Murder plot revealed
Fidel Nkomo Alleyne and Malissa Carla Griffith made history in the High Court when they became the first accused to plead guilty to murder under the amended Offences Against the Persons Act 2018. This...
View ArticleConfessed murderer says he was so blinded, he did not know right from wrong
Fidel Nkomo Alleyne told police he was “so blinded by love” for his co-conspirator that he took the life of 22-year-old Lamar Carter back in February 2015. Alleyne, of No. 116 Denton Road, Grazettes,...
View ArticlePlot to murder lover
Frustrated with the abuse sustained at the hands of the late Lamar Carter confessed murderer Malissa Carla Griffith told her friend Fidel Alleyne the deceased “liked to buy weed” and “anybody can catch...
View ArticleTwo charged with robbing KFC
Investigators of the Royal Barbados Police Force need an “unfettered chance” to find the other suspects connected to the Kentucky Fried Chicken (Barbados) Limited robbery, Magistrate Douglas Frederick...
View ArticlePoliceman recalls accused’s statements regarding shooting
Inspector Peter Dawson testified today that accused Tevin Ramon Skeete said he “beat a shot” while at St Elmo’s Mini Mart in St Lucy on January 14, 2011. The evidence was given this afternoon in the...
View ArticleSt Joseph man admits to drugs charges
It took a St Joseph man over a decade to accept responsibility for a number of drug offences after he was caught with the illicit substance within Barbados’ territorial waters. Shurland Nathaniel...
View ArticleDifferent outcome for two accused
A couple facing charges of criminal deception appeared in a Bridgetown court yesterday but while one was released on bail, the other was not so fortunate. Noel Lionel Taylor, 42, of Galloway Lane,...
View ArticleProsecutors detail how Inniss abused his position
Prosecutors Sylvia Shweder and David Gopstein this morning convinced a 12-member jury that Donville Inniss had accepted two bribes from the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited (ICBL) and that he...
View ArticleFormer minister found culpable in money laundering case
Donville Inniss who 20 months ago was a senior Government minister in Barbados, today had a conviction for money laundering marked against his record in a Brooklyn, New York court. And in another...
View ArticleConvict given six months to pay man he attacked with a weapon
A 64-year-old convict who maimed his neighbour in a cutlass attack asked for more time to pay the $25 000 in compensation imposed on him today. But Madam Justice Pamela Beckles made it absolutely clear...
View ArticleCop: Accused shot at me
A police sergeant told the High Court today that accused Tevin Ramon Skeete put him in “some serious fear” as he gave evidence on the second day of trail in the No. 3 Supreme Court. Skeete, of Crab...
View ArticleJamaican drug trafficker may sue
A local attorney is demanding answers from a regional carrier and the Barbados Immigration Department about why one of her clients was detained for almost a week at the Grantley Adams International...
View ArticleWaithe placed on bond for drug offences
Magistrate Douglas Frederick today asked a 39-year-old man if he had ever heard of a dentist after he admitted to using cocaine to treat a cavity. Corey Anthonia Waithe, of Rock Hampton Gap, Jackson,...
View Article‘Cool guy’ denied bail
He says he is innocent of four drug charges against him but a St Michael man was still unable to persuade a Bridgetown magistrate to grant him bail when he appeared in court today. Sean Leslie Estwick,...
View ArticleRemanded on drug charge
A 45-year-old man was sent to Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds for 28 days after he appeared before the law courts for the second time in two weeks for a similar charge. David Sylvester Small, who was...
View ArticleJamaican detainee treated fairly
The Immigration Department maintains that the human rights of Jamaican Kivesi Andrae McPherson were in no way violated during his five days of detention at the Grantley Adams International Airport. In...
View ArticleProsecutor gives details of serious indecent case
The No. 2 Supreme Court today heard how convicted man Daniel Deniro Reece committed serious indecency on a 13-year-old boy back on February 15, 2016. Reece, of 1st Avenue Bank Hall, St Michael had...
View ArticleFifteen-year-old boy appears in court
A 15-year-old student from St George was remanded to the Government Industrial School today. The teen appeared before Magistrate Douglas Frederick charged with having cannabis within a 100 yards of the...
View ArticleMarshall remanded
Just as Dwayne Alistair Marshall stepped out of the court this afternoon escorted by the police, he told a loved one on the outside that he would not be making it home tonight. “Daddy, they remand me,”...
View ArticleAlleged kidnapper held
When a 52-year-old man appeared in District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court yesterday he was granted bail on an assault charge which allegedly occurred in December last year. Today Ricardo Juan Johnson, of Free...
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