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Renowned martial artist Skipper Ingham was given a suspended prison sentence last week after he was found guilty of assaulting a tenant, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Magistrate Edward King found 70-year-old Frederick Innes Woods Ingham guilty after ...
DATE: Nov 29, 2000
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Gordon Pamplin have clashed over the issue of drug testing in sports.
Recently the Bermuda Softball Association was locked out of a Government-run event at Bernard Park because of its stance on drug testing of its members.
In the House of Assembly on...
DATE: Nov 27, 2000
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introduce drug testing among members.
Government Members objected to Opposition Legislative Affairs spokesman John Barritt 's motion for the house to establish a committee within 30 days of passage to "implement'' drug testing and for that testing to...
DATE: Nov 25, 2000
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pellets of cocaine in a bid to smuggle them to US, a judge was told.
But when one of the pellets burst during a September 19 flight to New York, Dianne Margarita Harvey Rennocks awoke to find herself in hospital in Bermuda, accused of importing 457.7...
DATE: Nov 22, 2000
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cocaine ended yesterday with the Senior Magistrate saying they had no case to answer.
Yangustanta Bramada, a 23-year-old Indonesian and Lennox Lorraine Afflick, a 40-year-old Jamaican, showed no reaction after Magistrate Archibald Warner said they we...
DATE: Nov 21, 2000
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Two young men will have two weeks to have the Bermuda Regiment's doctor examine them after they pleaded guilty to failing to report for the tests.
Waleed Lightbourn told Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner he intends to get a deferral because he is a ...
DATE: Nov 21, 2000
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the increase in violence.
The former New York Cosmos teammate of the legendary Pele said "soccer is an important game in Bermuda and had it not been for soccer I wouldn't be standing here'' as he spoke during the motion to adjourn in the House of Ass...
DATE: Nov 20, 2000
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Transport Minister Ewart Brown admitted to Parliament on Friday night that "procedural irregularities'' led to the illegal importation of oversize cars this year.
While Dr. Brown did not elaborate what the irregularities were, he said further importa...
DATE: Nov 20, 2000
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The Court of Appeal has ordered a retrial of a local man accused of importing cocaine on a flight from London in January.
Jaha Akili Mallory nodded to the Court on Friday as he was taken away by prison officers to await a new trial.
The judges found ...
DATE: Nov 20, 2000
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The Court of Appeal has freed a man jailed for nine years for serious sexual assault on the grounds that the judge's directions to the jury were a "substantial miscarriage of justice''.
Within an hour of Justice Sir Derek Cons telling Allen Rudolph T...
DATE: Nov 18, 2000
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