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August 16th, 2022
USVI widow convicted of stabbing husband to death 17 years ago

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI — The [US] Virgin Islands Department of Justice on Monday, August 15, 2022, announced that a Superior Court jury found Jacques Cajuste and Viviane Stuart guilty of murder after a stabbing in 2005 left businessman Egbert Stuart aka 'Manno' dead.

May 10th, 2022
Tarik Aaron found guilty on drug charge

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Tarik Aaron was convicted by Senior Magistrate Tamia N. Richards on the charge of Possession of a Controlled Drug with intent to Supply, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions announced in a statement on May 10, 2022.

April 25th, 2022
USVI boxer Guilty on 6 counts of Child Sexual Abuse & Child Porn

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI- A federal jury on Friday, April 22, 2022, returned guilty verdicts on all six counts of child sexual abuse and child pornography production charges against St Thomas, US Virgin Islands (USVI) boxer John A. Jackson, who in February 2019 was arrested by federal authorities. As a result of the verdict, Jackson faces 15 years to life in prison.

March 30th, 2022
US$805K found on vessel in June 2020 forfeited to Crown; Duo found guilty

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- US Virgin Islands (USVI) national Kemel Stefon Wilson and Dominican Republic national Alberto Campusano Valera, who were arrested in June 2020 on a vessel where US$805, 370 were recovered by HM Customs, have been found guilty of several charges by Senior Magistrate Tamia N. Richards.

March 22nd, 2022
Jamaicans demand slavery reparations as UK Royal visit shunned

KINGSTON, Jamaica – A scheduled Jamaica visit by UK Royal’s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, as part of a larger trip to the Caribbean region has sparked fresh calls for slavery reparations to be paid to the people of the region.

February 22nd, 2022
Clifton Stoutt gets 8 months @ HMP for burglarising Island Sizzle

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- On Monday, February 21, 2021, Baughers Bay resident Clifton Stoutt was sentenced to eight months behind bars for burglarising Island Sizzle in the same community on November 16, 2021.

February 18th, 2022
Vincentian sentenced to 7 months jail for illegal entry

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- St Vincent and the Grenadines native, Mr Allidain Bristol, 33, was earlier this week slapped with a seven-month custodial sentence for entering the [British] Virgin Islands illegally.

February 11th, 2022
Vincy man guilty of Illegal Entry to be sentenced on Valentine’s Day

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- St Vincent and the Grenadines national Allidain Bristol, 33, pleaded guilty to Illegal Entry when he appeared virtually before Magistrate Khadeen Palmer on Thursday, February 10, 2022.

July 21st, 2021
5 UK MPs from PM Johnson’s party found guilty of breaching Code of Conduct

LONDON, United Kingdom- As the United Kingdom-sponsored Commission of Inquiry (CoI) called by ex-Governor Augustus J. U. Jaspert, the close buddy of the beleaguered UK Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson aka ‘Boris’, has been nailing Virgin Islands legislators to the cross for not complying to the Register of Interests Act, they need not look at the VI to find persons with sin as it is right at home in the UK, and in the UK government.

June 22nd, 2021
Brother of magistrate convicted on gun charges

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The youngest brother of Senior Magistrate Tamia N. Richards, Kavarne Richards, was convicted by Magistrate Christilyn Benjamin on gun charges, following the conclusion of his trial on Monday, June 21 2021.

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