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Two Government ministers yesterday added their voices to criticism over claims of soft sentencing for the son of a lawyer MP convicted of driving under the influence. Sailing instructor Jessie DeCouto was banned only from auxiliary cycles for impaire...

The battle to win the nomination to fight the Parliamentary seat of the late PLP leader Frederick Wade looks like a three-horse race, it was revealed last night. Two men and a woman -- one a Senator and one the PLP public relations officer -- have pu...

A shocked store owner yesterday pulled bags pushing a drugs message sold to youngsters as schoolbags. Phoenix Stores owner Ward Young acted after The Royal Gazette tipped him off about the trendily-styled backpacks with a marijuana message. The bags ...

dread of a school principal, it was claimed yesterday. For a Sandys Secondary School pupil claimed school boss Melvyn Bassett was making life a misery for students who sport Rasta-style dreadlocks. The teenager said: "People are getting discriminated...

admitting he had drunk more than the legal limit was yesterday slammed by a road safety watchdog. Road Safety Council chairman George Morton warned soft sentences for serious offences sent the wrong message to the community. And privately, Police off...

The manner in which top policeman Wayne Perinchief was axed was illegal, a lawyer told a court yesterday. And Delroy Duncan said the Supreme Court was not concerned whether the policy to shake-up the Police force was correct -- just whether it was le...

bring-back-the-birch call. Shadow Social Services Minister Renee Webb branded Home Affairs Minister Quinton Edness "a barbarian'' after he said he wanted to see the reintroduction of corporal punishment for criminals. She said: "He should be ashamed ...

German airline Condor is to quit its service to Bermuda -- but Tourism Minister David Dodwell said last night it was hoped a European replacement would be found. Condor, a charter subsidiary of Lufthansa, will cease its flights to the Island in Octob...

Progressive Labour Party Deputy Leader Jennifer Smith may be elected party leader unopposed next week, party insiders said yesterday. The move could come to promote party unity and avoid a potentially damaging leadership fight -- as well as a symbol ...

Hotel Association warned yesterday. Stephen Barker -- chief of the Princess hotels -- said: "If long term the current trend does not change then further closures or a reduction in available room count can be expected. "A hotel is like any other busin...