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A high-profile Bermuda doctor has called on the courts to rule his “heavy-handed” arrest and a subsequent search of his home was unlawful.
Mahesh Reddy, chief medical officer at Bermuda Healthcare Services, was arrested in May in connection to an inv...
DATE: May 29, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Four men have returned to Magistrates’ Court in connection with the demonstration of December 2.
Sherman Hill, Antoine Minors, Ernest Trott and Dornielle Farrel have all previously denied obstructing police officers in the execution of their duty.
Af...
DATE: May 26, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Ten people charged with offences in connection with December 2 — including the Reverend Nicholas Tweed and union leader Chris Furbert — have been bound over to keep the peace.
During a hearing yesterday, one defendant, David Saltus, 57, pleaded guilt...
DATE: May 26, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man charged with assaulting a police officer during the December 2 protesters has been jailed for a year.
Edmund Smith, 52, was charged with assaulting Inspector Scott Devine outside the House of Assembly during the protests, allegedly striking the...
DATE: May 26, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A St David’s man has been hit with a $1,000 fine after being caught with 15.5 grams of cannabis by police executing a search warrant.
Magistrates’ Court heard that Deon Pitcher, 32, of Chapel of Ease Road, was arrested at a Pembroke residence after o...
DATE: May 26, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Jamaican man has had his conviction for drug smuggling upheld by the Court of Appeal.
Tyrone Brown, 31, was jailed for 15 years last October for trying to smuggle packages of cocaine through the airport in his baggage.
Brown launched an appeal agai...
DATE: May 25, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Court
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A second man has been charged in connection with a shooting on Court Street earlier this month.
Appearing in Magistrates’ Court this morning, Troy Burgess, from Pembroke, was charged with attempted murder and using a firearm to commit an indictable ...
DATE: May 25, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
No evidence shows that Patricia Gordon-Pamplin, the Minister of Home Affairs, was “in any way predetermined” in her decision over a work permit for the activist pastor Reverend Nicholas Tweed, according to the Crown.
The judicial review of the decisi...
DATE: May 23, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A 49-year-old drink-driver has been fined and banned from the roads for 18 months.
Appearing in Magistrates’ Court this morning, Angelo Amaral pleaded guilty to driving while over the legal alcohol limit in Pembroke on May 17.
The court heard that ...
DATE: May 23, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A 22-year-old Pembroke man has been given a 12-month conditional discharge for possessing marijuana and MDMA.
Tyrone Oswald Jr pleaded guilty to the charges, which stem from an arrest on October 7, 2016, when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court on Apri...
DATE: May 23, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
News Staff