A woman was yesterday fined $10,000 for breaching the national curfew.
However, Althea Agard was only fined the minimum amount after she told a city court that she was arrested as she was leaving the Sleepin Hotel, where she had gone to help a sick relative.
Agard was fined by Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus after she admitted to breaching the national curfew. It is alleged that on April 2, at Sleepin Hotel, located at 208 Church Street, she breached the 10.30 pm to 4 am curfew.
At a previous hearing Agard pleaded guilty to the charge but the matter was adjourned until yesterday. Several other persons were also charged with the same offence but they denied the charge and are going to trial. Agard confessed to the court that she breached the curfew but she explained that because of some commotion at the hotel on the night in question, her
relative called her to the hotel and she assisted with having the relative relocated to a different place. She said that she was about to enter a taxi when the police approached her and told her of the allegation.
Agard also told the court that it was her first time being charged, which led the magistrate to impose the minimum punishment for the offence. The maximum fine that can be imposed for the offence is $15,350.
