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Two people escaped unharmed after a car caught fire in Paget yesterday afternoon.
Deputy Chief Fire Officer John Pacheco told last night that the vehicle ? a Nissan Sentra ? was almost completely engulfed in flames when fire crews arrived at the scen...
DATE: Aug 09, 2006
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A man charged with entering a building unlawfully was imprisoned yesterday for failing to pay almost $3,000 worth of traffic fines.
Leigh Eugene Hall, 50, of North Shore Road, Pembroke pleaded not guilty to three counts related to unlawful entry.
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DATE: Aug 09, 2006
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A Magistrate should not have awarded costs to a Policeman who had an assault case against him thrown out of court, a lawyer argued yesterday.
Crown counsel Carrington Mahoney told Supreme Court that Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner did not give rea...
DATE: Aug 09, 2006
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A high speed Police chase through three parishes ended with the car being pursued smashing into a ?paddy wagon? in Pembroke yesterday.
The Rover car ? which had been reported stolen ? was being tailed by up to 40 police officers at the height of the ...
DATE: Aug 09, 2006
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The first appeal against a mandatory three-year jail term for possessing a bladed article in a public place without lawful reason has failed.
Tough legislation introduced by Government in 2005 in response to increasing numbers of attacks involving bl...
DATE: Aug 09, 2006
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Civil servants must change their mindset from one in which they believe they ?cannot be fired? to one in which they are held accountable, a senior civil servant said last night.
And Assistant Cabinet Secretary Kenneth Dill revealed that talks are und...
DATE: Aug 09, 2006
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A lightning strike destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of court equipment during a ferocious storm.
Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons revealed in Supreme Court One yesterday that the strike on Tuesday, July 25 may have taken out as much ...
DATE: Aug 09, 2006
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A Pembroke man has become the first person in Bermuda to be convicted on indictment of aggravated vehicle taking.
When he appeared in the Supreme Court, Marcel Rubaine, 28, admitted taking a car without the permission of its owner, driving it in a da...
DATE: Aug 09, 2006
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A blaze that destroyed part of a Somerset apartment is being investigated as a possible arson attack.
It took firefighters almost half an hour to extinguish the flames in a bedroom of the home in Scott?s Hill Road on Monday night.
Fire Service spokes...
DATE: Aug 09, 2006
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Taxi drivers who have failed to install a new mandatory satellite navigation system in their cabs are being ordered to stop taking fares.
Cabbies had until midnight on Sunday to get the GPS tracking device put in their taxis ? and those that haven?t ...
DATE: Aug 08, 2006
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