Stepfather accused of serious indecency
Allegations that he committed an act of serious indecency on his 13-year-old stepdaughter and assaulted his wife, who is the child’s mother, landed a 53-year-old St Michael man before the law court...
View ArticleSt Michael man remanded on gun and ammo charges
Twenty-four-year-old Shamar Dajhon Romon Mosley was remanded to HMP Dodds after after appearing in the District “D” Magistrates’ Court today. Mosley, of 27A Reece Land, Brittons Hill, St Michael has...
View ArticleBlows and jail
A phone call from an “outside woman” resulted in a 35-year-old man getting “put out” in the dead of night. And Corey Omar Nicholls, of Yearwood Road, Sugar Hill, St Joseph said all that could have been...
View ArticleMoseley on gun charges
A 24-year-old man is facing charges for allegedly having a gun and 11 rounds of ammunition. Shamar Dajhon Romon Mosley, of 27A Reece Land, Brittons Hill, St Michael was not required to plead to the...
View Article29 appear in court for breaking curfew, 1 fined $5K
Twenty-nine people appeared before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes in the District A Court today charged with breaking curfew. One person, Dwayne Ricardo Fenty, 40, of #108 Emerald Park West, Six Roads, St...
View ArticleAlcohol made me do it, says Thorpe
Well known thief Anthony Rudolph Thorpe said he was intoxicated when he stole a box of candy from a wholesale business. Now the 63-year-old, of Derricks, St James is on remand for the next 28 days...
View ArticleCashier granted bail
A woman was granted $5,000 bail today when she appeared in court on a theft charge. It is alleged that Kimberly Tillesha Clarke, of no fixed place of abode, stole BDS$9,000 and US$300 cash as well as a...
View ArticleTen accused of breaking Covid-19 directive; three plead guilty
Ten men who were charged with breaching sections of the Emergency Management (Covid-19) Directive, 2020 on May 16, appeared before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes today. Three of them pleaded guilty to the...
View ArticleCook pleads guilty to cultivating cannabis
When 58-year-old Augustin Kyrone Glasgow saw a documentary on television about the alleged benefits of cannabis for persons with asthma he decided to grow his own. But, the Forde’s Road, St Michael...
View ArticleEmployers back CCJ decision
Employers in Barbados are embracing the recent judgment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) which has established a new-look approach to compensation for workers who may be unfairly dismissed....
View ArticleHarper recalled how he “found” a shiny, loaded gun three years ago
David Wayne Harper was walking through a track near Ellerton Pasture in St George when he found a loaded firearm and decided to keep it in May three years ago. On May 26, 2017 the vehicle in which the...
View ArticleCity man jailed for shoplifting
A 29-year-old man will spend six months at HMP Dodds for entering a supermarket and walking out without paying for several items. A security guard on duty at Popular Discount Supermarket kept Dario...
View ArticleSt Michael youth pleads guilty to manslaughter
Raffique Vincent Murray told police back in 2016 he killed David Harewood because, “I did not like how he was talking to me and touching me.” Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale said...
View ArticleTough lessons for legal fraternity
President of the Barbados Bar Association Rosalind Smith-Miller believes that the judiciary should have been better prepared to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Describing the initial seven-week,...
View Article$8,000 fines for attending cycle event during curfew
Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes today sent a strong message to persons who congregate in groups during the national COVID-19 curfew and especially three young men who attended a motorcycle stunt event over...
View ArticleLawless society, says Weekes
This island’s Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes today lamented Barbados’ degenerating society as he sent three men, who were allegedly involved in a public stone throwing melee, to Dodds on remand. Omar...
View ArticleThree Christ Church men remanded to Dodds
Three men seen fighting along Rockley Main Road, Christ Church in a video circulating on social media have been remanded to HMP Dodds. They are Matthew Anthony Robinson, 39, of Parish Land,...
View ArticleNo bail for Boyce
A man with no fixed place of abode accused of praedial larceny will be housed on remand at Dodds until June 22. Rayon Andrew Boyce, appeared before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes yesterday charged with...
View ArticleLawyer makes case for convict’s release
Attorney-at-law Sian Lange today urged a High Court judge to impose a sentence of time served on her client who apologised for having in his possession, a loaded gun he had “found”. The defence...
View ArticleGuilty plea offered on gun charges
A young man has pleaded guilty to firearm and ammunition charges in the High Court. Jamar Julien Ricardo Proverbs, a first time offender, from Crawford Road, Ellerton, St George offered the plea today...
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