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Francois to pay $40,000 for cannabis possession
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December 5, 2008
Fitz Hughes resident Danroy François has to come up with $ 40,000 or spend the next two and a half years behind bars.{{more}} The 21-year-old appeare...
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November 28, 2008
32-year-old Everett Bynoe, of Belmont, pleaded not guilty on Monday when he appeared at the Serious Offences Court for having in his possession a doub...
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November 28, 2008
Chief Magistrate Sonya Young on Tuesday handed down a $1,000 fine to 18-year-old Kenroy Durrant at the Serious Offences Court. Failure to pay the fine...
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November 28, 2008
Chief Magistrate Sonya Young fined Aliston Hackshaw $600 at the Serious Offences Court on Monday for having in his possession 227 grams of cannabis in...
Thief breaks leg during Ratho Mill burglary
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November 28, 2008
Anthony Bowens is already experiencing some punishment for wrong doing. Bowens, 45, of Diamond, who jumped from the window of a three storey building ...
Samuel walks free  from murder charge
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November 28, 2008
On Monday, November 24, 2008, Michael Samuel walked away from the High Court a free man, after a 12-member mixed jury was ordered to return a formal v...
53-year-old fined for 40 pounds of weed
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November 21, 2008
Noel Sutherland has two choices: pay a $27,000 fine or go to prison for 18 months.{{more}} Sutherland, 53, of Owia, appeared at the Serious Offences C...
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November 21, 2008
Chief Magistrate Sonya Young on Tuesday sentenced 40-year-old Clare Valley resident Carlos Franklyn to thirty months in prison after he pleaded guilty...
Witnesses called  in Lotto booth  robbery case
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November 21, 2008
Four prosecution witnesses have already been called in the Georgetown Lotto Booth robbery, which took place on July 21, 2008, in which 20-year-old Des...
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November 21, 2008
The Peter Joseph murder case is slowly coming to its end at the High Court. On Wednesday, November 12, the prosecution led by Duane Daniel closed thei...
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November 14, 2008
Even though Sherwin Marksman told the court that it was another man who had dropped the bucket filled with over eight pounds of marijuana (3632 grams)...
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November 14, 2008
Local police have nabbed one man in connection with the $40,000 heist at Edwin D. Layne & Son, which is said to have occurred between September 27-29,...
Lawyer  jeapordises safety  of star  witness
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November 14, 2008
Lawyer and President of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Human Rights Association Nicole Sylvester may have possibly put the life of a key witness in...
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November 7, 2008
St Lucian national Natieus Baptiste, who pleaded guilty to possession of 39,044 grams of cannabis last week at the Serious Offences Court, was fined $...
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November 7, 2008
A 21-year-old woman of Fountain will today know her fate in a gun and ammunition matter, to which she pleaded guilty on Monday at the Serious Offences...
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November 7, 2008
One of the most high profile murder cases to hit the High Court has gotten off to a teetering start. On Monday, November 3, 2008, the murder trial of ...
“Kazaman” murder accused might walk free
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October 31, 2008
This coming Monday, three men charged with murder could be set free, if the prosecution fails to produce its witnesses.{{more}} In the matter of taxi ...
Saul found guilty of Mornix’s murder
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October 31, 2008
Convicted murderer Dillon Saul will be sentenced on November 14, 2008, for the murder of 42-year-old teacher, Ava Grant-Mornix, of Richland Park.{{mor...
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October 31, 2008
Ten witnesses have already been called to the witness stand to give evidence in the Preliminary Inquiry into the Shaun “Meagie” Williams murder ca...
Llewellyn called to the Bar
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October 24, 2008
With a forthright attitude and clear goals for her life, new barrister-at-law Vestricia Llewellyn has made clear her intention to make a difference.{{...
Saul awaits verdict in murder case
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October 24, 2008
Evidence from both defense and prosecution in the Dillon Saul murder case has already been presented and the only thing remaining is for the verdict t...
Jacobs guilty of murdering his common-law wife
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October 10, 2008
Diamond resident Ezekiel “Zeeke” Jacobs was found guilty last Thursday, October 2, 2008, at the High Court, of the murder of his common-law wife A...
High praises for Chief Justice Hugh Rawlins
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October 10, 2008
Tribute was paid to Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Hugh Rawlins at a special sitting of the Court on Wednesday in Kingstown. The...
Money laundering case off to the High Court
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October 10, 2008
The largest money laundering case in this country’s history has taken another twist. On Monday at the Serious Offences Court, Trinidadian Senior Cou...
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October 3, 2008
A freelance accountant of Campden Park was granted $20,000 bail at the Kingstown Magistrates Court on Monday after pleading not guilty to possession o...
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October 3, 2008
Gregory Alick, a labourer, of Clare Valley, and Vincent Lewis, a taxi operator, of Largo Heights, were remanded to Her Majesty’s Prison after being ...
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October 3, 2008
Nigel Byron is now into the third day of his nine-month prison sentence. Byron, 19, of Lowmans Leeward, was sentenced at the Serious Offences Court af...
Marks: Murder charge could have been avoided
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October 3, 2008
One lawyer is of the opinion that if the police had detained his client for a longer period, he would not be facing a murder charge today.{{more}} On ...
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September 26, 2008
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Bertram Richardson, 45, labourer, of Queensbury, Vermont, whose body was found in ...
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September 26, 2008
Varick Charles, a 37 year-old farmer, of Campden Park, pleaded guilty earlier this week at the Serious Offences Court to possession of 192 grams of ca...
Unanimous guilty verdict for murderer
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September 26, 2008
After admitting to his cousin Inspector Sydney James that he had killed two women, convicted murderer Winston “Winty” Nicholls held hands with pol...
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September 19, 2008
Whenever accused murderer Shorn Samuel sets foot in the High Court, there is always some drama. At the arraignment of the Criminal Assizes on Tuesday ...
Judge issues warning to defence, prosecution
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September 19, 2008
64 criminal cases are down to be heard at this month’s criminal assizes at the High Court. At the arraignment on Monday, there were no guilty pleas ...
Phillips pleads guilty to manslaughter
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September 19, 2008
Come October 3, Kenneth Phillips will return to the High Court for sentencing in a manslaughter charge.{{more}} Initially charged with murder, Phillip...