St Michael man remanded for damaging mother’s property

After giving no explanation for damaging his mother’s house with a brick, Ackeem Shadair Greenidge was remanded to Dodds Prison for the next week and a half.

The 30-year-old unemployed resident of 8th Avenue The Ivy, St Michael, pleaded guilty to damaging one door and one glass window pane belonging to Natasha Greenidge, intending to damage such property or being reckless as to whether such property would be damaged, on Sunday morning.

The District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court heard that his mother was speaking to him about his drug use when he became aggressive and threw a brick through the window.

“So you out there and your mother feel that you smoking herb and you mash up she place, and you doing as you feel like and have no explanation?” Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes told the offender. “Your mother work hard for that house and develop her place and you get vex and mash it up with a brick. I keeping you to the second of May.”

The magistrate advised the mother, who was present in the court and asked for help for her son regarding his drug use, to do some research into the various facilities across the island that offer such.

“He has to learn a lesson. You have worked hard and he was there mashing up your house with a brick. He cannot disrespect you — that is why I am remanding him . . . .The Probation Department is understaffed so I am not sending you there. There are many choices you can point him [to], like Verdun House, CASA, [Psychiatric Hospital] Outpatients and others,” Weekes advised.