Musician must complete community service
Keep on the positive lyrics but stay way from the drugs. That was the advice of Bridgetown Magistrate Douglas Frederick to a 22-year-old musician after he pleaded guilty to having cannabis in his...
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Armed with three plastic bags a 29-year-old man boldly entered a local supermarket and proceeded to steal. For that crime Dwight Dwayne Greene, of Wavell Gardens, Wavell Avenue, Black Rock, St Michael...
View ArticleTwo strikes, and it’s off to Dodds for handyman
A previous warning by Magistrate Douglas Frederick to a 25-year-old handyman seemed to have fallen on deaf ears. On the last occasion in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court Kyle Tito Wesley Lovell, of...
View ArticleTeen, grandmother denies assault charge
An 18-year-old and her grandmother appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today and were released on $2,500 bail. It is alleged that the teen, Angel Shadiva Lewis and 58-year-old Janice...
View ArticleAccused’s residence in doubt
The alleged aggression exhibited by a 34-year-old man at his family’s Ligthfoot Lane, St Michael residence has earned him a week at Dodds after he was unable to convince a magistrate yesterday that he...
View Article‘I did it’
He asked for help for drug addiction but Her Majesty’s Prisons at Dodds is where 49-year-old Livingston McDonald Trotman will have to get the assistance he believes he desperately needs. The Storey...
View ArticleFraud accused secures bail
A 29-year-old man got to go home yesterday after spending seven days on remand at HMP Dodds. Fraud accused Hubert Artis Larocque, of Lower Burney, Mapp Hill, St Michael was sent to the St Philip...
View ArticleToothpaste and soap land woman in prison
An 18-month suspended sentence imposed only last year by a magistrates’ court came back to haunt a 45-year-old woman today. The three-month sentence attached to that order was triggered today after...
View ArticleSuttle Street man remanded on assault charge
A Suttle Street sander will spend the next seven days on remand after the prosecutor objected to bail on fears that he may interfere with the complainant who is the mother of his three-day-old baby....
View Article‘Shaq’ sentenced
Justice Pamela Beckles has sentenced St Lucy resident Shakiel Akeem Connell to time in prison for a violent attack and gun crimes. Connell, otherwise known as Shaq, of Fryers Well in Checker Hall, was...
View ArticleLawyers back Appeals Court ruling on High Court judges
A landmark ruling by the Court of Appeal on the conduct of lower court justices has received the support of prominent attorneys-at-law. The judgment, which was handed down last Friday by the...
View ArticleLawless Lynch
The continued lawlessness among the nation’s youth must not be tolerated! This was declared today by Bridgetown Magistrate Douglas Frederick, as he remanded an 18-year-old man who endangered the lives...
View ArticleLiar gets bail
Parish Land, Christ Church, resident Gary O’Brian Chanlder has been advised to stop telling lies after he issued an apology to a Bridgetown magistrate today. The 25-year-old appeared before Magistrate...
View ArticleMartyr goes to jail
One month in prison. That’s how long Marlon Terry Martyr, of September Square, St Matthias, Christ Church will spend at HMP Dodds after he failed to compensate Janet Thompson $800 for damaging her...
View Article‘I’m no criminal’
A 24-year-old man said his emotions got the better of him last Thursday when he rode his bicycle through Queen’s Park and snatched a man’s phone even as he told him good night. Darion Jason Watts, of...
View ArticleGriffith’s Dodds stay extended
The remand block at HMP Dodds will continue to be home for a 34-year-old man for at least another 28-days. When Anthony Emanuel Griffith of Lightfoot Lane, St Michael returned before Magistrate Douglas...
View ArticleMental evaluation ordered
Ricardo Orlando Streeks, of no fixed place of abode, will be evaluated by doctors at the Psychiatric Hospital over the next three weeks. The 42-year-old was remanded to the facility when he appeared...
View ArticleWeed trouble for general worker
A 31-year-old general worker has one month to save and pay the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court a $750 fine if he wants to avoid spending three months in prison. The fine was imposed on Pearson Philip...
View ArticleAccused remanded
When his case was called in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court yesterday 47-year-old Michael Anthony Brathwaite did not answer. However, he told Magistrate Douglas Frederick today he was in police...
View ArticleThief must pay up
A self employed 43-year-old man has three months to compensate his victims if he wants to avoid six months in prison. Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant imposed the order yesterday on Ryan Anderson...
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