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...
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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...
View ArticleTwo 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...
View ArticleHolder 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...
View ArticleBail 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...
View ArticleSpringer 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...
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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...
View ArticleWrong 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...
View ArticleNot 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....
View ArticleForgery 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...
View ArticleJames 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...
View ArticleHolloway 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
View ArticleAssault 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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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