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Several hours of surveillance of a small uninhabited island in Ferry Reach on Saturday paid off when notorious jail bird Brian Carlton Rogers was recaptured.
And officers knew they were close to catching the bail jumper after a six day manhunt when t...
DATE: Jul 31, 2000
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Two cruise ship workers and a Jamaican living in Bermuda denied charges of importing and handling $45,000 worth of cocaine yesterday.
Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner put prosecutors on notice that he intends for the summary case against Clinton Al...
DATE: Jul 29, 2000
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A Special Police Constable who was part of a raid on a Cox's Hill home said yesterday that there was no doubt in his mind that it was defendant Damon Kujal Simons who leaped from the building during the incident.
Customs officer Timothy Hayward told ...
DATE: Jul 28, 2000
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Negotiations are ongoing between Government and Immigration officers over the creation of a new shift schedule.
Home Affairs Minister Paula Cox last night confirmed there was a dispute and there had been meetings with the officers who belonged to the...
DATE: Jul 26, 2000
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Two conflicting stories about a confession emerged yesterday in the Magistrates' Court cocaine trial of Maurice Chevalier Smith.
Two senior Police officers, Insp. Coughlin Gibbons and Sgt. Robin Sherwood, were called "liars'' by Smith who denies a ch...
DATE: Jul 25, 2000
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Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner granted a conditional discharge to an alcoholic man for having a knife, assaulting a Police officer and violently resisting arrest.
David Leonard Cox, 45, of Glebe Road, Pembroke, will now have to stay out of troubl...
DATE: Jul 25, 2000
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A Customs officer pleaded guilty yesterday to two sexual assaults on girls, one just last month and the other in 1985.
Glen O'Neil Alban, 40, of Sandys Parish was charged for the older incident under the old Criminal Code's lesser charge of indecent ...
DATE: Jul 21, 2000
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abandoned 11 Club Med workers who believed they were entitled to severance pay.
He said he had instructed his lawyer to open a writ against Government to get the surviving ten workers, and the family of their male colleague who died last weekend, mor...
DATE: Jul 20, 2000
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officer, the paper has taken a writ out against Government.
Saying an "important principle'' needed to be established, Editor Bill Zuill last night confirmed the writ had been filed and said it was an issue of protecting the freedom of speech.
The wr...
DATE: Jul 20, 2000
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Former Attorney General (AG) Saul Froomkin has countered suggestions Bermuda should get rid of the Privy Council as the highest Court of Appeal.
Mr. Froomkin, a partner at Mello, Hollis, Jones and Martin, told Hamilton Rotarians yesterday that he was...
DATE: Jul 19, 2000
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