What should have been a $2,500 trip has ended up costing a man $25,000 after he admitted to not being able to pay a taxi driver he had hired for the journey.
Antonio Rodrigues appeared in the courtroom of Senior Magistrate Leron Daly last Friday and he pleaded “guilty with explanation” to a charge that on August 21st, at Brickdam, he incurred a debt to Wayne Samaroo in the amount of $2,500 by means of fraud.
Rodrigues told the court that he recently came to Georgetown seeking treatment for malaria and that on the day in question, he caught Samaroo’s taxi from the Diamond Public Hospital. He said that as they drove to town, the driver suggested that he might not pay the fare. He said that he assured the man that he would pay. However, upon arriving in Georgetown, he was taken to the Brickdam Police Station.
Rodrigues was fined $25,000 or an alternative two weeks in prison after he admitted that he did not pay the driver for the drop that day.
