Paying rent with gold! For more than 180 years it has cost just one peppercorn a year, but now the rent is about to rise, sharply. Next month the Lodge St.
payment will be supplemented by an 18-carat gold peppercorn. ---- Page 2 A CENTRE FOR EXECUTIVES FLY A centre for executives A new centre for executive jet passengers and crew should be up-and-running at Bermuda's Airport later this year. Transport Minister Wayne Furbert announced that Bermuda Aviation Services had won the contract to build the new centre next to Kindley Field Road. ---- Page 2 PRISON SENTENCE REDUCED CTS Prison sentence reduced A 34-year-old man's ten year jail term for stabbing a man to death was trimmed to seven years yesterday by the Court of Appeal.
Gregory Howard Dill was found guilty in December of manslaughter -- stabbing David Bruce Riley to death during an argument -- after being cleared of murder. ---- Page 3 WELLMAN HAS MISERABLE NIGHT ATH Wellman has miserable night Bermuda's defending champion Brian Wellman last night failed miserably in an attempt to repeat his 1995 triple jump success at the World Indoor Track and Field Championships. Gold medallist two years ago at Barcelona with a leap of 17.72 metres, Wellman yesterday finished second from last among the 26 jumpers attempting to qualify for tomorrow's final. Only Portugal's Carlos Calada, who failed to register a valid jump, placed behind him. ---- Sport, Page 13
