Turney gets year bond for causing disturbance
When he caused a disturbance and used indecent language to a police officer on February 5, he was angry, having just been robbed of $1,900. That’s what Andrew Ricardo Turney, a 40-year-old vendor of...
View ArticleAddict ‘steals’ nine months in prison
“I tried it to see what it would taste like and ever since I have been hooked!” That was the confession of 42-year-old Simon Emanuel Gabriel of no fixed place of abode, who said he started taking...
View ArticleRemanded again
In a barely audible voice, 18-year-old accused Ramario Antonio Roach who is facing three murder charges including one relating to the death of his mother, asked a Bridgetown Magistrates’ Court if he...
View ArticleNo bail for barber
Who is Dennis Fitzroy Semple or Akeem Haleem Abdul Nur El who has been living in Barbados for the past 11 years, having come from Guyana on October 2, 2007? There is no departure record for him. This...
View ArticlePine man must give time
A St Michael man was ordered to do 80 hours community service for obstructing a policeman in the execution of his duty. Romario Anthony Brown, 25, of 36 Phillips Road in the Pine, pleaded guilty when...
View ArticleAccused want cases heard
Some accused who are on remand at Her Majesty’s Prison, Dodd’s St Philip, are questioning the repeated adjournments in their cases. When they turned up in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court and...
View ArticleAccused asked for his mother, Coroner told
The inquest into the unnatural death of 33-year-old Corey Antonio Best continued today with a site visit to a holding cell at Oistins Police Station where the body of the former Hopefield, Charnocks,...
View ArticleDrug runners jailed
An Englishman and Bermudan who were in possession of a “considerable ” quantity of marijuana in Barbados’ territorial waters almost two years ago have been sentenced to spend time behind bars at HMP...
View ArticleFormer coke addict ready to start afresh
A 44-year-old mother who at one time was addicted to cocaine, is now free of it. Lisa St John returned to the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court and greeted Magistrate Douglas Frederick with these words...
View ArticleBurglar guilty
After five months of trial and an hour and 15 minutes of deliberations a nine-member jury today found Corey Omar McDonald Noel guilty of burglarizing a St George house while brandishing an offensive...
View Article‘Stressed’ mother wants son to get help
A 38-year-old man had a change of heart today after his mother made it clear that she was not signing bail on his behalf unless he received help. “I don’t want to sign bail unless he gets some help. I...
View ArticleMan admits to vandalizing
Unhesitatingly 51-year-old Casper Errol Harding pleaded guilty to damaging a vehicle belonging to Elaine Rowen of #39 Dover Terrace, Christ Church, on November 26, 2018. “I accept full responsibility,”...
View ArticleNo suitable surety for Gibson
Bridgetown Magistrate Douglas Frederick remanded a drug accused to Dodds until February 20 after he had no suitable surety to sign bail on his behalf. It is alleged that Eric Astor Omar Gibson of No....
View ArticleTwelve-month sentence for Lawrence
He was sentenced to 12 months in prison but having spent seven months on remand Tremaine Kadeem Lawrence only has five months left to serve at HMP Dodds. Magistrate Douglas Frederick imposed the...
View ArticleRemanded on burglary charges
An alleged burglar will spend another 28 days on remand at HMP Dodds and return to the No. 2 District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on March 12. Twenty-year-old Anthony Junior Bishop, of Chapman Village, St...
View ArticleSmuggler jailed
A drug mule who swallowed 25 packages of marijuana to smuggle into Barbados in order to clear a debt back home has been handed a 12-month jail sentence. The Jamaican woman, Stacy-Ann Cleopatra...
View Article$136,000 in drugs found in false bottom
A Canadian woman who trafficked in 17 kilogrammes of cannabis in her suitcase after being lured with the promise of monetary gain will know her fate in another two weeks. Gahiara Pierre from Ontario...
View ArticleLinton granted $20, 000 bail
Twenty-year-old Teriq Kaareem Linton was granted $20, 000 bail today when he appeared before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant in the District ‘A’ Magistrate Court on multiple charges. Linton, of #2...
View ArticleManslayer sentenced
A 48-year-old manslayer was today given a starting sentence of 18 years in prison for the fatal shooting of Kari Nolan Cumberbatch six years ago. Dave Henderson Powers, of No. 9 Clinketts Garden, St...
View ArticleCanadian loses US dollars he concealed about his body
A Canadian man is out thousands of dollars after failing to get permission from the Exchange Control Authority to leave Barbados with US$15,000. Station Sergeant Glenda Carter-Nicholls in prosecuting...
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