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Burglary accused remanded
Two men were remanded to Dodds facing several charges, among them that they stole $54,350 worth of hair belonging to a beauty store. Nicky O’Neal Boyce, of 4th Avenue Skeete’s Road, The Ivy, St...
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Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds will be home for an unemployed man for the next nine months. The sentence was imposed earlier today when Peter Anthony Barnes, of Reed Street, St Michael appeared before the...
View ArticleFraudster gets nine months
A 42-year-old man who admitted to two fraud charges will spend the next nine months at Dodds. Marston Owen Mascoll, of Nelson Street, St Michael was sentenced today when he appeared before Magistrate...
View ArticleLawyer convicted, remanded
Convicted attorney Vonda Minerva Pile today stood in the dock of the No. 5 Supreme Court with no visible emotion as she was sent to HMP Dodds until July 16. Some of her colleagues at the Bar, however...
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Forgotten prisoner
Barbados’ judicial system forgot Winston Adolphus Agard in prison for almost a decade. But after languishing on remand at Her Majesty’s Prison, Dodds, without trial, he was allowed to go home today...
View ArticlePile’s plight
Attorney-at-law Vonda Pile might have lost her freedom, but there still remains a slim possibility she may not lose her licence to practice law. The 56-year-old Pile was yesterday found guilty in the...
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Judicial system in a ‘rut’, says attorney
The state of the island’s judicial system has gone under the microscope yet again with one top attorney declaring it was operating in a rut. Angella Mitchell-Gittens’ comments came as she addressed...
View ArticleDeadly run
Deceased 11-year-old Ian Elroy Gibson was one of three schoolboys running along Sunbury Road, St Philip moments before he was involved in an accident on September 18, 2009. He died two days later -...
View ArticleFree to go
The family of Errol Vivian Jones celebrated with hugs and smiles outside the District ‘C’ Magistrates’ Court today after the Chief Magistrate ruled that he would stay put in Barbados. “This is a good...
View ArticleBuried stash
Former La Romana Jewellers employee David Anderson McDonald Reeves has admitted to burglarising the establishment of over $207,000 in jewellery, some of which he buried and also $410 cash. The owner of...
View ArticleFormer students recall events leading to Gibson’s accident
Several former students of the Princess Margaret Secondary School have been giving their versions of what occurred on September 18, 2009, moments before the late Ian Elroy Gibson was hit by a car on...
View Article‘It’s over’
“Move on!” Magistrate Douglas Frederick delivered this strong advise to a husband who today admitted to beating his wife. According to the facts, the two have been married for seven years but have been...
View ArticleGun accused remanded
Allegations that a 29-year-old butler had a firearm and 45 rounds of 9mm ammunition in his possession have landed him on the remand block at Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds. Damien Troy Vaughan of Mayers...
View ArticleNo bail for Trinidadian
A Trinidadian woman who was allegedly busted attempting to smuggle cocaine into Barbados has been remanded to prison. Jewel Anastacia April Lovern Estrada, of No. 67 Upper Simeon Road, Pitty Valley,...
View ArticleDrugs land man in trouble
Ecstasy carrier Jamal Jerome Alleyne is currently on remand at HMP Dodds awaiting his fate. The 25-year-old of No. 9 Stanley Terrace, Pine, St Michael, today pleaded guilty to having the drug as well...
View ArticleWanted: Paper trail
President of the Barbados Bar Association, Liesel Weekes, is calling for the establishment of a criminal registry to safeguard against cases like Winston Adolphus Agard’s, the petty thief who...
View Article‘Lawyers not above the law’, says Bar leader
The theft conviction of lawyer Vonda Pile on Tuesday is a clear signal to the public that not even those involved in the justice system are above the law, president of the Barbados Bar Association,...
View ArticleHair charge
Another man has been remanded to HMP Dodds on allegations of stealing thousands of dollars in hair. He is Dario Rico Morris, of 2nd Avenue, Richmond Gap, St Michael who was not required to plead to the...
View ArticleMan sent for evaluation after admitting to damaging vehicle
Forty-four-year-old Noel Alexander Austin will spend the next few days at the Psychiatric Hospital. Magistrate Krisite Cuffy-Sargeant remanded Austin, who has no fixed place of abode, to the Black...
View ArticleMason sent to Dodds
A lack of surety to sign bail on his behalf has landed a 51-year-old mason on remand at Dodds. The prosecutor did not object to bail for Romel McFarland, of Porey Springs, St Thomas when he appeared...
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