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Justice Austin Ward prejudiced a jury. And now the conviction of Randolph Lightbourne -- for robbing and wounding of owner of the Woody's drive-in in Sandys Parish in December 1995 -- stands. He was convicted last May after a four-day trial. Lightbou...

A man tried to slit his throat before jumping off a Front Street dock and drowning in Hamilton Harbour, a coroner has heard. But Coroner Edward King was forced to adjourn the inquest into the death of Melvin Stuart Wolffe until Tuesday while Police t...

begged the Governor for clemency for her distraught daughter. The woman, speaking from her London home, said that while she had nothing against Bermuda or Bermudians, her daughter needed to be with family in the wake of the alleged jail-house rape in...

The fisheries department is looking to restock the Island's population of Nassau Grouper whose numbers are thought to have dropped to dangerously low levels. Senior fisheries officer Brian Luckhurst writing in the Department of Agriculture and Fisher...

Organisers of next month's Up With People shows are looking for a few good families to put up 15 performers for 21 days. Kristie Clarke and Lindsey Schulz, part of the advance team for the 45 performers and production crew in the group, spoke at the ...

A teenage girl had to be consoled by her family after a confrontation with a sex attacker's family in a courtroom. Shawn Gordon Eugene Smith, 29, of Sandys Parish, pleaded guilty earlier this week in the Supreme Court to having unlawful carnal knowle...

The media have been banned from attending the court hearings of three teens who are expected to be charged with setting fire to Harrington Sound School last month. Magistrate Carlisle Greaves yesterday refused to speak to The Royal Gazette's Editor W...

A Magistrate has given a man a chance to recover from his addictions by giving him a suspended sentence rather than keep him in jail past yesterday. Senior Magistrate Will Francis told Andrew Arorash that having a 15-month prison sentence suspended f...

a Bermudian is set to take over the pastorate. Ernest Peets Jr. will graduate from the Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri next month with a masters degree in theology and will quickly return to replace outgoing minister Phil Patal...

to face rape and theft charges in the Supreme Court. The man -- who cannot be named for legal reasons -- had nothing to say and only shook his head yesterday when Senior Magistrate Will Francis asked why he should not be remanded. He will return to M...