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A claim that the Ministry of Finance owed a sanitation firm more than $900,000 for clean-up work at Morgan’s Point has been thrown out by a judge.
Hunt’s Sanitation Services, run by Nelson Hunt, claimed it was owned $908,766 for remediation and clean...
DATE: May 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Covid-19 curfew breach and traffic offences yesterday cost a man $3,850.
Adam King, 41, was fined $2000 in Magistrates’ Court after he pleaded guilty to a breach of the earlier 7pm to 7am curfew as well as two traffic offences.
The court heard poli...
DATE: May 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A magistrate has appealed to police to launch an investigation into allegations of misconduct against two officers without “further procrastination or incompetence”.
Khamisi Tokunbo claimed the Bermuda Police Service had used “delay tactics” to avoid...
DATE: May 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
Two police officers appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with a sex assault on a man.
The incident is alleged to have happened on April 27, 2019.
The officers, both male, did not have to enter a plea as the case must be heard in the Supre...
DATE: May 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A man has denied accusations that he threatened the Premier and other politicians.
Jahmain Coddington, 44, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court to the use of “menacing” words – threats to hurt several politicians – over the phone.
He also pleaded...
DATE: May 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A Government MP and his daughter appeared in Supreme Court yesterday charged with misleading a public official over a dinner at a restaurant last year.
It is alleged Zane DeSilva, his daughter Zara Harper, and a third defendant, Angela Caldwell provi...
DATE: May 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A curfew breaker who admitted a breach of the lockdown was yesterday sentenced to 150 hours of community service.
Magistrates’ Court ordered Shawn Simmons, 37, to complete the community service order in place of a $3,000 fine.
Simmons, from Sandys, w...
DATE: May 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A thief was yesterday sent to the drug treatment court after he admitted stealing food from a supermarket.
Magistrates’ Court heard that Nelson Pacheco, 34, would also be the subject of reports after he avoided sentence on drugs charges for three yea...
DATE: May 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Work to create a second Covid-safe courtroom is expected to be completed by the end of next month, according to the Ministry of Public Works.
A spokesman for the Ministry said that Magistrates’ Court 4 – which had been used to hold Supreme Court hear...
DATE: May 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A driver who admitted drinking before he got behind the wheel who hit a woman and broke her leg was yesterday sent to the DUI court.
Heinz Roser, 52, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court on March 26 to causing grievous bodily harm to Jenna Riley thro...
DATE: May 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson