Woman denies assault charge
A Belleville, St Michael woman was granted $3,000 bail earlier Tuesday when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Douglas Frederick. Rabiya Collector Patel, a housewife, denied assaulting Nazma...
View ArticleCarter steals dream box and jewellery
A burglar was sentenced Tuesday for two burglaries he committed back in 2009. Roger Dale Carter of Lakes, St Andrew changed his plea today before Acting Chief Magistrate Douglas Frederick in the...
View ArticleThree St Lucy men charged with murder
Police have arrested and jointly charged three St Lucy men in connection with the recent murder of 49-year-old Andre Hinds of Northumberland in the same parish. They are Reico Jabarri Akeem Hunte, 24,...
View ArticleTragic triangle
A man is in police custody assisting with investigations into this island’s latest violent death. Lawmen are yet to reveal the identity of the suspect in what appears to be a love triangle gone sour,...
View ArticleDon’t get like Trinidad or Jamaica – Bishop begs
Roman Catholic Bishop of Bridgetown Jason Gordon has repeated his call for the speedy prosecution of gun crimes. The religious leader, who had initially made the call in his address to the Barbados...
View ArticleBreakthrough in Warrens murder probe
Police are reporting a major breakthrough in their investigations into the shooting death of 46-year-old Ricardo Bryan of Retreat terrace, Black Rock St Michael. Bryan was gunned down execution...
View ArticleMan charged with St Thomas murder
Police have arrested and formally charged Adrian Ricardo Devonish, 27, of 2nd Avenue Welchman Hall, St Thomas in connection with this week’s murder of 40-year-old Ryan Alexander Archer of Thompson...
View ArticleManhunt on for fourth suspect in Warrens murder
Police today launched a manhunt for a fourth suspect in last week’s execution-style murder of 46-year-old Ricardo Bryan, which occurred outside Lucky Horseshoe in Warrens, St Michael. Investigators...
View ArticleComissiong fed up with the AG
Attorney-at-law David Comissiong today charged that Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite has done little or nothing over the past eight years that the ruling Democratic Labour Party has been in office to...
View Article‘Epic threat’
Barbados’ illegal gun problem is in no way unique, says regional security expert Francis Forbes, who has revealed figures showing that the large number of illegal firearms on the streets is a...
View ArticlePrison officer at centre of Dodds probe
Police were today called into HMP Prison at Dodds, St Philip to investigate reports that illegal drugs were found in that penal institution. All Police Public Relations Officer Acting Station Sergeant...
View ArticlePolice step up prison probe
Lawmen have widened their probe into Her Majesty’s Prison, Dodds, a day after Barbados TODAY reported that a prison officer had found himself at centre of a contraband investigation. According to...
View ArticlePrison officer sent to Dodds
Prison officer Shawn McDonald Herbert returns to Dodds today as a prisoner and not as an employee, after pleading guilty in the District ‘C’ Magistrate’s Court to three offences under the country’s...
View ArticleWe’re safe
In the face of a recent upsurge in gun crimes and worrying levels of violence, Acting Police Commissioner Tyrone Griffith today boasted that Barbados is the safest it has been in 15 years. “We are...
View ArticleAccused prison officer claims he was blackmailed
A prison officer, who unlawfully brought letters and photographs into Her Majesty’s Prison, Dodds, said he did it because he was being blackmailed by an inmate. Shawn McDonald Herbert, an officer with...
View ArticleBradshaw again!
On Saturday March 12, 2016, Adrian Fitzgerald Peter Bradshaw declared he was moving “from prisons to prayers”. Six months and seven days to the day, however, the 51-year-old murder convict is back at...
View ArticleNo deportation of James
Convicted murderer Arleigh Hector James, who was released from prison early July after two decades after killing his wife and stepdaughter, is still resident in Barbados, despite recent reports that he...
View ArticleNot enough hard data on crime, complains the IDB
Despite growing public concern over perceived increases in crime, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) said actual research into crime and violence in Barbados – its causes, incidence and effects...
View ArticleDrug users going hardcore
An increasing number of young Barbadians are graduating from marijuana to hardcore drugs such as cocaine and heroin, revealed Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite. Speaking at the National Council on...
View ArticleGrant admits to damaging Chefette glass
Wayde Grant, a 43-year-old man, of no fixed place of abode, will spend the next five months in Her Majesty’s Prison, Dodds, after pleading guilty Tuesday to damaging a glass panel belonging to Chefette...
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