Bail denied
For the second time this week, entertainer Betty Griffith-Payne and two co-accused have been remanded to Dodds prison, in connection with $625,000 worth of cocaine. The 38-year-old former Richard...
View ArticleBlack Rock man pleads guilty to stealing vitamins
A 46-year-old man will spend the next eight months behinds bars for theft. Paul Amron Cherubin, of St Stephen’s Hill, Black Rock, St Michael, pleaded guilty to stealing five tubes of Seven Seas...
View ArticleCleaner reprimanded and discharged
A 57-year-old man was today reprimanded and discharged, after Magistrate Wanda Blair described his theft case as “the weirdest ever”. James Louis Prosper, of Diamond Valley, St Peter, appeared before...
View ArticleDysfunctional Jones
A 20-year-old man, of no fixed place of abode, is now awaiting his fate on a burglary charge. Jah Rastafari Jones apologized before Madam Justice Michelle Weekes today for stealing BDS$25,000 and...
View ArticleBennett gets more jail time
A St Michael man, in his 20s, who is already serving time at HMP Dodds, will have to spend an additional nine months behind bars. Leron Alexander Wilfred Bennett, of Quarry Road, Bank Hall, pleaded...
View ArticleBrathwaite admits to stealing two Shirley biscuits
A 28-year-old man has been remanded to the Psychiatric Hospital for assessment, after pleading guilty to two criminal charges. Everton Rommel Brathwaite, of no fixed place of abode, admitted to...
View ArticleCrichlow held at bus stop with guns and ammo
Four years after his arrest, Ackeem Jabarr Crichlow, of Farm Road, St Philip, has pleaded guilty in the High Court to having a .38 revolver, a 1.38 pistol and seven rounds of ammunition on October 9,...
View ArticleScantlebury held on drug charge
A 27-year-old man, of no fixed place of abode, will call HMP Dodds home for the next 28 days. Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant today remanded Ricardo Scantlebury to prison after he pleaded not guilty...
View ArticleTrio held for Bulkeley robbery
Three 30-year-old men, who allegedly robbed the supervisor at Bulkeley Plantation in St George last month, have been remanded to HMP Dodds until December 12. Jermaine Kenneth King, of No. 274, 4th...
View ArticleWalker denies stealing lumber from church office
A 54-year-old man, accused of stealing $299 worth of lumber from the East Caribbean Conference of Seventh Day Adventists on November 15, has been remanded to prison. Ron Ricardo Walker, of no fixed...
View ArticleUnshackled
“Take the shackles off of him, please.” That was the order given by Oistins Magistrate Elwood Watts to prison officers with regards to Ricardo Ameka Callender, the father of a boy seen in a video...
View ArticleHazell off to jail instead of rehab
Twenty-two-year-old Ron Damien Anthony Hazell might have expected today to be ordered to undergo drug rehabilitation at Verdun House. Instead, when the Gills Road, St Michael man went before Magistrate...
View ArticleBurglar wanted to put roof over unborn child’s head
A serial burglar put forward a most extraordinary defence today, but still could not avoid jail time. Thirty-nine-year-old Corey Antonio Morris, of Stuarts Land, Bush Hall, St Michael, told Magistrate...
View ArticleCase against businessman in limbo
The case against a local businessman charged with falsely passing slippers and t-shirts as Puma products, remains in limbo after the prosecutor indicated he was not familiar with the probe into the...
View ArticleParris out on $9,000 bail
A 25-year-old farmer was released on $9,000 bail after appearing before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on a drug related charge. Tramaine Javon Parris, of...
View Article‘It was in self defence,’ Boyce claims
A 57-year-old man was granted $3,000 bail today after appearing in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on an assault charge. Hal Fernando Boyce, of Blanch Gap, Westbury New Road, St Michael, pleaded...
View ArticleCheltenham held
A 33-year-old labourer, who allegedly escaped police custody, has been remanded to Dodds. Romel Rico Cheltenham, of Stadium Road, Bush Hall, St Michael, was not required to plead to the indictable...
View ArticleRichards pleads guilty to drug charge
A 30-year-old man has one month to pay the court a $750 fine if he wants to avoid spending time at Dodds prison. When Andre Isiah Richards, of Jordans Land, St George, appeared before Chief Magistrate...
View ArticleFormer C&W shareholders take telecoms company to court
Cable & Wireless West Indies Limited, which trades here as Flow, has been taken to court by a group of former shareholders. Acting on behalf of the Cable & Wireless Minority Shareholders Group,...
View ArticleFour schoolboys charged
Police have arrested and charged four male students from the Christ Church Foundation School in connection with a recent attack on a 13-year-old schoolboy from the Deighton Griffith School. The...
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