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A 20-year-old man was discharged yesterday because two Police witnesses did not show up for his Magistrates? Court trial.
Kyhon Smith, 20, of Sylvan Dell Road, Paget was charged with throwing a glass bottle on November 11, 2003.
Smith came to court i...
DATE: Jan 21, 2004
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A local accounting firm has agreed to outline a feasibility study on Bermuda?s rest homes, according to Age Concern director Claudette Fleming.
The study will determine the amount of public help needed to keep homes open in the long-run, specifying f...
DATE: Jan 21, 2004
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Government will hold a Press conference today on the fate of this year's Annual Exhibition. A statement was sent out on Monday announcing the conference would be held today at 11 a.m. at the Visitors' Service Centre in the Botanical Gardens, where th...
DATE: Jan 21, 2004
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Child advocate SheelaghCooper has called for radical changes in the handling of sexual and physical abuse cases involving youngsters.
Ms Cooper has long expressed frustration about the way such cases are handled with many being thrown out.
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DATE: Jan 21, 2004
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The trial of a Jamaican accused of importing $1.8 million of heroin was delayed yesterday as his lawyer argued the hearing was unconstitutional.
Last month Assistant Justice Philip Storr ruled Andrew Hall's rights had been violated because his trial ...
DATE: Jan 21, 2004
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A distraught 84-year-old woman told yesterday how she is being driven from Bermuda by soaring rents.
Winifred Dodd, a status Bermudian, is now struggling to get 50 years of her life packed into two trunks by tomorrow.
?I am very bewildered. I can?t s...
DATE: Jan 21, 2004
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Government is on track with introducing new laws to address the Island's wild cat problem ? and earning fresh kudos from environmental groups.
Entitled the Cats Bill, the legislation will provide for a programme of licensing and registration of domes...
DATE: Jan 21, 2004
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It was an occasion best summed up by music.
A song about little becoming much and ordinary people doing extraordinary things struck a chord at an open house for a mentally handicapped centre.
Among those nearly reduced to tears was Health and Family ...
DATE: Jan 20, 2004
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This year's Annual Exhibition - formerly known as the Ag Show - has been cancelled after Hurricane Fabian badly damaged the Botanical Gardens, according to a letter leaked to The Royal Gazette yesterday.
Calls to the Parks Department by The Royal Gaz...
DATE: Jan 20, 2004
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Bermuda's blood supply seems to be steadying following a lull after restrictions were placed on some donors owing to the outbreak of a human variant of Mad Cow disease in Britain.
While there were 2,277 blood donations last year, the year before ther...
DATE: Jan 20, 2004
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