Attorney General offers to provide temporary lodging for displaced court...
Staff at the Supreme Court of Barbados who do not wish to work at the problem-plagued Whitepark Road complex now have the option of being reassigned to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Attorney...
View ArticleI was provoked, says teen
An 18-year-old man, who admitted to assaulting a woman, says he was provoked. Adiko Rashad Stephone Reid, of 2J Nursery Close, Eden Lodge St Michael, committed the act against Naomi McDowall on April...
View ArticleLabourer ordered to pay fine
A 27-year-old labourer has one month to pay the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court a $2,000 fine. The money was imposed on Dario Tramaine Marshall, of Mount Friendship, St Michael, after he pleaded guilty...
View ArticlePrisoners testify
Two prisoners testified today in the No.5 Supreme Court in the robbery and indecent assault trial of Teddy Orlando McDonald Gill. Gill, who is self represented, sought to discredit the evidence given...
View ArticleBlunte jailed for multiple theft
A 40-year-old unemployed man will call HMP Dodds home for the next 36 months. Today, Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant imposed the sentence on Lawrence Nathaniel Hayden Blunte, of 3J Division Drive,...
View ArticleRepeat offender jailed after stealing two flat screen televisions in broad...
Repeat offender Kenneth Brathwaite has yet to retire from his life of crime at the ripe age of 62. The landscaper, who lives at 5th Avenue, New Orleans, St Michael, was sentenced to two years behind...
View ArticleMan accused of wounding his ex
A 34-year-old man has been remanded to Dodds prison for the next 28 days on a wounding charge. Iscah Mordecai Legal, of No. 148 Husbands, Gardens, St James, is accused of committing the act against his...
View ArticleBangle thief nabbed
Bangle snatcher Shamar Renaldo Welch is yet to know his fate. The Rockhampton Road, Grazettes, St Michael resident, who is currently on remand at HMP Dodds, previously pleaded guilty to nine theft...
View ArticleBusinessman released on bail
A 41-year-old man will make his next appearance in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on September 13. Troy Anthony Hinds, of No. 9, Heddings, St Philip, was granted $10,000 bail when he appeared...
View ArticleDrug and gun accused duo remanded to HMP Dodds
Two St James men – Kadeem Chad Remalo Jones and Juan Juist Geraldo Clement – were remanded to Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds after appearing before Magistrate Wanda Blair in the Holetown Magistrates’...
View ArticleGreene accused of wounding another man
A 55-year-old man, charged with wounding, was granted $5,000 bail when he appeared before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today. Ricardo Alphonso Greene, of 108 Golden Palm Drive, Fotesque, St...
View ArticleEBC processing applications for Commonwealth citizens – attorney
There could be light at the end of the proverbial tunnel for Commonwealth citizens seeking to be able to vote in the May 24 elections. The matter is currently the subject of a legal challenge that is...
View Article‘I was wrong’
Prominent attorney Andrew Pilgrim, QC, today rendered an apology to Magistrate Graveney Bannister for his behaviour in the District ‘A’ Traffic Court last Friday It came after the magistrate allegedly...
View ArticleBail denied to recently captured wanted man
A 29-year-old man, who allegedly escaped police custody twice, is now being bars. Leross Leandre Burnett, of Longford Place, Waterford, St Michael, who was earlier the subject of a wanted man bulletin...
View ArticleNurse ordered to undergo mental assessment
A 21-year-old man, charged with three criminal offences, will spend a week at Psychiatric Hospital undergoing assessment. Rico Akeem Nurse, of no fixed place of abode, consented to his remand at the...
View ArticleOut to dry
No justice was dispensed at the Supreme Court Complex on White Park Road today. However, cleaners were busy working on the building, which has been plagued by environmental problems in recent weeks....
View ArticleNot guilty!
A St Michael man, accused of indecently assaulting Canadian diplomat Dr Nicole Giles and robbing her husband back in 2015, has been found not guilty of those crimes. However, an eight-member jury has...
View ArticleGreene admits to beating ex-girlfriend
A 21-year-old man has admitted to wounding his ex-girlfriend on April 21, occasioning her actual bodily harm. Shane Anthony Greene, of Ashby Land, Lodge Road, Christ Church, has also pleaded guilty to...
View ArticleWoman ordered to stay away from man
A 39-year-old woman was granted $1,000 bail when she appeared in the District ‘C’ Magistrates’ Court today. Latoya Kareen Callender, of Amity Lodge, Christ Church, is accused of damaging a door...
View ArticleBatson sent off to Dodds
A 21-year-old unemployed man, accused of robbing two people on the same day, will spend the next 28 days at HMP Dodds. It is alleged that Shalom Shem Batson, of no fixed place of abode, robbed Janelle...
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