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Refusing to take a breath test has earned a motorcyclist a one-year road ban and an $800 fine. Cindy Clarke, the prosecutor, told magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo that police officers were on speed-check duty in Warwick when Yusuf Johnston stopped his moto...

Police will be out in force in Pembroke, Devonshire and Paget on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Police announced the checkpoints in an Official Gazette notice last Friday.

A man who admitted he had been drinking whisky all day insisted to police he was not drunk, a court heard yesterday. Kevin Morgan, 37, pleaded guilty to refusing to take a breath test after he was pulled over by police. Officers had spotted Morgan’s ...

Thirteen drink-drivers were caught on the second weekend of roadside breath tests, police announced yesterday. As well as taking impaired drivers off the streets, officers caught a motorcyclist with drugs and a machete. The rider failed to stop for...

A woman was banned from driving for a year and fined $800 after she refused to take a breath test. Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday that police went to the scene of an early hours single vehicle crash in Devonshire. Officers found that a car driven...

A man who almost collided with a police car while over the drink-driving limit was fined and banned from the roads for 18 months yesterday. Nedio Medeiros, 39, was arrested in the early hours of yesterday on Trimingham Hill in Paget. The court heard ...

A drink-driver who seriously injured two of his passengers in a crash has been fined banned from the roads for three years. Jachael Gibson, 25, from Warwick, admitted two counts of causing grievous bodily harm by driving while over the legal alcohol ...

Several hundred drivers were stopped over the weekend after police set up their first roadside breath test checkpoints. Officers stopped and spoke to about 200 road users between Saturday night and the early hours of yesterday alone. Hundreds more w...

A bartender was banned from the roads for 18 months yesterday after he was caught drink -driving. Suleyman Bashir, 30, admitted being nearly three times over the legal alcohol limit when his car was pulled over by police on suspicion of speeding. Mag...

Roadside breath test checkpoints could be operational inside a week, the Commissioner of Police has revealed. “We have made applications for three checkpoint locations that we want to work in, so, while there is a delay, I don’t see it as being anyt...

Random roadside breath test checkpoints have been delayed because handheld breathalysers have still to arrive on the island it has been revealed. Legislation to set up the checkpoints was approved more than four weeks ago, but the measure designed t...

Legislation to designate an official handheld breathalyser for roadside checkpoints has been approved by the House of Assembly. Walter Roban, the transport minister, said that the change was needed to get legal approval for the use of handheld breath...