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February 9th, 2012
VG man 'fesses up' to assaulting 10 year-old!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The first trial in the February High Court criminal assizes wrapped up yesterday, Wednesday February 8, 2012 with the defendant Bernard Charles pleading guilty to indecently assaulting a 10 year-old.

February 7th, 2012
Andre Penn ordered to produce lawyer by Feb. 27

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Former legislator, Andre Penn, has two weeks to inform the court who will be his attorney when he re-appears in the High Court on February 27, 2012.

January 27th, 2012
Immigration Officer to face the heat on March 27


ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – March 27, 2012 is the date set aside to try an Immigration Officer of five years - Walter Maduro - who has been charged with five counts of breach of trust.

January 25th, 2012
Duo in ferry gun & ammo bust to stand trial March 2

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – While the file is ready, a certain course of action is expected to be taken in the case against Jerome Allen and Davin Thaxter, the duo implicated in the firearm and ammunition bust aboard a Smith’s ferry August last year, announced Crown Counsel Valston Graham during the Magistrate’s Court sitting on Monday, January 23, 2012.

December 21st, 2011
25 witnesses to be called in RT police station attack case

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Prosecutors intend to call some 25 witnesses to the stand when the three men implicated in the brazen attack on the Road Town police station in 2010 are brought to trial sometime during the February High Court criminal assizes, slated to commence on February 7, 2012.

December 14th, 2011
Driver accused of Tofficah Thompson’s death for 2012 trial

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Wendell Varlack, the driver who allegedly caused the death of a college student in April 2010, will stand trial on February 13, 2012 – close to two years after the tragic accident.

December 12th, 2011
Antiguan accused of stabbing wife to stand trial today

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – An Antiguan man accused of trying to kill his wife is scheduled to stand trial today Monday December 12, 2011 before a jury of his peers in the High Court.

December 9th, 2011
Bryan Rymer’s case adjourned again!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The 2009 case against Bryan Rymer, who is accused of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, attempting to choke, suffocate or strangle, and wounding with intent, will spill over into 2012 as the case has been adjourned again.

December 9th, 2011
HC Judge wants Henrietta Stapleton case disposed of quickly

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – It’s been over two years and yet Henrietta Christine Stapleton, who is accused of fleecing seniors of over $30,000, is yet to stand trial – one that Justice Indra Hariprashad-Charles had wanted to see completed in the October 2011 assizes.

November 23rd, 2011
Sprauve to stand trial Jan. 20 for $$$$ in suitcases

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A 38 year-old man fingered in transporting two suitcases of money to the Territory’s airport, and handing it over to an alleged accomplice for it to be flown overseas, will stand trial in the Magistrate’s Court on January 20, 2012.

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