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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...
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August 20, 2004
No one will be prosecuted for the February 11, 2002 murder of three French nationals and a Belgian. After more than two years of investigations, and a...
Regional broadcast for new Law Term
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August 20, 2004
Persons throughout the Caribbean will get an opportunity to view the opening ceremony of the new Law Term. The opening ceremony, scheduled for Septemb...
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August 13, 2004
Venice Welcome of Ottley Hall was sentenced to three months in prison after she pleaded guilty to a wounding charge earlier this week. Welcome, a cart...
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August 13, 2004
A twenty-six year old resident of Questelles is expected to return to the No.1 Kingstown Magistrate Court, today, Friday, to be sentenced for criminal...
Hackshaw asks for different Magistrate
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August 13, 2004
Queens Drive resident Eric Hackshaw doesn’t want his court hearing to be presided over by Senior Magistrate Carl Joseph, a former politician who con...
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August 6, 2004
Bentley Laidlow Johnson, a thirty-year old entertainer of Arnos Vale, has been imprisoned for breaching a court order and other offences. Appearing be...
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August 6, 2004
“I have no reason not to believe your father and what your father said. I don’t believe your father, an old man as he is, 78, will come here to te...
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August 6, 2004
Seventeen-year- old Kamal De Freitas of Ottley Hall was fined $250 when he appeared before the No.1 Kingstown Magisterial Court, charged with unlawful...
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July 30, 2004
Harris Dalzell, a labourer of no fixed place of abode, will spend the next month in jail. His sentence came last Monday when he pleaded guilty to assa...
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July 30, 2004
An Elder of the local Nyahbinghi Church has until August 24 to pay $1,500. The fine was imposed at the Number one Kingstown Magistrate Court. Police a...
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July 30, 2004
“I will not give you the opportunity to pay a fine. You are going straight to jail.” Those were the words Senior Magistrate Carl Joseph directed t...
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July 23, 2004
“You have a bad record, a very bad record… the attack on the defenceless lady was totally uncalled for”. Senior Magistrate Carl Joseph made the ...
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July 23, 2004
A twenty-four year old mechanic of Murray’s Village has been jailed for burglary. Allain Williams began an eight-month sentence last Tuesday when he...
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July 16, 2004
The educational development of a thirteen-year-old pupil from the Leeward side of the island has been hampered by pregnancy. The pupil, who passed the...
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July 16, 2004
Twenty-three-year-old Natasha John of Fair Hall, who was imprisoned for cocaine last week, has issued an application of appeal. John, represented by l...