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A working mother with four children spent a day in a Police cell after failing to pay a $200 medical bill.
Tonya Durham, was marched before Magistrate Arthur Hodgson by bailiffs on Tuesday morning.
She then spent the rest of the day behind bars at Ha...
DATE: Mar 02, 1998
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handling of the epidemic that struck down hundreds of guests two weeks ago.
Attorney Arthur Levine, who runs a practice in Boston, Massachusetts, is representing nine guests who are demanding compensation after being hit by the bug.
Mr. Levine is fil...
DATE: Feb 28, 1998
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A hospital boss has publicly defended a decision not to allow a recently qualified gynaecologist to practice her speciality on the Island.
The Hospitals Board refused to grant Dr. Wendy Woods full privileges because she is not yet board certified eve...
DATE: Feb 28, 1998
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morning to discuss the cause of the epidemic that struck down hundreds of guests last week.
It is believed that medical authorities now have final test results which will prove conclusively what caused the outbreak of sickness.
And although both the ...
DATE: Feb 25, 1998
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years in jail after pleading guilty to burglary.
Unemployed construction worker Rick Roydell Simmons, 34, pleaded for another chance to "change the direction of his life'' when he appeared at Supreme Court Two.
But Puisne Judge Vincent Meerabux showe...
DATE: Feb 23, 1998
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A top Magistrate has warned of the dangers of alcohol after a middle aged man collapsed and died following a booze binge.
Speaking at the inquest into the death of Frederick Charles Lodge, 52, of Hamilton, yesterday Magistrate Arthur Hodgson said: "T...
DATE: Feb 20, 1998
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Bermuda's Police Service will have more officers on the beat following yesterday's Budget statement.
The force will be able to civilianise 15 posts -- freeing trained officers to get back on duty.
More than $33 million will be spent on the force, the...
DATE: Feb 19, 1998
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The Island's health service is to get a massive $107 million cash injection in the next 12 months in a bid to make health care available for all.
Acting Health Minister Quinton Edness said the figure -- taking up a 20 percent slice of the Government'...
DATE: Feb 19, 1998
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ERROR RG P4 18.2.1998 In a story in The Royal Gazette last Friday headlined Traffic Wardens Get Stamp of Approval it may have been implied that attorney Mr. Phil Perrinchief condoned the deliberate obstruction of traffic wardens in their duty.
We wi...
DATE: Feb 13, 1998
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The fiasco over thousands of dollars of unpaid parking fines took another twist yesterday when more than 100 offenders were allowed to pay just a part of their fine.
Magistrates' Court was besieged with masses of offenders who had finally been brough...
DATE: Feb 11, 1998
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