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Leading police on a high-speed chase last Thursday turned out to be quite an expensive venture for Lemar Alexander Burnett. The 32-year-old, of Brewster’s Gap, St Michael, has to pay $5 300 in fines after breaking several traffic laws while trying to escape from the law. Burnett, who works periodically, was charged with seven traffic offences: dangerous driving, driving without due care and attention, driving without reasonable consideration for other …

Three men, who all reside at 60 Denton Road, Grazettes Housing Area, St Michael, were in a Bridgetown court yesterday, facing a total of eight charges, most of which related to two members of the Barbados Police Service. Jefferson Antonio O’Bryan Bishop is charged with assaulting Constable Ian Chase in the execution of his duties, resisting arrest and using threatening words towards Chase, which were “you want to pull a …

Two men who sat side by side in the District “A” Traffic Court ended up pleading guilty to theft and asking for “indoor help” to deal with their troubles. Ramon Ackeem Quarless, 31, of Harmony Hall, Hindsbury Road, St Michael, pleaded guilty to having apparatus fit and intended for use in connection with cocaine, along with possession of a small amount of cocaine in greaseproof wrapping on September 14. He …

The man charged in connection with the aggravated burglary of Channell Supermarket was remanded to Dodds Prison when he appeared in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court. Theophilus Theo Holder, 29, of Madison Terrace, Deacons Farm, St Michael, was not required to plead to entering the Black Rock, St Michael branch of the supermarket, on April 12, and stealing $1 498.84 belonging to Channell Enterprises and at the time had a …

The man who allegedly burglarised Channel Supermarket and injured a security guard last week has been remanded to Dodds Prison. Theophilus Theo Holder of Block 2B Madison Terrace, Deacons Farm, St Michael, is accused of entering the supermarket located in Black Rock, St Michael as a trespasser, with a knife, and stealing $1 498.84 cash on April 12. The 29-year-old is further

So upset was Jason Errol Chapman about a man cutting the cord to his kite, that he struck the man’s vehicle, damaging it in the process.His actions will cost him just over $2 700 – the amount he has to pay in compensation to avoid going to jail.When he appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates Court on Monday, the 38-year-old resident of Block 7A, Neptune Road, Deacons Farm, St Michael, pleaded guilty to damaging a motor van belonging to John Paul Jones on January 7, 2023, without lawful ...

A young man facing gun and ammunition charges made an application for his matters to be fast-tracked to the High Court on his first appearance before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on Friday.“Ma’am, I can beg for a paper committal to go to the High Court? I don’t want to waste the court’s time. I am willing to plead guilty, Ma’am,” Kerrie Shaquille Thompson said to Magistrate Alison Burke.The 27-year-old labourer of Block 14 Field Place, Bayville, St Michael made the comme...

A pharmacist was on Monday granted $450 000 bail following a short stint on remand at Dodds in connection with over $2 million worth of drugs.When 60-year-old Roger Arnott McNeil Maynard, of Fortesques, St Philip reappeared before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court, prosecuting officer Ralph Rollock did not renew his objection to bail but asked that strict conditions be applied, including requiring the accused to surrender his travel documents and report to a police station.Maynard is acc...

Robbery is a “most vicious crime”, Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes said on Friday as he sentenced a 27-year-old man to 18 months in prison.Kemo Avery Grant of 1st Avenue Greaves Land, Black Rock, St Michael was jailed after he pleaded guilty to robbing Tamarald Haynes of a cellular phone worth $1 300 and $9 cash on October 8.Haynes, accompanied by another female, had parked her vehicle near the Catholic Church along Black Rock Main Rock when Grant approached them, pointed what appeared to be a f...

When he was asked to tell the court why he should not be remanded to HMP Dodds, Anthony Junior Bishop could not come up with a suitable defence.“I trying hard to keep myself out of trouble but I can’t take getting unfair all the time,” the 23-year-old of Chapman Village, St Thomas, told Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes when he appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court.It was not enough to gain him his freedom and he was subsequently remanded to prison until October 4.Bishop was not ...