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Mother forfeits $50 000

She lost one son six years ago and the...

Sailor’s drug trial adjourned

The drug trial of Walter O’Neal Prescod was adjourned...

‘Betrayed’ by daughter’s killer

“You still breathe. You have your family. You get...

Favour costs ex-soldier $24 000

What was intended to be a kind gesture and...

Mother withdraws as son’s surety

In an act of tough love, a mother yesterday...

Man placed on bond and ordered to pay up

He lost sleep worrying about what would happen to...

Killer to spend minimum of 55 years

Declaring that his actions will “forever remain etched in the psyche of Barbados”, a High Court judge yesterday imposed six life sentences on Campus...

Trini with drugs gets time served

A Trinidadian who wanted to smuggle almost 170 pounds of marijuana into the island three years ago was given a starting sentence of seven...

CCJ: System must strike a balance

THE JUSTICE SYSTEM must balance the rights of accused with society’s needs for accountability and the interest of victims. So said Justice Peter Jamadar of...

Two drivers must pay for death

True to his word, Justice Carlisle Greaves yesterday ordered two men to pay compensation rather than a fine to the Treasury, in a death...

Give Probation more funds, lawyers urges

An attorney has urged Government to throw more funds behind the Barbados Probation Service as the wait time for pre-sentencing reports has moved from...

Father prefers compensation

It was blows instead of birthday cake and greetings when a son stabbed his father, over the use of a microwave, on the birth...

11-year jail stay for shooter

Acting in haste, repenting in leisure. This, said Justice Wanda Blair, sums up the behaviour of most of today’s offenders. The judge was speaking as she...

17 years for sex with child

Deploring the 14-year gap between the time a sexual offence against a ten-year-old girl was reported and the time it reached the court, a...

Woman admits to menacing video

A Jamaican who took to TikTok to cast aspersions on a fellow national was handed over to immigration officials when she appeared in the District “A”...

Offender says sorry for having drugs

He was a first-time offender and was, therefore, given the opportunity to keep his record clean. So said Magistrate Manila Renee as she imposed a...