Court Hears Man Lived In Tent For 14 Years

July 9, 2012

A 50-year-old man appeared in Court this morning [July 9] having using threatening words to a woman who claimed ownership of a property where he had lived in a tent for 14 years.

Calvin Carmichael pleaded guilty to using threatening words to a woman who claimed ownership of the property, and was given a Conditional Discharge by the Senior Magistrate and told to keep off the property.

Mr Carmichael had been arrested, taken into custody, and brought before Senior Magistrate Archie Warner on a charge of using threatening words on 24th June 2012.

The charge arose out a series of confrontations between Mr Carmichael and the woman over the ownership of a lot of land in Southampton. Mr Carmichael admitted to telling the lady: “Woman, you do not know me. I’ll burn your house down.”

In Court this morning, Mr Carmichael maintained that in a past Supreme Court decision, then Chief Justice Sir Richard Ground had granted him rights to the property.

Appearing on behalf of the woman, lawyer Rick Woolridge disputed this, said that Mr Carmichael was ‘squatting’ on the property, and that a civil action was under way. Asked by the Senior Magistrate to provide support for his claim, Mr Carmichael said that he had “no papers” on him right now.

Mr Carmichael maintained however, that he along with Mt Zion Church, had an ongoing dispute over the ownership of the empty lot. Mr Carmichael also maintained that he had an inalienable right to live somewhere, and that Justice Ground had given him the right to live on the lot. Mr Carmichael said this matter was still a current matter in the Supreme Court and that he was representing himself in that action.

The Senior Magistrate ruled that Mr Carmichael should have a Conditional Discharge for twelve months on the matter of using threatening words; but that he was also to be placed on Probation and was ordered to stay off lots 13,19, and 23 of the disputed area in Southampton.

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  1. hehehe says:

    Well clearly he is STACKING his paper 14 years in a damn tent in Bermuda……Pinky must be planning to take over the world with those kinds of $avings!! lol

  2. Please allow me to express my knowledge of this situation, first and foremost Mr. Carmichael has not been on this property for 14 years, it is actually far less then this and the property in question is in fact private property and can not be accessed by vehicular traffic unless you enter it through property owned by the Mount Zion Church and another private residence, who jointly share the same right of way.

    So just for clarification and without going into much detail it was also stated by Mr.Carmichael that former Chief Justice Sir Richard Ground in a past court Judgement had granted him rights to the property and then had given him the right to live on the vacant lot, this statement by Mr. Carmichael is untrue and alarming, as he now has openly named a former Chief Justice as being part of the cause of him believing that he has legal right to the property that does not belong to him.

    Let me further state that the courts should follow up on todays proceedings and have the former case that Chief Justice Sir Richard Ground had ruled over against Mr. Carmichael’s sibling and you will clearly find that there is no mention what soever of the fore going statement of the claim which has been made by Mr. Carmichael. If you should read the Judgement there is very little mention to or about Mr. Carmichael as the case was against his sibling and not him. to which I would add that his sibling lost the case.

    Even though the Judgement from those proceedings can be found and read online,the Judgement does not reflect the spoken words that was spoken directly to Mr. Calvin Carmichael by The Chief Justice Sir Richard Ground when he was on the stand as a witness on behalf of his sibling but those same words was recorded in the transcript of those same proceedings and can be retrieved through the Supreme Courts of Bermuda, it was in Chief Justice Grounds summation to Mr. Carmichael that he was not to access the vacant lot by passing over or on the properties that he became familiar with
    He was also given a stern warning by the Chief Justice that he was indeed a trespasser and had no legal right to the property but in as much that the proceeding at that time involved his sibling and the adjacent lot,Chief Justice Sir Richard Ground was in no position to proceed with action against him as there was no case to answer at that time,due to the fact the proceedings was against his sibling and not him and to the adjacent lot and not the lot in which he was stated to be on.

    He was further warned that he would be dealt with in due course in a separate proceeding against him in which you now read here today and the lesson learned is never to claim to own something that clearly does not belong to you. that is about as much that is needed to be stated at this time by all other parties concerned as this matter and those prior have now come to a resolution that we have longed fought hard for and have God to thank that Senior members of this family has lived long enough to be vindicated.

  3. Mbaya Avunaye says:

    Living in a tent for 14 years? I wonder how mant more are here like this?