$5,000 bail for two
Magistrate Krisite Cuffy-Sargeant today imposed a number of conditions on two St Michael men accused of a 2018 offence. Rodney Orlando O’Neal Brathwaite, 27, of Hurley’s Land, Fairfield and Jason...
View ArticleFinal shouts
Angela Best, the mother of the late Corey Antonio Best, told the coroner’s inquest today that she did not hear, neither did she see, “any commotion” while she was at the Oistins Police Station where...
View ArticleSt John man admits to drug haul on Bath Beach
A St John resident currently on remand at HMP Dodds pleaded guilty to several drug offences in the Supreme Court today three years after he was charged. Jody MacDonald Watson, of College Savannah,...
View ArticleFousa to know fate on Monday
A Canadian woman is behind bars awaiting her fate after using an Xbox game console to smuggle two kilos of cocaine into Barbados. Valarie DaRosa Fousa arrived at the Grantley Adams International...
View ArticleBig fines
Two Romanians were today fined $10,000 each after pleading guilty to a number of criminal offences including money-laundering. However, at the end of today’s sitting at the District ‘A’ Magistrates’...
View ArticleUtility worker charged with murder
A 36-year-old utility worker was today remanded to HMP Dodds on a capital offence. Anthonia Windgrove Ellis, of Denny Road, Thorpes, St James appeared before Magistrate Douglas Frederick this morning...
View ArticleBest facing firearm charge
A 24-year-old welder began his first day on remand at HMP Dodds after appearing in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on a firearm charge. It is alleged that the accused, Ckeimo Leroy Daren Best, of...
View ArticlePsychiatric evaluation ordered for cocaine addict
A scaffold builder’s life has been slowly crumbling from cocaine use. And when Ken Dacosta Murrell, of 2nd Avenue Park Road, Bush Hall, St Michael appeared before Magistrate Douglas Frederick today...
View ArticleRoad death case adjourned until July
A 26-year-old woman has been granted $10,000 bail after appearing in the Holetown Magistrates’ Court on Friday charged with causing the death of 74-year-old Janette Danglois, four months ago. Honey...
View ArticleWoman beater fined
Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant today sent a strong message to men who hit women after a 32-year-old man explained his reasons for striking his ex-girlfriend while she was at a cemetery placing...
View ArticleTeenager slapped with a fine
Nineteen-year-old Isha Kemoy Lewis was so offended when Miracle Rouse laughed as she passed on February 16 that she slapped her across the neck. This resulted in a criminal charge and an appearance...
View ArticleJail and rehab for cocaine ‘smoker’
A beach vendor who admitted to having cocaine paraphernalia in his possession has been sentenced to six months in prison. Kenneth Kelvin Bowen, of 3rd Avenue Harts Gap, Christ Church must also undergo...
View ArticleTaxi operator remanded on firearm charge
Taxi operator Jamal Nicholi Haynes got a free ride to HMP Dodds today when he appeared in a Bridgetown court on a criminal charge. It is alleged that the 34-year-old of 7th Avenue New Orleans, St...
View ArticleGuilty plea
On February 3, 2016 Dave James was sitting near a stall at Nursery Drive Terminal in The City, when a group of men ran over the bridge from the direction of River Road brandishing pieces of wood....
View ArticleTraffic stop turns up drugs
An unemployed man who was found in possession of $200 worth of marijuana during a traffic stop must pay the court $1,500 in two months. If Akeem Amal Padmore, of Henley Land, St John fails to pay the...
View ArticleObservation for Scotland
A 36-year-old man will spend the next three weeks at the Psychiatric Hospital being assessed after appearing in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on a criminal charge. Raphael Joslin Scotland, of...
View ArticleBail for Station Hill man
A self-employed man who allegedly committed several offences including resisting arrest was granted $3,000 bail when he appeared in court today to answer the charges. Bellevue Gap, Station Hill, St...
View Article‘I was out of work’
Standing in the docks of the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today a 24-year-old man used his unemployment as a defence for committing four of ten criminal offences beginning in January last year. “I...
View ArticleMan with 81 convictions goes back to prison
A 50-year-old handyman was intoxicated on December 3 last year when he loitered on the property of another man with intentions of burglarizing the place. For that crime, Alvin Anthony Harris, of...
View ArticleCarmichael jailed for breaching bond, burglary
Claims that he was a “psychiatric patient” were not enough to save a 53-year-old man from an 18-month prison sentence for two burglaries. But before his sentencing on the two matters, Andrew Delisle...
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