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A homeless man was jailed for three-and a half years this week for robbing a paint company worker of $1,500 more than a year ago.
Puisne Judge Vincent Meerabux jailed 33-year-old Calvin Leonard Richardson and ordered the time he had spent in prison t...
DATE: May 18, 2000
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June 9, an acting Magistrate has ruled.
Lawyer Tyrone Chin delivered the 14-page ruling yesterday after a civil claim for a $1,700 deposit and labour for cutting hedges over the past few years was filed by Mr. King in March.
The Shakirs filed a count...
DATE: May 18, 2000
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Assault victim Michael Carey yesterday denied ever using racially offensive language to a subordinate on June 28 last year.
But he admitted telling Keith Neville Bean to not "be an a**hole'' when he grumbled after being taunted for not throwing a doc...
DATE: May 17, 2000
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Racial taunts may have played a role in a construction site attack last June, a Supreme Court jury heard yesterday.
But Correia Construction co-owner Dennis Correia said he never heard victim Michael Carey utter any racial slurs or direct any curses ...
DATE: May 16, 2000
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within an hour of a ship docking, The Royal Gazette has learned.
On Friday evening, just an hour after Bermuda's new weekend cruise ship the Crown Dynasty berthed, passengers were able to walk straight off the ship and into Dockyard without being sto...
DATE: May 15, 2000
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Police statements from a cocaine user should be ignored because addicts are unreliable when they are intoxicated, a lawyer has urged a court.
But a prosecutor has urged Magistrate Edward King to consider the statements because no one knows when Andre...
DATE: May 06, 2000
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Coroner Will Francis has ruled that 20-year-old Callan Eugene Herbert died after losing control of his motorcycle due to "inadvertency''.
While Mr. Francis did not say what was the cause of the accident, the Coroner's inquest yesterday heard Mr. Herb...
DATE: May 05, 2000
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The man at the centre of a grievance against a primary school principal should not practice a scorched earth policy against the school, a group of teachers claimed this week.
They were responding to former teacher Mark Collins after he said he and hi...
DATE: May 04, 2000
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Scott during the trial of a Pembroke man accused of eight break-ins from two years ago.
The case is set to continue tomorrow only after Mr. King relented in Mr.
Scott's request for an adjournment for time to subpoena a witness.
But the Magistrate poi...
DATE: May 04, 2000
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the way they were treated during an airport drugs search last week.
Norman and Estella Jackson told The Royal Gazette they were stopped and searched on April 27 by plain-clothes Police and Customs narcotics officers and were pressured to come clean a...
DATE: May 04, 2000
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