Cannabis grower must pay
A 45-year-old lorry loader has three months to pay $3,000 to the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court if he wants to avoid spending time behind bars at HMP Dodds. Sylvester Christopher Phillips, of Block...
View Article‘Missing’ accused remanded
Court officials will have no difficulty finding Chad Jamar Roberts for his next appearance in the No. 1 District ‘A’ Magistrates’ court. That’s because Roberts who was listed as having no fixed place...
View ArticleDirty lab
Environmental conditions at the Forensic Sciences Centre (FSC) have led to a backlog of cases, the laboratory’s director, Cheryl Corbin, has said. The problems have affected a coroner’s inquest, which...
View ArticleNo checks made for signs of life, police tell court
Police officers who took down the body of 33-year-old Corey Antonio Best which was found hanging in a cell at the Oistins Police Station almost two years ago did not check for a pulse nor did they...
View ArticleFined for drug for ‘tea’
A 55-year-old mason has one month to pay a $2,000 fine to the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court. If Anderson Leroy Haynes, of Wavell Avenue, Black Rock, St Michael fails to adhere to the order imposed by...
View ArticleTrafficker passes $4,000 in drugs
He complained that things were rough in Jamaica. However life did not get any easier for 21-year-old Davoy Lamar McKenzie when he arrived in Barbados two weeks ago. The Clarendon farmer today reaped a...
View ArticleThief snatches jail sentence
A St Michael man began a nine-month sentence at HMP Dodds this week after pleading guilty to two criminal offences. Mzee Osei Kazi Natambubu Moore, of Lodge Road in Warrens, pleaded guilty to damaging...
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Double trouble
Marlon Terry Martyr, a 32-year-old technician from September Square, St Matthias, Christ Church, admitted to a Bridgetown court that he intentionally damaged a woman’s cell phone on Thursday night,...
View ArticleNo bail for injured accused
Something which Gary O’Brian Chandler told his surety came back to haunt him today, just as he was on the verge of being granted bail. Chandler, 25, who resides at Parish Land, Christ Church, was...
View ArticleThief gets 18 months for stealing shoes
Had it not been for the number of times Akeem Ricardo Griffith had already committed robbery, he might have been given yet another chance. But after reviewing his criminal record, Magistrate Douglas...
View Article‘Voices’ in his head
Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant today remanded a 39-year-old robbery accused to the Psychiatric Hospital after he admitted to hearing voices. Galveston Athelston Burke, is accused of stealing a...
View ArticleWanted man fought arrest
Ryan Anderson Padmore, of Salters, St George who bit and resisted a police officer will know his fate when he returns before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant on March 18. The 43-year-old man attacked...
View ArticleFormer addict admits to theft
A 24-year-old man was given a two-month suspended sentence after he pleaded guilty to a theft charge. That means Stefan Rashad Gibson, of Military Road, Bush Hall, St Michael will not have to spend a...
View ArticleAccused travelled to Canada, missed court
A surety has had to forfeit $3,000 for an accused’s non-appearance in court on a 2011 wounding charge. However, that has not stopped Earthon Robert St Cyr from continuing his absconding ways. The...
View ArticleBusinessman remanded
Despite arguments by two Queen’s Counsel of his strong ties to the community, his status as a family man and an employer of over a dozen persons, a 56-year-old businessman accused of importing over $10...
View ArticleYarde gets 12 months for theft of car money
It took a Christ Church man almost 14 months to admit to a theft charge and for that crime he has been sentenced to 12 months in prison. However, Jahlanny Tramaine Yarde, of Block 6B Silver Hill Drive,...
View ArticlePhone stolen from bathroom
A 39-year-old man who pleaded guilty to a theft charge will spend the next three weeks at the Psychiatric Hospital being evaluated before he is sentenced. Steve Gordon Miller, of Garden Land, Country...
View ArticleTwenty charges
A 25-year-old clerk had some 20 charges recorded in his name yesterday following a car chase that led police through several areas in St Michael on February 18. The charges began adding up for...
View ArticleCuffed in the cemetery
A 31-year-old man who admitted assaulting his ex-girlfriend while she was laying flowers at her mother’s grave, is expected to know his fate on Monday. Damien Rommal Thorpe, of Mayers Land, Goodland,...
View ArticleAustin remanded on burglary charge
Fabian Shawn Austin, of no fixed place of abode, will spend the next 28 days on remand after categorically denying that he burglarized an establishment. Austin is accused of entering Sandra’s Hot Food...
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