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A decrease in group business visitors and switching the Jazz Festival to September led to a whopping 19 percent drop in October's visitor arrival statistics.
But cruise ship arrivals reached an all time high of 207,881 this year -- the first time cru...
DATE: Dec 27, 2000
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Magistrates' Court saw two extremes yesterday as a young woman was warned away from a life of crime and a man with 45 convictions for thievery got a last chance.
Seventeen-year-old Jessica Figueirado was given a conditional discharge by Senior Magist...
DATE: Dec 22, 2000
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the case of a Trinidadian woman accused of working illegally at the Clayhouse Inn.
Natalie Noel took the stand in her own defence yesterday, denying that she was contracted to work for veteran bar owner Choy Aming.
Noel, who lives in an upstairs apar...
DATE: Dec 21, 2000
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neglected and abandoned two boys by leaving them in a car in November.
The Smith's Parish parents -- who cannot be named for legal reasons -- pleaded not guilty yesterday before Acting Magistrate Kim Wilson.
They denied leaving unattended a six-year-...
DATE: Dec 21, 2000
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VSB journalist Ashfield DeVent walked from Magistrates' Court a free man yesterday after prosecutors dropped a charge of obstructing Police.
Mr. DeVent, 43, of Pembroke, pleaded not guilty to obstructing Sgt. Philip Lewis on September 8. He originall...
DATE: Dec 20, 2000
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pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in Magistrates' Court, The Royal Gazette has learned.
When Keith Neville Bean was discharged from an indictment for hitting Michael Carey on December 1, he had already pleaded guilty before Magistrate Will Francis an...
DATE: Dec 20, 2000
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Two Jamaican men have been charged in Magistrates' Court on charges of importing substantial amounts of cocaine and cannabis last week.
Seven days after arresting Jeffery Fitzgerald Sharpe and David Lloyd Simster, Police and Customs narcotics officer...
DATE: Dec 20, 2000
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A former postman was remanded in custody yesterday after he pleaded guilty to importing cannabis exactly two years ago.
Jason Edward Morris Smith changed his plea after half a day of testimony in a Magistrates' Court trial on Monday.
Smith, faced thr...
DATE: Dec 20, 2000
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A St. George's man is in Police custody this morning after he was arrested on suspicion of robbing a popular St. George's watering hole on Saturday night.
The 32-year-old is alleged to have entered Freddies Pub on the Square around 9.15 p.m. wielding...
DATE: Dec 18, 2000
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Community Against Radiation Emissions (CARE) intend to protest plans for a new BTC Mobility tower at Lusher Hill East.
Stephen Thompson, spokesman for the group opposed to cell phone towers, in a Letter to the Editor, has expressed concern the tower ...
DATE: Dec 16, 2000
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