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A cruise ship visitor was fined $10,000 in Magistrates’ Court for importing more than $1,000 of cannabis. James Michael Butter, of Massachusetts, said he needed the drug to alleviate pain he suffered from arthritis and carpal tunnel syndrome. The 58-...

A 64-year-old former bus driver was given a conditional discharge after he was found guilty of giving a police officer ‘the birdie’. Ewart James, a resident of the Salvation Army Shelter, was convicted of using offensive behaviour in a public place o...

A Massachusetts grandfather was fined $10,000 in Magistrates’ Court this morning after he admitted importing more than $1,000 of cannabis. James Michael Butter, 58, pleaded guilty to importing 23.45g of the controlled drug on the Norwegian Dawn on Oc...

A Warwick man was sentenced to 30 days at Westgate after admitting drunkenly breaking a window at a Hamilton restaurant. Don Kirk Simmons, 48, from Farm Lane, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to one count of wilful damage. Crown counsel Tawana Ta...

A homeless man was sent to jail after he admitted stealing more than $7,000 in cash and items. Sonny Bell, 49, pleaded guilty last month to two counts of burglary items valued at $5,500 were taken from Paraquet Restaurant in Paget and $2,630 was take...

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner described it as “vexing” and “embarrassing” that tourists are charged for having small quantities of cannabis. He made his comments as he gave 28-year-old cruise ship worker Johnny Nunez a 12-month conditional disch...

Two American women were remanded in custody yesterday on charges they conspired to import more than $400,000 of cannabis resin. Neither 23-year-old Alloah Jatan Releford, from Temple, Georgia, nor 27-year-old Latoya Nicole Powell, from Marietta, Geor...

A man acquitted of murder in the Supreme Court has appeared in Magistrates’ Court, on a separate charge of assaulting another man. Lee Symons, 21, denied committing the offence against Robert Williams on June 29. Magistrate Juan Wolffe set a January ...