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February 6, 2009
A Chateaubelair father is wondering why his 12-year-old daughter is being put through the criminal system over a fight that occurred between herself a...
Lavia fined $5000 for cannabis possession
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February 6, 2009
Viclene Matthews 06.FEB.09 Senior Magistrate Donald Browne fined Levi Lavia $5000 forthwith or two years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty on Tuesd...
Murder convict appeals
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February 6, 2009
Murder convict David Roberts will have to wait until the next sitting of the Court of Appeal to have his case heard.{{more}} Appearing on Monday, Janu...
Belle found guilty of J’ouvert shooting
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February 6, 2009
Jariel Belle was found guilty earlier this week at the High Court on a wounding with intent charge.{{more}} On Tuesday this week, after nearly three h...
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January 30, 2009
Jam making and asthma were the excuses brought before the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on Monday, January 26, when two persons, among others, were c...
Child abductor gets  9 months off jail time
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January 30, 2009
After admitting that he has a problem and needs professional psychiatric help, nine months of Myron Brazel’s four-year prison sentence was shaved of...
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January 30, 2009
Senior Magistrate Donald Brown commended the police on the execution of their job in light of several drug possession charges brought to his court on ...
Soufriere drug raid, 5 arrested
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January 30, 2009
An early morning raid of the Soufriere Hills by police last Sunday, January 25th, resulted in five men being arrested and a large quantity of marijuan...
Bajan ordered to pay for drugs
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January 30, 2009
Barbadian national, Clarence Watkins was fined $250 when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Donald Browne on Wednesday at the Kingstown Magistrateâ€...
23 year old to be tried for infant’s murder
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January 23, 2009
When the next sitting of the criminal assizes comes around, Georgetown resident Zannel Iton will be facing a jury of his peers to answer a charge of m...
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January 23, 2009
Osmond Barnwell is counting his lucky stars that he was not sent to jail.{{more}} Magistrate Zoila Ellis- Browne fined Barnwell $250 to be paid in one...
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January 23, 2009
A Puerto Rican man who removed safety equipment from a LIAT plane on which he was a passenger was convicted by a Magistrate in St. John’s, Antigua, ...
Guilty plea, robber gets twelve years in prison
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January 23, 2009
As police officers led Carlson Charles away to prison, it was clear that he did not agree with Justice Gertel Thom’s decision to send him to Her Maj...
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January 23, 2009
The Georgetown MagistrateS Court had a break from its normal routine on Monday, January 21, when a woman fainted while in the witness box.{{more}} Swi...
Robber tells man ‘call me’
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January 23, 2009
After breaking and entering the home of an elderly man and learning that he had no money, Zecho Miller gave the victim his cellular phone number to co...
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January 23, 2009
Franklyn Bailey’s job was to help safeguard against thieves, instead he was the one who was caught stealing. Justice Gertel Thom, on Monday January ...
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January 23, 2009
Will the community of Redemption Sharpes ever return to being the peaceful, quiet community that it once was, or would the violence and crime in the a...
Three to be sentenced for  Western Union robbery
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January 23, 2009
Two Grenadian nationals: John Raymond and Sabrina Phillips, along with Vincentian Aaron Francois, should have already been sentenced at the High Court...
Lewis fined $2500 for weed
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January 16, 2009
Marijuana has now replaced money as a form of legal tender, or so it seems.{{more}} Esmond Lewis, 38, a labourer of New Chapmans Village, was fined $2...
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January 16, 2009
It was a case of reversed roles at the Serious Offences Court on Tuesday, as a pair of fathers shed tears for their teenage sons who were facing jail ...
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January 16, 2009
The preliminary inquiry into the death of 18-month-old Jaden Commissiong continued this week, with evidence given by a number of officials for the pro...
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January 16, 2009
Stanley Joseph will spend the next two months behind bars for stealing a plastic drum.{{more}} The London, Sandy Bay, resident pleaded guilty before M...
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January 16, 2009
On Monday at the Serious Offences Court, Johnney Andy Corridon, a 24-year -old labourer of Edinboro was fined $500 forthwith after he pleaded guilty t...
Inmate seeks medical attention
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January 16, 2009
High Court Judge Justice Gertel Thom has asked prison authorities to see that double accused murderer Paul Spence receive medical treatment after he c...
Teen pleads guilty to gun possession
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January 16, 2009
Even though Brian Samuel told the court he had no knowledge of a gun police found at his home, that, however, did not stop from him pleading guilty to...
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January 16, 2009
Over 60 cases, including 15 murder matters, are down for hearing at the January Criminal Assizes, which began on Tuesday, January 13, 2009, at the Hig...
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January 9, 2009
Twenty-seven-year-old pregnant Chateaubelair resident Kenlyn Scotland has one month to come up with $350. Failure to do so would result in her spendin...
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January 9, 2009
A 20-year-old man of Gomea who on Tuesday was remanded to her Majesty’s Prison on gun charges will have to wait until March 30, 2009, for the Prelim...
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January 9, 2009
A Trinidadian national will reappear at the Serious Offences Court today for sentencing on a cocaine charge.{{more}} Phillip Girod, 27, Mason, of Trin...
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January 9, 2009
Twelve days after a motor vehicle accident claimed the life of 19-year-old Layou resident Carlos George, the driver of the vehicle in which he was tra...
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January 2, 2009
Four witnesses have already given evidence in the Preliminary Inquiry in a shooting incident that occurred at Argyle on January 12, 2008.{{more}} Amon...
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January 2, 2009
A 16-year-old youngster has been arrested and charged for having in his possession an unlicensed firearm.{{more}} On Monday, December 22, 2008, Queenâ...
Two stand accused for Richards’ death
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January 2, 2009
The Preliminary Inquiry into the death of Edgerton Richards Jr began on Monday, December 22, 2008, at the Serious Offences Court.{{more}} The Prosecut...