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blacks caused a clash in the Senate yesterday.
United Bermuda Party Senator Mark Pettingill opened the debate during the motion to adjourn by calling on the Government to "clarify its position with regard to race''.
He said there was a perception in ...
DATE: Jul 08, 1999
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Workers will suffer if Government's tourism policy does not turn the industry around soon, an Opposition MP has claimed.
And C.V. (Jim) Woolridge -- a former Tourism Minister -- said "the buck'' stops with Tourism Minister David Allen when it comes t...
DATE: Jul 06, 1999
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Chief Justice Austin Ward handled a family affair last week when in a matter of hours he sent a man to prison and deferred sentencing his father.
Adib Abdul-Jabbar, also known as Stephen Fredrick Cann, and Neko Noel Cann both appeared in the Supreme ...
DATE: Jul 05, 1999
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spend the next two years behind bars.
After mulling the fate overnight of 30-year-old career criminal Richard Michael Dill, Chief Justice Austin Ward on Friday said despite "strong'' arguments from Dill's lawyer Elizabeth Christopher for probation ra...
DATE: Jul 05, 1999
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Five people faced drug importation charges in the Supreme Court arraignment session on Thursday.
Steven Answorth Petgrave, 24, a restaurant worker from New York, will be sentenced on July 12 after he admitted importing $184,000 of crack cocaine weigh...
DATE: Jul 03, 1999
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Two years after first appearing in court, murder accused 26-year-old Jermaine Noel Pearman and manslaughter accused 19-year-old Sharina Anne Tuzo will be tried on September 13.
The couple have denied causing the death of her infant godson Saed Young ...
DATE: Jul 02, 1999
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Young people under the age of 16 can be fingerprinted, Magistrate Carlisle Greaves has ruled.
But a hearing has been delayed until next month as to whether the three juveniles accused of setting Harrington Sound School on fire should be fingerprinted...
DATE: Jul 01, 1999
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The Ewan Sampson Scholarship has been offered in honour of the Saltus Grammar School student who died last year in a cycle accident.
Last week the school held the second Ewan Sampson Memorial day which featured a visit from his parents, Penny and Tyr...
DATE: Jun 29, 1999
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Lifting the spirits of children and their suffering families will make for a better Bermuda, Hamilton Lions were told this week.
And Shirley Higgs, who started Child's Wish after helping one family under great stress due to illness, said the register...
DATE: Jun 25, 1999
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A magistrate has given a Hamilton Parish man until the end of next year to pay a $4,900 fine accrued in several traffic violations.
Senior Magistrate Will Francis told Dean Sinclair Burgess the country takes a dim view of drunk driving, riding withou...
DATE: Jun 23, 1999
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