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A 44-year-old man who scaled a gate and stole bread to feed his drug habit has been jailed for six months.Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes sentenced Allan Decurtis Junior Crichlow, of no fixed place of abode, on Monday after he pleaded guilty to three offences.Crichlow admitted to stealing 12 bars of chocolates and three boxes of wax paper belonging to Savings Plus Supermarket Inc on December 30, 2021.He entered the store with a trolley and was observed by security. He was seen taking up the items and placing them in a bag that he was carrying. As he made his way to the exit he was stopped by security and told of the observation but left the establishment with the items. ....
A senior judicial officer says Barbados’ magistracy is not only short of personnel but is being treated with utter disregard and disrespect.“I call it institutionalised disrespect,” Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes declared on Thursday as he explained that the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Courts were only able to hear urgent matters and new charges as staff were “scotching” at the Supreme Court.The No. 1 District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court over which Weekes presides and the District ‘A’ Traffic Court were relocated to the Supreme Court Complex on Whitepark Road in April last year, with a weekly sitting beginning at 1 p.m.; while the staff in the No. 2 District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court work from a room above the District ‘D’ Police Station at Cane Garden, St Thomas.The three courts were reportedly moved from their original location due to unsafe working conditions following the ashfall from the eruption of St Vincent and the Grenadines’ La Soufrière volcano, amo ....
Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes has called for a national parenting programme to help families with issues. “If we do not get that national parenting programme, we will not turn it around,” he said. His comments came after he dealt with a teenager whose mother said she left it to the father to attend Parent-Teacher Association as well as form level meetings. Serrian Jamali Scott-Fagan, a 17-year-old farmer, of Jackman’s Alley, … ....
Shawayne Deshawn Williams made his first appearance on drug charges in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court yesterday. The 27-year-old, of Mahaica Gap, Green Hill, St Michael, pleaded not guilty to possession of cannabis, having a traffickable quantity of the drug and possession of cannabis with intent to supply, on July 20. There was no objection to bail and his attorney Angella Mitchell-Gittens indicated his surety would be present on the … ....
Three sets of parents were chastised for failing to monitor their sons as two teenagers and a young man appeared on an aggravated burglary charge in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court. “You all fail to understand what is going on with your children. The company they keep is sometimes the problem, but wunna ain’t monitoring them,” Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes told the parents yesterday. The three – Tremaine Alexander Beckles, … ....