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A lawyer hired by a pressure group to challenge the Government over planned Covid-19 public safety regulations has withdrawn from the case.
Charles Richardson represented Constitutional Freedom Bermuda, which argued that the regulations, to be introd...
DATE: May 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A woman was fine $2,500 after she told Magistrates’ Court that she broke the Covid-19 curfew to pick up her daughter.
Jahlae Raynor, 25, pleaded guilty yesterday to a breach of the earlier midnight to 5am lockdown.
The court heard that police stopped...
DATE: May 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A thief will be sentenced in two months’ time after he admitted stealing of four steaks and a protein shake.
Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday that Colin Simmons, 55, was seen in The Shopping Centre on Victoria Street in Hamilton.
An employee recog...
DATE: May 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A bid to reopen a courtroom for Supreme Court trials has started – although work was slowed by pandemic restrictions.
Magistrates’ Court 4 – used by the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for several years – has not been used for more than 12 months b...
DATE: May 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A woman who was involved in a head-on collision while over the legal drink drive limit was yesterday banned from the roads for 18 months.
Magistrates’ Court heard that Zyanne Lema, 21, left the Rum Bum Beach Bar at Horseshoe Bay, Southampton, on a mo...
DATE: May 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A man involved in an attack on another is to be sentenced in two months’ time.
Zaiyas Symonds, 19, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to an assault on Kenyatta Dottin that caused him bodily harm.
Susan Mulligan, for the defence, asked the court for...
DATE: May 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Another two people last week admitted breaches of the Government Covid-19 curfew.
Curtis White, 27, was fined $2,000 in Magistrates’ Court for a breach of the then-midnight to 5am lockdown.
The court heard that police stopped White on Cedar Avenue in...
DATE: May 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A campaign to mount a legal challenge to tougher quarantine regulations for unvaccinated arrivals has raised more than $25,000 in just four days.
Constitutional Freedom Bermuda, a pressure group, launched the fundraising effort last Friday after it h...
DATE: May 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A man was yesterday sent to the DUI court after he admitted several traffic offences from almost two years ago.
Javon Weeks, 36, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to drink driving and failure to stop for police, as well as dangerous driving and re...
DATE: May 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A motorbike rider was banned from the roads for 18 months and fined $1,500 after he pleaded guilty to drink driving.
Magistrates’ Court heard that police followed Adam Fenos’s motorbike along South Road, in Devonshire, after they saw him riding too f...
DATE: May 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson