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A Christ Church woman was remanded to Dodds Prison last Friday when she appeared in court on eight charges in connection with drugs, a firearm and ammunition. She is Sabrina Le Keisha Atherley, 38 years, of Vauxhall Gardens,  who was arrested by personnel from the Anti-Gun and Gangs Unit of The Barbados Police Service that same day. She was charged with one count each possession of a firearm, ammunition, cannabis …

Security at Dodds Prison is adequate to deal with the population there, says Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Abrahams. He was addressing concerns raised after Tyreke Delandre Benskin, 20, of Promenade Road, Bush Hall, St Michael, escaped two escorting prison warders at the St Philip jail around 3:45 p.m. on Thursday. That led to a massive search in the parish which eventually spread to Yorkshire, Christ Church, where patrolling officers held him. …

Just give me the time and done. That was the declaration from accused Barry Christopher Cumberbatch when he appeared on a serious bodily harm charge in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court on Friday. The 52-year-old labourer, of Deighton Road, St Michael, was charged that with intent to maim, disfigure or disable Dominique Griffith, he caused her serious bodily harm on August 11. Prosecutor Sergeant Randolph Boyce objected to bail, saying …

A man who confessed to drug charges last week returned to Dodds Prison on remand yesterday after he still could not meet the bail criteria set by Magistrate Joy-Ann Clarke. When Desmond Raymond Eastmond, a farmer, of Sherbourne No. 3, St John, first appeared in the District “C” Magistrates’ Court at St Matthias, Christ Church, he pleaded guilty to possession, trafficking, intent to supply and cultivation of 5.95 kilogrammes of …

A 63-year-old unemployed man has pleaded guilty to knowingly permitting marijuana production to take place on his premises. Joseph Nathaniel Codrington, of Sherbourne No.3, St John, appeared in the District “C” Magistrates’ Court last Friday and admitted committing the offence on August 15. He was granted $10 000 bail, but had no surety, so Magistrate Joy-Ann Clarke remanded him to Dodds Prison until Thursday, when he will return before her. …

Minister of State in the Office of the Attorney General, Corey Lane (second from left), presenting acting Assistant Superintendent of Prisons with responsib ...

Lawyers in the case of convicted attorney-at-law Norman Leroy Lynch made submissions on sentencing before the High Court on Friday, with the defence counsel indicating the disgraced lawyer was in no position to repay the money he stole.When the convicted thief’s case was called before the No. 2 Supreme Court, Justice Randall Worrell asked Acting Senior State Counsel Romario Straker and Lynch’s attorney Marlon Gordon to address him on the issue of compensation and delay.Lynch has been on rema...

The recent signing of a "mission Barbados" agreement was the latest attempt at using smoke and mirrors to rub cliches and prescribed narratives in our faces at a time when robust national discourse and debate should be revealing true true ideas and real real solutions to our ever pressing and ever looming challenges.

It took a jury three hours of deliberations but in the end the members still could not come to a conclusion on Terrell Patrick Griffith’s guilt or innocence. While he awaits a retrial for murder, his attorneys have signalled their intention to make an urgent application for him to be released on bail. Griffith, 22, of Haynesville, St James, was accused of murdering Dario Greaves on September 9, 2018. He …

Self-confessed gunman Nathan Tyrell Ricardo Greenidge has his grandmother to thank for his freedom today. The retiree had walked with enough money to pay Greenidge’s forthwith fines, which allowed him to be released from Dodds Prison yesterday. Greenidge, of Berry Hill, Merricks, St Philip, was back in the No. 2 Supreme Court after he had pleaded guilty to having a firearm and six rounds of ammunition on December 29, 2021. …