009
For the next eight years, Devon Ambris will call Her Majesty’s Prison, home! The 18-year-old former student of the St Martin’s Secondary School, w...
Bowman’s Coroner’s inquest continues
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June 19, 2009
19.JUNE.09 by Omesha Spence Four more witnesses were brought forward on Wednesday, June 17th, to testify in the Coroner’s inquest into the death of ...
Police Inspector Nigel Butcher attacked
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June 19, 2009
Two Barrouallie men are counting their lucky stars that they are alive and well, after they attacked an armed Inspector of Police last Sunday in Kings...
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June 12, 2009
A 43-year-old Lowmans Windward man who says he is addicted to marijuana has been fined $150 for feeding his habit. Chief Magistrate Sonya Young gave A...
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June 12, 2009
A charge brought against a fourth form student of the St Vincent Grammar school for wounding his classmate may well end up being settled out of court,...
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June 12, 2009
The languishing of convicted persons awaiting sentencing at Her Majesty’s Prisons could constitute grounds for appeal for Lawyers, says High Court J...
Bacchus: ‘Police presence an overkill’
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June 12, 2009
Local police are being accused of taking security “too far” when escorting Dexter Chance and two other men. The three men were on Friday, June 5th...
Three Vincentians to be extradited
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June 12, 2009
The three Vincentian men wanted in British Virgin Islands (BVI) to face cocaine importation charges have been committed to be extradited - but the mat...
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June 5, 2009
Dan Butler has to spend the next six months in jail for stealing two goats. A resident of Diamonds, Butler pleaded guilty to stealing two ewe goats be...
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June 5, 2009
Mecca Earp, an 18-year-old woman of Green Hill, was highly peeved when police officers confiscated her marijuana, so she cursed them. For her actions,...
Teacher sentenced  to 12 years
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June 5, 2009
Grantley Adams, former Chemistry lecturer at the St Vincent and the Grenadines Community College, has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for havi...
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June 5, 2009
A labourer of Stubbs is now on remand at Her Majesty’s Prison for causing the death of his fellow villager, Hughes “Reddings” John.{{more}} Murd...
Mother charged for  setting daughter on fire
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June 5, 2009
Valcina Ollivierre, 29, of Glen, was remanded to this country’s lone female penitentiary after being charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on...
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June 5, 2009
A 16-year-old boy is now out on $7,000 bail after pleading not guilty to a gun possession charge. Kenroy McBarnette of Georgetown was charged with hav...
9 years for theft  and trespassing
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June 5, 2009
Desmond Baptiste will spend the next four years of his life in prison after he pleaded guilty to stealing over $5,000 worth of goods and trespassing. ...