Beckles caught growing ganja in a bucket
Shaquille Omar Beckles, a Christ Church teenager, was given four months to come up with $2,500 to pay a fine for cultivating a marijuana plant at his home. The alternative which Magistrate Christopher...
View ArticleDrivers get to walk
With all the fines that Magistrate Ian Weekes imposed during the “call day” at the District ‘F’ Magistrates’ Court today, there were some drivers fortunate enough to be reprimanded and discharged....
View ArticleTeens ordered to repay after gas-pump scam
Two teenagers who confessed to the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court in August that they were involved in a gas-pump scam, were each ordered to repay the exact amount which they stole and to perform 240...
View Article400 charged with traffic offences
It was a massive “call day” at the District ‘F’ Magistrates’ Court today when about 400 persons charged for various traffic offences appeared before Magistrate Ian Weekes. It was a good day for the...
View ArticleTaxi driver on sex charges
A taxi driver is now facing four sex charges relating to a minor girl. Darnley Rudolph Nurse, of Gas Products Road, Wildey, St Michael was remanded when he went before the District ‘A’ Traffic Court...
View ArticleMan fined $700 for choking ex-girlfriend
Jason Randolph Christopher Bourne put his ex-girlfriend in a choke-hold three months ago yesterday, Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant ordered him pay the woman $700 compensation by December 2 if he...
View ArticleTeen nabbed for deodorant
The father of a teenager who stole from a supermarket did not intend leaving the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court yesterday unless his son had apologised for finding himself before the courts. The...
View ArticleStay away, women told
Two women appeared in a Bridgetown court yesterday, charged with unlawfully and maliciously committing serious bodily harm to each other with an ice pick on November 6. Shanita Simmons, a 27-year-old...
View ArticleHam thief admits to drug habit
“Put food dey; put a woman dey; I gine choose cocaine!” Those were the sentiments of Mackelton DaCosta Wood, a homeless 56-year-old cocaine addict who stole three picnic hams valued $208.73 from BJ’s...
View ArticleJamaican deported after beating ex-lover
A Jamaican woman was deported yesterday after confessing that she beat her ex-girlfriend earlier this week. As a result, Kimone Alecia Morgan, 23, spent less than half of the stay of six months granted...
View ArticleBrawlers ordered to keep the peace
Three of the four neighbours accused of making a disturbance at Park Road, St Michael yesterday admitted doing so when they faced a Bridgetown court this morning. Kathy-Ann Sharon Springer, 46, and her...
View ArticleNo bail
Two St Michael lads, both 18-year-old, have been charged with murder following the death of a middle-aged man who was allegedly beaten up in a City bus stand early last month. Nishawn Andre Prescod and...
View ArticleStay away from Gill, Grant told
Two men who went before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court late this afternoon denied their charges. By the end of court, one was on his way to prison after being remanded, while the other left the...
View ArticleBullen must undergo mental evaluation
When the case against Ryan Antonio Oneal Bullen was mentioned in the No. 5 Supreme Court earlier this week, his attorney Marlon Gordon was not present but was before the Caribbean Court of Justice at...
View ArticleMan steals meat from funeral home’s freezer
Jude Levere “Bubble Bear” Corbin will know what price he has to pay later this month for breaking into a rural funeral home two years ago and stealing several items. Appearing before Justice Margaret...
View ArticleA cop’s plea
The lawyer for a policeman who pleaded guilty to three counts of committing serious indecency against two schoolgirls back in 2011, has asked the court to release his client pending sentencing, based...
View ArticleJamaican pleads guilty to drug charges, fined $15 000
A Jamaican man who denied three drug charges a month ago before Magistrate Douglas Frederick, confessed to them when he returned to court today. Neil Alexander Churchill Bennett, of Westgate Hill,...
View ArticleBrathwaite jailed for burglary
A nine-month suspended sentence imposed on Everton Rommell Brathwaite on May 29 came back to haunt him today. In trouble with the law again five months later, Brathwaite pleaded guilty to two offences...
View ArticleBus driver awaiting sentencing
Justice Jacqueline Cornelius wants to know some more about the driving record of former PSV operator Clare Ramon Nevero Hinds before she sentences him. Hinds, of Perfection Road, Bush Hall, St Michael...
View ArticleTwo men own up to sex offences
Two men who were on remand and came before High Court No. 5 today to apply for bail, threw in the towel instead. Leonard Rupert ‘Short Man’ Clarke, of Taylor’s Land, Martindales Road, St Michael,...
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