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The centuries old principle protecting people from being tried twice for the same offence should not be tampered with lightly, Attorney General Dame Lois Browne Evans insisted during Friday's House of Assembly debate on an amendment to the Criminal C...
DATE: May 13, 2002
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Bermuda's new prisons boss will take charge of the Island's correctional system from today - amid ongoing controversy from his previous post as head of Jamaican jails.
As Prisons Commissioner John Prescod takes up his new post on the Island from Acti...
DATE: May 13, 2002
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Bermuda came a step closer to getting its own coast guard after a US visit by Home Affairs Minister Terry Lister.
He visited the US Coast Guard base at Maryport, Florida late last month on the way home from the Caribbean Labour Ministers Meeting.
He ...
DATE: May 13, 2002
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Government backbencher Dale Butler last night went against the grain and controversially came down on the side of the Opposition's double jeopardy motion.
He said on a subject as important as the criminal justice system, he would not follow party lin...
DATE: May 11, 2002
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Women addicts from all social backgrounds can now take advantage of a facility for drug and alcohol abuse that re-launched on Thursday.
Fair Haven is care in a home setting providing a programme of assistance for withdrawal and treatment and is based...
DATE: May 11, 2002
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A pharmacist escaped a jail term for stealing $2,594 from the Phoenix Stores, despite a prosecutor's recommendation for incarceration because the man repeatedly "took more" each time on seven occasions.
Marc Nicholas Bacon, 35, of Bleak Farm Close, D...
DATE: May 11, 2002
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Pensions are to go up in August by three percent but Government has promised a review of whether they are high enough.
Pension contributions are set to rise by 4.25 percent as Government seeks to build the fund, which before corrective action was tak...
DATE: May 11, 2002
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The National Liberal Party yesterday called on Government to act to "restore order and safety" on Bermuda's roads.
Dangerous drivers have turned road use into a "demolition derby", the party said.
"Public Works does the best it can to improve Bermuda...
DATE: May 11, 2002
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The United Bermuda Party last night lost its bid to reform the double jeopardy rule which prevents suspects from being tried twice for the same crime.
Members of the House of Assembly voted against the motion to reform the law by 16 votes to 13, foll...
DATE: May 11, 2002
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Visiting her son's classroom and rubbing his back when he was sick were two of the many reasons why Tristan Martin said that his mother, Debbie, should be voted Mother of the Year.
The Paget Primary School student won the annual Continental Society o...
DATE: May 11, 2002
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