Wandering teen remanded
A 14-year-old girl charged with theft and who “keeps wandering away” from home is now at the Government Industrial School until her next court appearance. The child who is from the north of the island...
View ArticlePollard sick, case on hold for two weeks
The murder trial of Andrew Harclyde Pollard has been adjourned again. When Justice Randall Worrell called the case against the Mahaica Gap, Green Hill, St Michael resident in the No. 4 Supreme today he...
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...
View ArticleStolen phone gets car washer six months
A 46-year-old car washer today claimed that his victim was “not righteous” because he went ahead with the charge despite saying he would not. Wayne McLloyd Grant, of fixed place of abode, pleaded...
View ArticleYarde in court again
Another conviction and an extra three months were added to Junior Anderson Grafton Yarde’s criminal record today. The 51-year-old, of no fixed place of abode, returned to the District ‘A’ Magistrates’...
View ArticleWrong place, time for Jamaican national
Border closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic prevented the immediate deportation of a Jamaican woman who became the first person charged for breaking the nightly curfew imposed in Barbados. “You have...
View ArticleTaxi operator admits to assaulting a traffic warden
Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes says an assault on a traffic warden who was performing her duties on the streets of the City last Sunday was tantamount to “bush behaviour”. But taxi operator Heather Denise...
View ArticleBottle thrower to be sentenced next month
Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes says an assault on a traffic warden who was performing her duties on the streets of the City last Sunday was tantamount to “bush behaviour”. But taxi operator Heather Denise...
View ArticleChop of frustration could cost Mayers
The issue of compensation will be discussed when a 25-year-old porter who pleaded guilty to criminal damage returns to court on June 9 in the District ‘D’ jurisdiction. Shemar Armanny Mayers, of...
View ArticleSon accused of assaulting his mom
Outfitted in masks in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic two officers escorted a farmer who allegedly assaulted his mother to the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court. And now the accused, 32-year-old...
View ArticleMagistrate rejects ‘I did not do it but I guilty’ pleas
Reputed thief Dale Andrew White pleaded with a magistrate to accept his guilty pleas even though he did not commit two of the offences for which he was charged. The 45-year-old, of Bonnets, Brittons...
View ArticleMiddle-age shoplifter begs for fine
Horace Chesterfield Jones has 41 years of petty theft to his “credit”. However, the 57-year-old Lower Haggatt Hall, St Michael resident appeared to have not contemplated that returning five days later...
View ArticleWilliams remanded to Dodds
The man who recently caused police officers at the District ‘E’ Police Station to isolate themselves after he presented with flu like symptoms, was remanded to prison today on a firearm related charge....
View ArticleCCJ slams Barbados’ courts. Again
Bordering on the intolerable is how the country’s final appellate tribunal has described the lower Court of Appeal’s failure to hand down its decision in a civil case, four years after it was due. In...
View ArticleKellman must pay
A 24-year-old landscaper has five months to save $500 if he wants to avoid spending a month in prison. Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant recently imposed the order for compensation in that amount on...
View ArticleThief for June sentencing
A young man convicted on several burglary charges will reappear in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on June 19. That was the date given to 21-year-old Teriq Kaareem Linton, of Suttle Street, the...
View ArticleDrug possession case adjourned until October
A 40-year-old general worker who denied having $90 worth of cannabis in his possession will make his next appearance in the District ‘E’ Magistrates’ Court on October 7. James Jimmy Antoine, of...
View ArticleWorrell to spend nine months behind bars
A convicted thief, who told a Magistrates’ court today he had nowhere to live, has been provided with a place of residence for the next nine months. Sitting in the No. 1 Criminal Court at District “A”...
View ArticleMan warned to stay away from woman
Just before being released on bail today, a middle-aged man who described his profession as a game fisher was given a strong warning by District “A” Court Magistrate Wanda Blair. Her stern message was...
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