Standford v Standford: No return home
A son has been told that he cannot return home after assaulting his mother. Tre Akeem Shakeil Standford had earlier pleaded guilty to assaulting Shirnell Standford on September 3 occasioning her actual...
View ArticleStephenson sentenced
Madam Justice Jacqueline Cornelius today sentenced manslayer Ricardo Jamal Stephenson to 15 years in jail for the stabbing death of Christopher Nedd. However, Stephenson has just over nine years...
View ArticleNo bail for Bascombe
Patrick Mark Bascombe has been remanded to prison at the ripe age of 61, accused of committing an offence almost a year ago. It is alleged that Bascombe, of no fixed place of abode, unlawfully and...
View ArticleCostly habit for Clarke
A self-employed man will no doubt have to make some huge sacrifices within the next three months if he wants to avoid a 12-month stint at Dodds prison. That’s how long 26-year-old Sean Kent Omari...
View ArticleAccused upset with ‘criminal’ taint
Fifteen previous convictions are to his name, but for Andre Glenroy Brathwaite, of Mangrove, St Philip, they do not merit him being branded “a criminal”. Brathwaite made his displeasure at the label...
View ArticleDope, liquor to blame
A concoction of marijuana, alcohol and cocaine drove Robert Raymond Harris to commit burglary, he said in pleading guilty to the charge. And for his crime, the 43-year-old, of no fixed place abode,...
View ArticleAssault accused makes bail
A Spooners Hill man on an assault charge, will make his next appearance in the District ‘A’ Magistrate’s Court on February 19 next year. Jabar Danko Yarde, a painter, of Woodstock Road, was granted...
View ArticleIrate passenger
A minibus passenger who became enraged because the driver was seemingly “dragging” the minibus to Bridgetown and “making him late” has been remanded to Dodds until September 19. Newton, Christ Church...
View ArticleUrgent check
A nursery childcare worker caught on closed-circuit video force-feeding, hitting and mistreating the children left in her care is now at the Psychiatric Hospital to be assessed after admitting to...
View ArticleWanted: Rayon Andrew Boyce, Shawn Sheldon Smith
Police are on the hunt for two men wanted for questioning in connection with serious criminal matters. They are 29-year-old Rayon Andrew Boyce whose last known addresses are listed as Yearwood’s Road,...
View ArticleLaw not ‘oppressive’
Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant today sought to make it clear that the laws of the country were not meant to be “oppressive”. She made the comment after a mother explained that her teenage son, who...
View ArticleYarde’s absenteeism costs him
Twenty-year-old Jahlanny Tramaine Yarde will remain on remand at HMP Dodds. The Block 6B, Silver Hill Drive, Christ Church resident appeared before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant for the first time...
View ArticleWoman guilty of criminal damage
A 33-year-old Christ Church woman who pleaded guilty to criminal damage will return to court on September 21. Althea Latoya Cumberbatch, of Bartlett Tenantry, Sargeant’s Village, admitted that she...
View ArticleSerial robber gets ten years
The man who drove the getaway vehicle on November 21, 2008, after three men robbed the Transport Board’s Mangrove Bus Depot at gunpoint, has been sentenced to ten years in prison. Shurland Andre...
View ArticleCareer crook to be sentenced
The details of a 56-year-old man’s burglary spree will be outlined in the District ‘A’ Magistrate’s Court on September 24. Henderson Emmanuel Yarde/Harewood, of no fixed place of abode, will also know...
View ArticleTeenager gets bail
A 19-year-old was granted $5,000 bail when he appeared in a Bridgetown court today on a criminal charge. It is alleged that Daquan Rachad Oneal Jordan-Atkins, of Lot 7B, Lower Bydes Mill, St George...
View ArticleHunte ‘misled’
Rock Hall, St Philip resident Cheniko Jomo Hunte was today sentenced to 12 years in prison for gun possession and 10 years for burglary. The sentences, which were imposed by Madam Justice Jacqueline...
View ArticleAlleged Guyanese burglar remanded
Guyana native Kevin Anthony Layne, who is facing a burglary charge, lost his freedom for at least two weeks after he appeared in a Bridgetown court today where it was discovered that he has been in...
View ArticleEight years for illegal imports
His unsuccessful attempt to smuggle 297.55 kilogrammes of cannabis into Barbados has netted a 33-year-old man an eight-year jail sentence at HMP Dodds. However, Junior Michael Ricardo Mascoll, of No. 4...
View ArticleIt wasn’t me
Claims that he had nothing to do with the robbery of four people were not enough to prevent a 28-year-old man from spending more time on remand at HMP Dodds. Kemar Mario Dacosta Greene, of Applewaites,...
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