Mother warns son to stay off the blocks
“If you slip even once, I am not coming back!” That was the firm warning a frustrated mother gave to her 18-year-old son today in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court before agreeing to serve as a...
View ArticleYearwood pleads not guilty to assault
A St Michael man’s inability to produce an acceptable surety to the District “A” Magistrates’ Court to secure bail, landed him a one-month stay at HMP Dodds today as a remand prisoner. Earlier, Selvin...
View ArticleSinging the blues
A street character who asked a Bridgetown magistrate to grant him personal bail was remanded to HMP Dodds instead. Not only did Wayde Grant appear in the dock in dirty clothes, but littered the...
View ArticleReggae artiste accused of assaulting girlfriend’s sister
An entertainer who said he recently sang at Reggae on the Hill was granted $3 000 bail today and ordered to return to court on July 15. When Shawn Andre Orlando Forde, 26, of Canefield, St Thomas...
View ArticleMan admits to beating girlfriend
“She is entitled to associate with whomever she wants to associate with,” Magistrate Douglas Frederick told a Christ Church man who confessed to beating his ex-girlfriend earlier today. Kofi Roosevelt...
View ArticleTiler throws spliff through neighbour’s window
Henderson Leroy Farrell was hanging out at Gills Gap, Eagle Hall, St Michael on Monday when he was approached by police and threw a marijuana cigarette which he had through a neighbour’s window. Today,...
View Article17 cellular charges
A man regarded as a “serial cellular phone snatcher” will spend the next 30 months behind bars at HMP Dodds. Ricardo Sylvester Knight, 38, of Stephenson Land, Kew Road, St Michael today pleaded guilty...
View ArticleChase charged with wounding
A St Michael man was today granted $5,000 bail on a wounding charge. Micah Laron Chase, 34, of Gullyfield Avenue, Bayland appeared in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court accused of unlawfully and...
View ArticleWalrond ordered to keep the peace
A St Michael man was today ordered to keep the peace for the remainder of the year. Magistrate Douglas Frederick handed down the sentence to 38-year-old Adrian Chelston Walrond of Monroe Road, Haggatt...
View ArticleJockey accused of having sex with minor
A 25-year-old jockey, accused of having sexual intercourse with a minor, was released on bail today. Shane Junior Collymore of Waterhall Land, Eagle Hall, St Michael was not required to plead to the...
View ArticleTwo reprimanded following ‘tit for tat’
Two people were reprimanded and discharged when they appeared in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court on a charge of disturbing the peace. Anna Shakira Proverbs, 26, of Round Rock, Lowlands, St Lucy and...
View ArticleStrike out
Social activist David Comissiong has been “spectacularly vindicated” in his challenge of Government’s planned move to fingerprint nationals at the island’s ports of entry. When the matter came up for...
View ArticleThe fight is not over – Marshall
The Supreme Court decision against Government’s controversial plan to fingerprint Barbadians leaving and entering the country has been described as comforting by one of the biggest opponents of the...
View ArticleBAICO matter set for July
The High Court today set July 18 as the date for the start of hearings of a proposal by the Judicial Manager of British American Insurance Company (BAICO) that outlines a way forward for the troubled...
View ArticleSandiford on $5,000 bail
A Christ Church man was granted $5, 000 bail earlier today after appearing before Magistrate Douglas Frederick accused of causing a woman serious bodily harm with intent to maim, disfigure or disable...
View ArticleZR driver warned
The next time the case against ZR van driver Matthew Ricardo Daniel comes up for hearing, the court will be proceeding with the matter. Magistrate Graveney Bannister made this clear Thursday when...
View ArticleTeen ordered to attend rehab
After pleading guilty earlier this month to assaulting two policemen, a 19-year-old returned before Magistrate Douglas Frederick today for sentencing. Clarence Raekwon Williams, a landscaper of...
View ArticleJordan sent back to jail
It will be another month before repeat offender Richard Ricardo Jordan reappears in a Bridgetown court to face a string of theft charges. The accused, who lives at Lot 33, Six Men’s, St Peter, was...
View ArticleDeath by hanging
Six years ago the deaths of six young women, who perished in a fire at the Campus Trendz store in the City, triggered a huge emotional outcry right across Barbados. However, it was an emotionless Jamar...
View ArticleHang him, please!
As family members and relatives of the six young women who perished in the Campus Trendz fire nearly six years ago discussed today’s guilty verdict handed down against Jamar Dewayne Bynoe, they could...
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