Fernella Wedderburn

Scores of Barbados Labour Party (BLP) supporters converged on Barclays Park on the East Coast Road on Monday to celebrate the 86th anniversary of the Rt Excellent Sir Grantley Adams — one of the party's founding fathers.

A young woman with “a lot of anger issues inside”, who smashed her mother’s car with a rock, may have to compensate her when the case continues on July 17.In the meantime, 22-year-old Kayla Denise Lovell, of Whitehall Terrace, St Michael, is on $2 000 bail.The unemployed woman appeared before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes on Tuesday and admitted that without lawful excuse, she damaged a car belonging to Veronica Lovell, intending to damage that property or was reckless as to whether it was damaged.The District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court heard that the young woman does not reside with her mother but is allowed to visit the residence. On Monday, she was given the opportunity to do so and an argument ensued. Sergeant Randolph Boyce disclosed that the police were called in, and while they were trying to quell the situation, Kayla picked up a rock and threw it at the vehicle, damaging it.Her mother now has to get a cost of that damage to present to the court.

Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes made that appeal after it was found that a Jamaican man, who subsequently admitted to a shoplifting charge, did not have a work permit or any such document pending approval even though he informed the police that he was employed by a construction firm here and a work permit application had been made.

Three St Michael men were remanded to Dodds prison over the weekend when they appeared on separate charges before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes.Shamar Armanny Mayers, a resident of Leigh Gap, Passage Road, went before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on Saturday accused of wounding Derrick Chase on April 24 with intent to maim, disfigure or disable him or to do some serious bodily harm to him.

Amid the home affairs minister's call for decriminalising the wearing of camouflage, a top jurist has suggested it should only remain an offence if used in committing a crime. And the outspoken judge has received the backing of prominent defence barristers.

Y oung females have been urged to be financially savvy and manage any income carefully from an early age, even if it is just a small allowance.

Fire officials are on the scene of a house fire at Bartlett's Tenantry Road, Sargeant's Village, Christ Church, which is said to be under control

A n escaped prisoner who hid in a City residence after going on the run on Thursday morning was recaptured just three hours later, leaving the homeowner in whose house he was found feeling relieved, though shaken.

S everal local businesses have banded together to assist St Vincent's Grenadine islands with relief supplies following the devastation caused by Hurricane Beryl earlier this week.

A n autopsy conducted on the decomposing body of Rahim Ward concluded that he died from a gunshot wound, forensic pathologist Dr Althea Neblett told jurors in the murder trial of Kevin Andrew Haynes on Wednesday.