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An MP has renewed calls for deadbeat dads who fail to pay child support to be placed on compulsory work schemes rather than jailed.
Deputy Opposition Leader Michael Dunkley has the backing of the Coalition for the Protection of Children, which argues...
DATE: Mar 20, 2007
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Recovering drug addict Steven Somner has first-hand experience of what it’s like to be barred from the US because of a criminal conviction.
The 46-year-old’s voice fills with emotion when he talks about the time, 12 years ago, that he tried to take h...
DATE: Mar 20, 2007
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A campaign urging Bermudians to stay conviction-free and retain the ability to travel to America is being backed by agencies across the Island.
The US Consulate launched the campaign earlier this month and posted its message across Dunkley’s Dairy mi...
DATE: Mar 20, 2007
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A “wicked” career criminal who committed 26 offences of burglary, forgery and theft in the space of a single month — including stealing cash from a church and a man’s disability allowance — was sent down for 12 years.
Heroin addict Stephen Andre Wils...
DATE: Mar 19, 2007
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A taxi driver falsely obtained $25,000 from the Bank of Bermuda after a teller mistakenly gave him the number of another man’s account.
Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons told father-of-two Clyde Ian Saltus that it “must have taken a lot of nerve” for...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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A 23-year-old man with a substantial alcohol abuse problem has been given a two-year probation order for an attack outside the Swizzle Inn.
Isaac Robert Lambe, of Red Coat Lane, St. George’s, punched 51-year-old Winfield Simpson twice in the face and...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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A persistent offender who admitted handling stolen jewellery was warned by a judge yesterday that he risked ending up an old man in Westgate unless he changed his ways.
Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons told 46-year-old drug addict Norman Sonny Bell ...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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Government is soft-pedalling away from its hard-line stance on term limits for expats, Shadow Immigration Minister Trevor Moniz claimed yesterday.
Mr. Moniz said letters being sent out to employers detailing decisions on the fate of thousands of gues...
DATE: Mar 15, 2007
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Government is soft-pedalling away from its hard-line stance on term limits for expats, Shadow Immigration Minister Trevor Moniz claimed yesterday.
Mr. Moniz said letters being sent out to employers detailing decisions on the fate of thousands of gues...
DATE: Mar 15, 2007
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A teacher who was rushed to hospital after collapsing at CedarBridge Academy has told colleagues she has tested positive for a potentially harmful mould found at the school last year.
Dance teacher Zalika Millett, 30, was treated by paramedics after ...
DATE: Mar 14, 2007
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