rebuilding process'', Opposition Leader Pamela Gordon revealed yesterday.

She said the card replacement was a practical matter of durability, but it was also a move to get the UBP back into people's minds.

Ms Gordon said the UBP was part of the democratic process and the Progressive Labour Party did not win 100 percent of the election, so those remaining should have a voice.

"We intend to reform the government,'' she said.

The old paper membership cards are being replaced with plastic cards that include useful information such as membership numbers.

"The others (old cards) were easy to lose or destroy,'' said Ms Gordon. She said the mailing was an "ongoing process'' and it's being done in sections, "a parish at a time sort of thing''.

Ms Gordon said the UBP hopes to complete the mailing by August.

WOMAN FINED $5,000 CTS Woman fined $5,000 Acting Senior Magistrate Edward King told a woman, she was "playing with other people's lives'' when she drove without third party insurance -- twice.

Crystal Darrell, 41, accumulated $5,000 worth of fines after admitting to driving an unlicensed and uninsured car on March 29 and April 20 last year.

She said the second time she was stopped, she was on her way to get the car licensed and insured.

Mr. King said: "If you knock somebody down when you go to be insured, what are you supposed to do? "This was a month later,'' he said, speaking about the second set of charges, "and you're still driving the car.

"You are playing with other people's lives when you drive your car and do not insure it.'' Darrell, of Warwick, was fined $750 for each of the two unlicensed car charges, $1,000 for driving without insurance and $2,500 for a second charge of driving without insurance.

Mr. King said: "This is exactly what the law is intended to stamp out.'' DISQUALIFIED RIDER FINED CTS Disqualified rider fined Acting Senior Magistrate Edward King called a young Bermuda Regiment corporal "irresponsible'' yesterday in Magistrates' Court.

Twenty-year-old corporal, Michael Jevon Ray, pleaded guilty to making false statements, driving while disqualified and riding an unlicensed bike on February 21, 2001.

Lawyer Larry Mussenden spoke with the flustered young corporal who was having difficulty explaining himself in Magistrates' Court.

Ray, of Southampton, said he borrowed the bike from a friend to get a message to a corporal at Warwick Camp.

"I didn't know that the bike wasn't licensed,'' he said.

Ray was fined $500 for making false statements, $500 for driving while disqualified and $250 for riding an unlicensed bike.

CURSES COST MAN $500 CTS Curses cost man $500 A stonemason was fined $500 yesterday in Magistrates' Court after he got drunk and cursed Police last month.

Winston Fubler, 50, of Pembroke, was warned twice by Police to stop cursing in public when he came across the scene of a young man being arrested on March 30.

Around 7.35 p.m., he walked onto the scene and asked Police: "Why the f*** does he have them on?'' pointing to the handcuffs on the youth.

Fubler was warned by Police about cursing, but made several other offensive remarks before he was arrested and put in the same transport as the youth.

Fubler pleaded guilty to cursing in a public place and told acting Senior Magistrate Edward King: "I apologised to the officer. I had been drinking, I was intoxicated. I've never been convicted of anything. This is really out of character for me.''