Beenie Man fined $150,000 for a DRMA violation
Dancehall entertainer Moses Davis, more popularly known as Beenie Man, has been fined $150,000 for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act.
The ‘Sim Simma’ deejay was slapped with the two charges connected with an event in Shrewsbury district in St Elizabeth on November 29.
The Black River police turned up at the event and dispersed the crowd, and Beenie was warned for prosecution.
In December, the 47-year-old artiste’s promotion of a New Year’s Eve party further earned the ire of the police in St Elizabeth. He was summoned to a police station there on January 1 and charged with breaching DRMA protocols with the staging of the November 29 party.
An additional charge of breaching the Noise Abatement Act was thrown out during the deejay's last court appearance.
The fine was imposed when he appeared in the St Elizabeth Parish Court today.
Beenie Man had pleaded guilty last month.
In April, he pleaded not guilty to breaching the Noise Abatement Act, and that offence was dismissed.
Davis’ attorney, Roderick Gordon, pleaded with the presiding magistrate, Justice Horace Mitchell, to show leniency to the entertainer based on the charges' circumstances.
According to Gordon, no performances were taking place when the police visited Shrewsbury district in St Elizabeth, where the breach committed was last November.
"Beenie Man was fined $150,000, and the maximum fine at the time the offence committed was $250,000, so we can live with that," attorney-at-law Roderick Gordon told Loop News.
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