Jordan gets six months
A reputed thief added yet another conviction to his name when he pleaded guilty to an offence dating back to December 16, 2018. Fifty-year-old Richard Dacosta Jordan, of no fixed place of abode, was...
View Article‘Things are hard’
The sentencing phase of a drug case against a fisherman will continue before Madam Justice Pamela Beckles on May 9. The adjournment was given after Crown Counsel Neville Watson gave the details of the...
View ArticleArthur told to be on his best behaviour
A general worker must be on his best behavior for the next 12 months if he wants to avoid spending time behind bars at HMP Dodds. Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant imposed the sentence today on Dave...
View ArticleRape trial continues tomorrow
The trial of a man accused of raping a nine-year-old girl between December 2018 and January 2019 will continue in the No. 5 Supreme Court tomorrow before Madam Justice Pamela Beckles. A nine-member...
View ArticleBreach of trust
A public service vehicle (PSV) driver found guilty of abducting an 11-year-old boy with intentions of having sexual intercourse with him on January 25, 2009 will serve eight years behind bars for the...
View ArticleChurch thief to know his fate next month
A Christ Church man who pleaded guilty to charges of sacrilege and escaping custody today apologized in the No. 5 Supreme Court for his actions. “I am sorry for committing the act. It will not happen...
View ArticleThreats land man in court
A 48-year-old man who issued threatening words to a female has been ordered to be on his best behavior for the next 18 months. The bond was imposed on Leighton Sylvester Greaves today in the District...
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 ArticleTraffic charges
A 25-year-old clerk had more than a dozen 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...
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
$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 ArticleClik here to view.
Big 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 Article