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It could be considered the most expensive vacation beer that Ben Graham Fergusson has ever bought.
And there is no guarantee that he will be allowed back into Barbados to enjoy another Banks beer.
Yesterday, the Scottish visitor was released from prison after he finally paid his $8 000 fine for twice breaking quarantine to buy beer.
It was on Saturday that Fergusson, 29, who was in quarantine at the Bougainvillea Hotel, appeared in court where he pleaded guilty to the charge that in contravention of Paragraph 10 of the Emergency Management COVID-19 Protocols Special Curfew No. 2 Directive 2021, in that there being a directive requiring every person to observe such social distancing and associated protocols in the interest of public health imposed from January 6 to 31, being a person placed in quarantine at the hotel, he failed to obey the directive of the Chief Medical Officer on January 14 and again on January 15. (HLE)
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CHIEF MAGISTRATE IAN WEEKES unleashed a tongue-lashing on prison authorities yesterday after a Scottish quarantine-breaker was left languishing at
HMP Dodds without a phone call despite the court’s express instructions from Saturday.
Ben Graham Fergusson, 29, was the visitor who walked out of his quarantine hotel, twice, to buy beer.
The gardener, who was staying at Bougainvillea Hotel, appeared before the Chief Magistrate over the weekend.
He pleaded guilty that in contravention of Paragraph 10 of the Emergency Management COVID-19 Protocols Special Curfew No. 2 Directive 2021, in that there being a directive requiring every person to observe such social distancing and associated protocols in the interest of public health imposed from January 6 to 31, he being a person placed in quarantine at Bougainvillea, he failed to obey the directive of the Chief Medical Officer on January 14 and again on January 15.
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THE FLEET-FOOTED WAYS of a wanted murder accused came to a screeching halt yesterday after he made an unsuccessful dash for freedom from the District “A” Traffic Court.
And the one place Johann Jemar Layne was hoping to escape is where he is now after he was remanded to prison.
Layne, 24, of Husbands Crescent, St Michael, was waiting for an amendment to be made to his three drug matters when he dashed out of court and down the steps, hurdled a barricade separating the court from the ongoing work on the old Supreme Court and Registration Department, and fled onto Coleridge Street. He left his shoes behind.
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They told a story of being in the wrong place at the wrong time after one man received a late-night call and the other decided to walk him home.
But something in the tale told by Akeem Venice Jones and Deniko Jarda Lowe did not make sense, said Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes, and they could not get community service for breaking curfew as they wished.
Jones, 24, of Hindsbury Road, and Lowe, 27, a pastry chef, of Fairfield Road, Tudor Bridge, both in St Michael, were in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court yesterday where they were jointly charged with and pleaded guilty to contravening Paragraph 1, Subparagraph (3) of the Emergency Management COVID-19 Protocols Special Curfew No. 2 Directive 2021, in that there being a directive requiring every person to observe such social distancing and associated protocols in the interest of public health imposed from January 6 to 14, they failed to comply by leaving home between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. as specified in Subparagrap
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It was Justin Dave Clarke’s contention that he should be sent to the Psychiatric Hospital since he was on drugs, needed medication and had multiple personalities.
“I would like to go to the Psychiatric Hospital,” he told the District “A” Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. “If I do go to jail, the only thing that will happen is that I gine do the same thing over and over. So I feel I should go to the Psychiatric Hospital.”
But in the same breath, the vagrant said he was drinking “joy juice”, a concoction made by a friend, which was supposed to take him off the medication.