LAWRENCE Fanfare (no address given) was fined $3,000 and ordered to do six months community service for having one gramme of cannabis (marijuana) in his possession.
Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, before whom he pleaded guilty to the offence, was told it was committed on November 30.

Attorney-at-law, Mr. James Bond, who appeared for the defendant, told the court that the latter was not actually smoking the prohibited substance but was in company of other persons who were doing so.
The lawyer said Fanfare accepted the charge against him and asked to do the community service not at the regular police compounds.
Consequently, the court instructed that the work must be done at the Palms, on Brickdam, in Georgetown.