alleged drug offences appeared in Magistrates' Court yesterday.

Jamal Lovell, 21, of Fruitland Lane, Pembroke admitted importing 54 grams of cannabis.

But Lovell denied charges of intending to supply the drug.

"I could smoke that amount by myself in a week,'' Lovell told Senior Magistrate Will Francis.

The court heard that Police found two packages of drugs taped to Lovell's socks when he returned to Bermuda from Jamaica on a chartered with the regiment on March 31.

The court also heard that it was Lovell's first offence.

Duty counsel Juliana Jack asked for a social inquiry report to be carried out in light of Lovell's age, previous clean record, and his guilty plea to the importing charge.

Ms Jack suggested that Mr. Francis should instead give Lovell a "short, sharp, shock, to teach him a lesson''.

Mr. Francis originally disagreed.

But he later reluctantly ordered the social inquiry report.

He also ordered that Lovell be remanded in custody until August 21 when he was scheduled to return to court for sentencing.

PROMOTER TO BE SENTENCED ON JULY 26 CTS Promoter to be sentenced on July 26 A concert promoter whose summer music festival landed him in Magistrates' Court will be sentenced on July 26.

Andrew Phillips, 33, of Fort Hill Devonshire, is president of Dred & Baha Productions which put on a series of concerts featuring a pro-Independence message at Spanish Point last August.

He was convicted of causing an annoying noise before and after midnight and breaching the Liquor Licence Act.

Phillips was due to be sentenced last week but he failed to appear and was subsequently arrested and brought before the court yesterday.

When asked why he had failed to appear at his scheduled sentencing on June 5, Phillips said he forgot the date.

After listening to his lawyer Patricia Harvey, Senior Magistrate Will Francis agreed to adjourn the proceedings and he set sentencing for July 26.

Phillips was released on $2,000 bail.

REPEAT OFFENDER MAY GO OVERSEAS CTS Repeat offender may go overseas Efforts are underway to have a repeat offender sent overseas for rehabilitation.

Senior Magistrate Will Francis yesterday postponed for the second time the sentencing of former football player Winslow (Scaley) Williams who committed a slew of break-ins three days after he was released from prison in March.

Williams, 29, of East Shore Road, Sandys, in March pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to three charges of breaking and entering residences in Sandys Parish.

He also asked for 13 similar offences, committed over the same period, to be taken into consideration.

Williams, who committed the offences after completing on March 13 a sentence for previous charges of breaking and entering, told Police he had been under the influence of alcohol and illegal drugs at the time of the most recent offences.

His lawyer Mark Pettingill said "something was not right'' with Williams and requested that a psychiatric report be prepared on him.

But when Williams appeared in court on April 5 for sentencing, Mr. Pettingill was unable to attend due to his involvement in another matter in the Supreme Court.

Sentencing was also postponed later that month because Mr. Pettingill informed the court that efforts were underway to have Williams admitted to a rehabilitation centre in the United States.

And yesterday Mr. Pettingill said he was still trying to achieve that.

Mr. Francis therefore delayed sentencing, saying: "This is not a Bermuda thing at this stage, one must proceed gently.

"We have no authority to force the proceedings in the United States. It takes time. It may be tedious, but we have already set the ball in motion and done as much as we can here.'' He ordered that Williams be remanded in custody until August 14 when details on his rehabilitation were expected to be confirmed.

GUILTY PLEA TO DISQUALIFIED DRIVING CTS Guilty plea to disqualified driving Driving while disqualified landed a Warwick youth in Magistrates' Court this week where he was fined $300 and banned from driving all motor vehicles for a year.

Rui Camara, 17, of Rocklands Estate, pleaded guilty to the offence which occurred on June 29.

Police prosecutor Sgt. Anthony Mouchette said Camara and another teen were stopped by Police at the junction of Warwick Lane and Spice Hill Road.

The officers noticed that the teens were acting suspiciously and they followed Camara down Warwick Lane.

Sgt. Mouchette said Camara was stopped near Astwood Park and the officers discovered he had been taken off the road in December 1, 1994 for two years.

Senior Magistrate Will Francis banned Camara from driving all motor vehicles for 12 months, five of which were to run concurrently with his earlier disqualification period.

MAN THREATENED HIS MOTHER, SISTER CTS Man threatened his mother, sister Threats of burning his mother's house and sister's car landed a 36-year-old man in Magistrates' Court this week.

Stephen Raynor, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to using threatening behaviour on July 4.

Police prosecutor Sgt. Anthony Mouchette said Raynor (not the well-known photographer) became angry with his sister while talking to her in the car park of Lightbourne's Variety Store at Middle Road, Southampton, and threatened to damage her car.

Later on Raynor went to his mother and sister's residence where he had been sleeping rough in a store room without permission.

Sgt. Mouchette said Raynor began shouting at his mother when he saw that some of his personal things had been thrown out.

Raynor threatened to damage the car and blow up the building, he added.

When the Police arrived Raynor said: "I want to see the judge.'' Yesterday, Raynor told Acting Magistrate Kim White he made the disturbance because he wanted the Police to come.

He said he wanted to go to court because he wanted better representation.

Mr. White ordered a social inquiry report and a psychiatric report for Raynor and remanded him in custody until July 26 when the reports were expected to be completed.

DISQUALIFIED FOR DRIVING WHILE DRUNK CTS Disqualified for driving while drunk Driving with more than twice the legal limit of alcohol in his blood cost a 22-year-old Paget man $400 this week and a year off the road.

Simon Firth, of Harbour Road, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to driving while impaired.

Police prosecutor Sgt. Anthony Mouchette said Firth was driving an auxiliary cycle along Harbour Road on March 31 in front of a Police car.

The officers noticed Firth swaying and occasionally crossing the line.

Sgt. Mouchette said when he was stopped, Firth told the officers he had had about five beers.

Subsequent tests showed that Firth had 175 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.