Drug addict admits to stealing from funeral home
A 31-year-old man who burglarised a funeral home and also stole from a woman who used to feed him, has been remanded to Dodds until June 25 pending sentence. Jerome O’Brien Rudder, of no fixed place of...
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Two St Joseph men accused of animal cruelty in connection with a viral video in which a monkey was burned alive, pleaded not guilty to the charge when they appeared in court today. The men, 36-year-old...
View ArticleBail for jailed attorney
Convicted attorney-at-law Vonda Pile has been offered $200 000 bail on appeal. After several unsuccessful attempts, Pile who was found guilty of stealing thousands of dollars from her client, was...
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Young man charged with injuring his mother
A 23-year-old man was granted $4,000 bail when he appeared in court today. Tristan Hakeem Bourne, of Cummings Road, Brittons Hill, St Michael is accused of causing serious bodily harm to his mother...
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Neighbours settle fight in court
It will cost a 38-year-old man $2,000 for jump kicking his neighbour, sending him crashing through the door into the gallery. Barry Sylvester Coleman, of Apple Grove, Black Rock, St Michael has three...
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Herbalist making ‘extra change’ from ganja, fined
Guyanese national Jagmohan Murray who has been residing here for over a decade admitted today to cultivating marijuana and to two counts of possession, possession with intent to supply and possession...
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Former schoolmates contrite at sentencing hearing
Three young people who were found guilty of manslaughter in connection with the unlawful killing of 11-year-old Ian Elroy Gibson, a Princess Margaret Secondary School student, on September 20, 2009,...
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Loud music charge before the court
Two people charged in connection with a common law offence were granted $3,000 bail each in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today. McKerie Keko Humphrey, 25, of September Square, 4th Avenue Hart’s...
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Convict admits he had drugs for smoking and drinking
Two hundred hours of community service was the punishment imposed on a 26-year-old man who pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of marijuana. Rasheen Delerente Tobia Massiah, of Apt 4 Fordes...
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Wiltshire awaiting his fate after guilty plea
A St Michael man convicted of multiple traffic charges is on remand at Dodds pending sentencing next month. Troy Oneal Wiltshire, of Upper Wavell Avenue, Black Rock pleaded guilty to eight offences...
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Forde goes home after months on remand
A bar owner who had been on remand at Dodds since September last year was allowed to go home today. When Raheim Colin Forde, of 10th Avenue New Orleans, St Michael appeared before the District ‘A’...
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Two sentenced, two remanded
Four men, one of them a harden criminal, are now at Dodds in connection with a string of burglaries and thefts. Two of the men, 45-year-old Ricardo Anderson Harding and 24-year-old Sergio Delacy...
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Bullying case should be shared in schools
The 2009 death of Ian Elroy Gibson, an 11-year-old student of the Princess Margaret Secondary School, should be made “prominent” in this island’s schools and used as a teaching tool about the possible...
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Proper systems of supervision and management for young offenders needed – seale
Deputy Director of Public Prosecution Alliston Seale wants to see “wayward” young men in Barbados given a chance at a successful future as law-abiding citizens. To this end the prosecutor said proper...
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Duo at Dodds following fracas over money for sex
Two men who caused a disturbance at Strathclyde Road, St Michael on Monday over an alleged, “sex deal” not fully honoured, are now at HMP Dodds. However, one is serving a six-month sentence and the...
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CCJ slams Govt’s handling of cement trade dispute
Barbados has once again ended up on the wrong side of a Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) judgment. While the CCJ has on several occasions criticized the local judiciary for the long delays in...
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Magistrates shift jurisdictions
Judicial officers in the Magistrates’ Court will be assigned to new districts come September 1. The changes were highlighted in official written “confidential” correspondence to this island’s...
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Prescod says sorry for Warde’s death
Confessed manslayer Nishawn Diandre Prescod has issued an apology to the family of the late Brinsley Warde who was murdered on October 9, 2015. “With all due respect sir I humbly apologise to the...
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Fish vendor charged
Sharon Felicia Bellamy Thompson, of Scotts Terrace, Grazettes, St Michael appeared in court today charged with using threats towards another woman. The 49-year-old fish vendor, who plies her trade at...
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Shooter apologises to society
Tevin Ramon Skeete who was found guilty of using a firearm while at St Elmo’s Mini Mart in St Lucy, nine years ago, has apologised for his actions saying he was misled. The Crab Hill, St Lucy resident...
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