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The 2022 Agricultural Exhibition will not go ahead this year because of the lingering impact of Covid-19.
Antwan Albouy, exhibition director, said that the organisers were disappointed, but the surge in Covid-19 cases last fall and winter had hindere...
DATE: Mar 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Event
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A teenager was arrested and drugs seized after police executed two search warrants in the Town of St George following reports of drug dealing.
A police spokesman said police carried out searches at a home on Queen Street along with “a location on Kin...
DATE: Mar 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man who suffered a serious head injury in a three-vehicle collision yesterday has been arrested for drink driving, police said.
A spokeswoman said the 35-year-old – who was injured in a collision involving two cars and a motorcycle near Shelly Bay ...
DATE: Mar 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A prosecutor has said the Supreme Court should not have overturned the conviction of a woman found guilty of drug offences.
Puisne Judge Shade Subair Williams found earlier this year that there was an “appearance of bias” in the cases against Rebecca...
DATE: Mar 07, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man jailed for 30 years for smuggling almost $10 million of heroin into Bermuda has claimed his ability to mount a defence was damaged by translation problems.
Josef Vlcek, from the Czech Republic, was convicted in 2019 of trying to smuggle nearly ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Premier last night accused the Leader of the Opposition of misleading the public with his response to the 2022/23 Budget.
Cole Simons, the OBA Leader, told the House that he had heard Bermuda had been moved onto the EU “grey list” because of a mi...
DATE: Mar 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Opposition’s Budget reply was last night criticised by government MPs as too long – but short on substance.
Wayne Furbert, the Cabinet Office Minister, attacked a claim by Cole Simons’, the leader of the One Bermuda Alliance, that payroll tax wou...
DATE: Mar 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Plans to redevelop a resort co-owned by Hollywood superstar Michael Douglas have sparked objections from neighbours.
An objection letter sent on behalf of the Palm Grove Trust, which owns 38 South Road near the Devonshire property, said that the prop...
DATE: Mar 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Supreme Court judge has stood by her decision to keep a man convicted of a sex assault on a schoolgirl in custody until he can be sentenced.
Jamel Simons, 38, was found guilty last year of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in 2002 when he was ...
DATE: Mar 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An alleged drug smuggler was told to pretend he was on his way back from a funeral days before he was found with drugs in his bags at the airport, the Supreme Court was told yesterday.
Detective Sergeant Leanda Johnston told the court that phones tha...
DATE: Mar 03, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes