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Marine Police are getting a new home, in Dockyard.
Having recently moved out of their Barr’s Bay Park home in Hamilton, the force are to be relocated to a listed building on Sally Port Lane.
According to planning documents, the Development Applicati...
DATE: Jul 10, 2013
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The Ministry of Home Affairs is in the final stages of consultation about new methods to prevent work permit violations.
The announcement comes less than a week after the Grotto Bay Resort was fined a total of $8,000 for two counts of unlawfully empl...
DATE: Jul 10, 2013
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A pair of Knowledge Quest graduates have now been appointed directors of the education scholarship charity.
Newly named directors Eneye Jatto and Kerry Fletcher have worked with the charity for the last six years, and are the first graduates to be ap...
DATE: Jul 10, 2013
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A man who led police on a high-speed chase through Hamilton yesterday morning was fined more than $3,000 for a raft of traffic offences.
Mandel Outerbridge, 35, pleaded guilty to refusing a breath test, driving dangerously, failing to stop for police...
DATE: Jul 09, 2013
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An American tourist died on the weekend following a medical emergency at Snorkel Park in Dockyard.
Maurice Comtois, 76, was snorkelling in the area on Saturday afternoon when he became unresponsive, according to a Police spokesman.
“The American visi...
DATE: Jul 09, 2013
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A hit-and-run collision in Paget resulted in a Devonshire woman being taken to hospital.
According to a Police spokesman, at around 11.30pm on Saturday officers responded to reports of a collision at the junction of South Road and Point Finger Road.
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DATE: Jul 09, 2013
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A man and woman yesterday admitted their involvement in a plot to import heroin to the Island.
Winston Burgess, 49, of Middletown Drive, Pembroke, and Shakeda Davis, 28, of Schools Drive, Devonshire, both admitted conspiring with others to import 154...
DATE: Jul 09, 2013
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A man who admitted threatening to kill his pregnant girlfriend has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison.
Makonnen Lowe, 28, from Southampton, pleaded guilty earlier this year to sending a series of threatening digital messages to Jenna Bu...
DATE: Jul 06, 2013
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Grotto Bay Hotel manager JP Martens yesterday pleaded guilty on behalf of the hotel to illegally employing two US citizens.
The hotel were charged last month with five counts of employing non-Bermudians without the permission of the Minister of Home ...
DATE: Jul 06, 2013
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A 58-year-old man was injured yesterday after he was trapped by machinery in an industrial accident.
Police and first responders were called to the accident near Ducks Puddle Drive in Hamilton Parish, at around 1.30pm.
A police spokesman said: “It ap...
DATE: Jul 05, 2013
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