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The mother of a 25-year-old heroin addict who died last year has been told it was not a drug overdose which killed him.
Lynn Spencer, whose son Christopher collapsed on October 27, 2012, received a call from Coroner’s officer Travis Powell on Thursda...
DATE: Nov 07, 2013
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The Attorney General of the Turks and Caicos Islands — a former Bermuda Crown counsel — resigned his post yesterday, hours after it was announced that former Premier Michael Misick would be extradited back to TCI from Brazil.
Huw Shepheard, a Welshma...
DATE: Oct 31, 2013
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The Department of Health has apologised to grieving mother Lynn Spencer for taking more than a year to complete a postmortem drug test on her late son.
But it has failed to explain why the Government Lab has taken so long to analyse blood, urine and ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2013
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The former chief of staff at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital threatened to block two doctors from setting up a new business if Bermuda Hospitals Board couldn’t be involved, it is alleged in court papers obtained by The Royal Gazette.
Plastic surgeo...
DATE: Oct 29, 2013
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The ashes of Christopher Spencer were released last night at sunset to mark the one-year anniversary of his death.
His friends and family met at his favourite beach at 6pm for a ceremony officiated by the Rt Rev Nicholas Dill, Bishop of Bermuda.
Spea...
DATE: Oct 28, 2013
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A teenager was given a suspended jail term for his part in a burglary which left an 85-year-old woman traumatised and frightened in her own home.
Denzel Chase, 19, of North Shore Road, Hamilton Parish, admitted receiving a $4,000 gold, diamond and sa...
DATE: Jul 26, 2013
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A taxpayer-funded foundation set up to manage and promote Bermuda’s historic slavery sites has lost its charitable status — but neither it nor Government will say why.
The African Diaspora Heritage Trail Foundation has received at least $1.6 million ...
DATE: Jul 25, 2013
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Police are still trying to track down a woman accused of trying to provoke an assault on a Supreme Court judge with an online post.
Carolyn Drover, 44, of Clay Court, Hamilton Parish, was due to stand trial at Magistrates’ Court yesterday but is beli...
DATE: Jul 25, 2013
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A schizophrenic accused of carrying out a frenzied knife attack on a man and woman in the street has been detained indefinitely at Westgate after being found unfit to stand trial.
Alan Robinson, 53, of Hamilton Parish, was accused of the attempted mu...
DATE: Jul 24, 2013
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A defendant due to stand trial at Supreme Court on Monday for wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm pleaded guilty to a lesser offence and will be sentenced at a later date.
Irving Butterfield, 38, of Sleepy Hollow Drive, Hamilton Parish, h...
DATE: Jul 24, 2013
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