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
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...
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
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...
From the Courts
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 ...
From the Courts
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...
From the Courts
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...
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February 6, 2026
A routine Monday morning turned into a traumatic ordeal for Ronika Medford, who said she was assaulted without provocation while walking to work. Reco...
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February 6, 2026
The United States of America’s (USA) decision to ask Caribbean nations to accept third country refugees and deportees “is a very touchy and controvers...
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February 6, 2026
The Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines received a US$3 million social relief grant from Taiwan on Tuesday, January 3, 2026. The funds were pr...
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February 3, 2026
A TOTAL OF 66 new positions have been added to the Ministry of National Security to help combat crime in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Prime Minister...
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February 3, 2026
LONG SERVING MEMBER of Parliament for the Southern Grenadines, Terrance Ollivierre, has promised to never disappoint the people who have been electing...
