Four charges
The driver of the ZR van, which overturned along Nursery Drive, The City on Tuesday injuring 21 people, including close to a dozen school children, today appeared in the District ‘A’ Traffic Court on...
View ArticleSt Michael man to appear on murder charge
A 47-year-old man is to appear in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today charged with murder. He is Gordon Manfield Redman of Lightfoot Lane Cross Road, St Michael, who is accused of striking...
View ArticleMurder accused remanded
Murder accused Gordon Manfield Redman has been remanded to prison after appearing in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today. The 47-year-old of Lightfoot Lane Cross Road, St Michael, is accused of...
View ArticleOne more chance
On Sunday police stopped Lloyd Fabian Birch and later charged him with seven traffic offences. After the Douglin Road Weston, St James resident was arrested and searched, two greaseproof wrappings...
View ArticleTwo granted bail
Two Barbadian men were granted bail today after appearing in court on drug charges. Ricardo McAlester Waldron, 40, of Princess Royal Ave, Pinelands, St Michael pleaded guilty to charges of possession,...
View ArticleWomen charged with causing disturbance
When two women accused of causing a disturbance at Workhall, St Philip appeared in the District ‘C’ Magistrates’ Court yesterday, one was remanded and the other placed on a bond. Shamika Nathania...
View ArticleGuyanese man gets seven years for drugs
A Guyanese man was sentenced to seven years in prison by Chief Magistrate Pamela Beckles yesterday. The sentence was imposed after Ryon Marlon George pleaded guilty to seven drug charges in the Oistins...
View ArticleLost opportunity
“I am going to give you an opportunity . . . so the rest is up to you,” Magistrate Douglas Frederick told Sean Griffith in late March. The Magistrate then gave Griffith a six month sentence which was...
View ArticleOfficer charged with assault
Police constable Bernard Athelston Brathwaite has been charged with assaulting Kimberly Latoya Adams, the mother of his child, and occasioning her actual bodily harm on June 3 this year. Brathwaite,...
View ArticleKing held for indecent assault
A Josey Hill, St Lucy resident was not required to plead to indecently assaulting a woman on June 8 this year. When Troy Antonio King went before the District ‘A’ Magistrates Court No. 2, Magistrate...
View ArticleChef swallows 54 packets of ganja
A Jamaican chef, who swallowed 54 packages of marijuana, was jailed for 18 months today, after he failed to come up with payment for a $15 000 forthwith fine imposed on him by Chief Magistrate Pamela...
View ArticleLifeguard admits to robbery plot
A 25-year-old lifeguard admitted assaulting Malachi Joseph with intent to rob him on June 22, 2013. Sarah Rachel Newton, of Parkinson Field, Pine, St Michael had previously pleaded guilty but changed...
View ArticleTwo years for stealing
Paul Amron Cherubin was sentenced to two years in jail by a Bridgetown Magistrate today. Cherubin, of St Stephens Hill, Black Rock, St Michael pleaded guilty to three offences of stealing clothing...
View ArticlePrisoner escapes
A Beckles Road, St Michael man clearly did not want to be remanded today so, in order to avoid it, Chad Rommell Martin Williams simply walked out of the courtroom. Williams had already appeared in the...
View ArticleCourt considers ZR driver’s murder appeal
Lawyers for Troy Tyrone Stanford appealed against both his conviction and sentence when they went before the Court of Appeal earlier this week. Attorneys Tariq Khan, Carol-Ann Best and Alexandria...
View ArticleSt Lucy man found guilty of indecent assault
A St Lucy man, found guilty of indecently assaulting a teenaged girl, has been remanded to custody. Justice Margaret Reifer issued the order after the jury returned the verdict against Richard Taitt of...
View ArticleSeale to return to the Bench
The Principal Crown Counsel in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Alliston Seale, could be returning to the Bench very soon. However, Barbados TODAY understands that his upcoming stint...
View ArticleSurinamese visitor jailed for 18 months
A 24-year-old Surinamese man is to spend the next 18 months in jail here after pleading guilty to drug charges. Guillamo Gilberto Reingoud appeared at the District ‘B’ Magistrates’ Court yesterday to...
View ArticlePrison inmate caught with drugs
A prison inmate appeared in court here yesterday where he pleaded guilty to possession of 9.4 grammes of cannabis. Akeem Carlisle Bentham, 22, a prisoner at HMP Dodds, was held by prison officers after...
View ArticleTwo years for robbers
Two men convicted of a spate of burglaries in the north of the island were today each given two year sentences. Jamal Oneal Hurley, 33, and Akeil Hezekiah Callender, 27, both of Deacons Farm, St...
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