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June 5, 2009
Come June 17, five more witnesses will take the stand to give testimony against murder accused Leslie Ashton. Ashton, 28, of Largo Heights, was charge...
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June 5, 2009
Neville Edwards will spend the next twenty-two months in jail. Edwards, 26, a resident of Greggs, was charged with having in his possession a .25 semi...
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June 5, 2009
Audie Orlando John said that he was only trying to defend himself from the blows being meted out to him by the public. That excuse, however, did not p...
22-year-old gets 25 years for murder
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June 5, 2009
By the time Luke Williams finishes serving his 25-year prison sentence, he will be 47 years old. Presiding judge, Justice Gertel Thom, imposed the hea...
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May 29, 2009
Chief Magistrate Sonya Young on Monday this week advised Desmond Grant to be careful about how he disperses his seed. Grant, a labourer of Barrouallie...
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May 29, 2009
The Police Constable who allegedly stabbed his girlfriend has been charged. Ramon Grant of Queen’s Drive appeared at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Co...
18-year old pleads  guilty to manslaughter
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May 29, 2009
June 5, 2009, will be the date when Devon Ambris will be sentenced for causing the death of Fitzroy “Poison” Browne. However, he will not be sente...
Three more witnesses  for Coroner’s inquest
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May 29, 2009
Approximately three more witnesses, including a Meteorologist from the Meteorological office, a person from the Planning Unit and the investigating of...
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May 22, 2009
When his brother-in-law made numerous threats to his family, ransacked his house and set the curtains on fire, Rawlston Williams took the law into his...
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May 22, 2009
A sixteen-year-old boy was remanded in custody after he pleaded not guilty to having in his possession a .38 Smith and Wesson revolver.{{more}} Kenroy...
10 years for manslaughter
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May 22, 2009
A 25-year-old resident of Old Montrose has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for manslaughter. On Tuesday May 19, 2009 at the High Court in King...
Tobago  man fined  for cocaine
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May 22, 2009
Nigel Mundy, a Tobago resident will have to pay $5,000 to avoid spending one year in jail. Mundy, 31, was charged with the importation and possession ...
Man guilty of killing common-law wife
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May 22, 2009
Rudolph Lewis was convinced that his common-law wife was cheating on him, so he killed her. Lewis, 29, of Questelles was found guilty on Monday, May 1...
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May 15, 2009
Alwyn Johnson will spend the next three years of his life confined to Her Majesty’s Prison, after he pleaded guilty to having unlawful sexual interc...
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May 15, 2009
A naked intruder, who had his penis squeezed by a woman after breaking into her house, was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment last Thursday, May 7th, ...
Where is Bridgewater?
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May 15, 2009
Where is the man who is charged with causing the death of Patrice Bascombe? That was the question on everyone’s mind at the commencement of Criminal...
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May 15, 2009
Dennis Richardson’S only experience of Carnival this year will be last weekend’s launch. On Monday, he was sentenced to three months in jail for p...
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May 15, 2009
Melecia Shallow, a 24-year-old pregnant landscaper, pleaded guilty to having in her possession 738 grams of cannabis with intent to supply to another ...
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May 8, 2009
The modern trend of young men wearing baggy trousers below the waist is getting under the skin of Senior Magistrate Donald Browne.{{more}} On Monday M...
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May 8, 2009
When a 44-year-old man defecated close to where some men were cooking, Desley Harry got annoyed and gave him a sound beating.{{more}} On Monday May 5,...
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May 8, 2009
Twenty-one murder trials are set for hearing at the May Criminal Assizes at the High Court. Those matters headline the list of fifty-three criminal ca...
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May 8, 2009
For the next year, Brian Sergeant will have to walk the straight and narrow path. If not, he risks spending six months in jail.{{more}} Senior Magistr...
Man narrowly escapes jail
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May 8, 2009
A 23-year-old Barrouallie man was earlier this week spared a prison sentence thanks to the vigilance of a police prosecutor.{{more}} Carlson Hannaway ...
Dwayne Jacobs –   A thief with taste
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May 8, 2009
Dwayne Jacobs has fine taste when it comes to liquor. So much so, he saw it fit to steal a bottle each of Hennessy and Courvoisier from Coreas valued ...
Man charged with Murder
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May 8, 2009
Kendal “Crabby” Glasgow, a labourer of Chapmans Village was remanded to Her Majesty’s Prison on Monday May 4, charged with murdering Grenadian, ...
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April 30, 2009
August Stapleton, a 40-year-old labourer of Rose Hall was fined $1,000 at the Serious Offences Court on Monday April 27, after he pleaded guilty to po...
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April 24, 2009
Edinboro resident Harris Grant was granted bail in the sum of $11,000 after pleading not guilty to possession of one .25 pistol and four rounds of .25...
Former Bajan Coast Guard officer walks
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April 24, 2009
Sheldon Norville Mitchell, a former Sub Lieutenant in the Barbados Coast Guard, walked away from the Serious Offences Court a free man on Friday, 17th...
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April 24, 2009
When 22-year-old Shaniqua Roberts attempted to perform a favour for her boyfriend and take weed to Kingstown for someone, she was only doing it out of...
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April 24, 2009
Nine men who are alleged to have had sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13 were on Friday, April 17, 2009, granted bail in the sum of $15...
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April 24, 2009
Yet another defendant facing drug charges is claiming to have found the controlled substance.{{more}} Kenroy Roberts, a Questelles resident, told Chie...
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April 17, 2009
The Susan Alexander of Barrouallie who was fined at the Serious Offences Court on marijuana possession on March 31, 2009, is not the 38-year-old Susan...
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April 17, 2009
Norrel Rogers, 28, a mini-bus conductor of Petit Bordel, was fined $8000 at the Serious Offences Court on Wednesday, April 15, 2009, after pleading gu...
Bartering: One shot gun, two years
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April 9, 2009
Four years ago Alston Harry bartered marijuana for a shotgun. Now, that shotgun has cost him two years of freedom.{{more}} On Tuesday, April 7, 2009, ...
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April 9, 2009
The Serious Offences Court has sentenced Terrence Francois, one of three Trinidadian men nabbed last week in a major drug bust at Morne Ronde.{{more}}...
CCTV might soon be allowed in court
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April 9, 2009
Video footage from Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) surveillance cameras may soon be admitted as evidence in the Law courts here in St Vincent and the...
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April 9, 2009
Susan Alexander has one month to come up with $1,500 or she risks going to prison for three months.{{more}} The 38-year-old Barrouallie resident plead...
Mother freed, son still charged
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April 3, 2009
A no-case submission, upheld by Chief Magistrate Sonya Young on Wednesday April 1, 2009, at the Serious Offences Court, saw Ophelia Roberts walk free ...
John welds his way to prison for attemped rape
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April 3, 2009
Despite a plea for leniency by Sebastian John’s Lawyer and a promise to change his ways, Justice Gertel Thom sentenced the 38-year-old man to seven ...