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Two employees of a security firm have been cleared of wrongdoing by a magistrate.
Carmen Marina Butterfield and Eric Eugene Wallace were found not guilty by Magistrate Edward King after he found there was a deal for them to buy equipment from Pro Tec...
DATE: May 27, 1999
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yesterday after he stormed out when misbehaving.
Magistrate Carlisle Greaves ordered prosecutor Insp. Peter Giles to arrest the boy after he bolted from the courtroom after protesting that Mr. Greaves was "judging'' him.
The blow-up came after Mr. Gr...
DATE: May 27, 1999
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Three teens yesterday denied setting fire to the Harrington Sound Primary School in February, causing a million dollars worth of damage.
The boys, all aged 15, pleaded not guilty in Juvenile Court to three charges of school breaking, arson, and setti...
DATE: May 27, 1999
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The prosecutor in the Beatrice Simons murder trial yesterday blamed two of her neighbours for her death.
"It was a murder and they are both guilty,'' Crown counsel Peter Eccles told a Supreme Court jury yesterday.
In the penultimate day before the te...
DATE: May 21, 1999
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The mother injured in a horrific car crash is protesting the one-year prison sentence the driver received this week.
And Vivian Smatt is particularly incensed that Selwyn Berkeley neglected to apologise to her and her family in Tuesday's sentencing i...
DATE: May 20, 1999
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magistrate has ordered.
Magistrate Edward King yesterday ruled Supt. Victor Richmond must move from his Bermuda Housing Corporation home at Alexandra Road in Prospect and pay unspecified court costs to the Corporation.
Mr. King said Supt. Richmond's ...
DATE: May 15, 1999
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what one court staffer called a routine problem on traffic court day.
Tracey Kelly, the court's administrator, said the problem of crowding hundreds of speeders -- this time 294 -- into the three courtrooms had "almost become routine''.
Mr. Kelly add...
DATE: May 15, 1999
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Cycle thefts and thefts from unattended vehicles accelerated in the first quarter of this year, according to Police statistics released yesterday.
Overall there was a three-percent increase in crime over the same period last year, with the number of ...
DATE: May 13, 1999
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Making a difference in Bermuda is important to the newest batch of Police recruits as they approach their graduation date next week.
Their training almost complete, the 13 men and women in Police recruit foundation course 56 are "gung ho'' about bein...
DATE: May 12, 1999
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The communications expert hired by Government to evaluate radiation from antennae does not believe emissions are harmful to people.
But in a press conference yesterday, the Telecommunications Minister Renee Webb said she believed the evaluation will ...
DATE: May 12, 1999
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