Court ‘quandary’
The Supreme Court acknowledged today it is caught in a “conundrum” when it comes to sentencing murder convicts after the nation’s highest court struck down the mandatory death sentence. That was the...
View ArticleTrial nears end
The case against three young people, charged with the death of an 11-year-old Princess Margaret Secondary School boy, will end tomorrow. When the hearing continued this morning in the No. 2 Supreme...
View ArticleCity woman pleads guilty to stealing
A 32-year-old unemployed woman from Chapman Lane in the City was remanded to prison this morning after confessing to stealing $206.59 worth of items from a retail store in Bridgetown yesterday. When...
View ArticleVendor on $5,000 bail
A vendor was released on $5,000 bail this morning by District “A” Magistrate Kristie Cuff-Sargeant after pleading not guilty to trespassing with intent to stealing from a private residence last Monday...
View ArticleBail for man accused of loitering on Bush Hill
A security officer of Thorne’s Gap, Landsdown, St Michael ended up before the District “A” Magistrates’ Court this morning after being in the wrong place at the wrong time earlier this week....
View ArticleCharges refiled in court martial
Ordinary Seaman, Tyrrel Gibbons, will have a fresh trial, says his attorney. With two adjournments in as many months and procedural concerns casting a shadow of uncertainty over the court martial of...
View ArticleJudge to sum up
The judge in the manslaughter case against three young people will sum up on Tuesday morning before delivering his sentence. Supreme Court Justice Randall Worrell today heard closing addresses from...
View ArticleNo bail for Lewis
A middle-aged, unemployed man was remanded to HMP Prison at Dodds, St Philip this morning after appearing in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court on four counts of indecent assault. St Elmo Wilbert...
View ArticleAppeal Court: Lawyers must join Bar Association
The head of the Bar has expressed ‘elation and relief’ as the Court of Appeal held that lawyers must be members of the association in order to practise here, under current law. In a landmark judgment...
View ArticleBag grabber jailed
In the wee hours of July 12 when “all law-abiding people who were not on duty” were asleep a 57-year-old landscaper crawled through the living room window of a woman’s house. Anthony Bernard Herbert,...
View ArticleMusic tutor guilty of assaulting student
A music lessons teacher who resides in St Philip has been found guilty of indecently assaulting one of his male charges. The boy who is now 14 years old was an 11-year-old first form student at a...
View ArticlePile’s report
When Ainsley King complained to the police and took lawyer Vonda Pile to court to reclaim his money he did not intend to see her jailed, a court heard today at the convicted attorney’s sentencing...
View ArticleBourne to ‘cool off’ in prison on remand
The remand block at Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds will be home for a 31-year-old general worker who admitted that he was intoxicated on the day he allegedly assaulted his wife and committed three offences...
View ArticleSt Philip man ‘takes risk’ on herb law, loses
Convinced of the eventual decriminalisation of marijuana, a St Philip man found himself before the Law for trying to get ahead of it, pleading guilty to growing cannabis. When police arrived at Andre...
View ArticleAnother adjournment in drug case
Chris Rogers will have to wait a little bit longer to find out if he will have to answer four drug charges. When the 56-year-old of #27 York Road Navy, Gardens, Christ Church appeared in the District...
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Judge to make decision on bail tomorrow
Bail conditions for three convicted manslayers will be regularised when they return to the No. 2 Supreme Court tomorrow before Justice Randall Worrell. The adjournment was given moments after Shaquille...
View ArticleArgentinian remanded
Other suspects are being sought in connection with an alleged ATM scam in Barbados and there are fears that an Argentinian man charged with theft of money from two of this country’s financial...
View ArticleLavine re-arrested
Moments after being released on $2,000 bail a drug accused left the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court the same way he entered – in the custody of police officers. Lesanto Orelston Lavine, 33, of Well...
View ArticleAccused to police officers: I’m sorry
A 31-year-old general worker was reprimanded and discharged after issuing an apology to two police officers. Brendan Oneal Bourne, of 1st Avenue Sealy Land, Bankhall, St Michael was accused of...
View Article‘Tough five days’
The last five days on remand have been nothing but hard for an accused conductor, his attorney Jamar Bourne said today. The lawyer made the disclosure as he put forward an application for bail for his...
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