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The number of Bermudians who support Independence has risen, according to a new survey carried out by
A telephone poll conducted earlier this month reveals that almost 24 percent of people support the idea of national Independence for the Island, com...
DATE: Jan 31, 2006
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Two Bermudian men will appear in a UK court on Wednesday charged with smuggling drugs.
Malachi Eugene Wilson Eversley, 24, and Genghis Khublai Khan Thorpe, 25, both of Pembroke, are accused of trying to bring almost ?60,000 (about $106,000) worth of ...
DATE: Jan 30, 2006
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Bermuda?s youngest residents are to be targeted for the first time in a health survey launched by the Government on Friday.
The Department of Health?s National Health Survey will aim to find out about children on the Island aged from birth to ten and...
DATE: Jan 30, 2006
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The number of motorists arrested for drink driving rose last year by more than a quarter, according to ?troubling? new figures.
Police statistics released yesterday reveal that 427 arrests were made in 2005, compared to 340 in 2004.
Those failing a b...
DATE: Jan 30, 2006
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A vagrant was jailed for nine months after he laughingly told a court how he broke into a boat after finding the key.
Norton Thomas, 54, couldn?t stop chuckling on Tuesday as he told Magistrates? Court how he spotted the key last week as he walked al...
DATE: Jan 26, 2006
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A crack user promised to ?better his life? after admitting drugs possession at Magistrates? Court.
Clifford Rawlings, 26, was fined $800 on Tuesday by Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner for an offence committed on June 22 last year.
Crown counsel Way...
DATE: Jan 26, 2006
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A man was acquitted of trying to rob a taxi driver yesterday ? because the cabbie proved such an unreliable witness in court.
Rudolph Rudney Fubler told Supreme Court that Joseph Moniz Lima, 41, grabbed him by the throat and demanded money after he d...
DATE: Jan 24, 2006
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Two of the three companies battling to provide a controversial vehicle tracking system to Bermuda?s taxis may decide to join forces next week.
Radio Cabs and another firm, an amalgamation of Co-op Taxis and the Bermuda Central Dispatch Company, have ...
DATE: Jan 21, 2006
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A 33-year-old Jamaican national was yesterday cleared of sexually assaulting a mother.
A jury of eight women and four men took just an hour to find the man not guilty after a week-long trial.
He grinned as the jury foreman told Puisne Judge Charles-E...
DATE: Jan 21, 2006
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A Government Ministry has already approached Bermuda?s new Ombudsman to ask for help in setting up a complaints handling department, it emerged yesterday.
Arlene Brock, who was appointed to the post last August, would not say which Ministry was invol...
DATE: Jan 19, 2006
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