From the Courts
January 4, 2008
January 1, 2008, saw one Martiniquan pilot in police custody and facing two criminal charges. When 51-year-old Alain Fanchette appeared at the Serious...
From the Courts
January 4, 2008
For what his lawyer described as a monumental act of stupidity, Alvis Isaac is counting his lucky stars that he did not receive a custodial sentence f...
From the Courts
January 4, 2008
Barbadian national, Gregory Francis, was sent packing to his homeland after appearing in court on marijuana possession. The 33-year-old appeared befor...
From the Courts
January 4, 2008
Johney Andy Corridon, 24-year-old labourer of Edinboro, was remanded to her Majestyâs Prison on Monday, after he was denied bail when he appeared at...
From the Courts
January 4, 2008
While the rest of the country celebrated on Christmas Day, Lloyd Samuel died in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MC...
From the Courts
January 4, 2008
Nearly two months after his brother Joel Hannaway was charged with the murder of Oran Mason, Carlson Hannaway, 21, was brought before the Serious Offe...
From the Courts
December 21, 2007
Eric May, a 32-year-old labourer of Sandy Bay, was remanded to her Majestyâs Prison on Monday, after appearing before Senior Magistrate Donald Brown...
From the Courts
December 21, 2007
At the close of the September Criminal Assizes on Wednesday, the population at Her Majestyâs Prison stood at 383. Among that figure, there are 300 i...
From the Courts
December 21, 2007
About a month after he was shot and then escaped police custody at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, 40-year-old Murrayâs Village resident Sylveste...
From the Courts
December 21, 2007
Enos âShabbaâ Browne is now into his fourth day of a nine-year prison sentence, after pleading guilty to manslaughter.{{more}} Justice Gertel Thom...
From the Courts
December 14, 2007
âYou canât be rehabilitated, you gone too far, we canât deter you cause you been to jail already, so to prevent you from stealing we have to loc...
From the Courts
December 14, 2007
Instead of attending the numerous Christmas celebrations and spending Christmas with his family, Alpheus Nanton will be spending Christmas as an inmat...
From the Courts
December 14, 2007
Rory Murphy, a mechanic of Kingstown, will have to plug out $760 in three months or in default, he will spend 18 months behind bars after pleading gui...
From the Courts
December 14, 2007
Local police removed over half million dollars worth of cocaine from the streets of St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Sunday, December 9, 2007.{{more}...
From the Courts
December 14, 2007
Senior Magistrate at the Kingstown Magistrateâs Court Donald Browne is pleading with persons caught with drugs to reveal the names of the persons wh...
From the Courts
December 14, 2007
Eight months ago Registered Nurse Kemlon Johnson Quammie's body was found hanging over a cliff at Dauphine. Police have now arrested her husband in co...
From the Courts
December 7, 2007
Itâs the first time in 29 years that Garnet Greaves will be spending Christmas a free man. This, after he was placed on a six months bond, following...
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December 7, 2007
While most burglars are known for breaking into someoneâs property and quickly leaving, it was not so for Christopher La Borde of Barrouallie who fe...
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December 7, 2007
Ansel Walker, Radcliffe Albott Mc Kenzie and David Russell, all of Jamaica, were deported to their native land after they pleaded guilty to overstayin...
From the Courts
December 7, 2007
07.DEC.07 In the 19th of October 2007 issue of âThe Searchlightâ newspaper, it was reported that Mr. Ronald John, a farmer, of Calliaqua, was conv...
From the Courts
December 7, 2007
October 19, 2006, will for one woman be remembered as the longest night of her life. She was raped! On Wednesday at the sitting of the Criminal Assize...
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December 7, 2007
A 36 year-old Mechanic of Frenches is out on $10,000 bail, after appearing at the Kingstown Magistratesâ Court on Monday on a charge of obstructing ...
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December 7, 2007
Casil Hector, a resident of Spring Village, will spend two years behind bars, after pleading guilty to stealing one brown ewe sheep valued at $300 bel...
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December 7, 2007
The uppercuts, jabs and hooks thrown at the print media by Senior Magistrate Donald Browne over the past weeks served as just a warm up compared to wh...
From the Courts
December 7, 2007
Ewart Jordan Bacchusâ dream of going back to his native land Guyana for the Christmas holidays was dashed last week Thursday when he was convicted a...
From the Courts
November 30, 2007
About three weeks after being shot several times about the body, including a bullet to his head, Elmore Adams lost the fight for his life.{{more}} Pol...
From the Courts
November 30, 2007
After recently beating a rape charge and with a burglary charge pending at the High Court, 21-year-old Surgie Thomas of Simon has found himself on the...
From the Courts
November 30, 2007
Come Monday, December 3, Bernard Chance will find out if he is to go to jail after pleading guilty to entering the Unity Labour Partyâs headquarters...
From the Courts
November 30, 2007
âI only took the phone and the bullet!â This was the cry of 22-year-old Christopher Laborde of Barrouallie after he was charged with entering the ...
From the Courts
November 30, 2007
Although 51-year-old Trinidadian Riaz Rahaman entered these shores legally, he has found himself on the wrong side of the law.{{more}} He is charged w...
From the Courts
November 30, 2007
He said all he wanted was to get his daughter a computer, but instead, Desmond Baptiste ended up going on a stealing spree last week, stealing over $1...
From the Courts
November 30, 2007
Just one week after gunshots rang out in the Rose Place area, police have arrested and charged 23-year-old Jeremy Riley of Edinboro in connection with...
From the Courts
November 30, 2007
Andres Dominguez, the fifth Venezuelan arrested on September 23, 2007 after he and his fellow nationals were found in the waters off Union Island, was...
From the Courts
November 23, 2007
Clifford Coombs, a 45-year-old car washer of Arnos Vale was fined $350 on Tuesday at the Kingstown Magistrateâs Court when he pleaded guilty to havi...
From the Courts
November 23, 2007
Two young men of Dorsetshire Hill are not looking forward to November 30, 2007.{{more}} This is the date when Devron Greaves, 16 and Maxin Stephens, 1...
From the Courts
November 23, 2007
An extension officer in the Ministry of Agriculture has been charged with possession of 5,548 (12 pounds) grams of marijuana on November 15, 2007 with...
From the Courts
November 23, 2007
âWhat the Law Lords of the paper do not understand is that each case depends on its merit,â Magistrate Donald Browne explained while handing down ...
From the Courts
November 23, 2007
Three young men were hauled before the Kingstown Magistrateâs Court on Monday on kidnapping charges.{{more}} Khanial DeRoche, 24, businessman of Sio...
From the Courts
November 23, 2007
His cries could not save his 16-year-old client from a prison sentence last week, and on Tuesday, Lawyer Bayliss Frederick was once again defending an...
From the Courts
November 23, 2007
The Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Auxiliary Police Force has lost one if their good men. {{more}} Dead, is Sergeant Michael Ryan who served on t...
From the Courts
November 23, 2007
Grenadian national Benedict Alexander was sent packing back to Grenada after pleading guilty to entering these shores illegally.{{more}} Senior Magist...
From the Courts
November 16, 2007
The daughter of this countryâs former Ambassador to the United Nations has been found guilty of marijuana possession.{{more}} Lindsay Ferrari, daugh...
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Nearly 138 million children were engaged in child labour in 2024, including around 54 million in hazardous work likely to jeopardize their health, saf...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
