King sent for observation
The speech and mannerisms of a 61-year-old accused man prompted Magistrate Douglas Frederick to send him to the Psychiatric Hospital for observation. Charles Aubruy King, of Passage Road, St Michael,...
View ArticleNo charge for abusive ex
“If you are being abused, battered, beaten or threatened [then you ought to] think seriously about that relationship.” That was the advice which Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant gave to a woman who...
View ArticleMurder accused remanded
Jason Cecil Spencer, 34, of no fixed place of abode, was remanded to HMP Dodds today after appearing on a charge of murder before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’...
View Article$20,000 bail for Callender
Jaleel Kadeem Callender was back before the law courts again today. This time, the Block 2C Barbarees Gardens, Barbarees Hill, St Michael resident was there on charges of using an unlicensed firearm...
View ArticleBrathwaite gets nine months for robbery
Michael Anthony Brathwaite, of no fixed place of abode, will have a permanent address for the next nine months at least. Magistrate Douglas Frederick sentenced the 43-year-old man on Saturday to that...
View ArticleTwo busted
The two men who were apprehended during yesterday’s drug bust off Paradise Beach, St Michael have been remanded to prison. Hamilton McDonald Branch, 45, of Sherbourne #3, St John and Michael Ricardo...
View ArticleGuard pleads guilty to drug charges
A security officer pleaded guilty to four drug charges when he went before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today. Sandor Maurice Barker of #43 Neem Close, Lower Burney, St Michael admitted to...
View Article18 months for cannabis
A 46-year-old Jamaican driver was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for bringing seven pounds of cannabis into Barbados on Saturday. Richard Clive Sewel, of Gravel Road, Clarendon, was handed the...
View ArticleAccused to repay cost of stolen items
Kevin Johnson should be repaid $2,500 of the $3,000 which was stolen from him, as well as compensation for a pair of jeans. When Johnson reappeared in the District ‘A’ Traffic Court today, it was to...
View ArticleFive years late
Even though he was five years late, Dwayne Allister Marshall came to the District ‘D’ Magistrates’ Court today to find out what was going on with his case. Marshall, of 1st Avenue Gills Gap, Eagle...
View ArticleJean-Marie to enrol in anger management
A St Michael man was ordered to begin anger management classes as soon as possible, even before he is sentenced after entering a guilty plea in a matter involving his former girlfriend. That order was...
View ArticleCumberbatch gets 12 months
In March of this year, someone reported to police that Ferdinand O’Brien Cumberbatch was beating his pregnant girlfriend with a stick. As a result of this report, when police saw him driving along...
View ArticleDismissed
A Bridgetown court today dismissed two cases of theft and money-laundering against an attorney-at-law. Magistrate Douglas Frederick dismissed the matters in which Philip Vernon Nicholls was accused of...
View Article15,000 bail for Belle and Smith
Two men whose bail application was refused last week, were granted bail today at $15,000 each. Jose McDonald Belle and Ryan Andre Smith, both of Storey Gap, Codrington Hill, St. Michael, first appeared...
View ArticleCall to have case dropped
When a murder case came up for hearing again today, the prosecutor told the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court No. 2 that he was not in possession of a file related to the matter. He said his instructions...
View ArticleSisters to be sentenced Tuesday
Two sisters who broke into their aunt’s home and stole several items from her will be sentenced next Tuesday. They were further remanded after reappearing in the District ‘A’ Traffic Court today. Two...
View ArticleMan facing five charges
A George Street, Belleville, St Michael man appeared in a Bridgetown Court today on five charges. 22-year-old student Suleman Ayyub Ekalvaya went before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court charged...
View ArticleBroomes’ cases set for October
The matters which Parkinson Secondary School Principal Jeffrey Broomes has against two St Michael women are set to begin on October 29. The matters are that on December 10, 2013 Danissa Shontelle...
View ArticleMan gets six months for trespassing
In October last year, Baggio Elson Roberto Roach was given a six month sentence, suspended for 18 months, after he confessed to burglary. That sentence was automatically activated on Wednesday when he...
View ArticleGreaves jailed
A man who injured a mother and daughter at the Valery high-rise complex in May has been sentenced to three months in jail. Shakir Akil Elias Greaves of Block 9E Division Drive, Eden Lodge, St Michael...
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