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For the first time in six years, Police have offered a substantial reward for information that could solve a murder.
A $10,000 reward has been approved by Police Commissioner Jean-Jacques Lemay to shake the branches of the underworld to reveal who mu...
DATE: Jun 21, 2000
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Ousted hospital chief engineer Neil Crane has settled with the Bermuda Hospitals Board, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
The former facilities manager at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital resigned in October and his lawyer, Juliana Jack, called a report...
DATE: Jun 21, 2000
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sites out of safety concerns.
Last week there was a blitz of Gorham Road north of the ACE and XL Capital building site which an area business owner has criticised.
But after a sweep of northern Cobbs Hill Road yesterday morning, the top cop in the We...
DATE: Jun 15, 2000
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Governor Thorold Masefield has thrown his weight behind the local Amnesty International (AI) chapter's petition drive against the war in Sierra Leone.
Mr. Masefield promised local AI representative and Sierra Leonian Ayo Johnson and his concerned cou...
DATE: Jun 14, 2000
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Since January, 192 objections to new land tax rates have been processed by the Land Valuation Department, a spokesman said yesterday.
Eighty people have agreed to an amended annual rental value to their homes and 112 taxpayers have withdrawn their ob...
DATE: Jun 08, 2000
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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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