Robbery accused appears in court
A 23-year-old who appeared in the Oistins Magistrates’ Court last week on an assault charge made his first appearance in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on robbery charges today. Dario Arlington...
View ArticleJames has a change of heart
A 53-year-old man who today confessed to apparatus and burglary offences almost a year after being charged, has been slapped with a 15-month prison sentence. And while Peter Samuel James actually only...
View ArticleAlleged thief fails to find surety
An accused thief has been remanded to prison until September 28 after being unable to secure a surety to post bail. Jeffery Anderson Tyrone Graham of Storey Gap, Codrington Hill, St Michael went...
View ArticleJail time avoided
Raymond Clifford Deshong must be on his best behaviour for the next six months if he wants to avoid spending more time behind bars at HMP Dodds. The 35-year-old of Bannister Land, Martindales Road, St...
View ArticleTaxi driver gets bail on assault charge
Taxi driver Jamar Randy Butcher was today granted his freedom after denying an assault charge. There were no objections to bail from the prosecutor, Sergeant Vernon Waithe, when the 33-year-old...
View ArticleWeed ‘farmer’ slapped with $5,000 fine
Magistrate Douglas Frederick imposed a $5,000 fine on a St Michael man whom he said had graduated into a cannabis “farmer”. Shane O’Neal Mayers of Odessa McClean Drive was today found guilty of the...
View ArticleCar trouble
Not only does 25-year-old Shakira Kristina Williams have to stay away from the father of her child and his girlfriend, but she will have to compensate the man for damaging his car. Acting Magistrate...
View ArticleCanadian remanded on drug charges
Canadian national Paula Michelle Small, who allegedly arrived in Barbados on Wednesday with more than her personal effects, will spend the next three nights at Dodds prison. The 39-year-old Ontario...
View ArticleKatrina Smith was Selby’s spouse, CCJ rules
This Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has advised local judges to stop holding up cases in order to conclude interim appeals related to the same matter. The Trinidad and Tobago-based CCJ declared its...
View ArticleHave mercy!
A 43-year-old man who pleaded for mercy after admitting to a theft charge has been handed a three-month suspended sentence. However, if Anthony Cherubin, of no fixed place of abode, is found guilty of...
View ArticleYarde denies stealing $2,400
For the next 28 days, Grafton Junior Yarde will have a place to call home. Yarde, of no fixed place of abode, was sent to HMP Dodds after the prosecutor argued that it would be difficult for the...
View ArticleChild mother pays
Young women must find employment and stop depending on others to support them financially! This was the advice from acting Magistrate Sandra Rawlins as she ordered Shakira Krishna Williams of Block...
View ArticleStay away from her, elderly man told
A retired man from St Philip was today warned to stay away from his alleged victim when he appeared in a Bridgetown court charged with assault. It is alleged that 73-year-old Ashfield Douglas Layne of...
View ArticleDirty dancer
Not only was Audrick Trotman reduced to tears today, but he “did not know what to say” when he was told that he would have to pay the court the $8,000 he put up as bail for a Jamaican dancer who has...
View ArticleHandyman jailed for cocaine and ganja possession
A 65-year-old handyman who previously pleaded guilty to six drug related offences was today sentenced to 18 months behind bars. Desmond Tyrone Branker of School Lane, Hall Road, St Michael has been on...
View ArticleDad on multiple theft charges denied bail
Kevin Ryan Cornibert will spend another two weeks on remand at Dodds Prison despite a “forceful” bail application from his attorney Mohia Ma’at. The 38-year-old Fairfeild Cross, Tudor Bridge, St...
View ArticleDouble trouble
Two people charged separately with using threatening language towards an immigration officer were granted bail today when they appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court. Britani Tove Carter, 22,...
View ArticleMum weeps
A mother was reduced to tears in the District ‘A’ Traffic Court earlier today when her son was remanded to HMP Dodds on gun and ammunition charges. Twenty-year-old Chad Joel Hunte of Merricks Road, St...
View ArticleTrigger happy
A Young man accused of going on a shooting spree within the last month, including the Gall Hill murder on August 21, has been remanded to HMP Dodds until October 5. Twenty-eight-year-old Damien Rommel...
View ArticleDenny secures bail
A 46-year-old St Michael man accused of indecently assaulting a minor, was granted $4,000 bail when he appeared in the District ‘A’ Traffic Court earlier today. Trevor DaCosta Denny of Lot 18 Husbands...
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