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A veteran teacher who sued the Government after she was passed over for the role of Commissioner of Education will have to pay half of the Government’s legal costs.
Gina Tucker argued in court that she was not given a fair chance at the job, which wa...
DATE: Sep 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man involved in two separate crashes was banned from the roads for three years this week.
Ashon Hart, 21, admitted causing grievous bodily harm to a motorcyclist and drink driving.
Magistrates’ Court heard that Hart, from Southampton, was riding h...
DATE: Sep 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A driver involved in a collision with a motorcyclist was yesterday banned from the roads for 18 months after he admitted having care and control of a car while impaired.
Magistrates’ Court heard that police were called to a traffic accident in Southa...
DATE: Sep 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A woman accused of the storage of two guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition was cleared yesterday.
Tonae Perinchief-Leader, 31, was charged with handling a revolver, a shotgun and 485 rounds of mixed ammunition found in two suitcases at her famil...
DATE: Aug 31, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A senior official at a trade union is to sue after he claimed he was fired against its rules.
George Scott, an executive officer at the Bermuda Industrial Union for 18 years, launched the action through law firm Wakefield Quin.
Mr Scott said earlier ...
DATE: Aug 31, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A taxi driver was banned from the roads until further notice yesterday after he admitted a refusal to take a breath test.
Magistrates’ Court heard that an off-duty police officer saw a grey taxi swerving on Trimingham Road in Paget.
The officer follo...
DATE: Aug 31, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Activists yesterday demanded the sacking of a police officer after the Chief Justice dismissed a criminal case against her for controversial social media posts in the run-up to last year’s Black Lives Matter demonstration.
But Social Justice Bermuda ...
DATE: Aug 30, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The trial of a woman accused of the storage of two guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition is expected to end early next week.
Tonae Perinchief-Leader, 31, denies allegations that she handled a revolver, a shotgun and 485 rounds of ammunition of se...
DATE: Aug 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
“Scandalous” material should be removed from a statement sworn by a policeman who is suing the Commissioner of Police and the senior magistrate, a court heard this week.
Sergeant Mark Monk and his wife Tricia have asked for a judicial review of a dec...
DATE: Aug 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
A taxi driver caught drink driving on the night of his birthday was yesterday sent to DUI Court.
Magistrates’ Court heard that police stopped a taxi cab near Longford Road in Warwick after they saw it overtake other vehicles in a dangerous manner.
El...
DATE: Aug 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson