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A 25-year-old man yesterday admitted his involvement in a daylight shooting in St David’s earlier this year.
Daquan Williams pleaded guilty in Supreme Court to a charge that he unlawfully shot Isaiah Creighton with intent to cause grievous bodily har...
DATE: Dec 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Government House has been ordered to release part of a record which raises “questions about the procedures” used by a committee which reviews complaints about judges.
Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez gave the Office of the Governor until ...
DATE: Dec 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
An application for a judicial review into the legitimacy of a Commission of Inquiry into land grabs could not be heard – because the island’s civil court judges were conflicted.
Raymond Davis, also known as Khalid Wasi, said the failure to find an i...
DATE: Dec 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A man bit off more than he could chew after he tried to use a fake price tag to buy an expensive steak for less than half its price.
Now Naeem Alom, 30, will have to adhere to a year-long conditional discharge after he admitted the attempted theft fr...
DATE: Dec 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A 54-year-old man turned to drugs after a string of family tragedies, including the death of his son, a court heard.
Andre Simmons’s father died in 2015 and his son, Royal Bermuda Regiment Sergeant Dejion Stange-Simmons, was murdered soon afterwards,...
DATE: Dec 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A man who seriously injured a mother and her son in a 2018 crash has been banned from the road for two years after a decision by the Court of Appeal.
Dwayne Creary was initially banned from driving for five years in Magistrates’ Court after he was fo...
DATE: Dec 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Former Berkeley Institute student Terry-Lynn Griffiths celebrated becoming the latest member of the Bermuda Bar in a ceremony in the Supreme Court.
Ms Griffiths said she felt humbled and privileged to be able to join Bermuda’s legal fraternity.
She s...
DATE: Dec 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A law student who did community service to work off $1,800 in unpaid traffic fines was shown leniency by a magistrate yesterday.
Senior Magistrate Juan Wolffe cut short the community service order imposed on Essette Winters, 21, after she completed ...
DATE: Dec 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A 40-year-old man jailed for smuggling gun parts into the island has had his appeal against conviction thrown out.
James Rumley, 40, argued in the Court of Appeal that the three charges against him should have been tried separately and that the judge...
DATE: Dec 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A motorcyclist who fell off his bike when police stopped him for speeding has been banned from the roads after he admitted a string of traffic offences.
Dequan Lodge, 25, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to refusing to take a breath test, as well...
DATE: Dec 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson