A man who admitted to driving while impaired was banned from the Island's roads when he appeared in Magistrates' Court.

Graham Hollis, 27, of Harlem Height's Road, in Hamilton Parish, admitted to the offence which took place on August 30 on Victoria Street, in Pembroke.

At 2.50 a.m. a marked Police vehicle stopped Hollis on his cycle in relation to another matter.

They noticed his eyes were bloodshot, he was unable to stand on his own and had the strong smell of alcohol on his breath. Hollis was cautioned and taken to Hamilton Police Station where a breathalyser test revealed he had 171 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood in his system. The legal limit is 80 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner fined him $1,000, ten demerit points and disqualified him from driving all vehicles for one year.

Delroy Williams was given the same sentence in Magistrates' Court after he refused to take a breathalyser test. The court heard that Williams, 50, of Farmstead Lane, in Sandys, was seen by Police on patrol on Point Finger Road, in Paget, on August 31.

Police watched him almost collide with the wall of a roundabout, then increase speed and go swerving from the west bound lane into the eastbound one at the junction with Pomander Road, in Paget. Williams denied that he was drunk, yet when he was taken to Hamilton Police Station to be given a breathalyser he failed to produce a reading.

The court heard, that Williams placed the nozzle into his mouth and refused to blow on two occasions. In Magistrates' Court on Friday Williams said: "I did blow in the machine. The Police Officer say I must blow harder.

"I say I cannot blow harder. I have nothing else to say, I didn't refuse them."