Couple ordered to pay costs over aborted court action

Christopher Matis and Venette Jerome were yesterday both ordered to pay court costs after refusing to proceed with assault and property damage charges that they brought against each other.

When they appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, Matis was charged with unlawfully assaulting Jerome on January 28, at Toucan Drive, South Ruimveldt. Jerome, meanwhile,