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Criminals are stealing motorcycles to carry out burglaries and other offences across the Island, Police warned yesterday.
Chief Inspector Anthony Mouchette told a press conference that a taskforce had been set up this month to deal with a ?disturbing...
DATE: Jul 14, 2006
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Inmates and staff at Westgate Correctional Facility are having to flush toilets manually due to a problem with the electricity supply.
The water pumps at the Dockyard jail are believed to have stopped working a week ago. Yesterday, Robert Horton, the...
DATE: Jul 14, 2006
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Police reiterated a plea for motorists to slow down yesterday after revealing that almost 1,500 crashes have taken place on the Island?s roads already this year, with 99 of those accidents resulting in serious injury.
Inspector Mark Bothello, who is ...
DATE: Jul 14, 2006
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A motorist involved in a serious road crash which injured a father and daughter on Monday is to appear in court, Police said yesterday. The man, who was driving a lime-green Rover car along North Shore Road in Devonshire when it collided with a Yamah...
DATE: Jul 13, 2006
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A union warned yesterday that it would blow the whistle on companies bringing in cheap labourers from abroad and refusing to employ Bermudians.
The construction division of the Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU) said at least 100 local workers could not ...
DATE: Jul 13, 2006
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Animal welfare officers are investigating alleged cruelty to a toad in a Hamilton bar during Sunday?s World Cup final.
Witnesses say the creature was trapped in a washing basket and had alcohol poured on it by Italian fans in an apparent jibe at thei...
DATE: Jul 12, 2006
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A 47-year-old motorcyclist was rushed to hospital with his teenage passenger yesterday afternoon after the motorcycle the pair were travelling on collided with a car.
The man, believed to be a local fisherman, suffered serious head injuries and the 1...
DATE: Jul 11, 2006
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A teenager has scored the highest-ever mark at her school for an international qualification ? with a result that places her in the top two percent of students worldwide.
Cierra Machado, 18, from Paget, achieved 44 out of 45 for her International Bac...
DATE: Jul 11, 2006
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A schoolboy is recovering in hospital in Spain after being injured in a traffic accident while on an educational trip.
The youngster was hurt this week while on an 11-day visit to Malaga with Saltus Grammar School. Nigel Kermode, principal of the pri...
DATE: Jul 11, 2006
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The headteacher of Berkeley Institute has praised the school?s graduating class of 2006 ? especially a handful of youngsters who earned high honours in each of their four senior years.
Michelle Simmons toldthat those five students picked up the Respi...
DATE: Jul 11, 2006
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