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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...
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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...
Mother, daughter on cocaine charge
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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}...
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December 14, 2007
Senior Magistrate at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court Donald Browne is pleading with persons caught with drugs to reveal the names of the persons wh...
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December 7, 2007
While most burglars are known for breaking into someone’s 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...
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December 7, 2007
07.DEC.07 In the 19th of October 2007 issue of “The Searchlight” newspaper, it was reported that Mr. Ronald John, a farmer, of Calliaqua, was conv...
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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 Magistrates’ 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...
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December 7, 2007
Ewart Jordan Bacchus’ dream of going back to his native land Guyana for the Christmas holidays was dashed last week Thursday when he was convicted a...
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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...
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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...
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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 Party’s headquarters...
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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...
Accused gunman refused bail
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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...
Court to decide on fate of Venezuelan boat men
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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...
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November 23, 2007
Clifford Coombs, a 45-year-old car washer of Arnos Vale was fined $350 on Tuesday at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court when he pleaded guilty to havi...
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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...
Extension Officer on $7,000 bail for ganja
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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...
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November 23, 2007
“What the Law Lords of the paper do not understand is that each case depends on its merit,” Magistrate Donald Browne explained while handing down ...
Three men indicted on kidnapping charges
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November 23, 2007
Three young men were hauled before the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on Monday on kidnapping charges.{{more}} Khanial DeRoche, 24, businessman of Sio...
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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...
Illegal Grenadian man sent packing by court
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November 23, 2007
Grenadian national Benedict Alexander was sent packing back to Grenada after pleading guilty to entering these shores illegally.{{more}} Senior Magist...
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November 16, 2007
An act of desperation cost a Peruvian Vale woman $60 at the Kingstown Magistrate Court on Monday.{{more}} Sherika Allen, 23, pleaded guilty to damagin...
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November 16, 2007
After she was dismissed on a joint marijuana charge on Monday at the Kingstown Magistrates Court, Gale Clarke thought her troubles were over.{{more}} ...
Browne calls for rehab centre for youths
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November 16, 2007
The streaming tears that rolled down the cheeks of lawyer Bayliss Frederick, were not enough to save his 16-year-old client from going to prison for t...
“Wizzy” walks again
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November 16, 2007
Acquitted on September 11, 2007 of murder, 23-year-old Redemption Sharpes resident, Fitz-Allan “Wizzy” Bramble was again acquitted on Tuesday, thi...
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November 9, 2007
Leon DeGrads has until the end of January next year to come up with $7,500, or he stands the chance of going to prison for four years.{{more}} DeGrads...
EG Lynch’s Attorney:  Charges a waste of time
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November 9, 2007
Charges brought against radio personality Elwardo Lynch have been branded by his lawyer as “a judicial waste of time.”{{more}} Lynch, host of the ...
Browne is new head of  Bar Association
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November 9, 2007
Justice Frederick Bruce-Lyle’s recent call for barristers to lift the bar will be staunchly supported by newly elected President of the Bar Associat...
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November 2, 2007
The next ten years of a New Grounds man’s existence will be spent within the confines of Her Majesty’s Prison.{{more}} On October 2, 2007, the 38-...
Teenager charged with manslaughter
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November 2, 2007
Seven months ago Hazel Ann Roberts insisted that her son Franko “Ozo” Roberts did not commit suicide; last week Monday, seventeen year-old Drexel ...
Bruce-Lyle expecting criticism from the public
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November 2, 2007
Justice Frederick Bruce Lyle is expecting criticism in relation to his sentencing of a man who pleaded guilty to rape on Wednesday at the High Court. ...