St Michael resident Curtis Leroy Yearwood will spend the next three weeks at the Psychiatric Hospital. The 58-year-old of Fairfield Cross Road, Black Rock was remanded to the mental health institution after he pleaded guilty to unlawfully assaulting Oneal Holder on July 31. He also admitted to using the threatening words, “I gine kill you,” […]
Category: Court
Five years ago Jamel Omar Sinclair Ashby told police he knew nothing about shooting incidents in a St Michael community. Yesterday however, the Rogers Road, Ivy, St Michael resident pleaded guilty in the No. 2 Supreme Court to committing crimes that placed an entire family in danger of death or serious bodily harm. When arraigned […]
Foreign scammers targeted Republic Bank (Barbados) Limited’s, Worthing, Independence Square and Heroes Square, Automatic Banking Machines (ABM) and made away with a total of $2,600 in four days using cards equipped with magnetic readable strips. Today, in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court two Colombians and a Romanian – Sorin Cretu, 47, of Barrio Boca, Grande […]
Three Colombian men today pleaded guilty to carrying out ATM scams at different banking locations between July 28 and 31. One was handed over to immigration officials for deportation after paying a fine, while the other two were taken to HMP Dodds. They are Sorin Cretu, 47, of Barrio Boca, Grande Edificio Cartagena; Luis Alberto […]
A 38-year-old farmer must be on his best behaviour for the next six months. If Omar McDonald Sealy, of no fixed place of abode breaches the order imposed by Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant he will spend five months in prison. Sealy had been on remand since June accused of loitering at Bush Hall Main Road, St […]
Forty Acres, St Thomas resident Jason Orlando Smart has denied committing a crime under the Public Order Act on Kadooment Day. The 33-year-old appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today accused of unlawfully entering Kontact Band Barbados on August 5, when he was not a member, while along Black Rock Main Road, and failed […]
Senior Crown Counsel Olivia Davis today submitted that the starting sentence of a 68-year-old man who previously pleaded guilty to possession of a 9mm semi automatic pistol and 72 rounds of ammunition, should be eight years in prison. The prosecutor made the sentencing remarks before Justice Randall Worrell moments after Desmond Tyrone Branker, of School […]
A High court judge today urged a young man to take on skills that will change his life’s trajectory as he completes the remainder of a five-year prison sentence at Dodds. However, Khalil Lavar Hurley’s response to Justice Randall Worrell’s advice was that he would like to appeal the sentence. The Scotts Gap, Brittons Hill, […]
Arguments that he had not been in trouble with the law since his last court appearance were not strong enough to prevent a 38-year-old man from being remanded to Dodds. In fact it was revealed that Derick Oneal Morris’ last offence was in September 2018 and not 2016 as he told the court. The labourer […]
A 47-year-old man has been given another opportunity to find a surety but will do so while on remand. Fabian Peter Cheribin, of St Martin, St Philip will spend his second night at Dodds to reappear before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant tomorrow for another chance at bail. The self employed man is accused of using the […]
A Vincentian woman who admitted to stealing a comb and a tattoo set has ended up before the law courts and is also about to have her stay in Barbados cut short. Shemica Tamika Cabral, who was staying at 3rd Avenue Crystal Crescent, Kingsland Main Road, Christ Church was handed over to immigration authorities today. […]
Even though Omar Dacosta Holder is now a free man his lawyer is disappointed that his client’s plight had to be highlighted in the media for justice to be served. After spending 14 years in prison -ten of them on death row – Holder walked out of the Supreme Court last Thursday after the Court […]
A 37-year-old man who admitted threatening a police officer is on remand awaiting his fate. Damian Antonio Brome, of Hannays Village, St Lucy pleaded guilty before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant to using the threatening words, “I ain’t forget you boy. I gine see you liming in Speightown and I gine juck my knife in your throat […]
It was a knee-jerk reaction. That’s how a 30-year-old visitor of Barbadian heritage described an assault on a man on August 1. In a prepared speech Kimberley Laurel Thompson, who is staying at Apartment No. 3 Kingsland, Terrace, Christ Church, explained what occurred before she threw beer into the face of Clifton Roberts last Thursday. […]
Doctors the Psychiatric Hospital will over the next few weeks make a determination on whether a 29-year-old man is fit enough to plead to a theft charge. Magistrate Douglas Frederick remanded Dwight Dwayne Greene, of Wavell Avenue, Black Rock, St Michael to the institution for evaluation when he appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court. […]
A 31-year-old man who was found in possession of cannabis after he was pulled over by police during a traffic stop must successfully complete 80 hours of community service if he wants to keep his criminal record clean. Magistrate Douglas Frederick made the order today after Tyson Renaldo Foster, of Clarke’s Gap, Spooners Hill, St […]
A 30-year-old woman accused of theft and already on bail for a similar offence will spend the next 28-days at Dodds. Erica Sabrina Chandler, of Apt 4, No 58 Green Crescent, St Philip is accused of stealing two pants worth $350, a $395 dress and a $250 shirt on July 29 from Kelly’s Kloset Incorporated. […]
