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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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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...
Bajan fined $100 for cannabis possession
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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...
Corridon charged with raping minor
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January 4, 2008
Johney Andy Corridon, 24-year-old labourer of Edinboro, was remanded to her Majesty’s Prison on Monday, after he was denied bail when he appeared at...
Gunshot victim dies at MCMH on Christmas Day
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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...
Brothers jointly charged with murder
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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...
May to come back January
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December 21, 2007
Eric May, a 32-year-old labourer of Sandy Bay, was remanded to her Majesty’s Prison on Monday, after appearing before Senior Magistrate Donald Brown...
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December 21, 2007
At the close of the September Criminal Assizes on Wednesday, the population at Her Majesty’s Prison stood at 383. Among that figure, there are 300 i...
Lee’s back in court after escape from hospital
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December 21, 2007
About a month after he was shot and then escaped police custody at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, 40-year-old Murray’s Village resident Sylveste...
Christmas brown for Shabba
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December 21, 2007
Enos “Shabba” 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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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 ...