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illegal fish pots and were each fined $9,000 during an early morning Magistrates' Court hearing.
Magistrate Will Francis called the offences committed by the Pembroke trio Roger Decosta, Joseph Dawson, and Margaret Ann Davis "very serious'' and noted...
DATE: Jun 06, 2000
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last night called on Minister David Allen to bring travel agents to the Island -- rather than travel to them.
Mr. Dodwell, who admitted that he did some travelling in his three years as Tourism Minister in the last United Bermuda Party Government, sa...
DATE: Jun 05, 2000
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Opposition MPs were fuming last night after what one called a "slick'' move to "stifle'' debate by Premier Jennifer Smith.
The UBP Parliamentarians were left flabbergasted when Speaker Stanley Lowe stood and adjourned the House of Assembly after only...
DATE: Jun 03, 2000
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Four arrests and more than a dozen seizures were made by a combined team of Police Narcotics and Central CID officers last night.
Roving through areas of Pembroke and Devonshire in a caravan of cars, 22 officers under Insp. Stuart Crockwell screeched...
DATE: Jun 02, 2000
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a reform of criminal sentencing in the courts and backed the use of corporal punishment.
And the youth magistrate also turned on the Children's Act, railing against his lack of power in directing the amount of time a juvenile offender must serve in a...
DATE: Jun 01, 2000
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A "bright and shining'' example to young people was called to the bar last week, as more than 100 people jammed a courtroom to look on.
Graham Simmons Jr. thanked his father saying: "Without my father's instruction there would be no cause for celebra...
DATE: May 30, 2000
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After four years of burger wars, a new chapter for food concessions at the Bermuda International Airport has begun.
Government is finally moving forward with plans for better food service at the airport and invitations for proposals are being sought ...
DATE: May 30, 2000
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Pembroke woman without any criminal convictions assaulted two Police officers early yesterday morning.
Shermaine Janiece Riley, of Parsons Road, will return to Magistrates' Court on July 14 for sentencing after she admitted using offensive words at 3...
DATE: May 26, 2000
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Attorney General Lois Browne Evans should withdraw or apologise for saying a magistrate should have "shut his mouth'' about a controversial case -- or resign her post.
Shadow Legislative Affairs minister John Barritt made the claim yesterday when con...
DATE: May 22, 2000
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connection with a series of unrelated incidents over the weekend.
The blotter includes two robberies, a case of obtaining credit by fraud and an attempted robbery.
Two teenage tourists were robbed and roughed up in Dockyard after asking for direction...
DATE: May 22, 2000
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