Mum gets $10,000 bail
The St Michael mother accused of harbouring two daughters who were wanted by police, was released today on $10,000 bail when she reappeared in court after spending the past two nights on remand. When...
View ArticleThird time with weed
If a Civilian Road, Bush Hall, St Michael man does not come up with $5, 000 in three months’ time, he will have to spend one year behind bars. Gregston Ricardo Orlando Sealy, 28, was fined after he...
View ArticleOver to CCJ
The Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Barbados’ highest appellate court, is to rule on how far police witnesses can go in giving evidence before the local law courts and the directions...
View ArticleConductor free to go
A wounding matter against a route taxi conductor was dismissed yesterday after the accused made a submission before Magistrate Douglas Frederick. Jerry Brian Taylor of Keiser Hill, Christ Church was...
View Article‘Five too many’
Roderick Orlando Griffith got bail yesterday but today he was not so fortunate. The security guard of Ashbury, St George reappeared in the District ‘A’ Traffic Court today before acting Magistrate...
View ArticleTeen pleads not guilty to wounding charge
After a 16-year-old lad pleaded not guilty to a charge of unlawfully and maliciously wounding another youngster on August 27, Sergeant Theodore McClean requested that the accused be placed on curfew....
View ArticleSmart move quitting job, says Magistrate
Acting Magistrate Elwood Watts today complimented a St Andrew man on his wisdom. This was after Trevor Skeete, who resides at Bawdens, explained that rather than finding himself continually before the...
View ArticleTwo deny stealing windows and doors
A man and a woman were each granted bail in the sum of $25,000 with two sureties, after appearing in court on a charge of stealing windows and doors. Shane Omar Callender, 30, of Glebe Land, St George...
View ArticleMan with flick knife free to go
A man who was found with a flick knife in his possession earlier this week was reprimanded and discharged when he reappeared for sentencing in a Bridgetown court today. Akil Jabari Mason of Lightfoot...
View Article$10,000 bail for Jordan
A 24-year-old water sports operator was not required to plead to causing Adrianna Sobers’ death by driving a motorcycle along Black Rock Main Road on April 3 this year, in a manner that was dangerous...
View Article‘You want licks’, drug offender told
A young man with a bright future ahead was told today he deserved some good licks for almost blowing the opportunity his parents were providing for him by taking up smoking marijuana and finding...
View ArticleGood samaritan saves Young
By the time 17-year-old Imani Kumba Biko Young reached the District ‘A’ Traffic Court today, someone had already compensated minibus owner Mohamed Adams for damage which the teenager caused to a...
View ArticleOff to mental
A middle-aged man who broke into the headquarters of the Barbados Table Tennis Association, stole a bottle of disinfectant and dishwashing liquid, and also damaged a drink machine on the premises, was...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to robbery and assault
After the court hears from the complainant in a robbery case on August 12, acting Magistrate Elwood Watts will determine the fate of Ryan St Abeean Jean-Marie. Jean-Marie, a 26-year-old caretaker of...
View ArticleWounding accused remanded
It is the opinion of Barbados’ newest magistrate that some persons “pick Kadooment Day to target people”. If that is proved to be the case, the culprits will not be tolerated especially if the incident...
View ArticleAndrews: I wanted to be heard
On Wednesday, he refused to give his name and address to a constable who was reporting him. However, even though Public Service Vehicle (PSV) driver James Anthony Andrews thought he was being reported...
View ArticleNo bail for Daniel
The driver of the ZR van which overturned close to the River bus stand two months ago, remains on remand. Matthew Ricardo Daniel, 40, of Licorish Village, My Lords Hill, St Michael reappeared in the...
View ArticleSix weeks to pay stepfather
Antonio Alphonzo Matthews was today given six more weeks to pay his stepfather the remaining $1,400 of the $1,800 owed to him, after he damaged his stepfather’s vehicle a few weeks ago. However, the...
View ArticleNo wrong in discipline
A senior criminal attorney today expressed strong views on behalf of a man whose daughter made a complaint to police that he had slapped her. In Angella Mitchell-Gittens’ response to the District ‘A’...
View ArticleGrant brothers return to Dodds
Two brothers who both had matters before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant, returned to HMP Dodds today. While Jabarry Jaziel Grant was at the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court in relation to a charge of...
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