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From the Courts

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Canadian jailed for cocaine
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March 7, 2008
Canadian National, Delicia Allen is in now into the first week of her one-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to cocaine possession.{{more}} Al...
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Hidden drugs in Mayreau
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March 7, 2008
Persons continue to find ingenious methods to conceal illegal drugs. On February 28, 2008, 234 grams of marijuana was found buried in the sand at Sali...
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Baby saves Suggie Thomas from jail
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March 7, 2008
Suggie Thomas is today thanking his lucky stars that he is a father. At the Serious Offences Court on Monday, when he told Magistrate Sonya Young that...
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‘Jaunders’ walks free
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March 7, 2008
Dale “Jaunders eye” Frederick walked away a free man from the High Court on Tuesday when two important prosecution witnesses failed to turn up for...
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Senior citizen charged with ganja possession
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March 7, 2008
The marijuana that Bertram Millington purchased from a man on the street for $50 ended up costing him much more at the Serious Offences Court on Monda...
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Union Island man faces jail for drugs
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March 7, 2008
Richard Phillips, a 46-year-old Water Taxi operator will now have to double his efforts on the waters, as he has to come up $1400 in one month or he w...
Barbadian fugitive charged with murder
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Barbadian fugitive charged with murder
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March 7, 2008
He wasn’t equipped with legal texts or any of the technical jargon used by barristers. Nevertheless Anderson “Bounty” Williams had his pen, pape...
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Four plead not guilty to cannabis possession
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February 22, 2008
Four men from Calder and Lowmans Windward are now out on bail after pleading not guilty to possessing 751 grams of cannabis with intent to supply.{{mo...
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Cupid fined $1000 for cannabis possession
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February 22, 2008
A month after he was released from a five year prison sentence for wounding with intent, Maxwell Cupid found himself on the wrong side of the law once...
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John pleads guilty to cannabis possession
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February 22, 2008
It apparently never dawned on Andrew John that he had four children to maintain until he was in front Chief Magistrate Sonya Young facing a drug charg...
Trio placed on bond after robbing Fragrances
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Trio placed on bond after robbing Fragrances
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February 22, 2008
Three young men who pleaded guilty to breaking and entering Williams Agencies and Fragrances between February 16 and 17, 2008, received suspended pris...
Ballantyne gets a year for gun possession
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Ballantyne gets a year for gun possession
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February 22, 2008
16-year-old Nelson Ballantyne got away with what some may consider to be a slap on the wrist when he was sentenced to one year in prison for gun posse...
Acting CJ Sir Brian Alleyne retires
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Acting CJ Sir Brian Alleyne retires
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February 15, 2008
It was a sad day for Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court when one of their stalwarts sat on the bench for the last time.{{more}} The Honourable Chief Just...
Civil servant slapped with 130 charges
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Civil servant slapped with 130 charges
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February 15, 2008
History was created on Tuesday at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court when over 130 charges were slapped on one person, making it the greatest number e...
Justice Bruce-Lyle issues stern warning
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Justice Bruce-Lyle issues stern warning
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February 15, 2008
At the commencement of the Voir Dire (trial within a trial) hearing last Thursday, Justice Frederick Bruce-Lyle issued a stern warning to the lawyers ...
Sailor charge with homicide
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Sailor charge with homicide
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February 15, 2008
This country has recorded its third homicide. Dead is two-year-old Kelroy Williams of Mesopotamia who died from multiple lacerations to his lung and l...
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Miguel: ‘Officer is my plant ah dem’
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February 8, 2008
Kazambe Miguel, a worker in the Ministry of Agriculture, was fined $350 for cultivating two cannabis plants.{{more}} The dreadlocked man pleaded guilt...
Thomas ordered to pay compensation
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Thomas ordered to pay compensation
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February 8, 2008
After spending two weeks at the Mental Hospital undergoing observation, Shawn Thomas was deemed mentally fit to return to the Serious Offences Court o...
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Grenadian fugitive deported
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February 8, 2008
Another illegal immigrant has been nabbed by police. The latest person is 24-year-old Shimron Bain, who was sent packing back to Grenada after he was ...
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Woman fined $1500 for drug possession
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February 8, 2008
Nearly ten years has elapsed since Mary Pompey last had a brush with the law; her good record was ruined on Tuesday.{{more}} Pompey, 58, a shopkeeper ...
Ballantyne awaits his fate
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Ballantyne awaits his fate
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February 8, 2008
Sixteen year-old Nelson Ballantyne will know his fate on February 19, when he is to be sentenced for gun possession.{{more}} The Sandy Bay resident pl...
Patrice Roberts called to the Bar
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Patrice Roberts called to the Bar
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February 8, 2008
The latest addition to the roll of barristers in this country is Patrice Agatha Roberts-Samuel, who was on Friday, 1st February, presented to the Bar ...
Maloney gets 12 years for murder
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Maloney gets 12 years for murder
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February 8, 2008
The next twelve years of Edson Maloney’s life will be spent at Her Majesty’s Prison.{{more}} Maloney, 30, a contractor of Richland Park, was sente...
Browne gets 10 years for wounding with intent
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Browne gets 10 years for wounding with intent
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February 1, 2008
An act of stupidity by a man that left one woman literally looking at the world through one eye ended up costing him 10 years of his freedom on Monday...
Samuel gets two years for gun, ammo possession
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Samuel gets two years for gun, ammo possession
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February 1, 2008
Twenty-seven-year old Oscar Samuel is the latest person to be sent to prison for gun and ammunition possession.{{more}} Samuel, 27, of Gibson Corner, ...
