From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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 ...
From the Courts
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 ...
From the Courts
May 8, 2009
Kendal âCrabbyâ Glasgow, a labourer of Chapmans Village was remanded to Her Majestyâs Prison on Monday May 4, charged with murdering Grenadian, ...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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, ...
From the Courts
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}}...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
April 9, 2009
St Lucian national Keith Gassie faces 15 months imprisonment if he fails to immediately pay a fine of $10,000 that was handed down by the Serious Offe...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
April 3, 2009
Three Trinidadian nationals will re-appear at the Serious Offences Court on Monday, April 6, 2009, on marijuana charges.{{more}} The trio: Tyrone Cart...
From the Courts
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 ...
From the Courts
April 3, 2009
Despite a plea for leniency by Sebastian Johnâs Lawyer and a promise to change his ways, Justice Gertel Thom sentenced the 38-year-old man to seven ...
From the Courts
April 3, 2009
Two St Lucian nationals have been remanded to her Majestyâs Prison until July 14, 2009, when a Preliminary Inquiry into drug possession charges agai...
From the Courts
April 3, 2009
Less than a month after Senior Magistrate Donald Browne deported 18-year-old Grenadian, Devan Bascombe, he managed to find his way back to these shore...
From the Courts
April 3, 2009
This countryâs prison population now stands at 399. This was the number reported at the closing of the Criminal Assizes on Monday March 30, 2009, by...
From the Courts
April 3, 2009
The issue of bail continues to be a problem at both The High Court and Magisterial levels, and Justice Gertel Thom wants to see a new process for gran...
From the Courts
April 3, 2009
High Court Judge Gertel Thom wants murder cases dealt with more expeditiously at the Criminal Assizes. Justice Thom made her feelings known to Directo...
From the Courts
April 3, 2009
The man who is accused of beheading Aswald âCountryâ Lewis is now on remand at Her Majestyâs Prison after having been charged with murder.{{more...
From the Courts
April 3, 2009
By Omesha Spence 03.APR.09 Everett âFat Headâ Bynoe walked away a free man on Monday, 30 March, 2009, after Chief Magistrate Sonya Young found him...
From the Courts
March 27, 2009
A marijuana farmer will have to pay a $45,000 fine or face three years in prison.{{more}} Kimron Thomas, a 26-year old Electrician from Paulâs Avenu...
From the Courts
March 27, 2009
A mother, who allegedly engaged in a fist fight with her childâs teacher, has been charged with assault.{{more}} Sion Hill resident, Tiffany Smith, ...
From the Courts
March 27, 2009
The next time Rose Hall resident Luke Williams appears in the High Court, he will be sentenced for the murder of his cousin.{{more}} A 12-member mixed...
From the Courts
March 27, 2009
Carmen Small was fined $300 for drug possession at the Serious Offences Court on Monday, 23 March, 2009.{{more}} Small, a resident of Dubois, was foun...
From the Courts
March 27, 2009
Having escaped a manslaughter charge and a possible custodial sentence, 30-year-old Kenliss âStay Coolâ Thomas will now have pay $55,000 in compen...
From the Courts
March 20, 2009
Perchin Williams will have to pay over $13,000 dollars in five months if he wants to stay out of jail.{{more}} Williams, a 31-year-old resident of Geo...
From the Courts
March 20, 2009
Instead of pleading not to be sent to prison, Mark Gumbs did the complete opposite.{{more}} On bended knees with streaming tears, Gumbs, a labourer of...
From the Courts
March 20, 2009
Judy Baptiste admitted to the Serious Offences Court that she only kept marijuana at her home to sell so that she could take care of her nine children...
From the Courts
March 20, 2009
The fate of Luke Williams will soon be decided at the High Court as his murder trial nears an end.{{more}} Williams, a labourer of Rose Hall, stands a...
From the Courts
March 20, 2009
Ten witnesses have already been called to give evidence in the Preliminary Inquiry into the murder of Rakesh Sutherland. Sutherlandâs common-law wif...
From the Courts
March 13, 2009
Even though Junior âZecoâ Pompey has already wiped $2,000 off his debt, he has until September to come up with another $9,000 to avoid going to pr...
From the Courts
March 13, 2009
Another man has been fined for threatening a police officer. On Wednesday at the Serious Offences Court, Chief Magistrate Sonya Young fined Aubrey Ros...
From the Courts
March 13, 2009
Twenty-five-year old Keithlyn Richards, who was being sought by the Police, appeared before the Serious Offences Court on Friday, 6 March, and was cha...
From the Courts
March 13, 2009
Fitzroy Welcome will spend the next three years and eighteen months in prison, after he was found guilty of firearm and ammunition possession.{{more}}...
From the Courts
March 13, 2009
A father and his son were on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009, committed to stand trial before a judge and jury in the High Court on a murder charge.{{more...
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