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Biting the hand that fed him has earned a crack addict a one-year prison sentence.
Senior Magistrate Will Francis threw the book at Clifton Fredrick Weller after hearing he beat 80-year-old Eugene Todd in his bedroom and robbed him of $700.
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DATE: Jun 23, 1999
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from a two-storey building to escape Police.
Police yesterday said the unidentified woman jumped from the Ministry of Telecommunications' Golinsky Building on Reid Street, after climbing a wall in an exercise area of Hamilton Police Station.
The woma...
DATE: Jun 23, 1999
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A call by Senior Magistrate Will Francis to let certain speeders avoid court has been blasted by the chairperson of the Road Safety Council.
Delcina Bean Burrows said yesterday she was not in favour of Mr. Francis' call for a change in the law to cha...
DATE: Jun 22, 1999
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ERROR RG P4 23.6.1999 A caption in yesterday's newspaper should have identified Lt. Col. Patrick Outerbridge as commanding officer of the Bermuda Regiment and Capt. Wayne Smith as the Governor's aide-de-camp.
Several hundred people watched the Bermu...
DATE: Jun 22, 1999
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Five young men took a big step toward rehabilitation yesterday by receiving Bronze Duke of Edinburgh awards at Government House.
And the five are thought to be the first inmates to receive the awards, beating out a group in Hong Kong.
Governor Thorol...
DATE: Jun 18, 1999
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A retrial has been ordered by the Court of Appeal in the case against a Sandys Parish man convicted of sexually abusing a young girl.
The court found Magistrate Edward King erred in accepting a medical expert's testimony supporting the victim when th...
DATE: Jun 18, 1999
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Race is the most important factor in determining who is to be executed and for that reason alone capital punishment should be stopped.
Top death penalty lawyer, Steven Hawkins spoke at the annual Amnesty International Colin Horsefield Lecture last ni...
DATE: Jun 17, 1999
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floating docks to operate as planned.
And requests for proposals are set to be offered this week for the new high speed ferries, Transport Minister Ewart Brown said.
Dr. Brown and Marine and Ports board chairman Walter Roban saw prototypes of the pro...
DATE: Jun 16, 1999
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A visiting couple fell more than 200 feet into the sea after their para-sail disconnected from their tow boat.
The couple were not physically hurt. But they complained that their treatment by Skyrider Bermuda in Dockyard left much to be desired.
Ariz...
DATE: Jun 15, 1999
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The battle against homelessness waged by a local Rastafarian group has grown to a new phase with the start of a fund raising campaign.
The Rastafarian Community Programme -- a registered charity -- started a fund raising campaign which coordinators b...
DATE: Jun 15, 1999
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