Angry brother kicks in washing machine
Brotherly love yesterday saved Harold McDonald Payne from feeling the full weight of the law. The #50 Clarke’s Road, Free Hill, Black Rock resident was reprimanded and discharged by Magistrate Douglas...
View ArticleBrother’s side
The Campus Trendz murder trial heard testimony from a witness Wednesday morning who contradicted certain statements made by the accused in his defence. Dwayne Julian Bynoe gave evidence in the case in...
View ArticleKilling was in self-defence, argues Alleyne’s lawyer
The murder of trial of Dwayne Omar Alleyne continued today with his lawyer appealing for a not guilty verdict to be handed down for the murder eight years ago of Paul Hope. Alleyne, alias “Steppin”, of...
View ArticleWeir ordered to pay for cannabis
Rommel Ricardo Weir was today fined $750 for illegal possession of cannabis. The 25-year-old Forde’s Road, Brittons Hill, St Michael man was arrested yesterday after he was found with the illegal...
View ArticleBartender must stay away from Lashley
Appearing in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court today, a 24-year-old bartender entered a not guilty plea on a charge of wounding. Akem Jabarry Leon, of 4th Avenue Mannings Land, St Michael stood in...
View ArticleCourt worry
A tragedy waiting to happen! That’s was the reaction of one prominent attorney and former President of the Barbados Bar Association to today’s worrying incident, which occurred on the precincts of the...
View ArticleMan accused of stealing over $17, 000 in bangles
A St Michael man, charged with a string of offences involving the theft of bangles valued at over $17, 000, was remanded to HMP Dodds today after appearing in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court....
View ArticleThree fined on cannabis charges
Three men were today slapped with fines on separate charges of illegal possession of cannabis. Andre Ryan Oneal Headley, who pleaded guilty, will have to dig deep in his pocket for $4,000 to be paid...
View ArticleHear us
There will be a heavier police presence in the Brittons Hill, St Michael community following a request from residents. This afternoon, when police officers walked through Valery, Brittons Hill,...
View ArticleCox accused of threats to kill
Paul Henderson Cox is facing a charge of using threatening words towards Ricardo Greaves. However, when he initially appeared in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court yesterday, he pleaded not guilty to...
View ArticlePrescod ordered to find Bible passage
Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant today gave a 24-year-old man one week to find out what passage in the Bible deals with relationships between children and parents. Rico Prescod of 1st Avenue, Spring...
View ArticleBatson admits to having drug use problem
Keith Fitzgerald Anderson Batson began serving a 12-month prison sentence today for breaching his probation. The probation was issued back in January this year for an 18-month period. Asked by...
View ArticleAlleyne sentenced to death for killing Hope
Death by hanging! That was the sentence imposed on Dwayne Omar Alleyne today by Madam Justice Jacqueline Cornelius in the No.5 Supreme Court. It took a jury of eight women and four men just about an...
View ArticleBack to Dodds
Three people accused of stealing of in excess of $130,000 collectively from individuals and business were again remanded when they appeared before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant in the District ‘A’...
View ArticleDiscard failed crime-fighting strategies – Paul
Government’s advisor on social policy Hamilton Lashley has described yesterday’s walk through Brittons Hill by officers of the Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF) as reactionary, preferring instead a...
View ArticleAmputee remains on remand
Michael Sylvester Marshall remains on remanded at HMP Dodds. When the 41-year-old appeared before Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant yesterday he was given an August 11, 2016 date to return to court. Marshall of...
View ArticleHandyman granted $6,000 bail
A 32-year-old handyman has been granted bail in the amount of $6,000 with one surety. Dwayne Anthony Howell of Paradise Village, Christ Church pleaded not guilty to unlawfully wounding Algernon Daniel...
View ArticleFive-year-old case dismissed
The case against two drivers accused of stealing material belonging to the crown was dismissed yesterday. Cladstone Catlyn, 53, of Branchbury, St Joseph and Garfeild Rudy Pinder, 38, of Bartlett...
View ArticleMahon pleads not guilty to wounding and theft
A 26-year-old man was released today on $6,000 bail today after he pleaded not guilty to charges of wounding and theft. Kerion Kenaro Mahon of King William Street, St Michael is accused of unlawfully...
View ArticleTeen held with drugs aboard the Jolly Roger
Andre Jamaal Clarke was today ordered to pay a fine $2,000, after he was held on board the Jolly Roger in the wee hours of this morning with cannabis. The 18-year-old of Scarborough, Christ Church, was...
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