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January 12, 2007
Janice Cottle is now in the third day of her two-year prison sentence after being found guilty at the Serious Offences Court on Tuesday for having 31 ...
Two charged for aggravated burglary
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January 5, 2007
Police have arrested and charged Kefron Gabriel, 20, labourer of Redemption Sharpes and Fred George, 43 labourer of Ribishi Prospect for Aggravated Bu...
Arnos Vale man shoots bartender over payment
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January 5, 2007
A 40 year old contractor of Arnos Vale has been remanded to her Majesty’s Prison for unlawfully and maliciously wounding Bartender Karen John on Dec...
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January 5, 2007
Carlos Solomon has until today to pay $350 for his habit or face 28 days in prison. Solomon pled guilty at the Serious Offences Court to having 144 gr...
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January 5, 2007
A New Year’s gift will cost Louie Mercury four months of freedom, that is if he cannot come up with $1500 by January 19. Mercury, 40, labourer of Re...
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January 5, 2007
A Rillan Hill teenager is on $10,000 bail from the Serious Offences Court after he pled not guilty last Tuesday to having a Desert Eagle nine-millimet...
Conman ‘Tombstone’ Smith strikes again
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January 5, 2007
While many were frolicking and basking in the spirit of the Christmas season and making plans for a fresh start in 2007 others had illegal tricks up t...
Don’t be fooled
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January 5, 2007
Don’t be fooled by smooth talking conmen! This is the essence of the plea made by Assistant Superintendent of Police Eckron Lockhart to the general ...
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December 22, 2006
Last week’s heinous crime at the Leeward Bus Terminal where a young lady was hacked to death in front of scores of Vincentians has left Sherwin “D...
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December 22, 2006
A man caught transporting drugs can thank his lucky stars that he is not behind bars today. Napata Louie was instead fined $45,000 to be paid by March...
Outraged Vincentians protest outside court
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December 22, 2006
Anger and frustration vented outside the Kingstown Magistrate’s court early last Thursday morning as placard-bearing Vincentians from all walks of l...
Vincy caught in Bajan drug net
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December 22, 2006
A Vincentian was held by Barbados police in a drug raid last week. Delroy Williams, 25, a water-taxi operator of Fairhall, St Vincent has been remande...
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December 15, 2006
A vigilant eye by the assistant manager of Aunt Jobe’s Supermarket stopped a spate of theft that was occurring in the bakery section at the Supermar...
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December 15, 2006
The pleas of Twenty-nine year-old fisherman Rodwell Hunte of Clare Valley were enough to convince Acting Senior Magistrate Donald Browne to spare him ...
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December 15, 2006
The local minibus association may soon be getting some sound advice from Acting Senior Magistrate Donald Browne on how bus drivers are supposed to be ...
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December 15, 2006
Inzingho Harry can count her lucky stars not to be sent to Fort Charlotte for contempt of court. The dreadlocks woman threw temper tantrums in the cou...
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December 8, 2006
A Guyanese national is into the third day of his three-month prison sentence at her Majesty’s Prison. Tulsie Ram Chulai appeared at the Serious Crim...
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December 8, 2006
Clifton Davy, 26, of Georgetown quickly escaped painting himself in a corner at the Serious Crimes Court on Monday. The young painter did not waste th...
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December 8, 2006
Police have tracked down a cell phone caller who made a bomb threat to a Kingstown School on November 1 which caused mass panic. Last Thursday, Novemb...
Foye accuses jury of  conspiracy
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December 8, 2006
“There was some conspiracy within the jury.” These were the words being uttered by convicted murderer Selwyn “Kashie” Foye as he was being led...
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December 1, 2006
Mckelley White’s instructions were to stay in his house between the hours of 9 pm and 5 pm as part of his bail bond, but this did not register in th...
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December 1, 2006
St Lucian Kevon Isidore was lucky to get off with just a fine at the Serious Offences Court after he was caught with 19 grams of cannabis on November ...
Sick of men beating women
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December 1, 2006
Making himself abundantly clear to everyone seated at the Magistrate Court on Tuesday, outgoing Acting Senior Magistrate Donald Browne did not hold ba...
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December 1, 2006
“Do you want to become a jailbird? Stop stealing and get out of people’s property.” These were the stern words by Acting Senior Magistrate Donal...
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November 24, 2006
All Peter Chandler could do after he heard that he was going to prison for 18 months was place his head in his hands. Chief Magistrate Simone Churaman...
‘I smoke to ease stress’
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November 24, 2006
“Your honour I does only smoke cocaine to ease the stress,” this was the testimony labourer Noel Bushay gave in his defence at the Serious Offence...
Carelessness caused case to be thrown out
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November 24, 2006
The case against 25-year old Eversly Ralph of Sion Hill who was charged with the misuse of drugs was thrown out because prosecutors could not find the...
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November 17, 2006
It was never Michael Antoine's intention to sell marijuana, but only to smoke it, he said. Antoine was charged on Monday for having 31 grams of cannab...
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November 17, 2006
After languishing in prison for over ten months, awaiting the results of a drug test from the Barbados Forensic Sciences Centre, 56 year-old Jamaican ...
Peniston man missing
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November 17, 2006
A Peniston man has been dealt a double blow within a matter of hours. It was last week Tuesday that Ronnel Kirby got a dreadful telephone call informi...
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November 17, 2006
A hung jury forced a re-trial for murder accused Jamal Dyer of Chateaubelair. He is charged with the October 4, 2004 murder of Raphael “Scooby’ Tr...
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November 17, 2006
Just a couple hours after a ruling by the Court of Appeal that he be extradited to the United States of America on cocaine charges, Vincentian nationa...
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November 10, 2006
November 17 will be a date that will be filled with mixed emotions for Vico Ollivierre. The Sion Hill resident is to be sentenced for causing the deat...
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November 10, 2006
Brian Tittle will know his fate on November 17 when he is to be sentenced for a manslaughter charge. Tittle, 43, a mason of South Union, appeared at t...
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November 10, 2006
It does not matter if you are in a heated argument with a woman, you never let your emotions get the best of you and hit her. This was a lesson learnt...
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November 3, 2006
There is one popular saying that goes “a hungry man is an angry man” and that statement proved itself to be true as one man nearly caused a ruckus...
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November 3, 2006
The tight space and cramped conditions of the Serious offences and Magistrate’s Court have been eased. Both have more elbow room now that the Seriou...
Boyea, Flour Mill case postponed
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November 3, 2006
The case between the Eastern Caribbean Flour Mills Limited and two of its former employees has been postponed again. When the case resumed Monday the ...