Three men appeared in Magistrates? Court for drinking and driving offences and were each fined $800 and disqualified from all vehicles for twelve months.

Jose Arruda of Rockywold Drive, Sandys, appeared in court and admitted to driving while under the influence of alcohol on June 21 at 3.30 a.m.

Arruda, 33, was seen by Police travelling dangerously close to the edge of the road ? almost crashing into the wall ? and was zigzagging through the centre line.

Police stopped Arruda and asked him if he had been drinking and he replied: ?Yes, I just left Robin Hood.?

Officers also noticed that his eyes were glazed, he was unsteady on his feet and was slurring his speech.

Arruda agreed to take the breathalyser test, which revealed that he was driving over twice the legal limit ? the lower reading was 191 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80.

Eighteen-year-old, Ryan Noel North, of Mission Drive, Paget, admitted he had been drinking and driving on August 2 while on South Road in Paget.

The court heard that North was spotted getting off his motorbike at 1.20 a.m. to lie down in the middle of the road. Police who were on patrol in the area asked the young man if he was sick and he replied: ?No. I am just being a dumb teenager.?

North agreed to a breathalyser test and the lower reading was 160 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.

Armindo Daponte, 41, of Mariners Lane, Pembroke, admitted to the court he had been driving while impaired on July 30.

Daponte had been spotted by Police at 2.40 p.m. riding his motorbike in Pembroke heading in a south-western direction and they stopped him on the ?manner of his driving?.

Police then noticed that he was unsteady on his feet and smelt strongly of alcohol.

Daponte, who replied ?no speak English,? got his nephew, the passenger on the bike, to tell officers he had drunk two beers that afternoon.

He agreed to a breathalyser test and the lower reading showed that he had 104 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.

Daponte appeared in court with a translator and apologised to the court and Senior Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo for the offence.