Harvey given chance to kick drug habit
Magistrate Douglas Frederick was convinced that Cecil Harvey was trying to kick his drug habit and turn his life around. As a result, Harvey was spared a prison sentence and will be assessed to see if...
View Article“$5 bag” costs man $750
After throwing away a wrapper containing cannabis for fear of being caught, Kelly Glen Francis then threw himself at the mercy of the court. As a result, he will now have four weeks to come up $750, or...
View ArticleElderly man sent to Mental
An elderly man who told the court that he was 35-years-old was remanded to the Psychiatric Hospital this afternoon. Ronald Randolph Dacosta Lovell of no-fixed-place-of-abode was handed down the...
View ArticleWaste case
A move to have a charge against Project Recycle Ltd and the company’s representative Adrian Weekes dismissed, even before a single witness was called, did not find favour with Magistrate Douglas...
View ArticleMan apologizes for head-butting incident
Based on some “worrying” information he received, Myles Obrian Richards had decided last month to head-butt his neighbour. However, after spending a couple weeks on remand at HMP Dodds, Richards...
View ArticleBest learns the hard way
Ian Antonio Best learnt a valuable lesson today. Unable to find the man whom he stood as a surety for, Best had to part ways with $1,000. However, things could have been twice as bad for the...
View ArticleWomen prove to be Bailey’s downfall
Nicholas Henry Rico Bailey blamed his most recent charge on the fact that “the women don’t leff me”. And while that statement was met with laughter in the District ‘A’ Magistrates Court today, it was...
View ArticleMagistrate supports calls for sexual offenders’ registry
Former Juvenile Court Magistrate Barbara Cooke-Alleyne has supported calls for the introduction of a sexual offender’s registry but wants the wandering charge for minors removed from the island’s...
View ArticleWrong sister
Last week Nicholas Henry Rico Bailey told a Bridgetown Court that Chanet Toppin was jealous of his relationship with her sister and that during a fit of jealously on February 6 this year, she had...
View ArticleCheltenham gets six months
Richard Cheltenham (not the prominent attorney) will be housed at HMP Dodds for the next six months. That determination was made after the 49-year-old of Bedford Lane, Roebuck Street, St, Michael...
View Article20 ganja plants found at man’s home
Julian Chadwick Mayers was given one month in which to come up with $3 000, after pleading guilty today to four drug charges. The 44-year-old of 1st Avenue Godding Road, St Michael pleaded guilty...
View ArticleFour deny breaking and entering
Four men, including two Jamaicans, accused of unlawfully entering the home of Kenrick Tugwell between Thursday and Friday last week and stealing $3 000, have pleaded not guilty to the charge. Shammare...
View ArticleWorker accused of sleeping on the job
The case brought against Waves Hotel and Spa of Prospect, St James by night auditor, Wendell Storey, for wrongful dismissal on October 15 2013, had its first sitting today before the Employment Rights...
View ArticleCarpenter offers to fix up police station
Jason Anderson Thelius has until June 17 to complete 240 hours of community service. The 32-year-old unemployed man was ordered to do so by Magistrate Douglas Frederick after he appeared in court today...
View ArticleSubnormal sex
Lenard Rupert Short Man Clarke will be sentenced later for having sexual intercourse with and raping a subnormal person five years ago, who was not his spouse and whom he knew or believed was...
View ArticleBrits guilty of fraud
Three British nationals who were on remand for the past month at HMP Dodds, today pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to committing fraud following their arrival on the island earlier this year....
View ArticleBoyce admits to causing disturbance
A St Michael woman who admitted causing a disturbance on Wilkinson Road in the same parish yesterday, was today granted $2,000 bail and ordered to reappear in court on June 14. Kimberly Rasheida Boyce,...
View ArticleLoiterer jailed for attempted theft
Maradona Lorenzo Anderson Springer was sentenced yesterday to nine months in prison after appearing in the District ‘A’ Magistrates Court before Magistrate Douglas Frederick on two charges. Springer,...
View ArticleMan sent for evaluation threatens to kill himself
Accused of going on to a school compound after the principal forbade him, Peter Samuel James was remanded to the Psychiatric Hospital after appearing in a Bridgetown court earlier today. James, of no...
View Article‘I lost my cool’
Even though Sherwin Orlando Straker will very likely have to pay compensation to a man he cuffed in his face, the Maynard’s Land, Bush Hall, St. Michael resident will also receive help in managing his...
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