A gov­ern­ment min­is­ter yes­ter­day morn­ing was ad­min­is­tered a breathal­yser test by po­lice af­ter leav­ing a pop­u­lar Port-of-Spain night­club. A re­port stat­ed that around 4.57 am, PC Oma­dath, WPC Bap­tiste and Sgt John were on pa­trol and had cause to stop a Toy­ota Pra­do at the cor­ner of Keate and Fred­er­ick streets. Po­lice said the of­fi­cers ob­served the oc­cu­pant leav­ing the club and al­leged­ly saw the sus­pect with a bot­tle con­tain­ing a brown liq­uid in his hand.

When the of­fi­cers checked, three oth­er oc­cu­pants were in the ve­hi­cle, in­clud­ing the sus­pect. Po­lice said they asked the sus­pect to take a breathal­yser test and he asked to speak with his at­tor­ney. He was then tak­en to the Bel­mont Po­lice Sta­tion where he was asked again to take the test and told of "the smell of his breath." Of­fi­cers on du­ty at the sta­tion then con­tact­ed act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Stephen Williams who came to the sta­tion.

Po­lice said the sus­pect was lat­er ad­min­is­tered the test by WPC Daniel, a breathal­yser tech­ni­cian but the read­ing ob­tained was un­der the le­gal lim­it. In­ves­ti­ga­tors said a file on the in­ci­dent will be sub­mit­ted to the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions for fur­ther in­struc­tions. Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Williams yes­ter­day con­firmed that an in­ci­dent oc­curred and an in­ves­ti­ga­tion was con­tin­u­ing.