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The Human Rights Commission yesterday celebrated its twentieth anniversary.
The Human Rights Act, struck in 1981, recognises human rights as set out in the Constitution, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Huma...
DATE: Dec 11, 2001
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A young retailer decided to change her world in the early 1990s, and was consequently admitted to the Bermuda Bar yesterday by Chief Justice Austin Ward.
Sasha Castle, 28, gave a tearful testimony to her struggle and quest to become a lawyer. She pai...
DATE: Dec 10, 2001
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Several young draft dodgers have been tracked down during the Bermuda Regiment's extensive manhunt but more than 800 young men who shunned conscription and refused to answer the call-up this year remain at large.
A 26-year-old advertising worker and ...
DATE: Dec 06, 2001
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Defence Department officials have launched an extensive manhunt for draft dodgers, using Government records including social insurance, after nearly 900 men refused to answer conscription this year.
"These people have cars, bikes - have jobs and go o...
DATE: Dec 01, 2001
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Bermudian individuals and companies donated nearly half-a-million dollars to the Bermuda American Relief Fund for the victims of the September 11 attacks on the US.
The fund was set up jointly by the American Society of Bermuda, Bank of Bermuda, Bank...
DATE: Nov 22, 2001
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Acting Senior Magistrate Carlisle Greaves abruptly abandoned Plea Court proceedings yesterday morning after Police officers were late bringing suspects to trial.
And after the suspects were remanded to the afternoon session, court insiders told The R...
DATE: Nov 20, 2001
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The Planning Department yesterday placed a stop order on industrial dumping at Devonshire Marsh after local environment groups raised an alarm that the waste could severely affect the area.
The Bermuda National Trust and the Bermuda Audubon Society w...
DATE: Nov 17, 2001
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Two men accused of a daylight robbery at knife-point of a payroll from a pensioner last week appeared in Magistrates' Court yesterday.
The two were charged with stealing more than $11,000 from the 74-year-old man, who was carrying the wages for worke...
DATE: Nov 16, 2001
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A woman has accused cashiers at an Island store chain of taking money from child bag packers by demanding a `commission' from their earnings.
Marguerite White claimed that cashiers at a MarketPlace store told her friend's 13-year-old son that they wo...
DATE: Nov 15, 2001
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A man responsible for a brutal beating that cost his victim a kidney, was sent to Supreme Court for sentencing yesterday.
Dakari Hollis, 24, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to causing grievous bodily harm - kicking a Pembroke man who fell off hi...
DATE: Nov 14, 2001
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