figures show.

The annual rate of inflation in September was 2.

1 percent, compared to 2.4 percent in August.

The monthly change was 0.4 percent, as the consumer price index rose from 143 in August to 143.5 in September.

The most significant rise was in the education and recreation sector, where prices went up by 3.1 percent. This was due mainly to a hike in school tuition fees in Bermuda and abroad.

The transport and vehicles sector saw a 0.4 percent rise as a result of increased car and bike prices.

The health and personal care sector showed a 0.5 percent rise, reflecting dearer cosmetics and personal care items.

Prices in the fuel and power sector were down 1.8 percent, thanks to the fuel adjustment clause and a drop in the price of cooking gas.

Food prices fell marginally, by about 0.1 percent. Clothing and footwear prices went up by 0.2 percent and rent by 0.1 percent.

FINE FOR WAITER CTS A former Southampton Princess waiter was fined $100 for urinating in the parking lot in front of the Oasis nightclub when he appeared in Magistrates' Court this week.

Werner Sagfriedmuller, 24, who returns to Austria this month, pleaded guilty to offensive behaviour in the early hours of October 31.

Plainclothes Policemen saw Sagfriedmuller in the parking lot unrinating in the bushes, facing the main sidewalk. When they approached and told him he had committed an offence, he shouted "so what'', and called his friends who became abusive.

Sagfriedmuller refused to get into the unmarked Police car, demanding identification from Police who had to call for assistance when his friends began to gather.

When back-up arrived Sagfriedmuller still refused to get in the car saying he would walk to Hamilton Police Station. He was then arrested.

In court, Sagfriedmuller was apologetic saying that his friends were only trying to help him because they spoke better English than he did.

But acting Senior Magistrate the Wor. John Judge was unimpressed with his behaviour and fined him $100. "If you were at home and you did that you know you would get yourself arrested,'' he said.

FERRY ACCIDENT AC A woman was injured on Saturday when she slipped and fell on a Government ferry dock.

The elderly woman suffered a leg injury and was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital by ambulance, a Harbour Radio spokesman said yesterday.

She slipped on the Belmont Ferry Dock at about 10 a.m. The unidentified woman, believed to be American, had either just disembarked from or was about to board the Government ferry Corolita .

ADDICT STOLE CASH CTS A self-confessed heroin addict who stole $100 has been put on probation for 12 months on the condition that he attends a drug addiction programme.

Jeffrey Lindo, 40, of Rose Hill, Southampton, had been remanded in custody for three weeks in Casemates after admitting stealing the money on October 11 from Roland White.

Lawyer Mr. Tim Marshall told the court his client had used that time in prison to think, and is now committed to dealing with his addiction if given the opportunity.

WAR PORTRAITS ART Governor Lord Waddington on Saturday opened a exhibition of wartime portraits by artist Mr. Sam Morse-Brown at Cathedral Hall on Church Street.

The exhibition, entitled "Let Us Remember Them'', features World War Two portraits by the renowned artist who served as an adjutant with the British Army and saw action in North Africa, the Mediterranean and Italy where he drew "those who went to war, those who led their troops into battle and those were brought to entertain the troops''.

The exhibition runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily through to Remembrance Day.