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The Salvation Army's Harbour Light has begun to treat gambling addiction after counsellors recognised a growing problem in Bermuda.
"Gambling is the silent addiction,'' programme director Nelson Bascome said this week.
"When you question individuals ...
DATE: Jun 12, 1998
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Illegal immigrant Chandrase Gopinath was released yesterday from jail into the care of a local couple.
But his fate still hangs in the balance as the Swiss Federal Office for Refugees decides whether the Sri Lankan teen still has a right to live in S...
DATE: Jun 03, 1998
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An auditor for Davison's of Bermuda has admitted that the company's books were "a real mess''.
James Cornes was testifying during the trial of Canadian accountant Colin Cave who is accused of stealing more than $54,000 from the company between July a...
DATE: May 28, 1998
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ERROR RG P4 23.5.1998 A story in Wednesday's paper stated that Reid Jones was serving seven years for his part in "the robbery''. It was referring to the July 8, 1997 hold-up of the Bank of Butterfield in Somerset, not the Woody's Drive Inn robbery ...
DATE: May 20, 1998
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The man who allegedly borrowed Randolph Lightbourne's car on the night of the Woody's Drive Inn robbery was off the Island at the time.
A Supreme Court jury learned this on the penultimate day of the robbery trial.
Lightbourne, of Devon Springs Drive...
DATE: May 19, 1998
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after pleading guilty to a series of thefts.
Roger Winston Darrell, 39, of Channel View Lane, Hamilton Parish had six charges sent from Magistrates' Court on March 9 for sentencing by Chief Justice Austin Ward.
Yesterday Mr. Justice Ward told Darrell...
DATE: May 19, 1998
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emergency crews were forced to put their skills into action in a real life situation.
They received reports of an oil spill off St. George's Harbour yesterday morning.
The spill, caused by a visiting 140-foot boat moored in the harbour, was discovere...
DATE: May 16, 1998
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Randolph Lightbourne yesterday claimed he loaned his car to the son of the man he allegedly stabbed during the Woody's Drive Inn robbery.
But Lightbourne strenuously denied that he and his brother committed the robbery and overlooked a discarded nylo...
DATE: May 14, 1998
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A man on trial for robbing Woody's Drive Inn in Sandys Parish has claimed that someone else was driving his car around the time of the incident.
Randolph Lightbourne told a Supreme Court jury he was at his parents' Sound View Road home until shortly ...
DATE: May 13, 1998
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Governor Thorold Masefield has 28 days to decide the fate of a young illegal immigrant whose life may be in danger if he is deported to his homeland.
And it emerged yesterday in Magistrates' Court that the Sri Lankan was a minor when he entered the I...
DATE: May 07, 1998
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