George Nooks’ Trial Postponed

The trial for reggae-gospel singer George Nooks was postponed on Wednesday until November 23 when he is next scheduled to appear in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court to answer to drug possession charges.

Mr. Nooks’ attorney, Tom Tavares-Finson, is reportedly involved in another matter in the Home Circuit Court.

The veteran singer was arrested for an April 2019 incident and charged with possession of cocaine and attempting to pervert the course of justice. In October 2020, he spent a night in police lock-up, and his vehicle, a Mercedes-Benz GL 450 SUV, was seized. It was subsequently returned to him.

Allegations are that Nooks ingested “some substance” after being accosted by the police in Liguanea, St Andrew, in April 2019. He was taken to Kingston Public Hospital for observation and subsequently released.

This is not Nooks’s first run-in with the law on drug-related charges. He was freed of a similar charge on May 21, 2019.

Allegations are that Mr. Nooks tossed a plastic bag containing a white powdery substance to the ground when police conducting a narcotics operation approached him.

He was taken into custody.

While being processed at the police’s narcotics headquarters, Mr. Nooks reportedly got hold of the bag and swallowed the contents.

Nooks is known for songs such as the version of Little Roy’s Tribal War, Forty Legs Dread, and the gospel hit, Ride Out the Storm. Since the death of his grandmother in 2001, Nooks has primarily recorded gospel material. His 2016 album Ride Out Your Storm reached number 4 on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart, and number 22 on the Gospel chart.