Comments on: Court: Man In “No Position” To Pay Old Fines

By: unus sed sero

unus sed sero — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 17:01:11 +0000

If a money is owed….then a job should be offered within gov. as means to reimberse….. This is an amicable end justfying means……yes?

By: Danny

Danny — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 13:40:11 +0000

Let’s see, Man goes to prison for inability to pay $450 debt.Meanwhile, Caesars Entertainment Group will get to restructure its debt to the tune of $25BILLION…..yes folks, no one will go to jail in this case and yes you read it correct, they get to WRITE OFF $25Billion

Greece gets to restructure its debt (nice word restructure)by $138 Billion. Add Argentina and a whole host of other Nations that get to make poor financial decisions and I’m being generous here, and go on to pay pennies on the dollar.

As I type there are hundreds of corporations in the process of negotiating some form of debt restructure which will see investors et al get short changed by vast sums of money.

But so many of you folks are okay with this fella going to jail because he couldn’t pay off a $450 debt.

Really!!

By: Mike Oxard

Mike Oxard — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 01:14:40 +0000

Why don’t you give him a job?

By: Tired of the judgemental people

Tired of the judgemental people — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:24:46 +0000

Everyone makes mistakes and some take longer to get it right! He accepted his consequences instead of leaning on someone else to pay it for him and to also keep him from having to reimburse someone else. All the negative commenters need to take a look in the mirror as you have all made mistakes as well.

By: blessed

blessed — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 14:53:08 +0000

Sorry typo. Living in a tent

By: blessed

blessed — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 14:52:37 +0000

Yall are crazy. Do you remember him being in the papers for living in a text a couple years ago? They gave him everything….a job,donated money for his kids ,gave him money he brought a new bike and had two places to live rent free. Its some ppl that just cant be helped. HE SCREWED IT ALL UP. Sorry but he is name man he needs to figure it out without ppl feeling sorry n donating to him. He does not appreciate it.

By: stop ASSUMING

stop ASSUMING — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 12:59:42 +0000

Maybe his girl would pay. Why did he opt for prison? It’ll cost the tax payers blah blah blah… In stead of making judgements why don’t all of you donate 10$… that’s all 45 of the critics here and election pages. Judgemental bunch or give him a JOB!

By: Bermuda Son

Bermuda Son — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 10:46:20 +0000

Morning Bermuda
I thought you would not be locked up for non payment of fines??
Didn’t the Government make that statement?

By: Codfish

Codfish — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 01:14:07 +0000

Don’t worry. His mom or one of his “girls” will bail him out. (the Magistrate knows this).

By: Codfish

Codfish — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 01:12:33 +0000

Boy you are funny. You think this loser will comply with a CSO?

By: Codfish

Codfish — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 01:11:32 +0000

Maven you are dopey. If you don’t lock people up, then you should take all fines off the books. Only idiots would pay them if there is no penalty.

By: Observer

Observer — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 00:10:28 +0000

Wouldnt the outcome be the same if he dont pay the fine and dont serve jail time…no one would pay their fines after that.

By: Super

Super — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:30:46 +0000

According to Bermudians Against the Draft community service constitutes forced labour

By: hmmm

hmmm — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:27:30 +0000

So he couldn’t borrow the money from family or a friend ?

I’m sorry but he must have something he owns that he could sell to cover this. Or have a source of income or do work for family and friends to cover the debt.

Someone was prepared to go to jail for $450. Why?

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:17:21 +0000

Instead of paying $450 he goes the the Westgate Spa & costs the taxpayer near $7000 for his room & food, maybe even a medical thrown in there.

Whatever happened to community service? There is plenty of trash that needs picking up out of roadside bushes.

By: Maven

Maven — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:51:22 +0000

Ok so what is the winning objective? Court needs to make money, locking him up only serves the Gov’t to lose revenue also the money is wiped off the books. So dumb ass judge only helping to make things tighter on Bermudians.

By: Sky Pilot

Sky Pilot — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:13:36 +0000

STUPID! absolutely STUPID!
all the magistrate has done is force the Bermudian Taxpayer to fork over a ton of $$’s to keep this man in Prison for a STUPID $450 Fine.

There were many other options open to this magistrate,he could have ordered Community Service for starters which would have benefited Bermudians.

By: Just One

Just One — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:16:29 +0000

Locking people up for fines, yay! I tell you one thing, if people stopped committing traffic offenses, Government would lose a lot of money! Can they even afford for people to do the right thing? Hmmm…