Convicted vagrant fined

A North Sophia man was on Thursday ordered to pay a fine of $10,000 or spend two weeks in prison, after he pleaded guilty to a vagrancy charge.

Logger Royston Forde, 31, accepted that on February 14, at Georgetown, he was found loitering in a yard at 342 Sachi Bazaar Street, Prashad Nagar and he could not give sufficient reason why he was there.

Police Corporal Venetta Pindar, in presenting the prosecution’s case, said