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An Opposition MP last night called for gangs to be outlawed in Bermuda with the introduction of tough new legislation.
Shadow Public Safety Minister Maxwell Burgess said the Island needed to declare war on gangs after the shooting of a teenager in Pa...
DATE: Jul 24, 2006
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Premier Alex Scott is to hold an emergency meeting with the Public Safety Minister Randy Horton and Governor Sir John Vereker this morning in the wake of the murder of a teenager at the weekend.
Mr. Scott told that he knew the family of the 18-year-o...
DATE: Jul 24, 2006
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Tributes were paid last night to former Deputy Premier John Irving Pearman who died on Saturday morning, aged 79.
Acting Opposition Leader Michael Dunkley described the retired politician as "one of the bedrocks of the United Bermuda Party" in the 19...
DATE: Jul 24, 2006
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An angler was almost killed when a giant bill fish leapt from the sea, speared his chest and knocked him off his boat in a freak accident at the weekend.
Ian Card, from Somerset, was impaled by the blue marlin and forced overboard during an internati...
DATE: Jul 24, 2006
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A Policeman charged with knocking a man's teeth out told a court yesterday that he "struck out" during an attempted arrest because he feared he was going to be killed by his alleged victim.
P.c. Glynn Kellman, who denies assault causing grievous bodi...
DATE: Jul 22, 2006
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Bermuda's brightest young graduates were praised by two Government Ministers as they lined up to receive scholarships worth $75,000 each.
Deputy Premier Ewart Brown and Education Minister Terry Lister told a press conference at the Senate this week h...
DATE: Jul 22, 2006
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An animal charity says it will not be able to prosecute an alleged act of cruelty to a toad ? because the law only covers domestic pets.
Beaman Smith, an inspector at the Society for the Protection of Animals (SPCA), has been investigating claims tha...
DATE: Jul 21, 2006
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A Police officer accused of knocking a man?s teeth out during an attempted arrest told a court yesterday that his alleged victim tried to drive a car away after being ordered out of the vehicle.
P.c. Glynn Kellman, 38, who denies assault causing grie...
DATE: Jul 21, 2006
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A judge yesterday questioned whether the Governor of Bermuda should still be making decisions on employment disputes ? after hearing how Sir John Vereker upheld a verdict by the Island's dental board which found a dentist and hygienist guilty of seri...
DATE: Jul 19, 2006
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Bermuda's housing crisis is contributing to the problem of sexual and physical abuse of children, the chairman of a charity warned last night.
Sheelagh Cooper, from the Coalition for the Protection of Children, said overcrowding of homes ? as reveale...
DATE: Jul 18, 2006
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