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She grabbed at a trip to a place she had never visited before. However, Canadian Ashley May Turner-Petawaysin’s free trip came with one catch – she was to bring two already packed suitcases with her to Barbados. Those two suitcases, which had in cannabis, earned her two forthwith fines and a possible 12-month stay at Dodds Prison, when she appeared in the Oistins Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Turner-Petawaysin, 29, of Norwood …

Robbery and wounding accused Curtis Joel Foster signalled his intention to plead guilty at the High Court when he appeared in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Foster, 37, of Bynoe Road, Rendezvous, Christ Church, is accused of robbing Elena Simkina of a passport and visa worth US$40 000, BDS$200, US$20, a cell phone, vaccination card, five bank cards, a medical insurance card, medical payment card, two drivers’ licences and …

Nurses and members of the medical fraternity have sacrificed too much during the COVID-19 pandemic and members of the public must not get the idea that they can be ill-treated. So declared Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes as he sent grieving uncle Rodney Corey Patrick Griffith back to Dodds Prison for 28 days, while he pondered Griffith’s punishment for sending a viral video threatening Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) staff in the …

Twenty-nine-year-old Johnny Herman Garcia Pacheco of Maturin Estate, #14 Manages, Venezuela is on remand after being held on several counts of drug and ammunition offences. Police Officers from the Drug Squad of The Barbados Police Service ar

Five men caught in a counter-narcotics operation off the island’s north coast have been charged in connection with the seizure of 500 kilos of marijuana.The four Guyanese and one Barbadian were remanded to Dodds Prison until January 19, 2022, after appearing before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes on Wednesday.

A young Barbadian woman was remanded to Dodds Prison today, after appearing in the District A Magistrates Court charged with murder. Chief Magistrate, Ian Weekes remanded Shakira Carlann Blackman, 31 of 4th Avenue Park Road, Bush Hall, St Michael, until December 30. Blackman was not required to plead today, after being arraigned with the murder of Shanice Miller. Miller, 27, received numerous stabs about the body during an altercation with …

Alleged ‘breachers’ hauled before Chief Magistrate today Article by February 18, 2021 The work of the COVID-19 Monitoring Unit is not to “lock up or charge” people says Ronald Chapman who has however put the public on notice that his officers would be going after persons who use social media to facilitate face-to-face business. Chapman sounded the warning after the monitoring unit brought the first batch of COVID-19 protocol breachers before the law court. “We had ...

B ARRACUDA, BLUE MARLIN and red snapper were for sale before Christmas at Millie Ifill fish market, but only to those who observed pandemic protocol: “No Mask No Service”, said a large sign. Local discipline and tests on travellers kept covid-19 cases in Barbados to a trickle. After a lockdown, bars and boutiques were doing brisk business. Reservations at restaurants such as the Fish Pot at Little Good Harbour were becoming hard to get. Locals said the island was in its own little bubble. L...