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Opposition Sen. Mark Pettingill yesterday blasted Government's plan to hold certain Magistrates' Court hearings via a video link-up before having verbatim reports.
And Sen. Pettingill, a defence lawyer, abstained from voting for an amendment to the I...
DATE: Dec 02, 1999
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A Senator has claimed the closure of the Marriott Castle Harbour Resort has placed Bermuda in an "unfavourable position'' and causes him "grave'' concern.
Opposition Sen. Kim Swan , speaking during the motion to adjourn yesterday, said although he wa...
DATE: Dec 02, 1999
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Young Bermudians must look at the facts of history and be more positive in their outlook if the Island is to prosper in the future, a Senator has claimed.
Speaking during the motion to Adjourn, Government Sen. Calvin Smith -- often mimicking a young ...
DATE: Dec 02, 1999
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sale of houses to foreign buyers.
Appleby, Spurling and Kempe property department head John Barritt, a UBP MP, has written to clients encouraging them to contact his staff about this fall's change in the minimum Annual Rental Value for property that ...
DATE: Dec 01, 1999
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him red-handed in a drug transaction, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Meanwhile his alleged accomplice, cruise ship employee Brian Mervin Williams, is serving a 14 month jail term after having pleaded guilty to drug importation that month.
The local ma...
DATE: Nov 26, 1999
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Just weeks after his appeal of a 30-year robbery sentence was turned down, Rupert Elroy Archibald has appeared in court for a traffic offence.
But the man who defended him last year convinced the prosecutor to drop the matter, suggesting it was an un...
DATE: Nov 22, 1999
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assaulting a schoolmate earlier this year.
And an adult accomplice will be tried in February, more than a year after the incident in which an 11-year-old girl was assaulted at home while other children were in another room.
Magistrate Carlisle Greave...
DATE: Nov 18, 1999
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Six Jamaican men are likely to be deported after they pleaded guilty yesterday to overstaying their entry visas.
Captured in a joint Immigration/Police sting early Saturday, the men were called by their lawyer the "dregs'' of a wide net which caught ...
DATE: Nov 16, 1999
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accident victim but has declared the man died of head injuries.
He called it "bewildering'' that doctors did not consider that Howard Berkeley had serious internal head injuries and a medical condition which made treatment more difficult.
And Mr. War...
DATE: Nov 15, 1999
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Veterans, politicians, and residents alike yesterday paid respects to the men and women who died in this century's two World Wars.
Governor Thorold Masefield led Premier Jennifer Smith and the heads of the Bermuda Regiment, Police and Fire Services i...
DATE: Nov 12, 1999
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