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More than 200 small contractors and companies have been registered to assemble the 1 000 DuraVilla prefabricated houses which are scheduled to start arriving from Guyana by early next month.General Manager of the state-run National Housing Corporation (NHC) Ian Cupid Gill, who made the disclosure in an interview with Barbados TODAY, said a significant number of the mostly three-bedroom homes have already been allocated.“The process will start with 350 houses and the first set will land toward ...

An alleged escapee who was on the police wanted list from October, last year, will be spending the next 28 days at Dodds Prison. Not only did Oranile Holder face a charge of escaping custody but eight other offences were read to him when he appeared in the District “A” Traffic Court last Thursday. Holder, 26, of Cumberbatch Road, Fairfield Cross Road, St Michael, was not required to plead to …

Declaring that he was the peace maker was not enough to prevent illegal Jamaican Ryon Antonio Williams from being remanded to Dodds Prison yesterday. His cousin Romario Chavez Coburn, who was also in the country illegally was, however, reprimanded and discharged and ordered to pay compensation. Williams, a 30-year-old labourer who was living in Passage Road, St Michael, was in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court where he was accused of and …

A 20-year-old farmer appeared before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on crutches on Wednesday, accused of murdering another man earlier this month.Absalom Abejah Francis-Hunte, of Upper Collymore Rock, St Michael, is charged with the December 3 shooting death of Jabar Yarde. He is also accused of using a firearm on that same date without a valid licence to do so.

A private-public partnership is needed to fulfill Government’s ambitious goal of building 10 000 houses over the next five years.Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance Dwight Sutherland said this was why the Mia Mottley-led administration has been creating an enabling environment for the private sector to build more than half those houses.Speaking to the media following Wednesday’s tour of Ridge Meadows in Christ Church where B.J Investments Limited has been providing homeownership oppor...

Relatives, friends and attorneys-at-law will once again be able to make their appointments and visit inmates in Dodds Prison with immediate effect. That announcement was made by Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Abrahams on Monday in a press conference at The Ministry’s Wildey, St Michael headquarters. Abrahams stated that it was a difficult decision to stop visitation rights to the prison but it was forced upon them due to the …

After nearly two years, Dodds Prison has authorised in-person visits for family members of inmates. Minister of Home Affairs and Information, Wilfred Abrahams declared that in-person visits will resume at the prison effective Monday, Decembe

St Philip pharmacist Roger Arnott McNeil Maynard was remanded to Dodds Prison after facing four charges relating to a $2.325 million drug find in the Bridgetown Port. However, his attorneys have indicated they will be making an urgent application for bail before the High Court. Maynard, 60, of Golden Palm Drive, Fortescue, appeared in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court yesterday where he was not required to plead to possession of …

A man in his 40s was slapped with a 16-year sentence for raping and committing an act of serious indecency on his seven-year-old stepdaughter almost a decade ago, which a High Court judge said was an abuse of trust.However, after deductions allowed by Madame Justice Pamela Beckles, he will only serve just over half that time – eight years and 331 days – behind bars.He had been found guilty of committing the crimes against the minor between May 1 and June 30, 2013. He was, however, found not ...

Romono Anthony Drayton, 27, of School Lane, Halls Road, St. Michael was remanded to Dodds Prison . He has been charged with the murder of Simeon Legall. Drayton appeared at the District D Magistrate's Court on Tuesday where he was not required to plea to the indictable charge. On November 10, 2022.  the body of 72-year-old  Legall, of Spring Farm, St Thomas was discovered at his residence. He was fatally …