Fined $25,000 after failing to pay $2,500 car fare

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.