Teen found hanging at home in Brittons Hill
Police are investigating the unnatural death of a 16-year-old girl. She was reportedly found by her mother hanging from a rafter at their Brittons Hill, St Michael home sometime after seven tonight....
View ArticleGrieving granny
Sixty-six-year-old Agatha Taitt is a woman in pain and many unanswered questions. Still trying to come to grips with the death of her grandson, 18-year-old Michael Omar Edwards, Taitt is puzzled over...
View ArticleInexcusable!
“Wholly unacceptable.” That’s how High Court judge Madam Justice Jacqueline Cornelius Tuesday described the “upsurge of young males . . . attempting to usurp the role of law enforcement officials” in...
View ArticleBlackman gets bail for assault charge
A 44-year-old man was granted bail Tuesday afternoon after appearing before a Bridgetown Court on an assault charge. Don Alvin Blackman of Field’s Gap, Greenfield, St Michael is accused of unlawfully...
View ArticleMascoll apologizes and awaits sentence
If a Christ Church man could live his life all over again, he says he would do things differently. Shurland Andre Mascoll of Packers Valley, St Patricks expressed that sentiment Tuesday as he...
View ArticleHe was a good son, says mother of murder victim
The mother of the late Anderson Ashby says while her child was “not perfect” he was a “good son”. Margo Ashby’s declaration came Tuesday as the trial of Damien Lecoursey Reveira, 27, alias Poopman, who...
View ArticleJamaican woman jailed for importing drugs worth $50,000
A 38-year-old Jamaican woman is to spend the next 18 months in jail here after pleading guilty in the District ‘C’ Magistrates’ Court to importing four kilogrammes of cannabis with an estimated street...
View ArticleFisherman confesses
A fisherman who has been on remand on three drug charges, Friday admitted to committing the offences that occurred almost four years ago. Shirland Holder of Bathsheba, St Joseph pleaded guilty in the...
View ArticlePsychiatric evaluation for Clarke
An unemployed man who is listed as having no fixed place of abode, will call the Psychiatric Hospital home for the next three weeks at least. Justin Dave Clarke pleaded guilty to entering Rezults Auto...
View ArticleIt wasn’t me murder accused testifies
Murder accused Damien Lecoursey Reveira could know his fate next week. Madam Justice Jacqueline Cornelius adjourned his murder trial until next Monday, after the 27-year-old who is charged with the...
View ArticleMayers on gun and ammo charges
A 20-year-old man will reappear in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court in 28 days on firearm and ammunition charges. Shoiad Akimian Jaleel Mayers, of Long Gap, Spooner’s Hill, St Michael, was remanded...
View ArticleAlleged prison officer impersonator remanded
A 48-year-old man charged with several counts of fraud, including two in which he allegedly pretended to be a prison officer and an employee of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP),...
View ArticleTraumatized
Dave Anthony Searles was shaken up and sought psychological help after his five-month-old son was discovered dead in the back seat of his car four years ago. That was the evidence given by Acting...
View ArticleStealing health supplements lands Moore behind bars
A 42-year-old man who had no fixed place of abode will be housed at Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds for the next 12 months. Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant imposed the sentence on Andrew Sylvester Moore...
View ArticleWard on bond to keep the peace
A Bridgetown magistrate has told a 47-year-old man that he must keep the peace and be of good behaviour for the next two years if he does not want to land in jail. Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant...
View ArticleTwo go free in separate cases
A St Michael man has been freed of two serious charges stemming from a shooting incident five years ago. Nico Akeem Rayside of Hinds Gap, Halls Road, St Michael was accused of wounding Jabarri Jackson...
View ArticleGuilty as charged
Seph Nico Jordan has been found guilty of endangering the life of a schoolgirl. A nine-member jury handed down the verdict on the St Michael resident in the No. 2 Supreme Court Wednesday, four years...
View ArticleStolen phone costs robber almost $3,000
An unemployed 19-year-old who committed a daring daylight robbery while disembarking a route taxi must now compensate his victim. Christopher Seth Japeth Bynoe, of Fordes Road, Clapham, Christ Church,...
View ArticleHomeless man bonded for assault at market
A 42-year-old homeless man who is no stranger to the judicial system has been ordered to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for the next six months. If Terrence Sandor Bowen fails to adhere to the...
View ArticleFisherman confesses six years after drug catch
Madam Justice Jacqueline Cornelius has ordered a pre-sentencing report into the life of a fisherman who pleaded guilty to two drug charges Tuesday, six years after committing the crimes. Othneil...
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