to keep his driver's licence despite admitting riding an uninsured auxiliary cycle with more than the legal amount of alcohol in his blood.

In Magistrates' Court, Jessie DeCouto, 18, of Grape Bay Drive, Paget, admitted driving with more than 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, riding without protective headgear, and riding an uninsured and unlicensed auxiliary cycle on July 30.

Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis allowed DeCouto, a sailing teacher, to keep his licence for cars and motorcycles after the teenager said he had to run errands on his job.

Police prosecutor Sgt. Anthony Mouchette said Police were on patrol on Par-La-Ville Road in Hamilton around 1 a.m. when they saw DeCouto riding an auxiliary cycle without a helmet.

They also noticed that DeCouto was driving at excessive speeds and was unsteady.

When DeCouto stopped outside of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club the officers asked him why he did not have on a helmet.

Sgt. Mouchette said DeCouto told them he left it at the yacht club and had come from The Robin Hood pub to get it.

The officers noticed that his breath smelled of intoxicants and when they asked DeCouto if he had had any alcohol, he told them he had "two dark and stormies''.

A subsequent test at Hamilton Police Station showed DeCouto had 138 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

Mr. Francis ordered DeCouto to pay a $180 fine for riding an uninsured cycle, and $250 for driving with more than the legal limit of alcohol in his blood.

Mr. Francis also disqualified DeCouto from riding auxiliary cycles for 18 months. But he allowed him to keep his licence for motorcycles and cars so that he could keep his sailing instructor's job, which DeCouto said called for running errands.

DeCouto had already paid the fines for riding without protective headgear and riding an unlicensed auxiliary cycle.