Elderly convict to be sentenced Sept 11
Senior Crown Counsel Olivia Davis today submitted that the starting sentence of a 68-year-old man who previously pleaded guilty to possession of a 9mm semi automatic pistol and 72 rounds of ammunition,...
View ArticleSmart pleads not guilty to Kadooment charges
Forty Acres, St Thomas resident Jason Orlando Smart has denied committing a crime under the Public Order Act on Kadooment Day. The 33-year-old appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today...
View ArticlePlea changed, accused sentenced
A 38-year-old farmer must be on his best behaviour for the next six months. If Omar McDonald Sealy, of no fixed place of abode breaches the order imposed by Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant he will...
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ATM scammers plead guilty
Three Colombian men today pleaded guilty to carrying out ATM scams at different banking locations between July 28 and 31. One was handed over to immigration officials for deportation after paying a...
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ABM scammers
Foreign scammers targeted Republic Bank (Barbados) Limited’s, Worthing, Independence Square and Heroes Square, Automatic Banking Machines (ABM) and made away with a total of $2,600 in four days using...
View ArticleAshby pleads guilty
Five years ago Jamel Omar Sinclair Ashby told police he knew nothing about shooting incidents in a St Michael community. Yesterday however, the Rogers Road, Ivy, St Michael resident pleaded guilty in...
View ArticleMental check for Yearwood
St Michael resident Curtis Leroy Yearwood will spend the next three weeks at the Psychiatric Hospital. The 58-year-old of Fairfield Cross Road, Black Rock was remanded to the mental health institution...
View ArticleFraudster awaiting sentence
When convict John Bancroft reappears before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant on September 9 it is expected he will tell “the truth” about his reason for having a fake sponsored sheet in his...
View ArticleTrinidadian admits to cocaine trafficking
Over the weekend Trinidadian Jamilia Kerian Melany Williams appeared in court and pleaded guilty to trafficking in $90,000 in cocaine in Barbados. The 31-year-old clerical officer from Lightpost No 52...
View ArticleJewelry ‘sale’ lands in court
If a first time offender wants to keep his criminal record clean he must stay out of trouble with the law for the next six months. The bond was imposed today on Tito Michanglo Padmore, of Small Land,...
View ArticleOne more time
The prosecution has been given a final opportunity to produce a file in an almost seven-year-old court case. Magistrate Douglas Frederick made it clear that today’s sitting in the case against Oswald...
View ArticleDeacons man on firearm charge
Unemployed man Kemar Devere Sharan Rudder is currently on remand on gun and ammunition charges. The 29-year-old of Block 2F Farm Road, Deacons, St Michael who appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’...
View Article“Motorcyclist” in court tomorrow
A 28-year-old fruit vendor will make an appearance in the District ‘A’ Traffic Court tomorrow to answer a number of charges. He is Dwayne Nathaniel Morris, of Block 6A Rosemont, Deacons Road, St...
View ArticleNeedy Parents
Two out-of-work parents this week found themselves in trouble with the law in their bid to “feed” their family. On Monday a 30-year-old St John mother appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court...
View ArticleMore time at Dodds
The Argentinian man charged with stealing money from two of this country’s financial institutions has had his prison remand extended. Joaquin Alberto Lobo, from Caseros, Buenos Aires, Argentina, who...
View ArticleTeenager gets drug fine
A 17-year-old male has three months to pay the court a $1,000 fine. Absalom Abjah Francis Hunte, of 3rd Avenue Gills Gap, Eagle Hall, St Michael is facing a four-month stint in prison if the amount is...
View ArticleNew solutions needed in justice system
There’s a need for persons from all sectors in Barbados and the region to come up with “fresh approaches” to deal with “old systems” operating within the judicial system. Magistrate Douglas Frederick...
View Article‘No case’
The local High Court has rejected a request from a former public servant to reverse Government’s debt restructuring programme. In his judgment this morning, Mr Justice Cecil McCarthy ruled that the...
View ArticleAttorney bailed
Theft accused attorney Hilary Jeffery Nelson, who is facing a single charge of stealing thousands of pounds sterling from a British client, was granted his pretrial freedom today after being described...
View ArticleYoung denies threatening guards
St Michael resident Shaquille Mark Young who is accused of threatening the lives of two security guards, was granted bail in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court yesterday. The 24-year-old, of Smith...
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