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Crack addict: Jail no help
After being told today that he needed to be kept in a structured environment in order to treat his crack cocaine and nicotine addictions, Cuthbert Robert Harewood declared, “I don’t want no jail help....
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Drug trafficker claims drug deal was to save his children
Harbone Mackinon Griffith claims he was forced to join an enterprise to import 525.36 pounds of marijuana into Barbados because the lives of his two daughters were being threatened. “I would like to...
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Ex-Minister disappointed over criminal convictions
Convicted on money laundering charges he strenuously denies, former Government minister Donville Inniss has pledged to fight the USA judicial system with every sinew in his body to prove his innocence....
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Case of alleged menacing message adjourned
An allegation under the Computer Misuse Act has landed a 49-year-old construction supervisor in trouble with the law. It is alleged that Derrick Nathaniel Brathwaite, of Storey Gap, Codrington Hill, St...
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Patrick King charged
Four criminal charges under the Computer Misuse Act have been leveled against a 52-year-old man. One of them involves veteran broadcaster David Ellis, Station Manager of the Starcom Network. Patrick...
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Robbery accused remanded
Strong objections by the prosecution to a grant of bail for an 18-year-old accused led to him being sent on remand at Dodds for the next 28-days. Absalom Abejah Francis-Hunte, of no fixed place of...
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Smith pleads guilty after almost six months on remand
When he first appeared before a Bridgetown court back in February 64-year-old Farley Nigel Smith denied handling stolen property and was remanded to Dodds. On his first appearance the Crown had...
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Antigua court puts stop to pilots’ case
The Antigua and Barbuda High Court today blocked a class action suit filed by a senior Barbadian pilot against his employer LIAT (1974) in a ruling that some lawyers warn could have serious...
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‘Marijuana plants grown for asthma’
An attempt to “trick” a court has left a 21-year-old pondering his actions for the next two nights at HMP Dodds. When Shamario Simeon Odle, of Block 4B Deacons Road, St Michael enter the dock of the...
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Accused with alleged “natural tendency” for stealing remanded
A man accused of two break-ins has been remanded to prison for 28 days after the Crown objected to his bail. Jason Omar Mason, of Browne’s Gap, Sargeant’s Village, Christ Church is accused of entering...
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Man charged for ganja plants
Running away from lawmen executing a search warrant at his residence ended in 25-year-old Shavar Dominique Murray being arrested and charged. The Allamby Gap, Spooner’s Hill, St Michael resident was...
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Teen on wanted police bulletin misses court
Wanted teen Rovaldo Rahkim Roberts, of Grant’s Gap, Westbury Road, St Michael was a no show in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today. The 18-year-old, an inmate on remand at Her Majesty’s Prisons...
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Baxter’s Road killer pleads guilty to manslaughter
Accused Eddisa Deon Mitchell today said he was not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter in connection with the 2016 death of Colin Forde. The 2nd Avenue, Thomas Gap, President Kennedy Drive, St...
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Drug convict sentenced
High Court judge Randall Worrell today sentenced drug trafficker Harbone Mackinon Griffith to seven years in prison. However, the 49-year-old of Checker Hall, St Lucy only has 838 more days to serve in...
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Superstar’s designer slippers, tees were ‘ripoffs
A visiting expert in trademarks informed a local magistrate’s court today that items seized from the Bridgetown store owned by the uncle of Barbadian superstar Rihanna, are all counterfeits of her...
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Prisoner “frustrated” at wait
An inmate at Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds today claimed he was “lost” in the system after he was sentenced despite having a pending matter before the High Court. “I served a sentence. It finished last...
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Trio remand on multiple charges
Three men charged in connection with a shooting incident earlier this month at Hall’s Road, St Michael have been remanded to prison until September 16. Andrew Dwayne Burgess, 40, of Airy Hill St...
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Mitchell said he heard the plan to rob a City man of his gold chains
On May 10, 2016, while passing through the St Leonard’s Church’s cemetery, Eddisa Deon Mitchell listened to his brother Chris Avian Amal Lord’s plan to rob businessman Colin Forde of his jewelry....
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‘Chopped enemy’, then called police
After he had “chopped up” a man who he described as the “enemy” on the night of April 23, 2016, Omar Ryan Oneal Hurdle dialed 211 and reported his crime. And recently before the No. 2 Supreme Court the...
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Drug traffickers to be sentenced next week
Justice Randall Worrell will on Thursday, August 27 sentence two men who tried to import 474 kilogrammes of marijuana into Barbados on a fishing boat. An adjournment was given during a Zoom hearing...
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