Taxi driver fined $10,000 for overload

Taxi driver Visholall Basin was fined $10,000 by Magistrate Dylon Bess after appearing before the Wales Magistrate on a charge of overloading taxi HC 504 on June 13, 2018 at the Wales Public Road, West Bank Demerara (WBD).
Basin explained that he was carting two extra passengers, but the Police have said they caught the accused breaking the law.
In a plea for leniency, the 34-year-old Goed Fortuin, WBD resident told the magistrate that he has had no prior brushes with the law.
In determining Basin’s sentence, the magistrate considered that he did not waste the court’s time, but pleaded guilty to the charge when it was read to him.