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ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands (AP) -- Three American men charged in the murder of a Connecticut artist were acquitted, leaving a New York financial adviser -- represented by former Bermuda Bar Association President Richard Hector QC -- to stand t...
DATE: May 04, 2001
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biography of Attorney General Dame Lois Browne Evans.
Bermudian author and educator Randi Williams not only tackles the career of Bermuda's first female barrister, first black female Member of Parliament, first female opposition leader and first poli...
DATE: Apr 30, 2001
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A misunderstanding about the rules governing Preliminary Inquiries (PI) in Magistrates' Court led to a legal showdown.
Lawyer Ann Cartwright got Magistrate Edward King to explain that he had never banned the media from his courtroom -- as had been br...
DATE: Mar 21, 2001
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A man and his girlfriend walked wearily from Magistrates' Court on Monday after learning that the teen who blinded him in one eye was given a suspended sentence and a $1,000 fine for the attack.
Idrin Izion Paynter said nothing and did not acknowledg...
DATE: Mar 21, 2001
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pleaded guilty to two break-ins and admitted having a drug problem.
Terry Leon Robinson shrugged his shoulders as Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner said he would order a social inquiry report into why, at age 44, he would begin housebreaking.
Robins...
DATE: Mar 10, 2001
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while probation officers and his lawyer try and get him in a juvenile facility in Utah for a sex crime.
Shawn Mark Nusum, of Smith's Avenue, has been on remand since last autumn for an attack on another boy as the pair walked home last year.
Nusum wa...
DATE: Mar 10, 2001
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A woman has called for greater controls on work release for prisoners after a Government contractor allegedly paid her imprisoned ex-husband in cash, defying Prison rules.
The woman, who asked to not be identified, told The Royal Gazette she has quiz...
DATE: Mar 09, 2001
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on a mountainside in Nevis for a week a "true survivor'' Bermuda hotelier David Dodwell welcomed news the man had been found yesterday.
Anton Tomazic, 50, a guest at Mr. Dodwell's Nisbett Plantation Beach Club on Nevis, was found by a farm worker yes...
DATE: Mar 09, 2001
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of a Boa Constrictor snake last weekend.
Police seized the young snake -- thought to be around 12-inches long -- after it had been imported into Bermuda.
The reptile is now being held at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo.
BAMZ director Jack Ward s...
DATE: Mar 09, 2001
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There is now a multi-agency team targeting animal cruelty, neglect, licensing, and welfare and it is armed with a strong law and penalties to protect the Island's silent population.
With the passage of amendments to the Dogs Act and animal cruelty le...
DATE: Mar 09, 2001
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