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December 6th, 2015
Xmas lights along Waterfront Drive vandalised

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Not even a full 24 hours after they were installed, the Christmas lights put up along Water Front Drive were cut by vandals.

December 5th, 2015
Winston ‘Salsa’ Skeete accused of assaulting female

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Winston Skeete known as ‘Salsa’ appeared before Magistrate Ayana Baptiste-DaBreo yesterday December 4, 2015 charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

December 5th, 2015
USVI woman charged with sex trafficking of minor; faces life in prison

VI CONSORTIUM

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, ST Thomas, USVI- Jennifer Bowen-Dodoo, 51, made her initial appearance in District Court on December 4, 2015 before District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez after her arrest on St Thomas Thursday for sex trafficking of a 13-year-old female minor, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced via press release.

December 4th, 2015
‘Masa’ in trouble with the law again!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Controversial entertainment website personality Ramoamasagana 'Masa' Pemberton appeared today, December 4, 2015, before Magistrate Ayana Baptiste-DaBreo charged with criminal trespass and common assault to which he pleaded not guilty.

December 4th, 2015
‘Please consider deportation’ for Sofia– pleads Valerie Stephens-Gordon

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Since his arrest on July 1, 2015 Filipino Rommel Sofia had been full of remorse over his crime. According to his attorney at law Valerie Stephens-Gordon, he had initially denied the accusations but later during a police interview he admitted to the alleged crime.

December 4th, 2015
UPDATE: ‘Court does not believe VC was lying’ – Magistrate Ayana Baptiste-DaBreo

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – It was a sordid tale of Bible study gone wrong, the promise of a cell phone and text messages apologising and threatening suicide when the raw details of the allegations against child sex accused Oliver J. Lewis were summed up by Magistrate Ayana Baptiste-DaBreo as she handed down her sentence yesterday December 3, 2015.

December 3rd, 2015
Explosives found @ home of couple that killed 14 in california

BBC NEWS

The attackers who killed 14 people and wounded 21 at a social services centre in California had an arsenal of weaponry in their home, police said.

December 3rd, 2015
Marijuana plantation uncovered on Virgin Gorda

VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI – In an operation last week, officers from the Virgin Gorda Police Station, along with a Special Investigations Team, uncovered a large marijuana plantation on Virgin Gorda.

December 3rd, 2015
Officer accused of slapping youth who called him 'punk'

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A young man charged with resisting arrest, assault on a Police Officer and using indecent language will return to court on January 20, 2016 for continuation.

December 2nd, 2015
Police accused of planting weapon @ VG home

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – An officer of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force today December 2, 2015 brought some humour to the Magistrate's Court in John's Hole when he responded he was not famed civil rights activist Reverend Martin Luther King Jr when asked whether he had a dream regarding some testimony that he gave in a drug case against two persons from Virgin Gorda.

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