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Kingston's poorest neighbourhoods, Junior Spence tells a tale he describes as incredible: one day he was arrested by police -- for smoking marijuana! "I could not believe it,'' said the 23-year-old, who months later remains befuddled over the arrest...
DATE: Sep 18, 1999
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breaking his long political silence last week to criticise the Government's failure to separate the powers of the Attorney General and the still-vacant Director of Public Prosecutions position.
Sir John was correct on the point that the Government, a...
DATE: Sep 09, 1999
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A wall of silence around Government Senate Leader Milton Scott's shock call for the sacking of the three Independent Senators is being maintained.
And Premier Jennifer Smith continued to decline to comment on Sen. Scott's call in the wake of veteran ...
DATE: Sep 07, 1999
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Veteran attorney and former Senior Magistrate Richard Hector has stood firmly by his position on the Island's "desperate need'' for a modern court reporting system.
Mr. Hector, who has been president of the Bermuda Bar Council since April, touched on...
DATE: Sep 02, 1999
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which he released yesterday.
Section 71A of the Constitution Order 1968 refers to the appointment and conditions of the appointment of the Director of Public Prosecutions whose conditions of independence are not subservient and whose function is to d...
DATE: Sep 01, 1999
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to call on Governor Thorold Masefield to quickly appoint a politically independent Director of Public Prosecutions.
Sir John also said he was deeply concerned by a decision by Government not to prosecute operators of gambling machines despite an opin...
DATE: Sep 01, 1999
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An attack on the independence of non-party senators is an assault on democracy, Opposition leader Pamela Gordon said yesterday.
Ms Gordon claimed: "What we have is a Government where this new Bermuda is not a democracy, but totalitarianism.
"They're ...
DATE: Aug 20, 1999
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Bermuda Party MPs who fought former Premier Sir John Swan's efforts to bring McDonald's franchises to Bermuda.
Recently, the legality of the Prohibited Restaurants Act was upheld in the highest court in the land, and was held to overrule the contract...
DATE: Aug 11, 1999
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The UK Parliament is waiting for its colonies to set the tone before it gets its teeth into the White Paper rewrite of Britain's relations with the Overseas Territories, ex-Speaker Ernest DeCouto said yesterday.
And Mr. DeCouto -- who met recently wi...
DATE: Jul 28, 1999
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
hanging, it has been argued.
Shadow Legislative Affairs Minister John Barritt said the challenge would be to find a form of punishment that would take its place -- and satisfy society.
"It will not be good enough to abolish it and not have something ...
DATE: Jul 26, 1999
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