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Two men yesterday denied a plot to bring more than $61,000 worth of drugs to the island. Wayne DeShields and Daquan Williams, both 25, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court to conspiracy to import THC between an unknown date and February 4 last ye...

A 44-year-old man was fined $2,000 yesterday after he was found with two pieces of drug equipment. Michael Clemans admitted possession of a scale and grinder for the misuse of drugs. Magistrates’ Court heard that police arrested Clemans, from Pembrok...

A man was fined more than $3,000 yesterday after he admitted a string of traffic offences. Magistrates’ Court heard that Jahni Holder, 27, was caught driving while disqualified, riding an unlicensed and uninsured bike, riding and speeding at 83km/h. ...

A man who claimed asthma prevented him from taking a police breath test has had his conviction for refusal to comply upheld. Michael Richardson was found guilty in Magistrates’ Court after officers said he used a “stop and start” approach to the brea...

A teenager who admitted causing a traffic accident could be sentenced to community service instead of fined. Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo said a community service order could be considered for unemployed Nazye Matthie, 19, after he pleaded guilty to ca...

The Premier was made aware of concerns over a senator’s rent arrears by a senior Civil Servant before he appointed him to the Upper House and made him a junior minister, The Royal Gazette can reveal. E-mails between the Harvey family and Marc Telema...

A man who walked out a shop without paying a $173 phone repair bill was yesterday fined almost three times the amount he dodged. Kevin Webb, 58, was fined $500 after he pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to leaving the store without payment for the...

An elderly woman said her hair was falling out and she had become ill because of stress after she was forced to take legal action against a government junior minister who owed her $19,000 in unpaid rent. Margaret Harvey accused Curtis Richardson, a...

An elderly woman broke down in tears yesterday as she told a court of the stress caused by a senator’s repeated refusal to hand over $19,000 in unpaid rent. Margaret Harvey, who is in her 70s, told the Supreme Court that Curtis Richardson, a Progress...

The Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a man who sexually assaulted a 15-year-old schoolgirl almost 20 years ago. Jamel Simons, 38, had admitted that he had sex with the child – but argued that he should not have been convicted of sexual assa...

The Supreme Court has been hit by “extreme staff shortages” because of Covid-19 pandemic, officials have said. A circular said: “As a result of Covid-19, and other unexpected circumstances, the Civil and Commercial Division of the Supreme Court is co...

A jobless man escaped a penalty after he admitted breaching a Covid-19 curfew. Police spotted Kevin Gardiner, 41, walking along Kindley Field Road in St George’s at about 2.15am on December 31, 2020, Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday. He told office...