Five people appeared in court on Thursday to face charges in connection with a $1.7 million marijuana seizure.
Brittany Diamond Maurissa Worrell-Lucombe, of Chapel Gap, Paynes Bay, St James is charged with importation, possession, possession with intent to supply and trafficking of $1 747 600 worth of the illegal substance.
The offences are alleged to have been committed on February 23.
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The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has granted convicted killer James Ricardo Alexander Fields special leave to appeal his conviction and is expected to clarify “a serious point of law” for the local courts when they eventually hear his matter.Through his attorneys Andrew Pilgrim KC and Martie Garnes, Fields is urging the CCJ to overturn the Barbados Court of Appeal’s ruling that his conviction was safe.Last October, the Court of Appeal lowered the sentence of the convicted manslayer but dismissed the appeal against his conviction. From that decision, Fields, formerly of Bank Hall Main Road, St Michael, was ordered to serve 11 years for the February 18, 2010 shooting death of Michael Dear.That sentence began on July 3, 2020, five months after he was found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter by a jury in the High Court.He was initially sentenced to 22 years, minus the six years spent on remand among several factors, leaving him with 16 years to serve at Dodds. That s
A teenager who allegedly committed an aggravated burglary at a supermarket in Sugar Hill, St Joseph earlier this month has been remanded to Dodds.
Ericko Malique Williams, 18, of Bibby’s Lane, St Michael, is accused of entering Mumus Supermarket as a trespasser, armed with a gun, and stealing $3 704, on January 7, 2023.
He appeared before Magistrate Douglas Frederick in the
Two men who pleaded guilty to robbing a convenience store eight years ago have been ordered to pay a combined $30 000 in fines.Justice Carlisle Greaves recently imposed the sentence on Dwayne Alastair Dyall, of 4th Avenue Harts Gap, Christ Church and Ramon Ricardo Callender, of No 3 Grazettes, New Road, St Michael.The men had pleaded guilty in the No. 3 Supreme Court to entering, as trespassers, First Stop Convenience Store, on July 11, 2014, and stealing $6 195.38 belonging to S and L Management Services Ltd.Senior State Counsel Neville Watson told the court that seven employees were on duty at the business located at Thorpes Main Road, St James on the mentioned date when two masked men entered and robbed the establishment.The culprits then fled but police investigations later led to the two suspects.
Three young men were today given an opportunity to turn their lives around when a High Court judge opted not to imprison them on a robbery charge.Instead, Justice Carlisle Greaves ordered them to serve probation and enrol in counselling programmes.He imposed the sentences on Shalom Shem Batson, 26, of Laynes Road, Britton’s Hill, St Michael; Renaco Fabico Richard Bovell, 21, of the same address and 23-year-old Carl Erwyn Sealy of Frere Pilgrim, Christ Church, when they returned to the No. 3 Supreme Court for sentencing.The young men had pleaded guilty to robbing Jamar Poulett of $427 on September 6, 2016.In revealing the facts, Senior State Counsel Neville Watson outlined that the three young men robbed Poulett, who was a conductor at the time, while he was working on a public service vehicle.