damaging Prisons Commissioner Edward Dyer's car.

Senior Magistrate Will Francis last week added the sentence to a prison term Dion Burgess is already serving.

Crown counsel Leighton Rochester told Mr. Francis that the 33-year-old did not have a job to pay the fine.

Burgess pleaded guilty to scratching the Commissioner's grey Nissan Sentra car.

Mr. Francis heard that Mr. Dyer was on Victoria Street waiting for the driveway to St. Paul AME Church's Centennial Hall to be cleared around 6.15 p.m. on June 29.

Mr. Rochester said Burgess approached the car and began shouting abuse, but Mr. Dyer ignored him.

As Mr. Dyer drove into the driveway, the court heard, Burgess closed a metal gate onto the front of the car and walked away.

Mr. Dyer finished his errand and when he drove onto Victoria Street, he photographed Burgess and later complained to Police.

Burgess, of Khyber Pass, was arrested that night on Dundonald Street when Dyer identified him while out with a Police patrol.

When told he would be arrested, Burgess told Police: "Do what you want, man.'' Mr. Rochester told Mr. Francis that Burgess' record runs 19 pages and totalled 90 convictions with "quite a few'' of a similar nature.

When asked if he had anything to say, Burgess told Mr. Francis he was "truly sorry'', but would not say why he damaged the car.

But Mr. Francis pressed him further saying: "You don't want to say what caused you to do this and what caused these ill feelings toward this gentleman?'' Burgess made no reply.

Mr. Francis fined Burgess $600 with $414.55 to be paid in compensation.

But after hearing that Burgess was unemployed and imprisoned on another conviction, he changed the payment date from January 1999 to immediately.

He added: "I don't want this to go on long. It will probably be January 2000 before we find out this has not been paid.'' When contacted last week Mr. Dyer confirmed that he was the driver of the car and said Burgess would be treated like any other prisoner.

UPDATE TO PROBATION REPORT ORDERED CTS Update to probation report ordered Senior Magistrate Will Francis last week ordered an update to a probation report on a Southampton teen accused of stealing a livery cycle.

Jevon Reid Daniels pleaded guilty to stealing a $1,500 bicycle from outside the Perot Post Office on Queen Street sometime on August 29 or 30.

Crown counsel Leighton Rochester said Police watched Daniels as he parked the cycle at the junction of Tee Street and South Shore Road in Devonshire on August 31.

Daniels, 17, of Rose Hill Road, ran off when he was approached by Police.

He was caught after a long foot chase by several officers.

Daniels was later interviewed by Police and said: "I needed the transportation to get to the Soca concert.'' He also said: "I want to say I'm sorry to Oleander (Cycles), the tourists, Police, and my family who I know just want to help me.'' Duty counsel Elizabeth Christopher told Mr. Francis that Daniels would be attending a CARE computer school this week and was preparing to take the General Education Diploma.

Mr. Francis ordered Daniels to return for sentencing on September 30 when he will review an update on the probation report.

MAN BANNED FROM DRIVING, FINED CTS Man banned from driving, fined A Southampton man walked up to Police and told them he was drunk and did not know what caused a road traffic accident, a Magistrate heard last week.

Berwin Elwood Lee, 21, of Middle Road, pleaded guilty to driving while impaired.

Senior Magistrate Will Francis heard that Police went to Spice Hill Road, Southampton, to find a motorcycle and pedal cycle which had been in a collision at 4.15 a.m. on August 23.

Crown counsel Leighton Rochester said Lee approached them and said he was the rider of the motorcycle and that he was "drunk''.

Police noted Lee was unsteady on his feet and his breath smelled strongly of alcohol.

When formally asked if he had been drinking and whether he would submit to a breath test, Lee replied: "Yes, I've been drinking. Take me downtown.'' Lee failed the alco-analyser test. Some 190 milligrams of alcohol were found in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

Lee had nothing to say before Mr. Francis sentenced him.

He was fined $500 and banned from driving all motor vehicles for one year.