Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Police Officer arrested, charged and taken before the court on drug possession charges

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bailed for $750.00? I am sure this is a mistake. You mean $7,500, don't you?

August 7, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Anonymous said...

police and other members of the judiciary are not immune to criminal activity.So to those of us who make them out to be saints and want to continue putting them above the law, then we need to know why they are now being subject to the laws they claim to uphold. It is sad. St Lucia is becoming quite part of the globalized system...even those we deem respectful now join the ranks of those they seek to eliminate. Are the hunters now becoming the hunted?

August 7, 2012 at 10:38 AM
Anonymous said...

@ 9:38 AM......No Darling it is what it is $750.00 After all this is St.Lucia where all criminals are welcome to commit their crimes and when caught they get the lowest bail in the entire Caribbean.This is why I have lots of respect for the people and the island of Dominica the Magistrate would put a heafty amount of cash for that looser bail especially he is a man of law he was looking at $100,000.00 and that is no joke. I think the Magistrate back home did it 4 A cut.

August 7, 2012 at 2:36 PM
armchair anonymous said...

$750.00 on EACH charge x 3 charges = $2250 - and even THAT I find is too low a bail charge!! It is high time that our judiciary system amend their archaic laws (as well as their furniture, environment, buildings, etc).

Maybe, the amount of cannabis found in his possession was too small ... who knows ...

Again, the reporter of this story does not give a full and proper account - does not do his journalistic duty to be "investigative"!!

August 7, 2012 at 3:02 PM
THE UWP P.R.O. said...

C W HARROW?????? :AVOKA"

THIS IS JUST THE KOUMANSE

PLE TA PLE PLE TWIS

LATER 4 MATE,WE!!!!!!!!

August 7, 2012 at 6:28 PM
Anonymous said...

well done police.

August 8, 2012 at 7:34 AM
Anonymous said...

Who will guard the guard?

August 8, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Lucianscorpio said...

Wait a minute, a police officer in the discharge of his duty (at the court house no less) is discovered to be in possession of marijuana & is bailed less than $3,000, while a civilian (yet another officer of the court) is bailed $100,000 for issuing a cheque that bounced? ....

I'm not saying that both men's actions weren't criminal, but why the great disparity in the amounts charged for bail? Something just doesn't seem right to me about that .... Didn't the officer's actions constitute a serious breach of trust? .... His superiors and the civilian population at large trust him to uphold the law and not break it, buy virtue of his position ....

Sheeeeesh!!! Only in Saint Lucia .... Something is very, very wrong with our laws .... By the way, whatever became of the police officer who was caught in the act of sodomizing the mentally challenged boy?

On another note, why do I get the impression that the newspaper employee who wrote this (I refuse to use the term "journalist" so loosely or to qualify these sentences as "journalism") just copied/summarised/re-typed Trevor Constantine's reports without without even giving the matters any thought? (I can imagine Trevor Constantine reading these reports in his clipped tone during a press briefing.) .... Come on, Mr. Newspaper Employee, even primary school children are taught to employ the elements of who, what, where, when, why when writing narrative pieces .... Like I said earlier, "only in St. Lucia" ....

August 11, 2012 at 7:02 PM
Anonymous said...

$750 bail? This is the reason why there are so many crooked police officers in St. Lucia. They know they can commit the crime and get away with it. How much would be bail for a civilian who committed a similar offense? Given the officer's position of power, his bail should be set much, much higher.

August 12, 2012 at 7:36 AM

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