A MINIBUS driver recently charged with causing death by dangerous driving was on Monday remanded to prison by Magistrate Ann McLennan. 

Thirty-eight-year-old Fiztroy Alder of Lot 30 East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was not required to plead to the charge which was laid indictably. Particulars of the charge said that on Friday, July 17,2015 at D’Urban Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, he drove motor vehicle BTT 3835 in a manner dangerous to the public, thereby causing the death of 60-year-old pedestrian, Romel Juner.
According to Police Prosecutor Deniro Jones, the driver does not deserve bail due to the rate at which he was driving on the day in question.

He related to the court that Alder, when he reached the intersection at Lime and D’Urban Streets, was unable to swerve away and collided with the deceased who was crossing the road.

The prosecutor said the deceased was pitched several feet away from the point of impact, and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Consequently, Alder was refused bail, and the matter was adjourned to Monday, August 10, 2015.