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After four days of hearings three Supreme Court justices reserved judgment on the appeals cases of Kirk Roberts and Vincentian Alphonso Holder yesterday. Roberts, 40, of West Side Road, Sandys, was given a 10-year prison sentence after being convicte...
DATE: Jun 06, 2003
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Residents at Lefroy House got a breath of fresh air at the unveiling of a new garden yesterday.
Minister of Health and Family Services Nelson Bascome was on hand for the ribbon-cutting ceremony. The new garden includes multiple seating areas, small h...
DATE: Jun 06, 2003
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The European Union (EU) yesterday announced diplomatic sanctions against Cuba - including scaling back cultural links - in protest at the Communist regime's recent execution of hijackers and crackdown on dissidents.
The move raises questions over Ber...
DATE: Jun 06, 2003
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Government has reviewed its staff appraisal system and changed the name of its personnel department to the Department of Human Resources, it was announced yesterday.
"This change is in line with good practice in managing people in major organisations...
DATE: Jun 06, 2003
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One of Bermuda's oldest residents, Hilda Cawthorne, has died at the age of 102. Mrs. Cawthorne, who lived for many years at the Packwood Home in Somerset, was born in Sandys, on April 12, 1901. For her 100th birthday in 2001, her local MP Terry Liste...
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The line-up for the eighth annual Bermuda Jazz Festival was announced yesterday.
This year's event takes place from October 8 to 12.
Natalie Cole, Kenny G and Stephanie Mills, the star from the Broadway play `The Wiz', will be featured on the Dockyar...
DATE: Jun 06, 2003
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A drug mule who imported heroin into Bermuda had her sentence doubled yesterday after the Court of Appeal found her four-year term was too lenient.
Geisha Ann Alomar from New York was jailed for four and half years in March for importing 143.8 gramme...
DATE: Jun 06, 2003
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Hotel Association executive John Harvey and labour leader and ruling party backbencher Derrick Burgess mixed it up with rioters in Geneva this week to avoid getting hurt by security forces trying to keep order.
The pair are in Geneva with a host of o...
DATE: Jun 06, 2003
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Pieces of a blood-stained concrete block and a ring found in a pool of blood were in the spotlight yesterday in the Aaron Glen Easton murder trial.
It is alleged that Stanford Glenfield Archibald, 38, formerly of Somerset, murdered Mr. Easton on May ...
DATE: Jun 06, 2003
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Shadow Education Minister Tim Smith was yesterday named the Opposition's candidate in St. George's South (constituency number four) for the coming election.
The development brings some closure to speculation about the fate of the United Bermuda Party...
DATE: Jun 06, 2003
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