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Efforts to fight a dangerous citrus virus received a positive response from the citrus growing public for the Agriculture and Fisheries department. Terry Lyn Thompson, senior plant protection officer last week said managing the spread of the Citrus T...

Justice Austin Ward prejudiced a jury. And now the conviction of Randolph Lightbourne -- for robbing and wounding of owner of the Woody's drive-in in Sandys Parish in December 1995 -- stands. He was convicted last May after a four-day trial. Lightbou...

A man tried to slit his throat before jumping off a Front Street dock and drowning in Hamilton Harbour, a coroner has heard. But Coroner Edward King was forced to adjourn the inquest into the death of Melvin Stuart Wolffe until Tuesday while Police t...

begged the Governor for clemency for her distraught daughter. The woman, speaking from her London home, said that while she had nothing against Bermuda or Bermudians, her daughter needed to be with family in the wake of the alleged jail-house rape in...

The fisheries department is looking to restock the Island's population of Nassau Grouper whose numbers are thought to have dropped to dangerously low levels. Senior fisheries officer Brian Luckhurst writing in the Department of Agriculture and Fisher...

A teenage girl had to be consoled by her family after a confrontation with a sex attacker's family in a courtroom. Shawn Gordon Eugene Smith, 29, of Sandys Parish, pleaded guilty earlier this week in the Supreme Court to having unlawful carnal knowle...

The media have been banned from attending the court hearings of three teens who are expected to be charged with setting fire to Harrington Sound School last month. Magistrate Carlisle Greaves yesterday refused to speak to The Royal Gazette's Editor W...

A Magistrate has given a man a chance to recover from his addictions by giving him a suspended sentence rather than keep him in jail past yesterday. Senior Magistrate Will Francis told Andrew Arorash that having a 15-month prison sentence suspended f...

to face rape and theft charges in the Supreme Court. The man -- who cannot be named for legal reasons -- had nothing to say and only shook his head yesterday when Senior Magistrate Will Francis asked why he should not be remanded. He will return to M...

Alex Scott yesterday announced details of the new twice weekly trash pick-up programme. The pick-up scheme, which switched in 1993 from twice- to once-weekly, has been revamped to allow for more efficient scheduling. And Government's fleet of trash t...