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Rommel Omar Sandiford, for whom the police issued a wanted man bulletin who was on the police’s Wanted List, has been charged with murder. Sandiford was arrested and charged on Monday, June 6 by officers from the Criminal Investigation Departmen
Call it a court lesson learnt from disobeying a biblical commandment. Yesterday, David Ricardo Gittens found himself being sent to Dodds Prison after he failed to “honour” his mother who had signed his $10 000 bail. She withdrew as his surety and, after he failed to find a replacement, he was remanded to prison. “Honour thy mother and thy father so that your days may be long in the land,” …
By Heather-Lynn Evanson Attorney Ernest Winston Jackman was remanded to prison after a jury found him guilty of stealing a client’s money and money laundering on Tuesday. Jackman, of Wiltshire Plantation House, St Philip, had denied stealing $678 414.75 belonging to HEJ Ltd, between June 23, 2006 and March 5, 2007. He had also pleaded not guilty to engaging in money laundering in that he disposed of sums totaling $678 …
As Barbados deals with the fourth wave of COVID-19, Dodds Prison again has not been spared the infections. However, Acting Superintendent of Prisons DeCarlo Payne said, contrary to rumours, it was not a major outbreak like what the prison had previously experienced. “We don’t have a widespread issue here right now. Any inmates who display symptoms are isolated in a building and that was so from the time we started …
The case of two non-nationals who have signalled their intention to plead guilty but can’t because of a lack of a file provoked the ire of their attorney and the court yesterday. In fact, Justice Randall Worrell has urged Queen’s Counsel Andrew Pilgrim to file bail applications on behalf of both men. Anton James, of Golden Lane, Seaview, Tobago, and Krysten Trim, of Bon Accord Main Road, Tobago, are on …