The National Newspaper of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
FRIDAY,
AUGUST 24, 2012
VOLUME 106, No. 34
BY WILLIAM ‘KOJAH’ ANTHONY ‘Aliza’, and stealing US$3,200.00, on August 7, INCIDENTS OF BURGLARY and 2012. theft on yachts visiting St. The others sentenced in Vincent and the Grenadines will relation to the matter were not be dealt with lightly. Tanisha Forde, an This seemed to have been unemployed 18-year old, who the attitude which Senior was sentenced to three Magistrate Sonya Young months, and Genelia Forde, a intended to convey when she 38-year-old bartender, to four sat at the Serious Offences months, both for having Court, last Wednesday. received stolen property. During that sitting, she They were charged, August handed down sentence on four 20. residents from Mayreau, all Tanisha received US$1300 charged in relation to and handed over US$1,000 to burglary and theft from a the Police. The remainder was yacht anchored off the Tobago unaccounted for. Genelia Cays. received US1100. Jordan Forde was sentenced to nine months in The incident jail and Jason Alexander six months for the same offence. The Court heard that the They pleaded guilty to theft men boarded the yacht and burglary when they chartered by an American, appeared before Senior Jose Calderin. Magistrate Sonya Young at Calderin, a New York based the Serious Offences Court, designer, had chartered the last Wednesday. yacht, ‘Aliza’, in Grenada, and Forde and Alexander were arrived in the Tobago Cays at arrested and jointly charged 12.05 pm, August 7, 2012. with entering the yacht, He secured the vessel and went ashore for dinner at 6.30pm. When he returned to Above left: Tanisha Forde was charged and sentenced the boat at 8:30pm, he found with receiving stolen money. it ransacked and over US$3,000 removed. He reported the matter to Left: Genelia Forde was also the Union Island Police. sentenced for receiving and retaining money known to be Investigations led to the arrest of Jordan Forde and stolen.
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Jason Alexander. Forde explained to the court that he went to pick whelks and saw that the boat “was empty” (unmanned). He confessed that he removed some money from the boat, with the intention of assisting his mother who has four children to send to school. “I was only trying to help her,” he told Magistrate Young.
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Sonya Young, Senior Magistrate, considers robberies committed against yacht persons as terrible acts.
represented Jason Alexander, assured Magistrate Young that there will be no appeal in the matter. Young ordered that the men write a letter to the American expressing their remorse. That draft was expected to be on her desk by A terrible act 4 pm yesterday, Thursday. She promised to ‘vet’ the Magistrate Young described letter, and threatened to affix the men’s behavior as “terrible additional time to the men’s for St. Vincent and the penalty if it was not up to her Grenadines.” standard. She echoed that the nation Young’s effort to send a “relies heavily on tourism.” message to those who would The Magistrate was upset, want to perpetrate such and outlined to the accused crimes, may have been men: “You are destroying my undermined. While awaiting breadfruit tree.” transport to the prison, one of She issued a restitution the men sentenced shouted order on the money recovered, that the Prison was going to and reminded the convicts of make him tougher. their right to appeal. “They only breeding However, lawyer Mira criminals in this place,” he Commissiong, who stated.