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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...
‘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...