Dodds Prison News Today

The Barbados Police Service (TBPS) Criminal Investigations Department (Southern Division) has arrested and formally charged Raheem Rasheed Belgrave 23 years of…

Officers from The Narcotics Unit of The Barbados Police Service (TBPS) carried out investigations involving three Barbadians and a Venezuelan…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A High Court judge in Barbados has ordered a father to pay BDS$15,000 in compensation to his daughter after he placed her hand on a lit stove burner as punishment for stealing almost six years ago. Justice Laurie-...

President of the Care Community Group, Sonia Payne (yellow shirt) and volunteers prepare to serve inmates at Dodds Prison their Christmas lunch today. (C. P ...

Street character Anthony Fitzpatrick “Ninja Man” Lynch has been remanded to prison after facing two charges relating to the burglary of the Museum of Parliament. The 69-year-old vagrant was not required to plead to entering the Museum, which is housed in the historic Parliament Buildings, between September 30 and October 11, and stealing a briefcase worth $500; two armorial badges worth $13 200; a pistol and cutlass worth $30 000; …

Recruits to the Barbados Prison Service have been warned not to have inappropriate relationships with inmates. The caution came from Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Abrahams during a graduation ceremony yesterday at Dodds Prison in St Philip for 13 recruits. He told them to remember inmates were not their friends. “You must never, ever be confused as to your obligations, your duty or your loyalty. The inmates are not your …

After finding a wallet in St Lawrence Gap, Christ Church, Jaheem Javan McDonald decided that as his birthday was approaching, he would “do a li’l [something]” to celebrate. However, using the debit and credit cards which belonged to Adero Daniel landed him before a Bridgetown court yesterday. Standing in the dock of the District “A” Magistrates’ Court No.1, McDonald, 21, of no fixed place of abode, pleaded guilty to obtaining …

A court yesterday heard how murderer Sean Anthony Watson stalked, shadowed and constantly ghost called his estranged wife weeks before he broke into her home, lay in wait for her, tied her up and then stabbed her in the neck. These were some of the facts outlined to the No 2 Supreme Court when Watson confessed to murdering his wife more than 11 years ago. Now 46, the architectural draughtsman, …

The behaviour of an accused man in court on Thursday evening, was such that Acting Magistrate Bernadeth John decided that Jaire Pedro Matthews needed “a cooling off period”. She therefore remanded him to Dodds Prison until October 23. The 18-year-old, of 1st Avenue Scott’s Terrace, Grazettes, St Michael, is facing four charges of damaging a shirt and trousers belonging to the State, or was reckless as to whether it would …

The investigation into the escape of an inmate from Dodds Prison is at an advanced stage, says acting Superintendent of Prisons DeCarlo Payne. The prison boss was speaking to the Daily Nation yesterday after a quarterly service at the Western Light Church of the Nazarene in Oxnards, St James. “It is an ongoing investigation and it is at an advanced stage, but I cannot comment further. In time the Minister …