Man fined $100K for breaching Jamaica’s curfew
A
thirty-three-year-old Manchester man was fined $100,000 after he appeared in
the court on Wednesday (June 10) for breaching the curfew orders.
Reports are that Kemar Morgan, a farmer
of Pillar district in Manchester, was instructed to go home after he was caught
flouting curfew orders on May 24.
Morgan is said to have disobeyed the
policeman’s instructions, refusing to go home, which resulted in him being
interviewed and searched by the police.
During the interview, Morgan gave
inconsistent reasons for being on the road during the curfew hours; a knife was
also removed from his pocket.
He
was subsequently arrested and charged for Breaches of the Disaster Risk
Management Act and being armed with an offensive weapon for which he was fined
$2,000 his appearance
before the court.
