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Bermuda's computer crime laws are being put to the test in a trial of a Sandys Parish man accused of stealing time on the Internet in 1998.
In the second prosecution under the Computer Misuse Act of 1996, Micah John Theodore McManus denies using Elli...
DATE: Jan 12, 2000
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Those attending Magistrates' Court yesterday burst into laughter as a man, wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with "Full Hot and Fullish'' admitted to being just that.
The morning plea court session was disrupted as David Anthony Sousa stood and pleaded gu...
DATE: Jan 12, 2000
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Deplorable conditions at the Island's public rest homes are so critical Government will halt a planned Paget Post Office to fund renovations.
Saying the renovations can "no longer be deferred'' Health Minister Nelson Bascome yesterday told The Royal ...
DATE: Jan 11, 2000
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The Island's sole drug and alcohol counselling service for teens is set to expand its role in the battle to save high-risk youth.
Bermuda Youth Counselling Services plan this year to begin group therapy sessions focusing on anger/emotion management.
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DATE: Jan 11, 2000
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rest homes has won the approval of one administrator.
Julia Dears, director of the Pembroke Rest Home, threw her support behind news that a review of the St. George, Pembroke, Warwick, and Sandys Rest Homes had been ordered by Health and Social Servi...
DATE: Jan 10, 2000
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Nightclub after objectors dropped their protests.
Co-owner Paul DeCouto yesterday took the stand in Magistrates' Court and told Liquor Licensing Authority chairman Will Francis and two panelists he intended to have two bouncers in the lobby area of t...
DATE: Jan 07, 2000
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Punching a man and pushing another has earned a homeless man a six-month prison sentence.
After a night in a Police cell, Cannoth Roberts pleaded guilty last week before Acting Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner to punching George Kelly on the evenin...
DATE: Jan 06, 2000
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A review of the Island's rest homes has produced a list of those needing renovation -- with the century-old St. George's Rest Home to be closed first.
The Secretary Lane building has deteriorated so much, Health Minister Nelson Bascome has ordered it...
DATE: Jan 06, 2000
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Government will today unveil a new plan to combat crime by providing judges with more sentencing options and alternatives to prison.
At a luncheon to be hosted by the Public Safety Ministry and Renaissance Reinsurance at the La Coquille Restaurant, t...
DATE: Jan 05, 2000
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There will be an all-or-nothing battle early next month to be the head of the Island's white collar union.
General secretary of the 2,600-member Bermuda Public Services Association Ed Ball Jr. said last night president Betty Christopher and past pres...
DATE: Jan 04, 2000
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