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A decrease in group business visitors and switching the Jazz Festival to September led to a whopping 19 percent drop in October's visitor arrival statistics.
But cruise ship arrivals reached an all time high of 207,881 this year -- the first time cru...
DATE: Dec 27, 2000
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Magistrates' Court saw two extremes yesterday as a young woman was warned away from a life of crime and a man with 45 convictions for thievery got a last chance.
Seventeen-year-old Jessica Figueirado was given a conditional discharge by Senior Magist...
DATE: Dec 22, 2000
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the case of a Trinidadian woman accused of working illegally at the Clayhouse Inn.
Natalie Noel took the stand in her own defence yesterday, denying that she was contracted to work for veteran bar owner Choy Aming.
Noel, who lives in an upstairs apar...
DATE: Dec 21, 2000
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neglected and abandoned two boys by leaving them in a car in November.
The Smith's Parish parents -- who cannot be named for legal reasons -- pleaded not guilty yesterday before Acting Magistrate Kim Wilson.
They denied leaving unattended a six-year-...
DATE: Dec 21, 2000
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VSB journalist Ashfield DeVent walked from Magistrates' Court a free man yesterday after prosecutors dropped a charge of obstructing Police.
Mr. DeVent, 43, of Pembroke, pleaded not guilty to obstructing Sgt. Philip Lewis on September 8. He originall...
DATE: Dec 20, 2000
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pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in Magistrates' Court, The Royal Gazette has learned.
When Keith Neville Bean was discharged from an indictment for hitting Michael Carey on December 1, he had already pleaded guilty before Magistrate Will Francis an...
DATE: Dec 20, 2000
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Two Jamaican men have been charged in Magistrates' Court on charges of importing substantial amounts of cocaine and cannabis last week.
Seven days after arresting Jeffery Fitzgerald Sharpe and David Lloyd Simster, Police and Customs narcotics officer...
DATE: Dec 20, 2000
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A former postman was remanded in custody yesterday after he pleaded guilty to importing cannabis exactly two years ago.
Jason Edward Morris Smith changed his plea after half a day of testimony in a Magistrates' Court trial on Monday.
Smith, faced thr...
DATE: Dec 20, 2000
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A hurriedly convened meeting for taxi drivers saw more than 200 turn out at the Bermuda Cathedral Hall last night.
While dissenters mingled outside and raised voices could be distinctly heard inside, afterward organisers were upbeat after they would ...
DATE: Dec 19, 2000
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The Director of the Island's leading family planning organisation has "gently'' reminded a Senator of its 33-year history of helping teen mothers.
Teen Services' Michelle Wade-Johnson on Friday mailed current teen pregnancy prevention literature and ...
DATE: Dec 18, 2000
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