Fisherman fined for assaulting former friend
A 43-year-old fisherman who made his first ever appearance before a criminal court today, admitted to assaulting another man on November 2. Shurland Decourcey Clarke of Breedy’s Gardens, Silver Sands,...
View ArticleHeadley to compensate bicycle owner
An unemployed man from St Michael, who admitted to theft, has two weeks to compensate his victim. Akio Jabarry Headley, 20, of Bedford Lane, Roebuck Street pleaded guilty to stealing a $250 bicycle...
View ArticleDefault on fine costs Gonsalves his freedom
Nicolas Peter Gonsalves went to court today to answer a theft charge. But he ended up being escorted to HMP Dodds after the records revealed that he had failed to pay a $300 fine for a 2014 offence....
View ArticleBail after three months on remand
A Spencer Gap, Baxters Road, St Michael resident who had been on remand since August on cocaine and cannabis charges, was today granted bail. Charles Foltone Bellamy, an unemployed 52-year-old, is...
View ArticleNo fight
Karim Olantude Codrington was remanded to HMP Dodds today after appearing in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on multiple burglary and traffic charges. And he went with little resistance, making no...
View ArticleFirst-time offender on probation for drugs
A 24-year-old man from St Michael today pleaded guilty to possession of 14 grammes of cannabis. Troy Romel Skeete of Seclusion Road, Black Rock was charged after the illicit drug was found on him by...
View ArticleDrug and assault charges dropped
Michael Anthony James today walked out of the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court without three 2013 drug charges hanging over his head. James, of Derriston, Grazettes, St Michael, had been charged with...
View ArticleToppin not guilty of gun and ammo charges
A nine-member jury today found Peter St Clair Toppin, of 2nd Avenue, Whitehall, St Michael, not guilty of gun and ammunition charges. Toppin, who is in his 20’s, was charged with having a .32 calibre...
View ArticleNo refuge
Three months after Romario Lashley was killed by police, a second person has been charged with harbouring him during his efforts to evade lawmen. Stephen Ricardo Phillips, 32, of Carters, St John was...
View ArticleCases dismissed
A case against Romario Anderson Williams was dismissed today in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court for want of prosecution. Williams, of Block 10F, Patient Drive, Eden Lodge, St Michael, appeared...
View ArticleRamsay remanded for 2014 offences
A Christ Church resident was today remanded to HMP Dodds, two years after he allegedly committed two crimes. Jamar Kareem Ramsay, 24, of Brownes Gap, Sargeant’s Village is accused of causing serious...
View ArticleMan chided for rock-throwing incident
Acting Magistrate Alliston Seale today reprimanded and discharged a 24-year-old man who admitted to being involved in a rock-throwing incident last week. Ken Carlisle Beckles, of Lot 14 Ashby Drive,...
View ArticleTwo must keep the peace
Two men who pleaded guilty today to causing a public disturbance have been ordered to keep the peace for a year. Lamur Oneal Holder, 23, of Ceres Road, Fairfield, St Michael, and 22-year-old St George...
View ArticleCampus Trendz appeal
One of the two men convicted for the deaths of six young women who perished in a fire at the Campus Trendz clothing store six years ago is appealing his six concurrent life sentences. On August 15,...
View ArticleHarris remanded on burglary charges
Tony Ricardo Harris, who is listed as having no fixed place of abode, has been remanded to prison on burglary charges. He appeared before Acting Magistrate Alliston Seale this afternoon, accused of...
View ArticleI’m sorry
Abandoning a written speech he had prepared to deliver to the No. 2 Supreme Court Thursday, manslayer Jerrick Samuel Jerri Tudor tried to speak from the heart as he apologized for stabbing to death the...
View ArticleBorman on bond for theft
A 44-year-old man was Thursday placed on a 12-month bond to keep the peace and be of good behaviour, after admitting to theft. Appearing in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court, Andy Borman, who is...
View ArticleStill no bail for Yearwood
Ricky Kenneth Yearwood of 3rd Avenue Grazettes, St Michael remains on remand at HMP Dodds after a second bail application by his attorney Hal Gollop, QC, was denied. Yearwood, who is charged with...
View ArticleRoad block
A ZR driver had to pay the high price of his freedom when his past caught up with him in the Traffic Court today. Carson Eversley of Bakers Road, Haggatt Hall, St Michael began a 260-day stint at HMP...
View ArticleBarnes charged with fraud
An unemployed man from Christ Church was today released on $7,500 bail after appearing in the Oistins Magistrates’ Court on fraud charges. Lionel Dacosta Barnes, 41, of Brownes Gap in Rockley was not...
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