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One Venezuelan jailed, five deported
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November 12, 2004
Juan Lopez, one of six Venezuelan nationals arrested at sea by the Rapid Respoce Unit and members of the Coast Guard patrol, will spend the next 32 mo...
Wilson found guilty again
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November 12, 2004
For the second time in two years, Harry Wilson has been found guilty of murdering his two-year-old daughter, Arielle, attempting to murder his five-ye...
Jack slapped with theft charge
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November 12, 2004
Twenty-seven-year old Roland Jack of Kingstown was on Monday remanded in custody on charges of theft and robbery. Jack is accused of stealing a gold c...
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November 5, 2004
Desron Griffith, a 32-year-old New Grounds man, is into a 28-month jail sentence. The penalty came last Wednesday when he pleaded guilty to a drug pos...
Three charged with murder at Walvaroo
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November 5, 2004
Three persons have been charged for 35-year-old carpenter Casper Caine’s death. Caine was gunned down near his Walvaroo home Wednesday, October 20. ...
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October 29, 2004
A seventy-three year old woman and a 49-year-old man of Coulls Hill have been acquitted of an unlawful sexual intercourse charge. Elfreda Williams and...
Lawyer proposes law scholarship for prosecutor
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October 29, 2004
A call has been made for Serious Offences Court prosecutor, Sergeant Adolphus Delpesche, to be granted a scholarship to pursue law studies. Former Dis...
Teenager charged with armed robbery
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October 29, 2004
Nineteen-year-old Sonnel Caine of Dauphine was on Tuesday arrested and charged in Saturday’s robbery which left Dauphine businessman Godrick Nichols...
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October 29, 2004
Rose Hall resident Carmen Murray was fined $12,000 for marijuana Tuesday. Murray, a trafficker, appeared before the Serious Offences Court and pleaded...
Three charged in Walvaroo murder
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October 29, 2004
One week after thirty-five year old Casper Caine was gunned-down near his Walvarroo home, police have arrested and charged three persons for murder. S...
‘Terrorist’ gets 6 more years
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October 29, 2004
A labourer of Hadley’s Village got his two year jail term extended last Friday when the High Court imposed another sentence on him. Lennox Phillips,...
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October 15, 2004
Police on Tuesday arrested and charged three men for the Sunday evening robbery of the Richardson Motors gas station at Arnos Vale. The three, Grenadi...
Venezuelan shot, 35 lbs cocaine seized
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October 15, 2004
Six Venezuelan nationals arrested here in the waters off Pigeon Island near Bequia Friday evening will not be seeing their homeland for at least a few...
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October 15, 2004
“The sentences which should be imposed should reflect the fact that you terrorised the community”. Chief Magistrate Simone Churaman made the comme...
Jamal Dyer gets PI date
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October 15, 2004
Jamal Dyer, (at left) a 21-year-old mechanic of Chateaubelair, returns to court January 27 for preliminary investigations into a murder charge. {{more...
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October 8, 2004
Thirty-six-year-old Kelbert Sandy of Lowmans Hill was sentenced to three years on three counts of indecent assault. Sandy was accused of indecently as...
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October 8, 2004
Accused child molester Gosnel Antoine, 49, of South Windward will know his fate next week Thursday. Antoine pleaded guilty to having unlawful sexual i...
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October 8, 2004
Last Thursday 30 September, Milton DaSouza a machete wielding middle-aged man chopped his girlfriend leaving her for dead and then drank the deadly we...
Eight murder cases for October Assizes
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October 8, 2004
Eight cases of murder are among the fifty cases listed for the October sitting of the criminal assizes which began on Tuesday before the High Court. O...
Brewster gets another sentence
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October 8, 2004
Twenty year old Dexter Brewster of Kingstown received another prison sentence when he pleaded guilty to robbery on Tuesday. Brewster was accused of ro...
Man charged for Browne murder
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October 8, 2004
For the second time in 2004, murder has reared its ugly head in the small village of Carriere. Dead is Percy Browne, a butcher, farmer and family man....
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October 1, 2004
Less than three hours after the court placed him on a bond for assaulting and wounding his son, a 65-year-old man of South Union was killed by his cut...
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October 1, 2004
The spate of robberies allegedly carried out in Paul’s Avenue by a notorious law-breaker is causing much concern to the court. Court Prosecutor, Ins...
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October 1, 2004
Thirty-four-year-old Andy Carberry of Villa was on Tuesday fined $30,000 when he pleaded guilty to possessing 35 pounds of marijuana with intent to su...
Vincy, Trini on drug charges
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October 1, 2004
Vincentian national Alex Lawrence and Trinidadian Nigel Arneaud (25) were last week arrested and charged with drug possession. Lawrence, who lived at ...
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September 24, 2004
The Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal this week freed two men convicted of sex crimes. The court on Monday delivered a judgement quashing David Jobe's...
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September 24, 2004
The public, anxiously awaiting a judgment from the Court of Appeal, will have to wait a while longer. The public had anticipated that the judgment on ...
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September 24, 2004
The Philmore Dunbar appeal against conviction and sentence in the murder of a double amputee, retired nurse Marjorie Ince of Vermont, was among some 5...
Sir Dennis, Justice Redhead lauded
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September 24, 2004
Acting Chief Justice, Vincentian national Adrian Saunders has lauded former Chief Justice Sir Dennis Byron and retired Justice Albert Redhead's contri...
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September 17, 2004
Police have disclosed that no one was criminally liable for the death of a South Rivers infant earlier this month. At a sitting of the Serious Offence...
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September 17, 2004
Thirty-five year old Nicholas Stanley, 35, of Old Montrose has until September 30 to pay fines amounting to $4,500 for possessing a firearm and $500 f...
Teenager charged in Lowmans murder
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September 17, 2004
Investigators have made an arrest in the recent Lowman’s Hill murder. Last week police arrested and charged seventeen year old Lowmans Hill mason Ra...
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September 10, 2004
Local investigators have little to boast about this year relating to their success in solving murders. Last year detectives from the Major Crime Unit ...
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September 10, 2004
Some fifty cases have been proposed for the October sitting of the criminal assizes. Director of Public Prosecutions (Ag) Colin Williams told Searchli...
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September 10, 2004
Dominican national Rawlin Rolle was on Wednesday imprisoned for possessing a narcotic substance with intent to supply. Rolle was convicted by the Seri...
Youngster jailed for wounding Cop
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September 3, 2004
Twenty-year old Terrance Robinson of Penniston was on Tuesday sentenced to nine months in prison when he appeared before the Kingstown Magistrate’s ...
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September 3, 2004
Head of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Superintendent Ernest James has made a call for investigators to be exposed to more training and ...
Policeman acquitted of assault
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September 3, 2004
A member of the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force was reinstated last month, more than one month after he had been acquitted of a crim...
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August 27, 2004
A young mother of two was imprisoned Monday after she claimed she trespassed in a Gibson Corner residence “to provide” for her children. Shereka P...
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August 27, 2004
A Campden Park man was slapped with two three-month sentences Monday when he appeared before the No. 1 Kingstown Magistrate Court. Oscar Samuel pleade...
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August 27, 2004
“That offence is as serious as having the real thing. Being in possession of an imitation firearm is just as serious, in the view of the law, as hav...
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August 20, 2004
A Nigerian national, Guyanese citizen Caesar Carlos Chukwuemeka, was arrested here for marijuana possession last week. The Narcotics Division arrested...
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August 20, 2004
A Civil Society Organizations Bill, to go before the House of Assembly, is causing some reactions here. The Bill, dated 8 July, 2004, aimed at providi...