A 20-year-old charged with seriously wounding his brother has been put on $5,000 bail and ordered to return to Magistrates Court at the end of this month.

Kyle Daniel Smith, of Loyalty Estate, Sandys, is accused of unlawful wounding and causing grievous bodily harm to Kyhon Andrew Smith last Sunday. He was not asked to enter a plea, but must report to Hamilton Police station every Monday and reappear at the court on October 25.

A Pacific Ocean islander working on a cruise ship that visited Bermuda this week has been accused of importing cannabis and heroin worth almost $250,000 to the Island.

Teteeta Iereria, 26, who hails from the islands of the Republic of Kiribati, near Fiji, did not enter a plea when she appeared at Magistrates? Court charged with importing cannabis and heroin with intent to supply.

The alleged offences are said to have happened in Sandys on October 6.

Iereria was represented by lawyer Elizabeth Christopher, who did not apply for bail for her client.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner remanded Iereria into custody until October 24 when she must reappear at the court.

A Devonshire man has denied breaking into a school and stealing drinks.

Kevin Glen Howard, 38, pleaded not guilty to the burglary when he appeared at Magistrates Court on Monday. He is alleged to have broken into Prospect Preschool, taking 23 cans of juice, on September 24.

Howard, of Boundary Crescent, also denied taking a Honda Scoopy motorcycle without the consent of the owner in Devonshire on September 21.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner adjourned the case until October 16 and remanded Howard in custody.

A banker has been fined $2,000 for being in possession of a small amount of cocaine as he came through the Customs Hall at the Bermuda International Airport.

Charles Lister Smith pleaded guilty to importing 0.03 grams of the drug to the Island after being stopped by Customs officers when he disembarked from a New York flight last Saturday afternoon.

The 27-year-old aroused the attention of a sniffer dog at the arrivals section of the Airport and a subsequent search of his trouser pockets revealed three small zip bags that contained a white powder.

Smith told the Customs officials he had used coke a few days ago and, when asked what the white powder was, said it looked like coke, Crown counsel Wayne Caines told Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner.

Representing the New Yorker, lawyer Nadia Hamza said: It was an incredibly small amount of a controlled substance and my client is incredibly sorry. He has never done this before and never been in trouble with the law before.

A Regiment soldier who has repeatedly failed to turn up for service without permission has been fined $600 and given a six-month suspended prison sentence yesterday.

Pte. Gaerich Rudolph Kipps, 24, of Mount Pleasant Road, Sandys, pleaded guilty to being away without leave from Regimental service on eight occasions between April and June this year.

At Magistrates Court, Crown counsel Cindy Clarke said Kipps had been a soldier with the Regiment since 2002, but failed to show up for duty at various times in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Most recently he had been docked one-week s pay for being missing without permission.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner asked Kipps if he had anything to say, to which he replied: No. I m almost finished (my service time) now.

Kipps has five more months to serve in the Regiment. Mr. Warner imposed the $600 fine and a six-month jail term, suspended for 12 months.