(Trinidad Guardian) Two Guyanese men were fined a total of TT$2,150 on Thursday after they pleaded guilty to using obscene language and entering the country illegally. Appearing before Magistrate Cheron Raphael in the Port-of-Spain Third Court, Keron Smart of Boxhill Trace, Laventille, was fined TT$150 after he cursed police who were responding to a disturbance at his house on Wednesday night.
The court heard from Sgt Greer Britton-Lawrence that Besson Street police received a report of people cursing and creating a ruckus at a house in the area around 7.30 pm on March 6. As police arrived at the house and cautioned Smart and a female relative, Smart began cursing them even after being warned to desist. He was arrested and charged.
Asked yesterday what explanation he had for his behaviour, Smart, who had a clean record, remained silent. He was then fined TT$150 to be paid within a month. In default, he will serve 30 days’ simple imprisonment. In a separate matter also before her, a Guyanese labourer who gave his name only as Chandreka, was fined TT$2,000 on pleading guilty to entering this country at a port unknown and failing to report to an immigration officer.
Chandreka, 32, has been detained at the Immigration Detention Centre, Aripo, for the past six weeks. Asked why he had sneaked into the country, Chandreka explained that his mother and brother in Guyana were deaf mutes and he had to seek employment outside his country to provide for them. Chandreka said he was the sole bread winner and that he had been working and sending money back home for their care. He was later granted three months in which to pay the TT$2,000, or serve three months simple imprisonment.
