to 1996, received a scolding from Senior Magistrate Will Francis.

Thirty-nine-year-old Dwayne Weeks, of Glebe Road, Pembroke, denied failing to stop at a stop sign and also for a parking ticket dating back to 1996.

But Mr. Francis told him: "We would have anarchy if we set court dates and you refuse to show.'' Weeks complained he was hassled by the Police. However, Mr. Francis explained to him that a warrant was issued for his arrest because he failed to attend court.

Weeks was released on $500 bail and ordered to return to court on October 12.

DELINQUENT FINES ADD UP CTS Delinquent fines add up A Pembroke man will spend the next ten months behind bars -- after failing to pay off a host of fines.

Charles Paul, of Happy Valley Road, had accumulated nearly $4,000 in fines after pleading guilty in Magistrates' Court earlier this week to a stack of traffic offences committed in the past three years.

The luckless motorist was stopped a total of five times by Police while driving illegally. Offences included driving without a valid driver's licence, driving without insurance and driving an unlicensed vehicle.

At the time of the offences Paul was given heavy fines.

But in court yesterday the 39-year-old contractor claimed that he was unable to pay the fines due to lack of work.

"Rome wasn't built in a day,'' he told Magistrate Edward King.

But Mr. King refused to listen to Paul's pleas for clemency.

"You haven't paid a penny of it,'' he said.

"It's a sad thing when a man of your age treats the court like this. You are not a diddly bop.'' Paul was also charged with breaching the peace and assault causing bodily harm in an incident last April. He pleaded not guilty to both counts. A trial date is still to be set.

FINE AND TIME FOR IMPARIED DRIVING CTS Fine and time for impaired driving A 21-year-old homeless man was fined $600 and given a three-month suspended prison sentence on Tuesday after admitting to impaired driving.

Taiheed Jermaine Talbot was more than double the legal drink-drive limit when he was stopped by Police on his auxiliary cycle in the early hours of last Saturday morning.

Talbot was spotted by Police jumping a series of red lights in Hamilton and was eventually arrested at the junction of Court and Dundonald streets.

He was arrested and taken to Hamilton Police Station. A breath test revealed a blood alcohol level of 164 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

The legal limit is 80 milligrams in 100 millilitres of blood.

Talbot was placed on $750 bail with one surety. He was also banned from driving all motor vehicles for one year.

But Talbot pleaded not guilty to outstanding charges of impaired driving and failure to give a breath sample when stopped by Police on Reid Street last month.

A trial date for that offence has been set for July 5 in Magistrates' Court.

SON DENIES STEALING FATHER'S CAR CTS Son denies stealing father's car An optometrist's son yesterday denied stealing his father's car.

Mohammed Hamza Jr., 20, of West Side Road, Sandys Parish, appeared in Magistrates' Court for allegedly stealing his father's car, driving it without insurance, not having a valid driver's licence, and driving in a dangerous manner.

Hamza was released on $500 bail. He will return to court in October for his trial.

TEEN AND PRESS RECEIVE WARNING CTS Teen and press receive warning A Pembroke teenager has been given a stern warning by a magistrate after pleading guilty to theft.

Unemployed Shaki Crockwell, 17, appeared before Magistrate Edward King after Police raided his Happy Valley home and found a pair of Police handcuffs in his dresser.

Crockwell claimed he had found the cuffs lying in the middle of Court Street following a brawl, in which the Police were called in, a few nights earlier.

Crockwell apologised to the court and asked that the magistrate take into consideration the fact that he had already spent two nights in custody and was about to become a father.

But Mr. King said "finders keepers'' was no excuse and that Crockwell had a responsibility to return the property to the Police.

Ordering Crockwell to be bound over for 12 months he said: "If you find something, the law expects you to either try to find the owner or take it to the Police station.'' But Mr. King also advised the press gallery that it would be unfair to reveal Crockwell's name, as it would "label him for life'' when he had not been convicted.

"A few weeks ago I bound over another person in these courts and the press had a field day,'' he said.

"When a man or a woman has been bound over in these courts that person has not been convicted of an offence.

"He has no strike against him. There's nothing to stop the press from printing details of the offence, but the person's name should not be put in print.''