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Joseph ”Bull’ John of Sandy Bay leaves the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on June 5, 2023

‘Bull’ guilty of stealing farmer’s pigeon peas 

A 44-year-old farmer has received a suspended prison sentence for picking a 77-year-old farmer’s pigeon peas. At his arraignment, the defendant, Joseph “Bull” John, of London, Sandy Bay, pleaded not…

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The defendant, Margaret Smith, holds her youngest child outside High Court No. 1, in Kingstown, on May 22, 2023, one of the days on which her sentencing was scheduled to take place.

Grandma’s offer of $32,000 in compensation helps stave off prison time for chopping goddaughter 

A 40-year-old grandmother who in May 2018 chopped her god-daughter on the arm resulting in surgery and 275 stitches has been ordered to pay EC$32,500 in compensation within three months…

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