"desecrated'' his shrine to God will be sentenced in the Supreme Court next year.

Magistrate Edward King ordered Jubert Thatwood Williams to be remanded into custody until he is sentenced for an incident surrounding the building of a huge stone structure on the Richardson Trust property in Paget.

Williams, who's addresses were variously given as number 1 and 5 Tribe Roads, Paget, and the Richardson Trust property, admitted he deprived Gary Simmons of his liberty, assaulted Mr. Simmons, used threatening words, and trespassing on December 7.

Williams, 41, also faces a trial in April for having an unlicensed, uninsured, and defective truck with illegally tinted windows. The truck also could not be reversed which is against the law.

In an eventful hearing Williams claimed that God told him to build the shrine there and he could not tear it down or allow anyone to "desecrate'' it.

"God didn't inform me not to build on the land,'' Williams told Mr. King. "I needed to know where they went on my shrine. If I move it, I'm not doing what God wanted. It's all got to do with them desecrating my shrine.'' Williams added: "Me being a Rastafarian we don't have any rights in this system. I have apparently built a shrine to my God on his property.'' But Mr. King would not be moved, and told Williams: "You knew that you did not have any rights to that land. And you disobeyed an order of the court.'' Mr. King heard that Williams blocked the exit of a narrow dirt road as Mr.

Simmons, an architect for Barker and Lindberg and his assistant Janel Smith exited in separate cars.

The shrine -- torn down in recent days -- is on the 12 acre Richardson Trust property near the Coral Beach Hotel.

Crown counsel Larry Mussenden said Mr. Simmons and Ms Smith had just finished viewing the site on which condos will be developed.

At 3.30 p.m. Williams blocked the road with his white van and made repeated racist remarks about white people and said he would kill anyone who had walked on his five acre shrine.

Williams later pulled a machete and forced Mr. Simmons deeper into the Trust property to the "shrine'' where he demanded to know where the pair had walked.

Mr. Mussenden said Mr. Simmons was kept at machete point for about 30 minutes until a gardener from nearby property convinced Williams to let him go.

Williams was arrested on December 22 and later told Police that he did not like whites "because they had interfered with his life in the past''.

Mr. Mussenden added Williams was given a nine month sentence which was suspended for two years in November 1997 and has numerous similar offences.

"It is the right of people who rightfully own property to develop the land as they wish,'' Mr. Mussenden said. "This defendant needs to be deterred. He is a timebomb waiting to go off.'' Mr. Mussenden added: "He has taken no heed to your obvious direction last year that he stop.'' While Williams pleaded "not guilty with an explanation'' to the trespassing and assault charges, he refused to plead to the eight charges involving his van.

"That's stupid. I don't plead. It's just some made up crap,'' Williams said.

"That's how I plead, seen? By laughing, but no disrespect, man. I never drove it on the road, just on my shrine.'' Mr. King entered not guilty pleas and ordered Williams to return for trial on April 30.