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Captain Branford free to fly again
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January 6, 2006
St. Lucian born airline Pilot Shane Branford was on Friday 30th December freed of the charge of being in possession of counterfeit notes. The matter c...
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January 6, 2006
Custon Bobb a 26-year-old labourer of Barrouallie was given a fine of $200 for possession of 58 grams of Cannabis. When the young man appeared before ...
Young man on murder charge
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January 6, 2006
Turnley Francois, a 24-year-old labourer of Layou was charged in connection with the murder of 20-year-old Jeffery James of the same address. Francois...
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December 23, 2005
While others will be enjoying the Christmas holidays at home, Roger Hamilton will be spending the next three months at her Majesty's Prison. Hamilton,...
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December 9, 2005
Twenty-two-year-old Kendall David, a receptionist at the New Montrose Hotel was given a jail sentence of three months for theft. When he appeared befo...
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October 28, 2005
Joel Garrick, a labourer of Biabou, was given an additional sentence of three months for escaping lawful police custody on 10 October, 2005. He appear...
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October 21, 2005
Elroy McNeil of Kingstown Hill was placed on a bond for one year in the sum of $300 or two months in jail. He was charged with having a knife in his p...
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October 21, 2005
Yvette Cadougan of Murray's Village was given a fine of $125 forthwith or four months in prison. This was the penalty handed to her by Senior Magistra...
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October 21, 2005
Evans Nanton, a labourer of Sandy Bay, was given until November 18 to pay a fine of $250 or spend three months in jail. He pleaded guilty to the charg...
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October 21, 2005
A SCHOOLboy attending one of the Secondary Schools in Kingstown was granted bail in the sum of $5,000 with one surety. The youth was charged for havin...
Burglar gets nine months
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October 21, 2005
Nine months for burglary was the penalty handed to 19-year-old Cleroy Pinder of Old Montrose. Pinder appeared before Senior Magistrate, Carl Joseph at...
Three admitted to Bar
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October 21, 2005
Three more lawyers were admitted to the local bar last Thursday at the High Court in Kingstown. Camillo Gonsalves, Saboto Caesar and Joezel Jack were ...
Bid to bring back Dr. Rolla
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October 21, 2005
One of the key players in the setting up of the Ottley Hall Marina and Shipyard, Dr. Aldo Rolla, may soon be extradited to this country to testify abo...
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October 7, 2005
Ananias Jobe, a labourer of Campden Park, was given until October 21 to come up with $300 for assault and bodily harm to Police Corporal, Deloris Char...
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October 7, 2005
A lengthy trial seems in the making for four men facing a murder charge. Justice Frederick Bruce-Lyle has adjourned the trial to later in the Assizes....
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October 7, 2005
Leonard 'Toco' O'Garro of Barrouallie will have to wait until November 21 for the next stage of his trial. However, there will have to be another Judg...
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October 7, 2005
The name Selwyn 'Kashie' Foye seems to be popular in some judicial circles. He faces the serious charge of murder, which Director of Public Prosecutio...
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October 7, 2005
A bench warrant has been issued for a man wanted for attempted murder. His name is Othniel Bowens, the second of three persons charged with the offenc...
Questelles woman on drug charge in Barbados
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September 30, 2005
Esther Shepherd, a 23-year-old Vincentian hairdresser was nabbed at the Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados last Saturday with 55 1/2 pou...
Emery Robertson admitted to Bar
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September 23, 2005
Last Wednesday witnessed an historic event at the High Court in Kingstown when Emery Robertson Jr. received his call to the bar of St. Vincent and the...
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September 23, 2005
Ashakka Gerald of South Rivers was fined $125 forthwith or spend one month at her Majesty's Prison. This was the fine handed down by Senior Magistrate...
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September 23, 2005
Lawrence Greaves, a labourer of Richmond Hill, narrowly escaped a jail sentence for unlawfully and maliciously wounding. He was however, fined $1500 b...
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September 23, 2005
A Vincentian woman has been appointed to the position of Acting Judge for the jurisdiction of St. Kitts/Nevis, assigned to Nevis and Montserrat. She i...
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September 23, 2005
Seven grams of cocaine, cost 22-year-old, Sigmon Phillips of Arnos Vale three months behind bars. Senior Magistrate Carl Joseph, handed him the penalt...
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September 16, 2005
Obsborne Yearwood, a labourer of Calder, was handed a $50 fine for two bombs of cannabis, $25 for damage to property and a two-year bond or $1000 and ...
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September 9, 2005
Clayton ‘Cougar’ Caine of Glen last Tuesday received an eight month sentence for burglary when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Simone Churaman...
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September 9, 2005
Richard Sayers, a 22-year-old mechanic of Owia, was fined $3,000 to be paid by November 30, failing which he can face a five month prison sentence. Th...
Man stabbed to death by common-law wife
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September 9, 2005
A Peruvian Vale family is still mourning the death of one of their loved ones who met an untimely death recently. Yesterday, Steve Roland Job was laid...
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September 9, 2005
A robbery spree here has police worried after reports of a masked gunman on the loose in the Mesopotamia Valley. The spate of robberies reportedly occ...
Fisherman found not guilty of gun charges
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September 9, 2005
Glenroy ‘Noonax’ Edwards, a fisherman of Petit Bordel, was found not guilty on charges of possessing an unlicensed firearm and for assault on a po...
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September 2, 2005
Vanberg Young of Calder Ridge, last Thursday appeared before Magistrate Carl Joseph after he was charged August 19, for assaulting Police Officer Rodn...
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September 2, 2005
Thirty two-year-old Donette Glasgow, an unemployed woman of Kingstown was given a two month sentence suspended for one year to keep the peace or go to...
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September 2, 2005
Stewart Horne, a 25-year-old farmer of Georgetown was on August 26, reprimanded and discharged after he appeared last Monday at the Magistrate Court b...
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September 2, 2005
Dieton Welcome, a 29-year-old businessman of Richmond Hill, was given a three month sentence suspended for one year and made to pay $200 for the use o...
Bajan, Vincy caught with drugs
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September 2, 2005
Possession of cannabis has cost Otis Dorset, a 26-year-old electrician of Mt. Grenan, $6,000 and the prospect of one year in jail. He was given three ...
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August 26, 2005
Stafford George, a farmer of Chateaubelair, has been ordered to pay the court $2,000 or face four months in jail after he pleaded guilty to two charge...
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August 26, 2005
Simon Putuka, a South African national, was apprehended at Arnos Vale on August 10, for entering the state without a passport. Putuka appeared before ...
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August 26, 2005
Monique Roland, a 25-year-old Bequia native, has to pay another $8,000 by today, Friday, August 26, if she wants to avoid going to prison for one year...
URA presents books to prison
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August 26, 2005
The literacy programme at Her Majesty's Prison has received a boost from the United Returnees Association, URA with a donation of books, a computer an...
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August 12, 2005
The spate of bad weather in the Spice Isle Grenada may have forced some citizens to seek refuge away from their shores. But for some, their method of ...
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August 12, 2005
Michael Brathwaithe, a man who gave his address as Barbados got a stern warning from Magistrate Carl Joseph last Tuesday. That was after he pleaded gu...
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August 12, 2005
Calvert Henry, a 24-year-old Peruvian Vale labourer was arrested and charged for having 49 grammes of cannabis at Yambou August 6, and Derrick Ryan a ...