concurrent to an 18-month sentence he is currently serving.

Meanwhile, a Hamilton Parish man who had cannabis was fined $750 or ordered to serve 70 days in prison in default.

Roger Eugene Lightbourne pleaded guilty yesterday to possessing cocaine at 11 a.m. on November 18 last year.

Senior Magistrate Will Francis heard that Lightbourne, 31, of St. John's Road, was taken into custody by Police on another matter that day and searched at Hamilton Police Station.

Crown counsel Larry Mussenden said Lightbourne was searched in the jail area where a pack of cigarettes holding a paper twist with a "whitish rock like substance'' was found.

Police also found nine large brown paper twists containing a whitish rock like substance. He told officers: "It's only candle wax.'' Mr. Mussenden said the Government analyst found the result of tests on what was in the nine twists gave a "negative result of cocaine''.

The single twist in the pack of cigarettes had .02 grams of cocaine in crack form.

Mr. Francis ordered Lightbourne to pay a $200 fine or serve 14 days in prison.

"Since I'm already doing time, can I get it concurrent to the time I'm doing?'' Lightbourne asked.

Mr. Francis agreed, and explained the fine had to be paid by 5 p.m. on Friday or it would be automatically turned into a prison sentence.

Following Lightbourne's case, Hubert Jamel Douglas, 24, of My Lord's Bay, Hamilton Parish, admitted he had 6.44 grams of cannabis on May 10.

Mr. Mussenden said Douglas told Police "that's not mine'' when he was shown an object under a car at Clearwater Beach, St. George's.

Police had gone to the beach after receiving reports of drug sales.

Douglas, who is in prison until December on another matter, promised to have the fine paid by the end of November.