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Guyanese Udisteen Mangaru told police over five years ago that he did not know the work permit stamp in his passport was a fake.Sergeant Terrence Howard of the Financial Crimes Investigations Unit gave that evidence when Mangaru’s case was called before Magistrate Manila Renee on Monday.Mangaru, who at the time resided at Denton Road Grazettes, St Michael, is charged that on May 18, 2017, for the purposes of remaining in Barbados, he had a Guyana passport in his name, bearing an Immigration and Passport Department work permit dated May 29, 2014 which had not been lawfully issued by the Barbados Immigration Department.Sergeant Howard, under questioning by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Trevor Blackman, told the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court that the report was made to police by an immigration officer and he and another officer went on duty to that department.He was given a letter addressed to the accused regarding a citizenship induction ceremony which carried the le
A Guyanese woman and her partner, who were living and working in Barbados under the Caricom Single Market and Economy free movement of labour programme, appeared in court yesterday charged with unlawfully and maliciously wounding her eight-year-old child. The 27-year-old woman, a manager, and her 38-year-old boyfriend, a painter, who reside at Four Roads, St Philip, pleaded not guilty to the charges when they appeared at the St Matthias Magistrates …
‘Fear’ made detainee run from lawmen
Article by May 12, 2021
Defence attorney Samuel Legay has urged a High Court Judge to show some leniency to his client who he said fled from police back in 2016 simply “out of fear”.
Legay was mitigating on behalf of St Philip resident Andrew Melvin Franklyn who had pleaded guilty to escaping from the Oistins Police Station without the use of force and assaulting constables Joseph Green and Rakem Gunning in the process on August 25, 2016.
The lawyer explained that Franklyn is known to the courts for theft, assault, criminal damage and burglary and was familiar with the police process.
Two St Michael men charged in separate sexual assaults against minors
Article by May 4, 2021
Two of this nation’s children were sexually violated within the last few months with one of the incidents resulting in pregnancy, according to charges filed in the law court.
The two separate cases came up before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes today where prosecutor Victoria Taitt put forward arguments for keeping the two men away from society at this time and the victims. Both accused have been remand to Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds until May 31.
In the first case heard in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court a 27-year-old car washer is accused of raping his 11-year-old niece. According to the indicatable charge between September 1 and September 30, 2020 the man, knowing that the child is his blood relative, his niece, had sexual intercourse with her. The St Michael man’s name is being withheld to protect the child’s identity. He was not required to plead