From The Courts

Fondler ordered to pay $8 500

Four years ago, he fondled a 12-year-old girl’s breast and last week, Christopher O’Brien Harris was sentenced for his crime. With a starting point of two years out of a...

‘DPP cannot be included’

The State has filed an appeal against a High Court decision that quashed a magistrate’s order sending former...

Black Rock man charged with ammunition possession

Update Trumanni Mecha Cadogan-Ashby, 28, of Simmons Land, Fairfield, Black Rock, St Michael, has been charged with possession of...

Two remanded on $1 million cannabis charges

Two St Michael men have been remanded to Dodds Prison after being charged with cannabis offences involving 52.4...

Two remanded on aggravated burglary charge

Two St Philip residents have been remanded to prison after appearing in court charged with aggravated burglary. Jason Kevin...

Man admits to lewd behaviour, assault

Justin Harvey Travis Felicien went missing from the court for about two years. When he did turn up, it was because he was brought in...

Home help pleads not guilty

A woman employed as a home help, who is accused of using her elderly charges’ two bank cards to make 97 online transactions, was...

Drugs made me do it, says thief

An unemployed man blamed a drug habit for his first foray into crime that saw him breaking into five businesses in a two-week span. “I...

Chalky Mount resident charged with murder of Seth Batson

Kevin Don Pedro Chandler, a 33-year-old resident of Chalky Mount, St Andrew, has been arrested and formally charged with the murder of Seth Batson,...

Bahamian government ordered to pay Jamaican millions in damages

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – A High Court has ordered Bahamian authorities to pay two million US dollars to a 36-year-old Jamaican who had been...

CCJ: Ex-officer couldn’t properly defend himself

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has determined that the charges brought by the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) against a former lieutenant in its...