Friday, February 13 2015 A 70-YEAR-OLD retired teacher was among two motorists held for drunk driving, while 35 fixed penalty traffic tickets were issued to motorists by police officers during anti-crime roadblock exercises yesterday. The exercise began at 6 am and ended at 10 am along the Eastern Main Road in Sangre Grande. The fixed…
Friday, February 13 2015 A 70-YEAR-OLD retired teacher was among two motorists held for drunk driving, while 35 fixed penalty traffic tickets were issued to motorists by police officers during anti-crime roadblock exercises yesterday. The exercise began at 6 am and ended at 10 am along the Eastern Main Road in Sangre Grande. The fixed…
NEWSDAY Thursday, November 6 2014 THE EDITOR: An effective way to reduce the incidence of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs would be to forfeit the vehicle involved in the offence to the State and impose a fine. If our legislators were serious they could deal with this problem swiftly notwithstanding our panoply…
NEWSDAY By LAUREL V WILLIAMS Wednesday, November 12 2014 FOR failing to provide a specimen of breath, for a breathalyser test, a Chaguanas magistrate yesterday placed a 51-year-old self-employed mother on a bond to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for the next four months. “Do not let this happen again. At your…
NEWSDAY Tuesday, April 21 2015 A FOURTH year medical student, whose breathalyser test registered double the legal alcohol limit, yesterday appeared before a Tunapuna magistrate to answer the charge. Steven Swarath, 23, was charged with failing a breathalyser test and appeared before Magistrate Indira Misir-Gosine in the Third Court. His attorney, Fareed Ali told…
By CAROL MATROO Thursday, July 16 2015 Drunk driving: A youth drinking while driving. TT police report students account for most DUI arrests…. Young drivers were more at risk of having a road vehicular accident, especially when they have been drinking and speeding. In fact, close to 50 percent of persons arrested for…
5,000 charged during first six weeks of 2015 Reshma Ragoonath Published: Sunday, February 15, 2015 Deodat Dulalchan Even as millions continue to be spent on programmes to help curb delinquent driving, the Police Service has recorded an estimated 70,000 traffic violations nationwide for 2014. And not even the hefty fines seem to have made a…
NEWSDAY by Jamille Broome Sunday, March 1 2015 As we’re all aware, new traffic fines went into effect on January 30, 2015, with the amendment to the Motor Vehicle and Road Traffic Act via the Finance Act 2015. This was in reaction to the 146 accidents, which resulted in 164 deaths in 2014, coupled with…
By STACY MOORE Tuesday, August 12 2014 LAMENTING the recent road fatalities in Trinidad and Tobago, a magistrate yesterday slapped a $5,000 fine on a truck driver who pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol. Kalim Mohammed, 55 of Mission Road, Freeport, was given seven days to pay the fine or serve…
CHEERS: A recent PAHO/WHO survey shows TT ranks very high in terms of the amount of alcohol consumed. … TRINIDAD and Tobago and two other CARICOM countries were identified in a Pan American/World Health Organisation report on alcohol use as having the highest rates of alcohol consumption in the Americas, and Health Minister Dr…
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