A 55-yerar-old St Michael man has been warned to stay out of trouble for the next six months. If he doesn’t, he will spend three months behind bars at HMP Dodds. That was the sentence handed down yesterday by Magistrate Douglas Frederick to Ruel Clairmont Springer, of Deacons Main Road, after he admitted to assaulting […]
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Springer gets in trouble over sex demand
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Probe launched into ‘sex’ tape
The principal of one local secondary school has been alerted to the existence of a video, which today has been making the rounds on social media, showing a young man soliciting sex from an underage girl in school uniform. The mother of the teenager, who has reportedly been identified, has also been contacted by police, […]
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Two get community service for weed
Two St James residents who admitted to having small quantities of marijuana will each have to perform 80 hours of community service. Romario Ricardo Watson, 22, of #2 Morne Close, Thorpes, and Cardinal Courtney Webster, 24, of 1st Avenue Thorpes, pleaded guilty to the offences when they appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court Tuesday. […]
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Holder fined for 2011 theft
A Bridgetown magistrate Tuesday found a St James man guilty of theft in an almost six-year-old case. Troy Ricardo Holder, of 3K Central Close, Haynesville was charged on January 28, 2011 with robbing Shawn Straker of a pair of sneakers valued $250 and a chain valued $200. The theft took place at the Pool Hall Arcade […]
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Bail for two accused of crimes against females
Two St Michael men were not required to plead when they appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on separate charges for offences committed against females. They are Donovan Adrian Jones, 46, of Block 4A Fernihurst, Deacons Road and Grantley Clarke, 53, of Headley Land, Bank Hall. Jones is charged with having sexual intercourse with […]
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Springer gets in trouble over sex demand
A 55-yerar-old St Michael man has been warned to stay out of trouble for the next six months. If he doesn’t, he will spend three months behind bars at HMP Dodds. That was the sentence handed down Monday by Magistrate Douglas Frederick to Ruel Clairmont Springer, of Deacons Main Road, after he admitted to assaulting Tammika […]
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Man arrested in connection with ‘sex’ video
Police have held a male suspect in connection with a “sex” video which has been circulating on social media showing a schoolgirl being coerced by a young man into performing various sex acts. Public Relations Officer Acting Inspector Roland Cobbler also revealed to Barbados TODAY this afternoon that criminal charges were expected to be laid […]
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Wrong note
A 59-year-old musician who was a big name on the local music scene decades ago, found himself before the court for having cocaine apparatus. Guitarist Linus Yaw, who was listed on the charge sheet as having no place of abode but told the Magistrate Douglas Frederick he lived at No. 1 Marine Gardens, Christ Church, […]
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Not right!
The apparent lack of evidence or movement in the case against Kobia Jamal Robinson, three years after he was charged with murder, is not sitting well with his attorney Angella Mitchell-Gittens. Robinson, of Reed Street, St Michael is charged with the death of 54-year-old Robert Rupert Jones of Speightstown, St Peter, whose body was discovered […]
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Forgery and theft charges dismissed
A St George man walked out of the No.1 District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court a free man Wednesday, three years after he was charged with forgery. Magistrate Douglas Frederick dismissed the case in which Rico Ricardo Blackman, of Drax Hall Hope, was charged with possession of seven forged $100 bank notes on April 7, 2013. When […]
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James on bond for walking with ‘protection’
An offensive weapon that a Christ Church man said was for his protection, landed him in trouble this week. Twenty-one-year-old Niko Antonio James pleaded guilty to the offence when he appeared before Magistrate Douglas Frederick on Monday. According to the police prosecutor Sergeant Neville Watson, lawmen were conducting an exercise at Deacons Road, St Michael, […]
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Holloway admits to assaulting former girlfriend
Thirty-one-year-old Kedar Ondre Holloway admitted to assaulting the mother of his child and has been granted $3 000 bail pending the woman’s appearance before the court. Holloway, of Block 2D, Sunny Side Court, Deacons Farms, St Michael, on Monday pleaded guilty to assaulting Shontelle Farrell on August 31, occasioning her actual bodily harm. The facts […]
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Teen’s living arrangements worry magistrate
Information from a 17-year-old male that he had no fixed place to live caused Magistrate Douglas Frederick great concern Wednesday. Pete Eutus Adams appeared before the Bridgetown magistrate Wednesday afternoon on two charges. He told the No.1 District ‘A’ Criminal Court he was not guilty of using the threatening words, “I got bullets for you” within […]
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No noose
A recent study by this country’s Criminal Justice Unit shows that 80 per cent of Barbadians support the retention of the death penalty on this country’s statute books. However, Kim Ramsay, a senior researcher with the Government-run unit, Wednesday night warned that this strong retentionist sentiment, which she expects local politicians to pay attention to, “comes […]
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Man admits to ganja ‘farm’
A St Michael man’s pleas to be given a fine for drug offences rather than jail, were not enough to prevent a Bridgetown magistrate from remanding him to HMP Dodds. Dwight Ramon Maradona Edwin, 28, of Gaskin Road, Fairfield, Black Rock, will remain in custody at the St Philip penal institution until next Friday after […]
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Assault and drug accused get bail
Several people who appeared before a Bridgetown magistrate were granted bail Thursday. John Joseph Reeves, 31, of Odessa McClean Road, My Lords Hill, St Michael, who had been on remand since late August, had the shackles removed after a successful plea for bail. He is charged with damaging a sash window belonging to Mahmed Hans […]
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Teen faces indecency charge
A St George teen who was charged in connection with a video showing a male making sexual advances towards a minor, appeared in court Thursday and was granted bail. Kwame Everton Dashawn Yearwood, 17, of Groves Tenantry, was not required to plead to the indictable offence when he made his first appearance before Magistrate Douglas Frederick. […]
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Local weed cultivation on the rise
Marijuana cultivation is on the rise here, partly because law enforcement officials are having some success intercepting illegal drugs that have been imported into the country, according to the Royal Barbados Police Force. Lawmen Thursday destroyed 30,365 locally grown ganja plants, 650 pounds of cannabis and 52 pounds of cocaine at the incendiary at Grantley Adams […]
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Teen remanded
Eighteen-year-old Adam Harris of Enterprise Development, Christ Church, has been remanded to prison after appearing at the Oistins Magistrates Court yesterday on two charges of endangering life. The offences were committed on October 12, and were linked to a series of shootings in the Silver Sands, Christ Church area, being investigated by police. Harris is […]
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When our market seems saturated with lawyers
When it comes to lawyers relative to population size, Barbados probably has one of the highest ratios in the entire Caribbean Community (CARICOM) region. Every year, more and more are graduating from the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the two affiliated law schools – Hugh Wooding in Trinidad and Norman Manley in Jamaica […]
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