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Teen who disrupted JetBlue flight gets reprimanded, discharged
Sixteen-year-old American choirboy Shiloh Cecil Bellot, who disrupted an international flight at the Grantley Adams International Airport last month, has been reprimanded and discharged for his...
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Man remanded for abusing woman over denial of phone access
“You are never allowed to put your hand on a woman because she made a choice you did not like.” Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes gave that advice to 21-year-old Tyreek Shackile Worrell on Monday for his...
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Magistrate Frederick takes up new post
Magistrate Douglas Frederick is off the bench and now holds the post of Acting Public Counsel. The judicial officer who has been presiding over the District ‘B’ (Boarded Hall) and the District ‘F’...
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Judge jails former soldier caught with illegal guns and ammo
An ex-soldier will spend the next three years behind bars for “betraying” his country for “the criminal element”. That was the remainder of a ten-year sentence imposed on Ramon Omar St Hill by Justice...
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Chief Magistrate defends police after assaulted wife asks that husband not be...
Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes has made it clear that The Barbados Police Service cannot be expected to solve people’s personal problems and address major crime at the same time. He expressed that view on...
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Magistrate Frederick takes up new post
Magistrate Douglas Frederick is off the bench and now holds the post of Acting Public Counsel. The judicial officer who has been presiding over the District ‘B’ (Boarded Hall) and the District ‘F’...
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Lavine sent to prison for kidnapping and molesting boy
Kidnapper and child molester Rawle Larenzo Lavine was on Wednesday sentenced to ten years in prison for a crime against a 13-year-old boy. Of that sentence, Lavine, alias Mohamed, of Blackman Field,...
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Labourer to be sentenced for injuring foreman
A labourer who hit his foreman in the face with a shovel ten years ago, resulting in multiple facial fractures and lacerations as well as injury to the right eye, will find out his fate when the matter...
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Guyanese man admits to assaulting two officers on duty
A Guyanese national whose name on the charge sheet was simply Looknauth says he was under the influence of alcohol when he committed four crimes against two police officers on Sunday. Police Constables...
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Rowe’s lawyers raise questions about analysis in rape case
Committal proceedings in the rape case against accused Parliamentarian Neil Rowe should take place in a week’s time. In the meantime, Magistrate Deidre McKenna has requested that the prosecution...
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Contractor pleads guilty to wounding fellow Jamaican
A 52-year-old contractor is due before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court early next month when a wounding case against him is expected to continue. Hermon Hugh Edmondson, who resides at Dash Gap,...
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Man ordered to pay thousands of dollars for illegal gun and ammo
First-time offender Tristan Kemar Scott has been ordered to pay a total of $26 000 for having an illegal gun and ammunition six years ago. Madam Justice Pamela Beckles imposed the sentence on the...
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King jailed for theft after Prince denies knowing him
Convicted thief Winston Leroy King recently declared that the man from whom he stole a bicycle was his brother. However, when the virtual complainant, Joseph Prince, appeared before the District ‘A’...
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Retired public officer granted $10 000 bail on 2019 charges
A 68-year-old retired public officer has been granted bail in connection with more than a dozen charges dating back to 2019. Charles Winston Ramsay, of Mount Hillaby, St Thomas, secured the $10 000...
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First-time offender pays compensation
A 52-year-old carpenter was ordered to pay $300 compensation on Monday after spending four days on remand. Devon Alywn Defreitas, who resides at Edey Village, Christ Church, was released after he paid...
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Young men accused of violent disorder, robbery remanded
Allegations of violent disorder and robbery landed eight young men on remand at Dodds on Tuesday, despite submissions by their attorneys that they were fit and proper candidates for bail. Nico...
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MP’s rape case committed for trial before judge and jury
Rape accused parliamentarian Neil Rowe is now set to face a judge and jury. On Thursday, Magistrate Deidre McKenna committed the accused, in the presence of his attorneys, to stand trial before the...
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Accused thief remanded
His record of thievery and the fact he has no fixed place of abode resulted in Junior Anderson Grafton Yarde being remanded to Dodds on Thursday. Yarde, 63, appeared before Magistrate Bernadeth John in...
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Judge serves notice of harsh punishment for statutory rape offenders as she...
High Court judge Madam Justice Pamela Beckles warned on Thursday that people who have sex with minors will face harsh punishment once convicted. “Sexual assaults upon young children must be severely...
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Confessed thief to be sentenced for 10 offences
The District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court will on October 6 hear how St Elias Charles committed ten counts of theft over a four-month period. After the facts are disclosed, the Bournes Village, St George...
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