Three people were yesterday charged with Covid-19 curfew breaches.

Tyven Hayward-Fletcher, 40, was fined $1,500 after he admitted breaching the earlier midnight to 5am curfew.

But Hayward-Fletcher told Magistrates’ Court during the virtual session that he did not know there was a curfew in place at the time of the offence.

He explained that he left his Pembroke home on January 10 to buy some food – but found all the shops were closed.

Hayward-Fletcher, who admitted the offence, added that he did not learn of the curfew until police stopped him at the corner of Court Street and Burnaby Street in Hamilton at around 1.45am.

Kyra John, 20, pleaded guilty to a breach of last year’s 11pm to 5am curfew.

The court heard that officers stopped her on her motorcycle as on South Road in Paget just before 1am.

Elizabeth Christopher, for the defence, said her client was out because she was forced to leave her boyfriend’s house and had no choice but to return home.

She asked that John, from Hamilton Parish, should be given community service instead a fine because she is a university student.

Ms Christopher added that Covid-19 regulations were not designed to punish those “who tried to follow the spirit of the law but had no choice but to go home” during curfew.

Mr Tokunbo ordered a social inquiry on John to determine whether or not she was suitable for community service.

He released her on $3,000 bail and adjourned the case until June 16.

Ronald Simmons, 38, pleaded not guilty to a breach of the previous 11pm to 5am curfew.

The incident is alleged to have happened on March 30 in Paget.

Mr Tokunbo released Mr Simmons, from Sandys, on $3,000 bail and adjourned the case until May 10.

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