Livardo Rogelio Hinds was spared a further prison term when Justice Elwood Watts, in Barbados’ No. 2A Supreme Court, ordered him to pay fines on the spot instead of serving the rest of his sentence.[1] He also admitted to having 1.09 kilogrammes of cannabis.[2] For the cannabis, Justice Watts ordered him to pay $2 000 or serve 18 months.[1] He was also fined $20 000 for the gun and $13 000 for the ammunition or jailed, and all the fines were due immediately and were paid.[1]

The judge said possession of a firearm in Barbados ought to bring an automatic custodial sentence, but noted Hinds’ medical challenges and that prosecution and defence both agreed a custodial sentence should not be imposed.[1] Justice Watts had taken a starting point of eight years for the firearm and ammunition, citing the extended magazine and Hinds’ previous convictions, before discounts for the guilty plea and 512 days on remand left a term of three years 339 days.[1] State Counsel Dr Zoe King prosecuted the case and defence attorney Shadia Simpson represented Hinds.[1]

Police executing a search warrant at a Glendairy Road, Bridge Road, St Michael, home found Hinds on a sofa beside a clothes basket holding a bag with four transparent bags of vegetable matter suspected to be cannabis.[1] Beneath the bag in the basket were a 9mm Luger semi-automatic pistol with an extended magazine, a ski mask and a firearm holder; Hinds first denied the gun but said the cannabis was his.[1]

Hinds pleaded guilty before Justice Watts on 10 November 2025, and his case was adjourned to 18 November.[2] Nation News reported that Hinds was remanded to Dodds Prison and that police had executed the warrant at the residence of another man, where a second man was also present.[3]