A member of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force has described as misguided, an alleged attempt to conceal cocaine in buckets of mortar-like substances presumably from sniffer dogs. Detective Constable Thomas Himbury made the remark while he testified yesterday in […]

In a written judgment handed down this month, the High Court has given a summary of the social inquiry report done before it sentenced Kenyatta Boynes to life imprisonment with possible parole after 30 years for the offences of murder […]

A man who trespassed into a family’s residence and groped a woman on her buttocks has been granted $30,000 bail in the Magistrate’s Court. Marshall Senhouse pleaded guilty to criminal trespass, being armed with an offensive weapon, and indecent assault […]

Trevon Johnny has been brought before the Magistrate’s Court for allegedly choking his wife and smashing her cellular phone. The 36-year-old accused pleaded guilty to criminal damage, but not guilty to common assault and being armed with an offensive weapon. […]

A man who admitted to injuring his lover after accusing her of paying more attention to other men than him has been put on $50,000 signed bail. Delwin Percival, 29, was granted bail after he pleaded guilty to assault occasioning […]

Governor John Duncan has ordered the deportation of US Virgin Islands (USVI) native Camille King Jr, who was sentenced last year for a myriad of offences including illegal possession of a firearm. The deportation order was made on March 8 […]

Carlos Gumbs has boycotted the Magistrate’s Court. That was the information relayed to the court yesterday (March 8) when a three-year-old matter involving Gumbs was called up for trial. Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards was told that Gumbs has refused to […]

Evon Witter, a Jamaican woman living in Purcell Estate on Tortola, has been brought before the Magistrate’s Court for allegedly making death threats. She was granted $40,000 bail during her appearance before Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards this month. Allegations read […]

The British Virgin Islands’ first trial surrounding the posting of alleged obscene image on social networking site Facebook got underway today (March 7), moments after the accused Ramoamasagana ‘Masa’ Pemberton pleaded not guilty to obscene publication. Pemberton, a well-known social […]

Police firearm expert Durville Carty was called to testify in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday in the case against a boat captain and a passenger who were arrested last November in relation to a firearm seized in the British Virgin Islands […]