A native of the neighbouring US Virgin Islands who reportedly attacked another man with a cutlass was remanded in custody yesterday when he appeared in a British Virgin Islands court. Moments earlier, Treh Williams pleaded guilty to assault causing actual […]

A motorist will have to pay more than $100,000 in compensation after the vehicle he was driving became involved in a serious accident on January 30, 2012. The High Court heard that the victim, Kim Russell Romney, ‘suffered severe injuries’ […]

East End resident Shamika Bute yesterday pleaded guilty to dangerous driving in relation to a two-vehicle crash that left all parties involved hospitalized. Magistrate Ayanna Baptiste DaBreo fined Bute $400 for the offence. She has until next week to pay […]

Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards fined and jailed a Jost Van Dyke resident who pleaded guilty to three counts of illegal entry. In addition to a $2,000 fine to be paid forthwith, Dexter Donovan was sentenced to one year at Her […]

Two cousins slapped with immigration charges have been fined $1,000 each. Kendel Jeremy, a native of the Commonwealth of Dominica who came to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) last year as a tourist, was charged with overstaying. Twenty-three year-old Pockwood […]

Kenyatta Boynes must serve a minimum of 30 years in prison before he becomes eligible for parole in relation to the 2014 murder of Paul Prentice. Justice Nicola Byer handed down that sentence in the High Court this morning, February […]

Cordell O’Neal, the son of former legislator Irene Penn-O’Neal, has received a reduced prison sentence for gun offences to which he pleaded guilty two years ago. The Court of Appeal last Friday reduced his sentence from seven years and 10 […]

Denvil Lettsome, a 65-year-old businessman who was reportedly caught on tape threatening to pour acid on a woman, has appeared before the Magistrate’s Court. Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards granted the Josiah’s Bay resident $35,000 bail. It is alleged that, on […]

Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards has suspended a motorist’s driver’s licence following reports that he crashed into a perimeter fence at a water plant while driving under the influence of drug and alcohol. Kevin Small is now facing four charges as […]

Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards has fined Jamari Lucien $6,000 for cultivation of three marijuana plants. After being fined, Lucien asked the court if he could pay $500 per month. But Magistrate Richards noted that, if he pays that sum at […]