Jahnoy Walters is back before the Magistrate’s Court; this time charged with common assault, using threatening language, and criminal damage. The Purcell Estate resident was granted $45,000 bail after he pleaded not guilty to the charges when he appeared before […]

Two estranged lovers have been called before the Magistrate’s Court for allegedly committing offences against each other. Thirty-three year-old David Winter is accused of assaulting his 25-year-old ex-lover Deidra Massicotte. Massicotte, on the other hand, is charged with criminal damage […]

A man who burglarized three business-places last year, Shadrach Thompson, has been sent to Her Majesty’s Prison as punishment. He received a suspended sentence for one of the crimes, but will serve a year and four months in prison for […]

The government has lost a long-running legal battle brought by businessman Glanville Penn, who has been awarded $286,796 as well as legal costs. Penn, who operates the Turtle Dove Restaurant at Terrance B Lettsome International Airport, had taken the Attorney […]

While hinting that further detention of a certain vessel may end up costing taxpayers, attorney-at-law Valerie Stephens-Gordon yesterday promised to write a letter to the Customs Department and the Attorney General Chambers seeking the release of the boat. Stephens-Gordon appeared […]

Prosecutors are depending on telephone records, CCTV footage, travel records, alleged inconsistency in utterances, and forensics as they seek to have a 38-year-old native of the Dominican Republic, Santo Yamarco Hernandez, convicted of murder. The accused was denied bail today […]

Richard Thomas, who police found with 610 seedling marijuana plants, was sentenced to two years imprisonment. That sentence was however suspended for two years. That means the 63-year-old offender will only serve the jail time if he commits another offence […]

Deputy Premier Dr Kedrick Pickering said a children and family court is needed in the British Virgin Islands, adding that he anticipates social and family problems to only worsen as the territory becomes more prosperous. “We are getting to the […]

Police have charged 29-year-old Deron Walters of Fat Hogs Bay on Tortola following the seizure of 14 blocks of cocaine, which the law enforcers said has a street value of $1.5 million. He is charged with unlawful possession of cocaine, […]

Defence attorney Marlon Gordon, who is representing three of the four men currently on trial for possession of some 80 kilograms of cocaine, has accused Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards of being biased in the proceedings. “Ma’am, I don’t feel like […]