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clashed on the third day of evidence in the trial of former banker Arnold Todd. The move came after Mr. Burgess told the court he arranged finance to buy a house from construction firm Delro chief Delmont Talbot -- but later found it had been sold to...

A Crown witness came under fire from the defence counsel for former banker Arnold Todd yesterday. Painter and carpenter Merkell Smith earlier told Supreme Court he had been approached by his boss to buy a house he was working on. Mr. Smith told Supre...

An angry beach-goer has slammed a decision to lock up the toilets at packed Clearwater Beach just after 5 p.m. on the Labour Day holiday. And he has won the support of Works Minister Leonard Gibbons -- who has overall responsibility for the beach. Th...

A painter and carpenter yesterday told a court how he was approached by his boss to buy a house he was working on. And he said the purchase was handled by former Bank of Bermuda chief Arnold Todd -- charged in Supreme Court on 17 counts of theft, fra...

Crime in Bermuda's busiest areas plummeted in the first six months of this year, according to the latest Police statistics. The new figures for crime in the Central Parishes -- which includes the City of Hamilton, Paget, Pembroke and Devonshire -- sh...

his own pockets and those of his associates, a court was told yesterday. And he created a paper trail using the anonomity of banker's drafts and middlemen to hide his crimes, it was alleged. Crown Counsel Michael Pert QC told Supreme Court: "This cas...

Barrister Julian Hall failed to show from overseas for the start of the trial on Tuesday -- and yesterday morning he still had not made it to court. And there were gasps from the 42-strong panel from which the jury was to be drawn when Puisne Judge R...

A hi-tech UK note-taking system used in the OJ Simpson trial is being used in a major fraud trial which started yesterday in Supreme Court. The Livenote system -- which takes a stenographer's notes, converts it into text and displays the results on a...

A farmer's representative yesterday launched a fresh plea for Bermuda to protect its farmland from development. And Bermuda Dairy Association chief Harry Kromer Jr. claimed Government was not doing enough to safeguard agricultural land -- and called ...

A high-tech crime-busting library of the unique DNA signatures of convicted criminals could be created in Bermuda, it was revealed yesterday. And the proposed move could make cracking crime easier because even a tiny sample of body tissue or fluid le...