Mom must pay for ‘missing’ son
An accused who left the jurisdiction has left his mother who posted bail on his behalf with a court-imposed financial burden. The mother now has five months to come up with $2,500, half of the amount...
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High Court application
Queen’s Counsel Michael Lashley today revealed that he had made a bail application in the High Court for a murder accused. The defence attorney was addressing Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant as he...
View ArticleJockey High Court bound
A 54-year-old jockey is headed to the High Court for sentencing. Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant committed the case against Ray Anderson Herbert, of no fixed place of abode, to the criminal assizes...
View Article‘Marshall law’
With mounting public frustration over the matter of bail being granted to persons accused of murder, Government may be seeking to make adjustments to the 1996 Bail Act, in response to this issue. This...
View ArticleA head thing
His declaration of wanting to “plead guilty to bursting de man head” today earned a 25-year-old man who is already serving time at Dodds, an additional six months behind bars. Daniel Denaro Reece, of...
View ArticleBaby brings guilty plea
Now that a 42-year-old man knows he has a new baby girl at home, he threw in the towel and pleaded guilty to importing a quantity of marijuana into the country. Anderson Dacosta Clarke of Drax Hall...
View ArticleCareer crook remanded
Pleas and tears of an unemployed 58-year-old woman who admitted to a theft charge were not enough to prevent her from being remanded to Dodds. “Give me one more chance please, please, I don’t want to...
View ArticleTeenager relieved of his gun
Yet another teenager has been remanded to prison in connection with gun and ammunition charges. Carl Leslie Hinds Jr., 19, of Lot 49 Lodge Crescent, Lodge Hill, St Michael got an automatic 28-day stint...
View ArticleZero tolerance
Lawless behaviour especially involving the use of fireams will not be tolerated in this society, Madam Justice Pamela Beckles has declared. She made the comment today as she sentenced a 31-year-old man...
View Article‘Hothead’ to spend 311 more days in Dodds
St Joseph resident Anthony Alonza Smith was given a 12-year prison sentence for endangering another man’s life when he aimed and discharged a firearm in his direction on April 1, 2012. However, a one...
View ArticleNew Yorker remanded
A visitor to the island will spend the weekend at HMP Dodds after appearing in court today on five criminal charges. Krystal Ann Gatling, of Brooklyn, New York, a 32-year-old media manager, is charged...
View ArticleClarke back in court in April
Murder accused Kadeem O’Brian Clarke appeared in the Oistins Magistrates’ Court today charged with the shooting death of Graeme Addison Norville. The 19-year-old of Johnson Road, Workmans, St George...
View ArticleKaraoke fracas
An order was made to have an American visitor deported from Barbados after she spent the weekend on remand. This came after the court ordered Krystal Gatling to pay $3,000 in compensation to three...
View ArticleBurglar imprisoned
A 32-year-old labourer was sentenced to 18 months in prison after he told a Bridgetown magistrate that he wanted to be back in society so he could learn his lesson. The sentence was imposed on Dwight...
View ArticleClarke gets five years behind bars
St George resident Anderson Dacosta Clarke who says he almost lost his life in August last year, has been sentenced to five years in prison for importing and trafficking 43.3 kilogrammes of marijuana...
View ArticleDrug ‘beaten’ thief back in court
A 47-year-old offender has been jailed for 12 months after pleading guilty to theft and wounding charges. Paul Amron Cherubin, of Whitehall No.1, St Michael appeared at the No. 1 District ‘A’...
View ArticleObjection!
While a chorus of lawmakers, many of them lawyers, cheered today’s proposed amendments to the Bail Act, their practising colleagues of the Bar were sounding notes of disapproval. This morning in...
View ArticleHigh Court application
Queen’s Counsel Michael Lashley filed an urgent bail application for an alleged gunman today even as Parliament debated an amendment to Bail Act. “I am preparing some urgent documents to make an...
View ArticleBond for first-time offender
A 40-year-old carpenter who claimed he felt threatened and bullied while travelling on the bus yesterday landed before the law court for the first time today. Ras Kibwe Cazembe Ra of Glebe Land, St...
View ArticleAccused teen gets bail
Eighteen-year-old Mitchell Sylvan Sonny who was remanded last month was released on $3,000 bail today. The Reed Street, St Michael resident is accused of robbing Amal Smith of a cellular phone, three...
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