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October 15th, 2014
Denzil Wheatley & Samuel Harris in jail again

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Acceding to bail applications by their respective Attorneys at Law in the High Court during the previous assizes, the Judge had granted bail to two men, Denzil Wheatley and Samuel Harris pending their trial which is now scheduled for November 17, 2014.

October 14th, 2014
Eleanor King beat her lover’s woman on Valentine’s night

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – When Eleanor King appeared not to have been the 2014 Valentine’s night pick of her partner Mr Elroy Barnwell and found him in bed with the mother of his child she allegedly took matters into her own hands and dealt the woman Sherona Martin several blows in the early morning hours of February 15, 2014.

October 13th, 2014
UPDATE: Kavarne Richards remanded for Cornel M. Francis’ murder

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Kavarne Richards, 28, has been remanded to prison today October 13, 2014 after he appeared before Magistrate Ayana Baptiste-DaBreo following his arrest in relation to the murder of Cornel Melbourne Francis which occurred on May 9, 2013 at Long Look Sticket.

October 10th, 2014
$5K fine for Colin Sinclair for failing to declare cash

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Colin Sinclair was fined $5,000 to be paid by January 30, 2015 or serve six months in prison when he appeared before Magistrate Ayana Baptiste-DaBreo yesterday October 9, 2014.

October 10th, 2014
UPDATE: Police say 4 officers interdicted from duty

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Following this news site’s reporting of the submission to the Governor a petition signed by over 50 percent of officers on the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force calling for an investigation into corruption, the Police today October 10, 2014 announced that four officers who had been sent on compulsory leave have now been interdicted from duty.

October 9th, 2014
Former Cayman Islands Premier Cleared of All Criminal Charges

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Former Cayman Islands Premier McKeeva Bush has been found not guilty of 11 charges of misconduct and breach of trust.

October 9th, 2014
Giovanni Richardson admits to charge of burglary

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – When Giovanni Richardson turned up in the Magistrate’s Court today October 9, 2014 on a charge of burglary he changed his plea from not guilty to guilty, a move which averts a trial and one which will see him knowing his fate on October 14, 2014.

October 9th, 2014
Marvin Robinson & Wendell Anthony guilty of beating Brandon George

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Yesterday October 8, 2014 when Magistrate Dr. Velon L. John announced guilty verdicts for Police Officers Marvin Robinson and Wendell ‘Food’ Anthony who were charged for beating 18 year old Brandon George back in 2012 and one relative said that the battle for justice has only just begun.

October 8th, 2014
‘We need whistleblowing legislation!' – Doug Wheatley

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Talk Show host Doug Wheatley believes it is important to have whistleblowing legislation and the mechanism for persons to make reports when things are not being done as prescribed by law or standards in state and other agencies.

October 8th, 2014
Alberto Rosa De La Rosa back on the waiting list for trial

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – It will be some more months of sitting behind the bars of his prison cell at Her Majesty’s Prison, Balsum Ghut before he returns to the High Court of the Virgin Islands for his trial to get started having been extradited from the United States to face trial for alleged manslaughter.

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