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June 8th, 2019
27-year-old riddled with bullets in STT

VI CONSORTIUM

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI— The body of a man was discovered in Coki Point, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands (USVI) Thursday night, June 6, 2019 after concerned residents reported the firing of gunshots in the area, [US] Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) Public Information Officer Glen Dratte has confirmed to The Consortium.

June 4th, 2019
Woman arrested for smuggling contraband into HMP

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A woman was arrested and charged by the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) for allegedly smuggling prohibited items into Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) in Balsam Ghut, Tortola.

June 4th, 2019
Man sentenced to 19 years for tossing boy off mall balcony

DAILY HERALD

NEW YORK- A man who admitted hurling a 5-year-old boy off a third-floor balcony at Minnesota’s Mall of America was sentenced to 19 years in prison on Monday.

June 3rd, 2019
DR men found with fake VI visas ordered deported

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- It was on Wednesday November 14, 2018 that three men from the Dominican Republic were sentenced to 10 months at Her Majesty’s Prison in Balsam Ghut, Tortola, after they were found with passports containing fake [British] Virgin Islands visas.

June 3rd, 2019
USVI woman allegedly beats daughter with machete @ school

VI CONSORTIUM

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI- A woman in St Thomas, US Virgin Islands (USVI) has been charged with assault after using a belt and a machete to beat her daughter at the Ivanna Eudora Kean High School in St Thomas, [US] Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) Public Information Officer Glen Dratte has announced.

May 31st, 2019
R. Kelly facing 11 more sex crime charges

BBC NEWS

R. Kelly has been charged with 11 more sexual offences, according to US media.

May 30th, 2019
Arrests reportedly made in relation to VG shooting & robbery

VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI- Several persons were reportedly taken into custody, yesterday, May 29, 2019, as police continued their investigations into the shooting and robbery incident that occurred on Virgin Gorda on May 24, 2019.

May 30th, 2019
USVI man sentenced to life without parole for 2015 murder

VI CONSORTIUM

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI — Attorney General Designee Denise N. George announced Wednesday, May 29, 2019 that K’Moi Corraspe, who shot and killed Kadeem John inside a housing community, was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, [US] Virgin Islands Department of Justice Public Media Officer Corliss Smithen made known via press release today, May 30, 2019.

May 29th, 2019
Vincentian man accused of holding knife to girlfriend’s throat

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A native of St Vincent and the Grenadines, living in North Sound, Virgin Gorda, has been accused of holding a knife to his girlfriend’s throat and threatening her.

May 28th, 2019
'Gov’t has zero tolerance on crime'– Premier on latest murder

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – With Vincentian Rohan Williams, 37, charged and remanded for the murder of local woman Lenia Lettsome-Green, Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) took a moment to extend deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the slain woman.

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