Man acquitted of raping woman
Seconds after Justice Pamela Beckles told him he was free to go, Shawn Antonio Holder collapsed in the dock, prompting loud gasps in the No. 5 Supreme Court. The drama unfolded on Monday afternoon as a...
View ArticleMinor tells of sexual assault by aunt’s boyfriend
A young complainant in a sexual assault trial testified of telling her aunt that her boyfriend had molested her but said the woman refused to believe it. The minor was speaking in the No. 4A Supreme...
View ArticleJury begins hearing evidence in murder trial of two men
If two or more people set out to commit a crime, the law says both are guilty. Principal State Counsel Neville Watson sought to make this legal point clear on Monday as witnesses began to give evidence...
View ArticleCoach of winless Tridents optimistic of future victories
The wins will come. Barbados’ interim head coach Kent Hall believes better results are on the horizon for the senior men’s national team despite the Tridents losing both their opening matches in the...
View ArticleCity duo to spend more time in jail for manslaughter
Two City men have been given starting sentences of 18 years for killing a route taxi driver six years ago. Keenon Tristan Jason Chase of King William Street, and Michael Shane Olijuan James of Ashby...
View ArticleLater date for MP to answer to rape charge
The trial of rape-accused Member of Parliament Neil Gabriel Rowe has been delayed another three months and transferred to another court. While the case of the former deputy speaker of the House was set...
View ArticleRastas ‘prisoners’ under sacramental herb law
Leading the charge for an amendment to the Sacramental Cannabis Act of 2019, a leading spokesman for the Rastafarian community expressed his belief that the sect is not being respected by the...
View ArticleCJ, in new system to tackle case backlog, reaches out to Bar
The new Chief Justice of Barbados, 27 days on the job and grappling with a mounting backlog of court cases, has implemented a plan for the more efficient management of outstanding cases, his spokesman...
View ArticleVauxhall man convicted of killing cousin in new year’s day quarrel
Renaldo Stevenson Kirkley Carter shot cousin Jason to death over breakfast on New Year’s Day nine years ago, a High Court jury found late Tuesday. In a nine-to-three majority verdict, the 12-member...
View Article‘No scuffle before stabbing’
There was no exchange of words, no argument and no scuffle between two Branchbury, St Joseph friends on the morning one stabbed the other in the chest, the No. 5 Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. “All...
View ArticleDawson admits to murder on day 4 of trial
One of the men accused of the shooting death of Rondell Alexander threw in the towel and admitted to the slaying as the trial reached its fourth day in the No. 3 Supreme Court on Thursday. Shane Dawson...
View ArticleMan admits to threat by cell phone
After spending a week on remand, a Passage Road man changed his plea and admitted to threatening a man by cellular phone. Kensington Lodge resident Samuel Matthew Victor Agard, 31, appeared in the...
View ArticleTrini to spend another year in jail for guns, drugs
Four years after importing guns and drugs into the island, Trinidadian Travell Kelson Fox was told that he had to spend over one more year at Dodds Prison. Justice Randall Worrell gave the resident of...
View ArticleMan denies indecently assaulting girl
A St Michael man swore on his “mother’s grave” that he never indecently assaulted a nine-year-old girl in 2021. “I never touched (the complainant’s) nipples; I never touched her on the bottom; I never...
View ArticleJury finds man indecently assaulted girlfriend’s niece
A 38-year-old man has been remanded to Dodds Prison after a jury found him guilty of indecently assaulting his girlfriend’s nine-year-old niece three years ago. A jury of five women and four men in the...
View ArticleJudge wants quicker turnaround for ‘fast track’ cases
Justice Randall Worrell believes the courts’ current ‘fast track’ system must be sped up to allow those seeking to enter a guilty plea to get to the High Court more quickly. Moments before informing...
View ArticleBest to spend 22 more years behind bars for killing teen
Convicted murderer Anderson Rodney Omar Best will spend the next 22 years behind bars for killing a teenager. Best, of Kings Court, Lodge Road, Christ Church, had been charged with murdering Justin...
View ArticleGunman to know his fate in a week
Toriano Tracy Hunte will reappear in the No. 3 Supreme Court next Friday to be sentenced for a gun crime he committed 12 years ago. Hunte, 52, of Queen Victoria Road, Bank Hall was arraigned before...
View ArticleConvicted killer gets time served after over decade in jail
He was given a starting sentence of 20 years imprisonment. However, convicted manslayer Ian Anderson Parke is now a free man after several deductions to that sentence were made, including the more than...
View ArticleLawyer calls for investigation into death of man in police cell
Prominent criminal defence lawyer Michael Lashley has called for an “independent investigation” into the death of a 29-year-old man in a police cell earlier this month, and for the whereabouts of his...
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