From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
February 15, 2008
History was created on Tuesday at the Kingstown Magistrateâs Court when over 130 charges were slapped on one person, making it the greatest number e...
From the Courts
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 ...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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 ...
From the Courts
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 ...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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 ...
From the Courts
February 8, 2008
The next twelve years of Edson Maloneyâs life will be spent at Her Majestyâs Prison.{{more}} Maloney, 30, a contractor of Richland Park, was sente...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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, ...
From the Courts
February 1, 2008
Nothingâs wrong with dressing your best to look good for the ladies, and thatâs what Shawn Thomas did, but sadly the clothes he wore that day did ...
From the Courts
February 1, 2008
The next 30 years of Ewart Jordan Bacchusâ life will be spent within the confines of Her Majestyâs Prison. Justice Frederick Bruce-Lyle imposed th...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
January 25, 2008
Former accused turned State Witness Carlo âBondoâ Free, 28, farmer of Sion Hill, found himself in familiar territory on Monday, when he was hauled...
From the Courts
January 18, 2008
Justice Frederick Bruce-Lyleâs message that he would not stand for time wasting must not have reached Calvert Buntyn. Buntyn went through nearly an ...
From the Courts
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 ...
From the Courts
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}...
From the Courts
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}...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
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...
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November 7, 2025
An Ottley Hall man, who has been committed to the Mental Health Center for over three weeks of observation, was charged with grabbing a woman's buttoc...
From the Courts, News
November 7, 2025
Two young men who have been charged for allegedly attacks against a police officer and use of indecent language pled not guilty when they appeared sep...
News
November 7, 2025
Persons who attended a two-day Financial Literacy workshop for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) organised by the Centre for Enterprise Deve...
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November 7, 2025
Leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP), Dr. Godwin Friday said first time candidates of the Unity Labour Party (ULP) are distancing themselves from ...
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November 7, 2025
This week saw 17 children from across the Eastern Caribbean (EC) and Barbados receive life altering surgeries that mark the beginning of new chapters ...
