A new executive has been elected for the St Vincent and the Grenadines Bar Association for the 2023 - 2025 term. The Executive members are: President Shirlan “Zita” Barnwell of Thomas and Barnwell Chambers; Vice President Moureeze Franklyn, Crown Counsel of the Attorney General Chambers; Treasurer Jadric Cummings of Cardinal Law Firm; Secretary Patricia Marks-Minors of Marks and Marks Law Firm; Committee members: Chelsea Alexander of ZHE Chambers, Dalana Horne …
A parliamentarian and a lawyer who are among those restricted or prohibited by the Government from parking in the Court House Yard are seeking to challenge this decision in court, describing it as illegal, unreasonable and irrational.
A PASTOR HAS failed in his bid to receive compensation for what he alleged were defamatory comments made on Hot 97.1 FM. The claim made by Sigmund Wiggins was dismissed in its entirety in a judgment delivered by High Court Judge, Nicola Byer. It had been claimed by Wiggins that hosts of the AM Mayhem show made defamatory statements of him as a Minister of Religion on October 3, 2018, …
THE COURT HAS frowned upon the attitude of an offender who admitted to beating up a man because he knew of the said individual as being of a particular sexual orientation. At the High Court last week, three young men faced up to 14 years imprisonment for the offence of unlawful and malicious wounding, and up to 30 years incarceration for robbery. One of these men, Douglas Baptiste, who claimed …
THE COURT HAS frowned upon the attitude of an offender who admitted to beating up a man because he knew of the said individual as being of a particular sexual orientation. At the High Court last week, three young men faced up to 14 years imprisonment for the offence of unlawful and malicious wounding, and up to 30 years incarceration for robbery. One of these men, Douglas Baptiste, who claimed …