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Junior Sammy’s son pleads guilty

NEWSDAY Friday, October 10 2014 BUSINESSMAN Shaun Sammy, son of local contractor Junior Sammy, has pleaded guilty to the charge of driving under the influence of alcohol and will be sentenced by a Port-of-Spain Magistrate on December 2. Sammy, whose father was in court for his son’s brief hearing before Magistrate Marissa Gomez, was stopped…

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KESHORN MADE ME DRINK

By AZARD ALI Tuesday, August 23 2016 KESHORN WALCOTT’s bronze medal on Saturday in Brazil at the 2016 Olympics in the javelin- throwing competition, cost a motorist in Trinidad $6,000 when he opted to celebrate the occasion by drinking too many beers. Shane Ramcharan, 46, appeared before Magistrate Taramatee Ramdass in the San Fernando Magistrates’…

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Lennox Oudit fined $2,000 on DUI charge

NEWSDAY Tuesday, October 28 2014 click on pic to zoom in FINED: Lennox Oudit, who was fined $2,000 on a DUI charge…. LENNOX OUDIT, the husband of Lyndira Oudit who is political leader of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP) was yesterday fined $2,000 for driving under the influence of alcohol at about 2.30 am on…

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Man fined $10,000 banned from driving

NEWSDAY By AZARD ALI Tuesday, October 7 2014 NANDRAM BALDATH was yesterday fined $10,000 and disqualifed for three years from driving on a charge of drinking and driving. On Saturday morning, Baldath, 37, of Debe Trace, Debe, went to the San Fernando Police Station to report a vehicular accident in which he was involved at…

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MORE DRUNKS IN SOUTH

By AZARD ALI Tuesday, May 26 2015 ADVOCACY group Arrive Alive has expressed so much concern with the high percentage of persons being arrested for drunk driving in the Southland that it is planning to open an office in San Fernando. Police figures revealed yesterday that with just over 1,200 drunk drivers charged throughout Trinidad…

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Motorist jailed for drunk driving

NEWSDAY By AZARD ALI Tuesday, October 28 2014 click on pic to zoom in JAILED: Inshan Ali Diljohn, left 42, of La Romaine, charged with drunk driving for the third time, is escorted off to serve three months in jail yeste… A MAN went to jail for three months yesterday for driving under the influence…

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Motorist on DUI charge fined $5,000, and disqualified for 3 yrs

  By LAUREL V WILLIAMS Wednesday, August 5 2015 SECOND-TIME offender for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) of alcohol, Brian Harripersad, 27, has been suspended from driving for the next three years, he having pleaded guilty yesterday in the Siparia Magistrates’ Court. Senior Magistrate Armina Deonarinsingh, presiding in the First Court, also fined Harripersad the…

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NEWSDAY – Drunkards Arrested

Monday, April 7 2014 FIFTEEN stone drunk drivers were among 63 persons arrested in a major weekend anti-crime initiative which saw officers from several police precincts in Southern Trinidad engage in stop and search procedures and raids at known crime dens. The exercise according to police sources, commenced at 8 am on Friday and ended…

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Nine charged with drunk driving

NEWSDAY Monday, November 3 2014 A police road block exercise carried out in the Matura and Sangre Grande districts over the weekend resulted in nine motorists being charged for driving under the influence of alcohol. They are expected to appear before a magistrate today. Police officers also issued 50 fixed penalty traffic tickets to motorists.…

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Report drunk officers to me

NEWSDAY By CECILY ASSON Friday, October 3 2014 click on pic to zoom in TELL ME: Supt Zamsheed Mohammed, who called on the public to report to him, any police officer drunk while on duty. He made the call at a police town … A SENIOR policeman is advising the public to call him directly…

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