Thomas: ‘I just wanted to look good for the women in town’
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Thomas: ‘I just wanted to look good for the women in town’
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February 1, 2008
Nothing’s wrong with dressing your best to look good for the ladies, and that’s what Shawn Thomas did, but sadly the clothes he wore that day did ...
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Guyanese to spend 30 years behind bars
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February 1, 2008
The next 30 years of Ewart Jordan Bacchus’ life will be spent within the confines of Her Majesty’s Prison. Justice Frederick Bruce-Lyle imposed th...
Roberts gets life for murdering a 77-year-old woman
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Roberts gets life for murdering a 77-year-old woman
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February 1, 2008
The wait is finally over. The family of the late Dorsie Neptune can now rest a little easier now that the man who snatched her life away will be locke...
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Riley annoyed with the adjournment of his case
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January 25, 2008
The length to which Jeremy Riley pushed his lips when he heard that his matter would be adjourned once more, Chief Magistrate Sonya Young was lucky th...
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Enrico Johnny pleads guilty to gun, ammo possession
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January 25, 2008
Tempers flared outside the Serious Offences Court on Monday when family members and friends of Enrico Johnny watched angrily as the Ottley Hall reside...
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Williams on $7,500 bail for drug possession
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January 25, 2008
Stanley Williams, a 32-year-old mechanic of Questelles, is out on $7,500 bail, after appearing at the Serious Offences Court on Monday and pleading no...
Lecturer charged with sexual offence
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Lecturer charged with sexual offence
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January 25, 2008
A lecturer at the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Community College has been charged with rape.{{more}} According to police, Grantley Adams, 46, was ar...
Four charged in Bequia heist
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Four charged in Bequia heist
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January 25, 2008
A week after general manager of Western Union in Bequia Joan Davis was held up at gunpoint at her office in broad daylight and relieved of $12,300, po...
State witness back in court again
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State witness back in court again
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January 25, 2008
Former accused turned State Witness Carlo “Bondo” Free, 28, farmer of Sion Hill, found himself in familiar territory on Monday, when he was hauled...
Judge: “Did you go to the school of thievery?”
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Judge: “Did you go to the school of thievery?”
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January 18, 2008
Justice Frederick Bruce-Lyle’s message that he would not stand for time wasting must not have reached Calvert Buntyn. Buntyn went through nearly an ...
George gets 15 years for attempted burglary
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George gets 15 years for attempted burglary
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January 18, 2008
The man who attempted to rob an elderly couple on December 17, 2006, and received an early Christmas present in the form of a chop with a cutlass was ...
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Teenager pleads guilty to marijuana charge
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January 11, 2008
Curt Alvis, a 17-year-old labourer from Lowmans Windward, has until January 22 to come up with $750 or he risks going to prison for six months.{{more}...
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Three freed of kidnapping charges
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January 11, 2008
Three men can now breathe easily, since a kidnapping charge that has been hanging over their heads since mid November has finally been dropped.{{more}...
Bajan fugitive gets six months for cannabis possession
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Bajan fugitive gets six months for cannabis possession
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January 11, 2008
Emmerson Hall, the Barbadian fugitive who was arrested and charged in December for possession of 67 grams of cannabis, was sentenced to six months imp...
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Man found dead in old Magistrate’s Court building
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January 11, 2008
Police suspect no foul play into the death of Wilton Prescott, 41, labourer of Penniston, whose body was found in the building that formerly housed th...
Jacobs to stand trial for common-law wife’s death
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Jacobs to stand trial for common-law wife’s death
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January 11, 2008
When the January Criminal Assizes start in a few days time, Ezekiel Jacobs' name will be down on the list.{{more}} At a Preliminary Inquiry on Wednesd...
Woman: Police slapped me and knocked out my tooth
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Woman: Police slapped me and knocked out my tooth
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January 11, 2008
A Penniston woman is fuming-she claims that a police officer slapped her, knocking her dental cap out of her mouth, during an incident last month at h...
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SVG records 36 homicides in 2007
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January 4, 2008
The year 2007 marked an all time high for this country with the greatest number of homicides being recorded - 36. Figures from the Criminal Investigat...
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Despite progress, child labour still affects 138 million children globally – ILO, UNICEF
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Despite progress, child labour still affects 138 million children globally – ILO, UNICEF
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June 17, 2025
Nearly 138 million children were engaged in child labour in 2024, including around 54 million in hazardous work likely to jeopardize their health, saf...
Vincentian storyteller/comedian launches Children’s Book
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Vincentian storyteller/comedian launches Children’s Book
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June 17, 2025
Collin Butler, a Vincentian storyteller and comedian, who resides in the Virgin Island, has launched a Children’s book, ‘Island Adventure: Caribbean T...
Police not tolerating  obscene lyrics, indecent assault this carnival season
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Police not tolerating obscene lyrics, indecent assault this carnival season
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June 17, 2025
The Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) has issued a stern warning about non-tolerance of certain behaviours usually heightened ...
Soca Monarch preliminaries at Victoria Park on Friday
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Soca Monarch preliminaries at Victoria Park on Friday
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June 13, 2025
The Carnival Development Corporation (CDC) invites managers, producers, artistes and members of the public to the 2025 Soca Monarch Preliminaries. The...
Chevonne Stewart is ULP’s new candidate for Southern Grenadines
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Chevonne Stewart is ULP’s new candidate for Southern Grenadines
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June 13, 2025
Chevonne Stewart was formally introduced last Sunday, June 8, 2025, as the person the Unity Labour Party (ULP) intends to be its candidate for the Sou...

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