Dog owner Davino Shkell Howard will be the teaching moment for other Barbadians who do not know they should license their dogs. So said Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes as he ordered a pre-sentencing report on the animal cruelty accused who appeared before him in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court yesterday. “I believe, really and truly, that sometimes one or two of the penalties in these areas are not necessarily effective. …
Two young men got lucky on Friday when they avoided being remanded to prison after missing their court dates.Contending that he had witnessed too many people in the last two weeks failing to turn up to court on the right days, Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes initially told assault accused Edgrick Livingstone Yearwood and alleged thief Jeremy Che Weekes that he was going to make “an example out of them”.When they reappeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court and were asked why they did not make their scheduled court appearances, Yearwood told Magistrate Weekes he had forgotten his date. He said he had also contacted his surety who did not know the date either.
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 required to plead to unlawfully wounding Tyrone Holford on September 2, 2022 with intent to maim, disfigure or disable him.
LESS THAN A WEEK after Magistrate Kim Butcher chastised lawmen for failing to give an accused his constitutionally due telephone call while in custody, police have once again been admonished. This time it is by Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes, who has urged police to not only allow accused those phone calls, but also verify the addresses of people in their custody. “These are the standards that are to be met. …
Several serious charges, ranging from illegal gun possession to endangering life, were dismissed by Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes on Friday due to a lack of police files on the cases.The decision resulted in six men walking out of the No. 1 District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court without those charges hanging over their heads.“This is wunna opportunity now . . . to grasp life, take care of your little children,” Magistrate Weekes told Adigun Rabbi Hinds, of 5A Maddison Terrace, Deacons, St Michael; Malik Derick Fenty, of 2nd Avenue Redman Road, Deacons, St Michael; Richad Barry Boyce, of 2nd Avenue Kellman Land, Black Rock, St Michael; Richard Shamario Worrell, of Derriston Road, Grazettes, St Michael; and Ranak Kadeaine Brathwaite, of Fairfield Cross Road, St Michael.The men were jointly charged with damaging a window belonging to Rosanna Ifill on May 16, 2018 as well as recklessly and without lawful authority or excuse discharging a firearm along Fairfield Road, a public place, that