A brawl in Long Street between two female co-workers – during which one was badly bitten on the finer – has resulted in a $500 compensation order.

A Fort Road man with a two-page conviction record was sentenced to six months in prison.

Victor ‘Sunku’ Clarke pleaded guilty to larceny. Clarke, 54, was spotted on the compound of the Inland Revenue Department on October 18 about 4 pm.

The arrest of a long-serving corporal of police for attempted rape and serious indecency brings the number of lawmen charged for crimes in the past few months to eight.

As police step up efforts to reduce crime, particularly shootings and robberies that have been plaguing the Villa community, two villagers have been arrested and charged for shooting at each other.

Thirty-seven-year-old Sherwin Carty, also known as “Baah Bastini” of Guyana, appeared in court yesterday for the first time since police cast an island-wide dragnet for him in connection with an August 18 kidnapping in Ottos.

The two men charged in connection with last week’s shooting on Bay Street, Villa, that left one man at Mount St John’s Medical Centre nursing a gunshot wound to the leg, have been charged and remanded to Her Majesty’s Prison.

Bendals resident Theophilus Joseph was charged, over the weekend, with permitting a ferocious dog to be at large and wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, following a pit bull attack on a woman and her child last week. He is expected to appear in St John’s Magistrates’ Court today to answer the charges.