NHC worker assailant remanded, awaiting sentencing
Middleton, St George resident Darren Ian Johnson is on remand at Dodds Prison awaiting sentencing for assaulting a National Housing Corporation worker on the job. The 28-year-old landscaper pleaded...
View ArticleBush Hall man bailed on threat charge
A 30-year-old accused man was told to reappear before the No. 2 District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court later this year when a threat charge against him is expected to continue. Robinson of Bush Hall Yard Gap,...
View ArticleTeen remanded on theft charge
Teenager Milek Joshua Johnson was remanded to Dodds on Tuesday for 28 days on a theft charge. Johnson, 19, from 2nd Avenue, Deanes Village, Hindsbury, St Michael appeared before Magistrate Angela...
View ArticleAccused Harewood granted $2 500 bail
Coconut vendor Kamal Kemar Harewood was granted bail on Tuesday when he appeared before a Bridgetown court on a wounding charge. Harewood, 27, of Fordes Road, Clapham, St Michael is accused of...
View ArticleClapham burglar given suspended sentence
For the next two years, Christopher Seth Japeth Bynoe has to stay out of trouble with the law if he wants to avoid serving a six-month sentence imposed on him. Magistrate Manila Renee sentenced the...
View ArticleJury finds St Andrew man not guilty of murder
Hugs and tears were abundant among the family of Kevin Andrew Haynes in Supreme Court No.5A on Wednesday afternoon after a jury found him not guilty of murder. After Justice Christopher Birch summed up...
View ArticleFirst court appearance on gun, ammo charges
Two men and a woman were on Thursday remanded to Dodds on joint and separate charges under the Firearms Act. Home care worker Celia Alicia Taylor, 35, of #170 7th Avenue, West Terrace Gardens, St...
View ArticleTransgender woman loses workplace case; law silent on status
A transgender woman has lost her unfair dismissal claim against a legal firm in a case that highlights the lack of legal protections for transgender people in Barbados. The Employment Rights Tribunal...
View ArticleCriminal procedures to expedite cases ‘by September’
The criminal justice system is on course to implement new rules by the end of September to accelerate the processing of criminal cases, Attorney General Dale Marshall announced on Monday. Speaking at a...
View ArticleBurglar was ‘hooked on drugs’ when he committed crimes
A confessed drug-addicted burglar from Spooners Hill is now on remand at Dodds awaiting his fate. Fidel Martino Germaine Parris, 34, will make his next appearance before Magistrate Angela Knight on...
View ArticleProsecution gets new partial disclosure date in murder case
A magistrate has given the State until early next month to deliver partial disclosure of its two-year-old case against a murder accused — or the “matter gone ‘long”. Magistrate Angela Knight on Tuesday...
View ArticleSealy fails in bid to get escape charges dismissed
Accused escapee Roger Rommel Stephen Sealy was on Wednesday unsuccessful in his bid to have two charges against him dismissed for want of prosecution. Sealy of Newton Crescent, Pinelands, St Michael is...
View ArticleBayland man walks free of firearm charge
A City magistrate threw out a gun charge against a St Michael man on Wednesday after the prosecution failed to serve the defence with disclosure. Junior Louis Delisle Roachford of Corday Avenue,...
View ArticleConfessed drug addict jailed for shoplifting
Well known thief Bertram Russell Lynch blamed his criminal ways on a “serious cocaine” habit for which he said he needed help. The 61-year-old Bank Hall Cross Road resident made the plea as he...
View ArticleHome help faces nearly 100 fraud charges, bailed
A fraud investigation has landed a home help/auxiliary nurse before the courts on 97 counts of obtaining money from a senior couple’s chequing account over several months. Lashanna Monisa Bowman, 33, a...
View ArticleGovt Hill man accused of assault remanded
A 58-year-old man was on Monday again remanded to Dodds on a new charge which allegedly committed when he appeared in court on another some weeks ago. Daniel Oliver White, of Seale Land, Martinique...
View ArticleSeven days for absconding court order
Two men learned first-hand the seriousness of failing to comply with court-imposed bail conditions when a Bridgetown magistrate ordered that they spend seven days in jail for absconding. Paul Kian...
View ArticleMan jailed for exposing himself, harming woman, other offences
A Pinelands man with no means to compensate a woman whom he attacked with “a barrage of blows” will spend six months in prison. Justin Harvey Travis Felicien, of Princess Royal Avenue, The Pine, St...
View ArticleIllegal gun, ammo charges land youth on remand
Firearm and ammunition charges sent a 20-year-old general worker on remand at Dodds for the next 28 days. Tyrese Kadar Odle, of Rogers Road, Grazettes, St Michael appeared before Magistrate Alison...
View ArticleLawyer says prosecutor’s bail objections inadequate
Attorney-at-law Andrew Pilgrim made a successful bail application for a client on Tuesday on the basis that the prosecution’s objections were woefully “inadequate”. His client, Jason Henderson Goddard,...
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