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cocaine ended yesterday with the Senior Magistrate saying they had no case to answer.
Yangustanta Bramada, a 23-year-old Indonesian and Lennox Lorraine Afflick, a 40-year-old Jamaican, showed no reaction after Magistrate Archibald Warner said they we...
DATE: Nov 21, 2000
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Two young men will have two weeks to have the Bermuda Regiment's doctor examine them after they pleaded guilty to failing to report for the tests.
Waleed Lightbourn told Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner he intends to get a deferral because he is a ...
DATE: Nov 21, 2000
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the increase in violence.
The former New York Cosmos teammate of the legendary Pele said "soccer is an important game in Bermuda and had it not been for soccer I wouldn't be standing here'' as he spoke during the motion to adjourn in the House of Ass...
DATE: Nov 20, 2000
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Transport Minister Ewart Brown admitted to Parliament on Friday night that "procedural irregularities'' led to the illegal importation of oversize cars this year.
While Dr. Brown did not elaborate what the irregularities were, he said further importa...
DATE: Nov 20, 2000
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Opposition Leader Pamela Gordon called for "truth in advertising'' in response to full page advertisements suggesting consumers can get 29 cent and 32 cent overseas phone calls.
Ms Gordon said her party had instituted "positive'' deregulation of the ...
DATE: Nov 20, 2000
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The Court of Appeal has ordered a retrial of a local man accused of importing cocaine on a flight from London in January.
Jaha Akili Mallory nodded to the Court on Friday as he was taken away by prison officers to await a new trial.
The judges found ...
DATE: Nov 20, 2000
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their country.
In a poll underwritten by 3Com, and operated by the Planet Project, 52 percent of Bermudian respondents approved of their country. Ninety two percent of Canadians were proud of their country, the highest rating.
Respondents in 49 count...
DATE: Nov 18, 2000
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The Court of Appeal has freed a man jailed for nine years for serious sexual assault on the grounds that the judge's directions to the jury were a "substantial miscarriage of justice''.
Within an hour of Justice Sir Derek Cons telling Allen Rudolph T...
DATE: Nov 18, 2000
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With more than half of Island households having Internet access, Government has taken steps to ensure that the remainder can log on to the World Wide Web for free.
The result of an anonymous donation, since early October, two computers at the Bermuda...
DATE: Nov 16, 2000
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Government plans to build a purpose-built juvenile home next year as part of plans to modernise how it handles problem children.
The Health Ministry hopes to build a 32,000 square foot home at the site of two current facilities, which it will replace...
DATE: Nov 15, 2000
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