Prince suffers from mental disorder
The young man who told police that, “God tell me” to break 19 windows and a plant pot at the historic St Mary’s Church suffers from schizoaffective disorder and well as cocaine and alcohol use...
View ArticleDangerous driver gets jail time
The minibus driver charged in connection with a vehicle accident back in 2007 at The Garden, St James that claimed the life of Majorie Felicia Boyce has been jailed. Justice Pamela Beckles today sent a...
View ArticleSureties bail on accused who failed to appear in court
In the space of an hour an accused lost three sureties after breaching their trust while two others bowed out of taking on the responsibility of ensuring that he appears at all his court hearing. His...
View ArticleCases dismissed against sisters
Evidence given by prosecution witnesses was “at war with each other” in court proceedings against two St Michael sisters. As such Magistrate Douglas Frederick dismissed the matters against Shamar...
View ArticleTrial judge should have freed Ellis after the jury delivered verdict
The Court of Appeal said it released former murder accused Pedro Deroy Ellis last November because it was “not convinced” that his continued detention could be “justified”. The 38-year-old Ellis had...
View ArticleOver to the High Court
A man and woman facing separate criminal charges will soon face judge and jury. Magistrate Douglas Frederick informed the two of the development when their matters were called in the District ‘A’...
View ArticleMurder case against ‘talented’ sealy dismissed
The Crown today offered no further evidence against a murder accused, described by the trial judge as “the best non lawyer that I have ever heard” in 28 years on the Bench. Roger Rommel Stephen Sealy...
View ArticleApril Fools’ Day court appearance for two accused
Two men charged in connection with a robbery at the corporate offices of Kentucky Fried Chicken (Barbados) Limited will remain on remand at Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds. Former junior supervisor at the...
View ArticleJudge: Deeds, not mere prayer, will save us
One of this island’s High Court judges is adamant that prayer alone was not enough to address the crime and violence plaguing our society. Addressing jurors today as they completed their civic duty on...
View ArticleMom and son on fraud charges
A 61-year-old Trinidadian national living in Barbados and her 21-year-old son have been released on bail after appearing in a Bridgetown Magistrates’ Court today charged in connection with 18 fraud and...
View ArticleSerious indecency case continues tomorrow
A middle-aged man who said he has now given his heart to the Lord and attends the Power In The Blood Assembly on Tudor Bridge, St Michael, sent gasps through the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ No. 1...
View Article‘Drug dealer’ pleads guilty
A mother’s tough love was not enough to show her son the error of his ways. Today the 21-year-old appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court for the first time as “a drug dealer” reducing his...
View ArticleAddict chooses self help over rehab
He is 60 years old and an addict, but said he does not need professional help to beat the habit. In fact, despite an offer by Magistrate Douglas Frederick, drug convict Wayne Hamilton Crawford, of no...
View ArticleLawyer says his client gave no statements to police in murder probe
Police travelled to Vaucluse, St Thomas for a second time on March 14, 2014 accompanied by murder accused Andrew Harclyde Pollard where they discovered the body of Onicka Gulliver. Police claimed the...
View ArticleYoungsters charged with indictable offences
Two young men charged in connection with a number of criminal matters are now on remand at Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds. They are, Tyrese Devonish, 19, of Warners Park, Christ Church and Brandon...
View ArticleClarke admits to fraud
Convict Winston Decourcey Clarke has added a fraud conviction to his criminal record. Clarke, who is in his 50s, of 7th Avenue New Orleans, St Michael pleaded guilty before Justice Randall Worrell in...
View ArticleTaxi driver in court over incident with policeman
With his wife’s assistance, and a blue cushion in hand, taxi operator Carl Leslie Hinds took a painstaking walk into the docks of a criminal court less than 24 hours after being seen in a viral social...
View ArticleImprisoned for threats to policeman
On the precincts of the Supreme Court complex back in January a 51-year-old man twice threatened to shoot a policer officer. And starting tonight Junior Anderson Grafton Yarde, who has no fixed place...
View ArticleHead wound was serious, says doc
An expert in emergency medicine says complainant Ian McClean had a life-threatening wound to his head when he was brought in to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s Accident and Emergency on March 17, 2011....
View ArticleChurch thief sentenced
Stealing from one of this island’s divine places of worship has resulted in a 10-year jail sentence for a convicted thief from Haynes Hill, St John. Madam Justice Pamela Beckles handed down the...
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