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May 11, 2007
This country’s first ever bomb scare case has been dismissed. On Friday May 4, 2007 Acting Director of Public Prosecutions, Colin Williams decided n...
Oswald Thomas docks into prison
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May 11, 2007
Instead of being surrounded by clear blue waters and living in a gigantic cruise liner, Oswald Thomas will now be surrounded by barb wire walls and pr...
Father charged with incest
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May 11, 2007
A man who has been charged with incest was granted bail in the sum of $7000 on Wednesday by The Family Court.{{more}} Forty-four year old Dorsethsire ...
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May 4, 2007
September 28, 2006 would be remembered by students and staff of the Bishop College Kingstown as the day when they had to evacuate the school because o...
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May 4, 2007
DAYS AFTER A spate of shootings that took place around the country, Chief Magistrate Simone Churaman is sending a strong message to persons that are h...
Two remanded for unlawful, malicious wounding
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April 27, 2007
Two youngsters, Ashroy John 22, labourer and Sylvanus Williams, 24, both of Barrouallie were dragged before the Serious Crimes Court on Monday and rem...
Accused double murder case adjourned to June 11
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April 27, 2007
Double murder accused Erickson Harris has to wait until June 11 for the Preliminary Inquiry into his matter to get underway. The case, which was slate...
Butcher: ‘Too many guns on the street’
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April 27, 2007
Prosecutor at the Serious Offences Court, Station Sergeant Nigel Butcher has expressed his concern about the alarming number of firearms on the street...
Edwards charged with “Proper Dappa’s” murder
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April 27, 2007
Police have made a breakthrough by nabbing a suspect in the murder of Jason “Proper Dappa” Burgin of Lowmans Leeward.{{more}} Earl Cauldric “Her...
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April 20, 2007
A 19-year-old labourer of Frenches has one month to come up with $350 or he will go to prison for two weeks. Sheldon Walker pleaded guilty at the Seri...
McCloud sent back to prison
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April 20, 2007
Just a few days after being released from this country’s male penitentiary, Leroy McCloud is back behind prison walls. McCloud pleaded guilty at the...
Birthday boy gets 14 days for indecent language
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April 20, 2007
There were so many expletives used at the Serious Offences Court on Tuesday that one may have thought it was a Hip-Hop song playing on the radio.{{mor...
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April 13, 2007
The Prison Department has once again curtailed the flow of drugs entering the Prison compound. On Wednesday, Assistant Superintendent of Prisons, Linu...
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April 13, 2007
Under the 2005 Firearms Amendment Act, any magistrate has the power to sentence a defendant up to seven years if found guilty of gun and ammunition po...
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April 5, 2007
Persons should exercise great caution, as there seems to be counterfeit currency in circulation. On Monday at the Serious Offences Court, Desron McBar...
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April 5, 2007
One man has made it abundantly clear that the media is one of the reasons why trouble seems to follow him. Nathan Hamilton, a deportee from the United...
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April 5, 2007
Two farmers in the Kingstown area had their goats, which had gone missing returned to them recently. A third farmer was not so lucky. On Monday mornin...
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March 30, 2007
One, two and another one is charged! Another police constable has been hauled before a law court on a criminal charge. The latest being Jefferson Isaa...
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March 30, 2007
As the story goes, when the cat’s away, the mice would play, and this is exactly what took place when Orlando Sergeant stole a quantity of items fro...
Four years for gun, ammo possession
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March 30, 2007
The injury to Feron Roberts’ leg that was causing him immense pain, can in no way compare to the anguish of spending four years at her Majesty’s P...
Father, Son on $10,000 bail for wounding
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March 30, 2007
A father and son was each granted $10,000 bail after being hauled before the Serious Offences Court on Tuesday on a wounding charge. Devon Delpesche o...
Father shot three times
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March 30, 2007
A father of three is lucky to be alive today after being shot three times about his body. Dave Sutton, 30, labourer of New Chapmans is now a patient a...
Pipey gets Life for the murder of Lynch
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March 30, 2007
On Monday at the High Court in Kingstown, Justice Gertel Thom handed Julius ‘Pipey’ John a sentence of life imprisonment after a 12 member jury fo...
Three and a half years for gun, ammo charge
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March 23, 2007
Sheon Veira Anderson is into the fourth day of his three-and-a-half year prison sentence for gun and ammunition possession. Anderson, 37, a mechanic o...
Security Guard steals US$13,000
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March 23, 2007
Quincy Butler will have to wait three years before he can walk the streets as a free man again. Butler, a 22-year-old Security Guard of McKies Hill wa...
Burglary spree: Three men arrested
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March 23, 2007
Head of the Criminal Investigations Department Assistant Superintendent of Police Eckron Lockhart, is encouraging persons around the Sion Hill and Can...
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March 16, 2007
The Ottley Hall Commission of Inquiry, which was set to resume yesterday Thursday 15th March, has been rescheduled to May 2, 2007. The postponement is...
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March 16, 2007
Chief Magistrate Simone Churaman ordered a fisherman, who claims that he only uses cocaine to go diving, to pay $125 on Monday at the Serious Offences...
Bajan man caught with BDS$72,600 at airport
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March 16, 2007
The long arms of the law in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are being extended and law enforcement officers are cracking down on money laundering. Earl...
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March 16, 2007
Keon Jack now has ample time to reflect on his mistake of breaching the law. On Monday March 12th at the Serious Offences Court, the 30 year-old Layou...
Lovelace to wait for second shot
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March 16, 2007
Patrick Lovelace's second shot at avoiding a murder conviction has been delayed by at least another three months. Lovelace was convicted in December, ...
Crosvenor pleads guilty to cannabis possession
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March 8, 2007
Forty- four year-old Kittitan National, Ian Crosvenor had a double whammy on Monday when he was charged with having one cannabis cigarette in his poss...
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March 8, 2007
A 30-foot fibre glass speedboat with two 250hp engines belonging to Vaughn Carter of Chateaubelair was stolen while docked in the Chateaubelair Bay. T...
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March 8, 2007
Up to press time on Tuesday no one had been arrested for the shooting death of Sean Baptiste, a 22 year-old labourer of Ottley Hall. Baptiste was the ...