Shooting death in St Lucy
Police are investigating the shooting death of 47-year-old Andre Hinds of Northumberland, St Lucy. Hinds died as a result of gunshot injuries sustained during an altercation with two armed men who...
View ArticleFood for thought
After ordering two lunches and two drinks from a delicatessen on Wednesday, a Christ Church man was walking right out of the establishment without paying. However, when Trevor Rudolph Phillips was...
View ArticleLestrade to answer to six charges
A 29-year-old man appeared before the District ‘A’ Magistrates Court Friday to answer to six charges. Jeremiah Clement Lestrade was not required to plead to any of the August 25 offences which Acting...
View ArticleGibson on $3,000 bail
A 27-year-old Lot 7 Vauxhall Gardens, Christ Church resident is to return to court on November 24 to answer an assault charge. Keimar Romel Gibson is charged with serious bodily harm to Janice...
View ArticleAccused had one bail appeal too many
An accused man who pleaded with a Bridgetown magistrate to allow him his freedom so he could continue to work, had his request denied Friday. After hearing submissions from the prosecution and the...
View ArticleFirearm lands 20-year-old before the court
An unemployed 20-year-old who went before a Bridgetown court Friday morning was not required to plead to any of the four serious charges brought against him. Acting Chief Magistrate Douglas Frederick...
View ArticleGunplay leaves residents cowering in fear
Residents of Harpers Land, Sargent Village, Christ Church are fearful for their lives after a man was shot in the area this morning. While police had yet to determine the motive for the shooting of...
View ArticleWild, Wild, Wotton
A brazen display of gunfire shattered the early morning quiet in the Christ Church community of Wotton, leaving a 16-year-old boy in intensive care and sending residents cowering. It was around 1:45...
View ArticleMan shot and killed in Warrens
Forty-six-year-old Ricardo Bryan of Black Rock, St Michael is Barbados’ latest homicide victim. Bryan was gunned down shortly before 8 p.m. in the car park of Lucky Horseshoe in Warrens. A number of...
View ArticleWanted men
Police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating three men who are wanted in connection with separate serious criminal matters. Wanted are Akeem Dave Mason, 24, also known as ‘Zonzey’ or...
View ArticleForgive them!
A new legal year has opened with a top Anglican cleric appealing for criminal offenders to be pardoned. In a sermon marking the start of the 2016/2017 legal year, Dean of the Cathedral Dr Jeffrey...
View ArticleRemanded to prison with bullet in neck
Jumo Nasta Shaka Sobers was not required to plead to two serious charges when he went before Acing Magistrate Alliston Seale Monday afternoon, and was remanded to prison. The 25-year-old from #4 Ashby...
View ArticleJail not working, says McCollin
After several brushes with the law, Corey Omar Jerome McCollin begged a Bridgetown magistrate to help him fight his drug habit. “I need help, Sir. Jail ain’t working for me,” he told Acting Chief...
View ArticleMum, son ask for court’s help
His mother asked the court to help him, so Samuel Omar Kumar Harris was remanded to the Psychiatric Hospital until September 26. When the 1st Avenue Fairfield, Black Rock, St Michael man went before...
View ArticlePryme denies wounding Cumberbatch
David Alleyne Pryme was offered bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Douglas Frederick Monday. That was after the Burkes Land, Brittons Hill, St Michael man denied unlawfully and maliciously wounding Carlos...
View ArticleFrancis gets bail on escape charge
A man facing three charges, including escape, was granted $3,000 bail after he went before the District ‘A’ Magistrates Court Monday. Omar Elvis Francis, of #21 York Terrace, Pinelands, St Michael,...
View ArticleDifferent strokes
Two teenagers appeared in court today jointly charged with threatening unlawful violence toward Shadane Rollins on September 1. However, while 18-year-old Adam Nehemiah Waithe of Small Land, Bridge...
View ArticleFear factor
The recent upsurge in gun violence has left many Barbadians cowering in terror, with some shuddering to think how much worse things can get if the authorities do not step in to control the...
View ArticleHaynes admits todrug problem
After considering the 14 months Jamar Omar Haynes already spent on remand, Acting Chief Magistrate Douglas Frederick sentenced the convicted man to three months on each of the crimes he confessed to...
View ArticleHarris accused of stealing iPad
His mother asked the court to help him, so Samuel Omar Kumar Harris was remanded to the Psychiatric Hospital until September 26. When the 1st Avenue Fairfield, Black Rock, St Michael man went before...
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