Vendor with cutlass raises alarm in The City
Kenrick Deone Davis will be spending the next month close to his St Philip home, after he was sentenced today to serve that amount of time at HMP Dodds for having an offensive weapon in Bridgetown on...
View ArticleIt’s a hard life, says Forde
“As a mental patient in this society, it does be real hard,” a man on a loitering charge told Magistrate Douglas Frederick in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today. “People does call yuh a madman...
View ArticleMental patient remanded
An outpatient of the Psychiatric Hospital will call the Black Rock facility home for the next three weeks after admitting to damaging equipment belonging to the Crown. Jason Anthony Snagg, 31, of Villa...
View ArticleCampus Trendz trial
Principal Crown Counsel Alliston Seale today urged the jury in the murder trial of Jamar Dewayne Orlando Bynoe to focus solely on the evidence presented to them before coming to a verdict. Seale made...
View ArticleTwo Canadian ‘investors’ remain in hot water
An Ontario judge has thrown out a portion of the case brought against one of the principals of the Canadian energy firm which is seeking to establish a presence here. The judge has ruled that Elections...
View ArticleKnight’s escape short-lived
While Michael Samuel Knight was able to leap over a paling in a valiant attempt to escape police, he wasn’t able to avoid the long arm of the law. The 29-year-old unemployed man’s daring escape...
View ArticleSweet potato thief remanded
One day after two men were charged for the theft of potatoes, a third man appeared in court today for a similar offence. When Grantley McDonald Dacosta Thorpe of Valley Land, St George appeared before...
View ArticleDeadly fire recalled
A woman who just managed to escape the deadly Campus Trendz fire nearly six years ago, today told the court she remembered seeing one man holding the store owner at knife point, while another threw a...
View ArticleFleeing tiler lands in jail
Anderson Ricardo Prescod’s planned trip to Grenada didn’t go according to plan. Instead of boarding his flight to the ‘Spice Island’, he ended up in the arms of police officers as he was held trying to...
View ArticleFormer soldier shown leniency
A former soldier in the United States army who now suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), was reprimanded and discharged after pleading guilty to stealing items from a supermarket....
View ArticleUWI student caught with cannabis
A student at the University of the West Indies will now have to balance his studies while completing 100 hours of community service after admitting to having marijuana in his possession earlier today....
View ArticleLinesman denies assaulting girlfriend
A linesman accused of assaulting his girlfriend pleaded not guilty to the charge when he appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates Court today. Jamar Anthony Jean-Marie, 28, of Flint Hall, St Michael...
View Article‘Fire too hot’
Kenrick Hutson recalled seeing several people trying to get into the burning Campus Trendz building in a bid to save several women trapped inside. However, he said they had to abort their efforts after...
View ArticleNarces pleads guilty to assault
David Omar Anthony Narces will spend the next six months in prison after unlawfully punching a man in his face. When the 26-year-old unemployed man of Brewsters Land, Whitehall, St Michael appeared in...
View ArticleMarijuana used to make tea – Maynard
A 40-year-old man who ran when police showed up at his home on Tuesday to execute a warrant, has been remanded. Lawmen discovered 220 marijuana plants at the home of Mark Antonio Maynard. When the...
View Article200 lbs of cannabis found on fishing boat
The two men allegedly found onboard a fishing vessel containing over 200 lbs of cannabis were granted bail today. Both Augustine Decoursey Adams, 41, of Vault Road, Welchman Hall, St Thomas and...
View ArticleFestival brawl lands woman in court
What was supposed to be an enjoyable outing at the Oistins Fish Festival for Pauline Pearline Browne, ended with her appearing before Magistrate Christopher Birch in the District ‘C’ Court today. It...
View ArticleTriple grief
It was an emotional day in Court No. 2 of the Supreme Court today, as three parents whose children died in the 2010 Campuz Trendz fire took to the witness stand. Nicola Marshall, the mother of Pearl...
View ArticleKnight off to the cells
To say that Ricardo Sylvester Knight has a liking for other people’s cell phones would be an understatement. Of the 19 charges read to him this afternoon by Magistrate Douglas Frederick in the District...
View ArticleNine months for breaching bond
Keisha Melissa Clarke will spend the next nine months in prison after breaching a bond imposed on her less than three months ago. Clarke, 28, of Military Road, Bush Hall, St Michael pleaded guilty to...
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