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The SPCA shelter in Paget is currently looking to re-home four dogs. Prospective owners will be interviewed by staff at the shelter and a home visit may be arranged to ensure the dog is going to a suitable family. All the dogs at the shelter are neut...
DATE: Mar 04, 2006
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Thief went on spree with card
A 21-year-old woman apologised in court yesterday after admitting stealing a bank card and using it to buy jewellery.
Alea Dill, of Alexander Road, Devonshire, took the Bank of Bermuda EasyLink card after a customer forg...
DATE: Mar 04, 2006
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The Criminal Injuries Compensation Board paid out nearly $300,000 to crime victims in 2003.
A report, tabled in the Senate on Wednesday, detailed an award of $103,000 to a 33-year-old woman who was thrown out of a taxi for eating a burger and then pi...
DATE: Mar 04, 2006
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Jurors hearing the case of a $1.3 million fraud allegedly perpetrated by former Bermuda Housing Corporation property manager Terrence Smith, yesterday heard claims that policies and procedures at BHC were not followed.
They were told by a former seni...
DATE: Mar 04, 2006
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Government?s 2005 decision to ban Bermudians from selling homes to foreigners was branded ?unlawful? and ?an abuse of power? by a Supreme Court judge yesterday.
Puisne Judge Geoffrey Bell ruled ? in a case involving the Island?s most expensive reside...
DATE: Mar 04, 2006
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A Bermudian has admitted trying to smuggle more than $100,000 worth of cocaine into the UK.
Mechanic Genghis Khublai Khan Thorpe, 25, of Pembroke, appeared at Haywards Heath Magistrates? Court on Wednesday.
He pleaded guilty to drug smuggling and was...
DATE: Mar 03, 2006
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The cost of a temporary work permit is set to rise to $500 under new Government plans.
Finance Minister Paula Cox told the House of Assembly on Wednesday that the new fee ? tabled in the Government Fees Amendment Regulations 2006 ? was a rise of $207...
DATE: Mar 03, 2006
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Freeing up some of the 2,000 vacant properties on the Island and a pilot scheme to charge a flat rate of rent based on income have been revealed amongst a string of ideas aimed at solving Bermuda?s affordable housing problem.
And Housing Minister Sen...
DATE: Mar 03, 2006
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Government is to consult with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals regarding its pilot programme to cull some of the Island?s feral chickens.
The SPCA has been out of the loop regarding the programme, which is designed to reduce the p...
DATE: Mar 03, 2006
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A drugs mule who ran away from officials at Bermuda International Airport after being caught importing more than $84,000 worth of cocaine has been jailed for four years.
Jazane Smith, a father of three from Somerset, was said by a judge to have been ...
DATE: Mar 03, 2006
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