Thursday, April 23, 2026

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A CANADIAN VISITOR’S stay in Barbados was cut short after he was deported to his homeland yesterday.

Joshua Lawrence Keith Gosse, 29, of 134 F South Point, Atlantic Shores, Christ Church, and 223 Lyon Street, Ottawa, Canada, found himself before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant charged with having cocaine yesterday.

The computer engineer pleaded guilty to the offence, which occurred in St Lawrence Gap, and was fined $2 000 forthwith with an alternative nine-month sentence.

According to the prosecution, police officers were on patrol in The Gap when they were notified by a civilian about the suspicious activity of two men on the compound of the South Gap Hotel. (TKS)

Please read the full story in today’s Daily Nation, or in the eNATION edition.

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