A magistrate has chastised a youth for “chucking” a conductor in his throat and boxing him about his face repeatedly after refusing to pay the van fare.
A Penniston resident, for whom the prosecutor and a lawyer pleaded for a non-custodial sentence, has been jailed for beating his girlfriend. Shawn Collis, 39 appeared at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on October 25 before Magistrate John Ballah where he pleaded guilty to the charge that on October 5, 2023 at Pembroke he did unlawfully and maliciously wound Shanice Williams, 23 of Cane Grove. According to the facts which were …
A lawyer has argued for the discontinuation of a case brought against a teacher who is alleged to have obstructed the Prime Minister from entering the House of Assembly while a protest was taking place in Kingstown. When teacher and activist Adriana King first appeared before the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court to answer to her charge in 2021, her charge read that she obstructed Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves from proceeding …